About Richard Cales, MD, FASAM
Physician healthcare advocate with five decades of experience both in providing care for individual patients and in developing, managing and evaluating statewide healthcare systems throughout the United States.
Specializing in internal medicine, emergency medicine, and addiction medicine, I have published multiple peer-reviewed investigations and edited multiple books on EMS systems (emergency medical services), trauma care systems (trauma centers), and addiction medicine (substance use disorders).
Focusing on developing and managing cutting-edge information technology—encompassing individual patients to entire populations—to create and maintain intuitive electronic health record systems that facilitate transforming chaotic data into readily actionable information for both individual patients and global public health.