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Torben K Becker, MD, PhD, MBA, RDMS, FAWM, FAEMS, FCCM

Critical Care Medicine Specialist

Additional languages:
German
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My bio

Torben K. Becker, MD, PhD, MBA, RDMS, FAWM, FAEMS, FCCM is board-certified in Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Emergency Medical Services (EMS; prehospital medicine).

Dr. Becker completed his medical degree and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Heidelberg Medical School in Germany. He completed an emergency medicine residency and ultrasound fellowship-in-residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. He then completed fellowship training in critical care medicine, ECMO, and clinical research at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pa., followed by an additional fellowship in emergency medical services at the University of Florida. Dr. Becker also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville.

At the University of Florida, Dr. Becker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine in the College of Medicine. He holds affiliate faculty appointments in the Department of Environmental & Global Health (College of Public Health and Health Professions) and in the UF Center for African Studies (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences).

Dr. Becker is the Executive Director - Emergency Medicine of the UF Health Critical Care Organization. He also serves as the Co-Director of the UF Health Clinical Ethics Consultation Service.

In the Department of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Becker is the Chief of the Division of Critical Care Medicine and the Director of the Section of Global Health. He serves as the Program Director of the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship and Associate Program Director of the EMS Fellowship. He also directs the Emergency Department's extracorporeal CPR program.

In addition to his departmental and health system roles, Dr. Becker is the Medical Director of the Critical Care Division of Alachua County Fire Rescue (ACFR).

Dr. Becker is a member of over a dozen professional and scientific societies. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Emergency Medical Services (FAEMS), a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM), and a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM). He is a federally-funded investigator and he has authored more than 75 scientific peer-reviewed manuscripts. He has received regional and national awards for his research and academic work.

Board certifications

  • Basic Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography (Testamur)

    National Board of Echocardiography

  • Emergency Medical Services

    American Board of Emergency Medicine

  • Emergency Medicine

    American Board of Emergency Medicine

  • IM-Critical Care Medicine

    American Board of Emergency Medicine

  • Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer

    American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography

Education

  • MBA

    University of Tennessee- Knoxville, 2023

  • Fellowship – Emergency Medical Services

    University of Florida, 2017-2018

  • Fellowship – Critical Care Medicine, ECMO & Research

    University of Pittsburgh, 2015-2017

  • Fellowship-in-Residency - Ultrasound

    University of Michigan, 2013-2015

  • Residency - Emergency Medicine

    University of Michigan, 2011-2015

  • Residency - Anesthesiology

    University Hospital Mannheim, 2011

  • Internship

    University of Heidelberg Medical School, 2009-2010

  • PhD - Biomedical Sciences

    University of Heidelberg, 2005-2010

  • Medical School

    University of Heidelberg Medical School, 2004-2010

My areas of focus

Specialties

Subspecialties

Additional languages

  • German

Gender

Male

Accomplishments

  • Presidential Citation

    Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2023

  • Presidential Citation

    Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2022

  • International Educator of the Year - Junior Faculty, College of Medicine

    UF International Center, 2021

  • Presidential Citation

    Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2021

  • Presidential Citation

    Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2020

  • Physician of the Year

    Alachua County Fire Rescue, 2019

  • Best International Ultrasound Research

    Academy of Emergency Ultrasound - Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018

  • Physician of the Year

    Alachua County Fire Rescue, 2018

  • Fellow of the Year

    Department of Critical Care Medicine - University of Pittsburgh, 2016

  • Resident Scholarship Award

    Department of Emergency Medicine - University of Michigan, 2015

  • Resident of the Year

    Emergency Medicine Residents' Association, 2014