Andy S. Jagoda, M.D., is an American author and Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He has edited and authored 13 books, including The Good Housekeeping Family First Aid Book (ISBN 0-688-17894-4) and the textbook Neurologic Emergencies (ISBN 0-07-140292-6). He is an editor of the 8th edition of Rosen's Emergency Medicine (ISBN 978-0-323-05472-0).
Jagoda is recognized nationally for his involvement in medical education and his expertise in the area of neurologic emergencies, including traumatic brain injury.
Education, military and professional careers
Jagoda received his medical degree from Georgetown University in 1982. He completed a residency in emergency medicine at the joint program of Georgetown/George Washington/Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services System in 1985.
As a doctor in the United States Navy, Jagoda completed two tours in the Middle East, first during the Iran-Iraq War, and then again during Desert Storm/Desert Shield. He earned a Navy Achievement Medal for leading a resuscitation augmentation medical team in 1988 and in 1991 received the Navy Commendation Medal for meritorious service on the USNS Comfort. In 1990, he earned the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He was later made Assistant Professor at the Department of Military Medicine/Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He was honorably discharged from the Navy in 1991.
After his military service, Jagoda joined the faculty of George Washington University, then the University of Florida. He joined the staff at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in 1995, earning the rank of Professor of Emergency Medicine with tenure in 2000. In 2009, he was named Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Jagoda is Editor-in-chief of Emergency Medicine Practice and an editorial board member of the Annals of Emergency Medicine. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Brain Attack Coalition at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (part of the National Institutes of Health) and of the Executive Board of the Foundation for Education and Research on Neurologic Emergencies (FERNE). He is also on the advisory board of the Indian Head Injury Foundation and of the Brain Trauma Foundation where he also serves as the EMS Director. He is past chair of the Clinical Policies Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), where his work with the committee for 14 years facilitated the evolution from a consensus-based process to an evidence-based process and promoted ACEP's practice guideline methodology both nationally and internationally. He has organized evidence-based symposiums in Italy, the Netherlands, and Chile and co-organized the first Joint ACEP/Italian Congress on Emergency Medicine (in Torino). He is currently the ACEP's ambassador to Italy.
On January 13, 2015, The NY Daily News reported on the alleged sexual assault of an emergency room patient at the prestigious Mt. Sinai Hospital. Dr. David Newman was accused of ejaculating on the face of a 22 y.o. female patient after first incapacitating her with a morphine injection. Andrew Jagoda, along with members of the nursing staff, was amongst one of the first medical personnel to come in contact with the victim after the alleged incident took place.
Jagoda is an active member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the New York Academy of Medicine. </ref>
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Books
- The Good Housekeeping Family First Aid Book. Andy Jagoda, author. Hearst Publishers. 2000; 295 pages. ISBN 0-688-17894-4
- Jagoda A, Riggio S (guest editors): Seizures in the Emergency Department, Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, November 1994. 220 pages.
- Howell J, Altieri M, Jagoda A, Prescott J, Scott J, Stair T (editors): Emergency Medicine, W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1997; 1735 pages.
- Jagoda A, Richardson L (guest editors): Neurologic Emergencies, Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1997; 230 pages.
- Jagoda A, Riggio S (guest editors): Psychiatric Emergencies, Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, May 2000.
- Prehospital Brain Injury Task Force (Task force member), Guidelines for the prehospital management of traumatic brain injury. Brain Trauma Foundation Publication, New York 2000. 81 pages.
- Henry G, Jagoda A, Little N, Pelligrino T. Neurologic Emergencies. McGraw Hill, New York. 2003; 346 pages. ISBN 0-07-163521-1
- Jagoda A. Good Housekeeping Family First Aid Handbook, 2nd Edition. Hearst Publishers. 2004. ISBN 978-1588162991
- Henry G, Jagoda A, Little N, Pelligrino T. Neurologic Emergencies, third edition. McGraw Hill, New York. April 2010; 389 pages. ISBN 978-0071635219
- Riggio S, Jagoda A. Traumatic Brain Injury. Psychiatry Clinics of North America. Elsevier, Philadelphia. December 2010.
- Jagoda A, Sloan E. Seizures in the Emergency Department. Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America. Elsevier, Philadelphia. February 2011. ISBN 978-1455704385
- Jagoda A, Riggio, S (editors). Traumatic Brain Injury: Improving the Continuum of Care. Indian Head Injury Foundation Publication. 183 pages.
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