biography
Dr. Mitchell is an emergency physician and the Medical Director of the Washington Medical Coordination Center. He cares for patients in the ED at Harborview. He works with the HMC ED operations team to optimize the collaboration, coordination, and collegiality required to care for patients seeking care in the emergency department.
Dr. Mitchell studies emergency department operations, emergency airway management, and geriatrics. Currently, he is participating in multi-center trials which evaluate the effectiveness of intubation techniques and medications on emergency airway management and evaluating the impacts of outside radiologic interpretation discrepancies on ED operations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he founded and is leading the coordination center which manages the distribution and level-loading of COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization across Washington State. He has received funding from the Washington Department of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services to carry out these efforts.
Education & Training:
- MD, University of Washington School of Medicine (2002)
- Internship and Residency: Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine (2005)
research & clinical interests
Research
- ED & Disaster Management Operations
- Emergency Airway Management
- Geriatrics
Clinical
- Emergency Airway Management
- ED Operations
publications
