Dr. Edlow has practiced emergency medicine for nearly 40 years. He is an internationally recognized expert in avoiding misdiagnosis of patients presenting with acute neurological symptoms and optimizing their outcomes, especially stroke, TIA, dizziness, back pain and headache. Dr. Edlow was the chair of the SAEM GRACE-3 guideline writing committee on acute dizziness which was published in May 2023. He is a thought leader in the management of acute dizziness, how to diagnose posterior circulation stroke in those patients and how to manage the larger number of patients who have more common, peripheral vestibular diagnoses such as BPPV.
Dr. Edlow has published over 250 articles including in Lancet, JAMA, NEJM, and all of the major Emergency Medicine and Neurology journals. In addition to over 100 national presentations at ACEP and numerous institutions across the US, he has also given over 100 international talks in 24 different countries on 5 different continents. He is a Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-course director of Harvard’s course on Neurological Emergencies, now in its 15th year as well as an abridged version given in various European cities, now in its 4th year.
He won a 2010 ACEP national teaching award. Finally, he has written two award-winning books for the lay public – Bull’s Eye, about history of Lyme disease and The Deadly Dinner Party (a collection of true medical detective stories).