Dr. Edlow is a Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an internationally renowned expert on the diagnosis of patients with acute neurological emergencies. He lectures and publishes regularly on topics such as stroke, TIA, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and dizziness, among others. In 2021, he was asked to chair the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine GRACE-3 committee to create an evidence-based guideline on the management of patients with acute dizziness and vertigo in the ED, the first of its kind; it was published in 2023. Although other Neurology and ENT guidelines address BPPV, this SAEM guideline deals with the overarching management of patients with acute dizziness.

Dr. Edlow graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1978 after which he completed a three-year internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the old Boston City Hospital. Since 1981, he has practiced full-time emergency medicine. He was Vice Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center until 2020, and he remains active educationally, academically, and administratively.

With respect to diagnosis of neurological emergencies, his goals are to help physicians avoid misdiagnosis and improve patient outcomes in these patients. In addition to having his work appear in all of the major emergency medicine journals, the NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, Stroke and Lancet Neurology have all published his work. He has won multiple teaching awards, including a 2010 national teaching award from the American College of Emergency Physicians. In 2011, he conceived and remains co-course director of a Harvard Medical School CME course on neurological emergencies.

He is also a recognized expert in Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. He has published over 230 articles, book chapters and editorials. He has also written 3 books for the lay public. The first, Bull’s Eye, was an award-winning account of the history of Lyme disease. Another, The Deadly Dinner Party, is a collection of true medical detective stories published in 2009 and favorably reviewed in the New York Review of Books.

In addition, Dr. Edlow has consulted with health care systems internationally with a focus on educational programs and quality assurance.