Dr. Bruce Lo, MD MBA FAAEM, is currently a partner with the Emergency Physicians of Tidewater (EPT), a democratic group servicing southeast Virginia. He attended the University of Virginia school of medicine and did his residency at the University of Pittsburgh. He then completed his Master of Business Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2016.
Dr. Lo has been very active in advocacy in the state of Virginia. He has served of multiple psychiatric task forces including creating standardization for medical clearance for psychiatric patients presenting to the ED. He has worked with legislators on the issue of balance billing and help bring emergency department information exchange (EDie) program to Virginia, a program that connects every emergency department in Virginia regardless of health system or EHR.
Dr. Lo currently works in multiple EDs including a quaternary referral center to community hospitals to free-standing emergency departments. He currently serves on a number of leadership roles within the Sentara health system. He is the chief of emergency medicine at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, a community teaching hospital, for the past 12 years. He also helped found the Sentara Transfer Center which currently manages transfers for 8 Sentara hospitals and 3 Free-Standing emergency departments and serves as its medical director.
Dr. Lo currently co-chairs the Sentara system stroke committee and the Sentara ED commodities committee, standardizing clinical and operational workflows across all 12 Sentara facilities. He works with other health systems as well as EMS to both improve the care for patients across the spectrum.
Dr. Lo has been the recipient of AAEM’s Open Mic New Speaker award and has lectured at various national and international conferences as well as a guest lecturer at a number of emergency medicine grand rounds across the country. He is currently a Professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) and also serves as an assistant program director for the EM residency program at EVMS for the past 13 years.