Robert Tanouye, MD

Dr. Tanouye serves as the Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs of the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of Minnesota Medical Center and the Senior Medical Director for M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center/Masonic Children's Hospital Emergency Departments. He is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Tanouye founded the department's first fellowship based at UMMC, Healthcare Administration, Leadership, and Management Fellowship, and serves as its Fellowship Director. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine and specializes in clinical operations. His academic and educational interests surround leadership and managerial training of medical students and early career physician leaders as well as operational approaches to physician wellness and collaborative approaches to patient care. He sits on the national ACEP EM Practice Management committee and Coding Nomenclature Advisory Committee and SAEM Administration and Clinical Operations Committee and peer edits for various Emergency Medicine journals.