Jesse M. Pines, MD, MBA, MSCE is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is also a Senior Scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and Fellow in the Institute on Aging. Dr. Pines is a nationally-known researcher in the areas of emergency department crowding and quality of care and has served as author on 58 peer-reviewed manuscripts and two medical textbooks. He is a regular writer for Slate magazine. He has served as principle investigator on several competitive health policy grants from the American College of Emergency Physicians and currently holds a career development award from the American Geriatrics Society. He is also the recipient of several research awards.

Dr. Pines received a B.A. in the Biological Basis of Behavior (1995) and a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology (2007) from the University of Pennsylvania. He has also completed a combined Medical Doctor/Masters of Business Administration program at Georgetown University (2001). He completed a residency in emergency medicine at the University of Virginia (2004) and research fellowship in Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania (2006). Dr. Pines is serves as course director for the 1^st year medical students’ course, Clinical Decision-Making: Evidence-Based Medicine and is directs the sub-internship in emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.