Andra Leah Blomkalns is an American

emergency physician An emergency physician (often called an "ER doctor" in the United States) is a physician who works in an emergency department to care for ill patients. The emergency physician specializes in advanced cardiac life support (advanced life support ...

working as the Redlich Family Professor and chair of the department of emergency medicine at

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since 2018. She is a past president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

Life

Andra Bomkalns speaks Latvian. She earned a bachelor's degree from

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. She completed a M.D. at the

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in 1997. In 2001, she completed an

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residency at the

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. Blomkalns was a faculty member at the

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from 2003 to 2015. She served in several roles including as the vice president of education from 2003 to 2011, vice chair from 2005 to 2015, associate professor from 2007 to 2014, and professor from 2014 to 2015. She joined the department of emergency medicine at the

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern or UTSW) is a public academic health science center in Dallas, Texas. With approximately 23,000 employees, more than 3,000 full-time faculty, and nearly 4 million outpatient ...

in 2015 as a professor and vice chair of academic affairs and business development. From 2016 to 2018, Blomkalns was president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. She was the division chief of general emergency medicine from 2017 to 2018. Blomkalns completed a M.B.A. specializing in innovation and entrepreneurship at the

University of Texas at Dallas The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a public research university in Richardson, Texas, United States. It is the northernmost institution of the University of Texas System. It was initially founded in 1961 as a private res ...

in 2018. In 2018, she joined the

as the Redlich Family Professor and chair of the department of emergency medicine.

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