Frank LoVecchio

DO, MPH, FACEP

Section Editor, Drug Box, Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine — Dr. LoVecchio has been an emergency physician, medical toxicologist, and an addiction specialist for over 2 decades. He is the medical director of clinical research at the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University. He also works as the principal investigator for studies of the Infectious Disease Network (IDNet), a group of emergency departments funded by the CDC to conduct infectious disease trials. He has served as vice-chair and director of research for the Maricopa Integrated Health System and University of Arizona Department of Emergency Medicine. He is board-certified in four specialties and received his master of public health from The Harvard School of Public Health. He has received more than a dozen research and teaching awards and, in 2022, was recognized as one of the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists. Dr. LoVecchio has organized and participated in multiple international medical missions and has been honored locally and nationally as a health care hero. Currently, he is performing research about drug development, drugs of abuse, COVID-19, infectious diseases, wellness, and environmental illness; he has received more than $10 million in research funding as a group.