EDUCATION AND TRAIN ING
BS in Chemistry, University of Michican, Ann Arbor, MI, 1991.

MD, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, 1997.

Residency Training and Internship
Internal Medicine Residency
San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 2000.

PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 2004.

Fellowship, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD 2005.

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
1)   Mass casualty critical care.
2)   Health system coordination during emergencies.
3)   ICUs systems to reduce errors.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Rubinson L, Wu AW, Haponik EF Diette GB. Internists’ adherence to guidelines for prevention of intravascular catheter infections. JAMA. 2003; 290: 2802.

Rubinson L, Wu AW, Haponik EF Diette GB. Why don’t internists follow guidelines for preventing intravascular catheter infections? Infection Control Hospital Epidemiology. 2005; 26: 525-533.

Rubinson L, Nuzzo JB, Talmor D, O’Toole T, Kramer BR, Inglesby TV. Augmentation of hospital critical care capacity after bioterrorist attacks or epidemics: recommendations of the Working Group on Emergency Mass Critical Care. Critical Care Medicine 2005; 33: 2393-2403.

Rubinson L, Branson R, Pesik N, Talmor D. Positive pressure ventilation equipment for mass casualty respiratory failure. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism 2006; 4: 1-12.

Talmor D, Jones AE, Rubinson L, Howell MD, Shapiro N. A simple triage scoring system predicting death and need for critical care resources for use during epidemics. Critical Care Medicine 2007; 35: 1251-1256.

Hick JL, Rubinson L, O’Laughlin DT, Farmer JC. Allocating ventilators in disaster situations: Problem, Planning and Process. Critical Care 2007; 11: 217 (epub ahead of print).