Dan Mayer, M.D.
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Theme leader: Evidence Based Health Care (EBHC)
Albany Medical College
MayerD@mail.amc.edu
Dr. Dan Mayer has been at the Albany Medical College since 1987. A graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine (MD, 1973), he completed a residency in Family Practice in 1977 and began the clinical practice of Emergency Medicine in 1979. He is an active clinical attending physician in the Emergency Department of the Albany Medical Center. Since 1993 he has developed and taught a required four-year course in Evidence Based Health Care that teaches all of the medical students at Albany Medical College how to become lifelong learners, critical thinkers and how the health care system works. His book “Essential Evidence-Based Medicine”, published by Cambridge University Press, was released in June 2004 and has received excellent reviews. The second edition was released this month. He has taught at international courses on how to teach Evidence Based Medicine and given numerous presentations at medical education meetings in the US and abroad. He has applied the educational principles of Team Based Learning to his course and is teaching workshops on the use of Team Based Learning to teach Evidence Based Medicine in various settings. He lives in Niskayuna with his wife, Julia, who has helped him develop the ideas for his course. They have three children and six grandchildren, seven if you count “Wonder Bear”.
