Bio
Nick Friedman is an MD Candidate at the Stanford University School of Medicine. His administrative leadership roles and research focus on innovation in emergency medicine, with emphasis on prehospital emergency care and addiction medicine. Nick was selected for the Stanford Healthcare Leadership and Administration Fellowship in the Department of Emergency Medicine and he is currently the Director of Quality Improvement for the Addiction Treatment Services Innovation Hub at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He served as Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Collegiate Emergency Medical Services, and his research and writing have been published in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Prehospital Emergency Care, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, and others.
Additionally, Nick maintains a special interest in philosophy and ethics. He taught philosophy and ethics of science at the high school level and he is the Founding President of the Stanford Philosophy of Medicine Society.
Nick is proud to serve as a soldier in the Army National Guard and remains committed to prehospital emergency care as an Emergency Medical Technician.
