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. 2015 Apr 27;13:98. doi: 10.1186/s12916-015-0335-2

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© Yealy et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015

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Donald M. Yealy, MD, is Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He has focused on clinical decision-making and the early care of many life-threatening conditions, including community-acquired pneumonia, sepsis, acute heart failure, and respiratory failure. He has over 300 scientific publications and was awarded the highest recognitions from the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine for his research, teaching, and leadership.