Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, BIDMC
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Epstein’s areas of expertise include healthcare reform and policy at the local, state, and federal levels, as well as ED operations with a special interest in ED crowding and its solutions. He is well versed in recent concepts introduced by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, such as accountable care organizations, value-based purchasing, and episodes of care. Dr. Epstein is the developer of the ED Workscore, an objective ED crowding measure, and has served on the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s ED Boarding and Patient Flow Task Force, and is co-chair of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine’s crowding interest group. He completed a master’s degree in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and his emergency medicine residency at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. Dr. Epstein is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Epstein has also recently been a featured speaker with a private consulting firm working with pharmaceutical companies in the areas of marketing and compliance.