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Torben K Becker, MD, PhD, MBA, RDMS, E-AEC, FAWM, FAEMS, FCCM

Critical Care Medicine Specialist

Additional languages:
German
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My bio

I am board-certified in Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Emergency Medical Services (EMS), a distinction held by only a small number of physicians nationally.

I earned my MD and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Heidelberg Medical School in Germany, followed by an emergency medicine residency and ultrasound fellowship-in-residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I completed additional fellowship training in critical care medicine, ECMO, and clinical research at the University of Pittsburgh, and further specialized in emergency medical services through a fellowship at the University of Florida. I also hold an MBA from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville.

At the University of Florida, I serve as Vice-Chair of the COM Department of Emergency Medicine. I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, with affiliate appointments in the COM Department of Anesthesiology, the CPPH Department of Environmental & Global Health, and the UF Center for African Studies. I am the Executive Director (Emergency Medicine) of the UF Health Critical Care Organization and Co-Director of the UF Health Clinical Ethics Service.

My other roles in the Department of Emergency Medicine include serving as Director of the Section of Global Health & Medicine in Austere Environments and as Director of the Emergency Department’s Extracorporeal CPR Program & Emergency Resuscitation Service. I also serve as Program Director for the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship and Associate Program Director for the EMS Fellowship.

Clinically, I treat patients in all surgical intensive care units (ICU), with a focus on cardiothoracic critical care and mechanical circulatory support. I also see patients in the adult emergency department.

Beyond UF Health, I am the Medical Director of the Critical Care Division for Alachua County Fire Rescue (ACFR).

I am an active member of multiple professional and scientific societies, and have been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Emergency Medical Services (FAEMS), a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM), and a Fellow the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM). As a federally funded investigator, I have authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications and received regional and national awards for my research and academic contributions.

Board certifications

  • Adult ECMO Practitioner Certification (E-AEC)

    Extracorporeal Life Support Organization

  • 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, 2024

  • 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