Eric Cioe-Pena MD MPH is the Founding Director of the Center for Global Health of Northwell Health and the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He is an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine. He is also the ACEP lead ambassador to El Salvador and Botswana. He is a graduate of SUNY Downstate Emergency Medicine Residency program and the Columbia University International Emergency Medicine Fellowship. He has worked in Botswana, Dominican Republic, and El Salvador on health systems development projects, trauma care and humanitarian assistance following the 2010 Haiti earthquake. He has a Masters in Public Health and Humanitarian Assistance from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Dr. Cioe-Pena is leading an initiative at Northwell and Hofstra to unify and consolidate Global Health programming to be integrated and horizontally focused. His work is centered currently on breaking down siloes in a large University system and an even larger Health system with over 70,000 employees, 23 hospitals and 12 schools and colleges at the University.
Dr. Cioe-Pena is the past president of the Global Emergency Medicine Academy of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and is also the past president of the International Emergency Medicine fellowship consortium. He served on the Public Health and Injury Prevention committee and is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.