Overview

Dr. Wright is a tenured Professor and the Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. He also serves as the Vice Chair for Innovation and Discovery and leads the Emergency Neurosciences Laboratory (ENL).

He is a board-certified emergency medicine physician practicing at Emory affiliated hospitals and Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlantas premier Level 1 Trauma Center. He is actively involved in both the preclinical and clinical assessments of traumatic brain injury, stroke and other acute neurological conditions. He was the PI of the ProTECT III multicenter clinical trial of progesterone for acute traumatic brain injury and currently serves as the southeastern Hub PI of the Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials network and Co-PI of the Georgia StrokeNet network. He has had continuous NIH/Federal funding for over 15 years.

He is an adjunct faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and works closely with an elite team of engineers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute where he participates in numerous concussion research and technology development endeavors. He is the Co-inventor of the DETECT technology, a rapidly deployable, easily administered, comprehensive system for the assessment of concussion and other neurological disorders. He is also adjunct Faculty in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and the Rollin's School of Public Health.

Academic Appointment

• Adjunct Faculty, Rollin's School of Public Health, Emory University
• Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University
• Adjunct Faculty, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
• Professor, with Tenure, Emergency Medicine, Emory University
• Vice Chair for Innovation and Discovery, Emergency Medicine, Emory University
• Adjunct Faculty, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University
• Neuroscience Secondary Faculty, Emory University

Education

Research