Joseph D. Ciano, DO, MPH, MS
Scholar
- Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine | University of Pennsylvania
- Guyana | India | Pakistan
- Emergency Care Capacity Building | Emergency Care Delivery | Emergency Care Systems | Emergency Medicine | Emergency Medicine in LMICs | Indigenous Health | International Medical Education | Medical Education
Languages: English (fluent), Spanish (moderately proficient in medical Spanish)
BIO STATEMENT
Dr. Joseph Ciano, DO, MPH, MS is an emergency physician at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia and at Crow/Northern Cheyenne Hospital in rural Montana (Indian Health Services). He is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his clinical work, he co-chairs a national committee on American Indian/Alaskan Native (AIAN) Health under the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), he works as the Assistant Course Director of the Masters in emergency medicine certificate program in Durgapur, India, and works as a content contributor and author in the international emergency medicine education project, among other projects. Most of his work focuses on education and training initiatives in low-middle income countries, creating academic partnerships, and increasing interest and awareness of disparities in health affecting the AIAN community.
Recent Global Health Projects
1) Graduate medical officer, emergency medicine training course in Guyana.
I helped perform a needs assessment in different geographical regions of Guyana to determine gaps in resources and staff training that later was used to help develop a crash course in emergency medicine throughout the country. This course is currently endorsed by the local ministry of health. This course has had two iterations with future iterations planned. The course is geared towards graduate medical officers throughout Guyana, which are junior physicians who staff emergency departments throughout the country but lack formal emergency medicine training.
2) American Indian Alaskan Native health committee. I cochair the AIAN committee under the society of academic emergency medicine, a national emergency medicine organization. In this role, we are creating a central repository for various IHS projects, webinar content, and articles that aim to highlight and improve AIAN health.
Select Publications
Ciano JD, Douglas K, Davey KJ, Gidwani S, Verma A, Jaiswal S, Acerra J. Contribution of 15 years (2007-2022) of Indo-US training partnerships to the emergency medicine workforce capacity in India, West J Emerg Med, 24(4): 2023,814-822.
Ciano JD, Cecik AA. Emergency medicine clerkship: 100 MCQs, 1st edition (2023), iEM, International emergency medicine education project ISBN: 978-8-218-16849-0 (Digital online print): 2023
Last Updated: 08 October 2025