Widely recognized as a leader in emergency medicine and injury control, Dr. Gregory Luke Larkin is the University of Auckland’s (New Zealand) inaugural Professor and Lion Foundation Chair of Emergency Medicine. Immediately prior to that, Dr. Larkin was also the inaugural Professor and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, USA. An advisor to ministries of health, public health organizations and academics in many parts of the world, Professor Larkin has trained emergency professionals and practiced in over a dozen countries. He served as an advisor for the Blair government while an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy in Whitehall. Furthermore, Dr. Larkin has over two decades of frontline ED experience as a Board-certified clinician. He has advanced training in bioengineering, biostatistics, engineering and public health. Additionally, he has conducted international research and has been a prolific publisher of more than 200 scholarly papers.
Dr. Gregory Luke Larkin’s work has been published in the American Journal of Public Health, Toxicology, NEJM, JAMA, Consumer Policy Review, the Annals of Emergency Medicine, and the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. Some of his most recent work includes studies on rapidly-acting antidepressants, the mental health causes and consequences of trauma, interpersonal violence, bio-informatics/health IT, and suicide prevention. He has been one of the first emergency physicians to define the link between regular ED visits and inadequate pain management, ED visits and partner violence, and ED visits and co-morbid mental health problems including suicide ideation, anxiety and depression.
In recent years, Dr. Gregory Luke Larkin was an on-the-ground advisor during disasters in Haiti, Iraq, Pakistan and Rwanda. He is a consultant to the National Center on Injury Prevention and Control at the CDC. He has also served as consultant to SAMHSA, NIMH and the World Health Organization on priority matters such as trauma, mental health and injury prevention.
Dr. Larkin has been a sought-after Visiting Professor in over twenty countries.
