Colin Bucks

Colin is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the Marc Andreessen and Laura Arillaga-Andreessen Medical Director for Disaster Preparedness, the Medical Director for the Office of Emergency Management, and the Director of the Stanford Emergency Medicine Program for Emergency Response (SEMPER).

He completed medical school and residency in emergency medicine at Temple University School of Medicine then spent the next two years at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia learning disaster management and technical rescue. This was followed by a sabbatical from medicine with the U.S. Forest Service fighting forest fires and learning the finer points of incident command.

Colin is a Medical Team Manager with FEMA Urban Search & Rescue – California Task Force 3.

He has been deployed in the responses to the earthquakes in Haiti and Ecuador, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and to care for patients with Ebola in Liberia.

Colin has trained practitioners across the United States, Nepal, and West Africa.

He has presented widely on leadership, the principals of disaster management, conducted large-scale disaster simulations, and presented to the Institute of Medicine on the practical aspects of delivering care to patients with Ebola.