Owen M. Lander, MD

Associate Professor , Division Chief, Ruby Memorial Hospital, Medical Director, Ruby Memorial Hospital

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Department:

Emergency Medicine

Classification:

Clinical Faculty

Undergraduate: Harvard University

Medical School: State University of New York at Stony Brook

Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Boston, Massachusetts

Board Certification:  American Board of Emergency Medicine

Awards/Honors:

Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award WVU DEM 2009-2010

WVU Medicine Bravo! Award

WVU Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center Cornerstone of Recovery Award

Representative publications:

Ost D, Tepper J, Mihara H, Lander O, et al. “Duration of anticoagulation following venous thromboembolism”.  JAMA. 2005; 294: 706-715.

Minardi JJ and Lander O. “Septic hip arthritis: diagnosis and arthrocentesis using bedside ultrasound”.  J Emerg Med. 2012; 43: 316-318.

Whiteman C, Shaver E, Doerr R, Davis SM, Blum F, Davidov D, Lander O. “Trauma patient access: the role of the emergency medical services system in north-central West Virginia”. WV Med J. 2014; 110: 30-35.

Professional interests: sepsis, emergency department management, cognitive error, physiology

Personal interests:  lacrosse, woodworking

Dr. Lander joined the WVU Department of Emergency Medicine faculty in 2005.  He made the move to Morgantown from Boston, MA after working for one year as a staff EM physician at Beth Israel Medical Center (BIDMC) and completing a course in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health. He had completed his EM Residency at BIDMC the year prior, joining that program in its second year of existence after completing medical school education at SUNY Stony Brook, NY.  He has served as Medical Director since 2007 and Vice-Chair of Clinical Operations since 2011, a direct result of his primary interest in the operational and logistic issues that challenge every Emergency Department every day.  His primary clinical areas of interest are critical care and sepsis, although to be honest, any presentation of profoundly altered or disrupted physiology will catch his eye and attention.  When not in and around Department, Dr. Lander finds his time filled with working around his house, finding excuses to mess around on one of two tractors, ride the family horses, coach youth lacrosse and otherwise do things directly with his hands to keep the balance of life somewhere closer to the middle than not.

Medical Specialties

• Emergency Medicine

Board Certifications

• Emergency Medicine, American Board of Emergency Medicine

Special Training

• Residency, Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine
  Harvard-Affiliated, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 2004