Professor Lance Becker

Lance Becker, MD, FAHA is an investigator at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and serves as the chair and professor of emergency medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine, and chair of the emergency departments at North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He is an internationally-recognized leader in the field of resuscitation, cardiac arrest, and critical care. His most impactful publications focused on question like “where are the survivors (from cardiac arrest)”, creating the Utstein international nomenclature for resuscitation, the original description of the three-phase model of cardiac arrest, reporting disparities in rates of cardiac arrest for minority populations, reappraisal of mouth-to-mouth ventilation, the instillation of AED's in public settings, ischemia/reperfusion physiology, mitochondrial and metabolic approaches to resuscitation, and the critical descriptions of real-time quality of CPR measures during human cardiac arrest. A