Jeff Arnold, B.A. Art, 1980
Dr.
Jeffrey Arnold graduated from Sonoma State University with a BA in Studio
Art in 1980. From 1981-83, he completed post-baccalaureate study in biochemistry
at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1988 Jeff received his medical
degree from Stanford. From 1988-91, he completed residency training in
emergency medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Since 1991, Dr. Arnold
has worked as an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine
at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles where he serves on the Trauma
Performance Improvement and Emergency Disaster Preparedness committees.
A visit by Korean physicians to Cedars-Sinai in 1994 led
to his involvement in the development of emergency medicine in South Korea
and has visited South Korea approximately 30 times lecturing on emergency
medicine at hospitals and universities throughout the country. Today he
teaches primarily at Kang Dong Sacred Heart Hospital in Seoul and serves
as an Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at Hallym University
School of Medicine. Besides Korea, Arnold has taught emergency medicine
in Thailand, Beijing, Taiwan, South Africa, Japan, and Croatia.
Dr. Arnold is managing editor of the first internet textbook
of emergency medicine and has contributed chapters on many topics; he
has contributed chapters to a Korean textbook on emergency medicine. He
is a coeditor for the international section of the Canadian Journal of
Emergency Medicine. He has published several academic papers on international
emergency medicine and lectured internationally on biological and chemical
terrorism.
Currently, Jeff serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor
of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, Medical
Center, where he teaches emergency medicine. He continues to work in the
emergency department at Cedars-Sinai, where he teaches paramedics, nurses,
and resident physicians from a variety of medical specialties.
He has a three-year old son, Andrew.
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