Torben K Becker, MD, PhD, MBA, RDMS, E-AEC, FAWM, FAEMS, FCCM

I am board-certified in Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Emergency Medical Services (EMS), a distinction held by only a small number of physicians nationally.

I earned my MD and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Heidelberg Medical School in Germany, followed by an emergency medicine residency and ultrasound fellowship-in-residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I completed additional fellowship training in critical care medicine, ECMO, and clinical research at the University of Pittsburgh, and further specialized in emergency medical services through a fellowship at the University of Florida. I also hold an MBA from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville.

At the University of Florida, I serve as the Chief of Service of Emergency Medicine for UF Health Shands and as Vice-Chair & Chief of Critical Care Medicine in the COM Department of Emergency Medicine. I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, with affiliate appointments in the COM Department of Anesthesiology, the CPPH Department of Environmental & Global Health, and the UF Center for African Studies. I am the Executive Director (Emergency Medicine) of the UF Health Critical Care Organization and Co-Director of the UF Health Clinical Ethics Service.

My other roles in the Department of Emergency Medicine include serving as Director of the Section of Global Health & Medicine in Austere Environments and as Director of the Emergency Department’s Extracorporeal CPR Program & Emergency Resuscitation Service. I also serve as Program Director for the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship and Associate Program Director for the EMS Fellowship.

Clinically, I treat patients in all surgical intensive care units (ICU), with a focus on cardiothoracic critical care and mechanical circulatory support. I also see patients in the adult emergency department.

Beyond UF Health, I am the Medical Director of the Critical Care Division for Alachua County Fire Rescue (ACFR).

I am an active member of multiple professional and scientific societies, and have been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Emergency Medical Services (FAEMS), a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM), and a Fellow the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM). As a federally funded investigator, I have authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications and received regional and national awards for my research and academic contributions.

Clinically, Dr. Becker works as an attending physician in the Emergency Department and the Cardiac Surgery and other Surgical Intensive Care Units. He also regularly responds to prehospital emergency calls in the field.

A list of my peer-reviewed publications is available here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1DSdfkrHUNs5M/bibliography/public/