Rade B. Vukmir

Rade B. Vukmir MD, JD is President of Critical Care Medicine Associates, a medical advisory, media and risk management consulting firm. With over three decades of experience, the organization provides integrated medical, legal, education and medical consultative service.

Yet, in his formative years, Dr. Vukmir and his family were employed in the steel industry of Western Pennsylvania. The life lessons learned from the dangerous environment of the steel mill shaped the remainder of his career. He is trained not only in emergency medicine, but also critical care medicine and holds a degree in law with health care specialization.

Of his many accomplishments as a writer, Dr Vukmir has written forty-three peer reviewed medical journal articles, numerous textbook chapters, and has authored eleven books in both medical, nonfiction and fiction genres. His first nonfiction work; The Mill, was first published in 1999 (and republished in 2010), is an important historical account about the rise and fall of a gritty steel town.

During his time spent as one of the first emergency medicine based academic intensive care physicians back in 2001 came the creation of his second book; Airway Management in the Critically Ill, followed by Outcome in the Critically Ill: Medicine, Surgery and Trauma. In 2003, he entered the business genre with his fourth book; Lessons Learned, that incorporates the early life lessons learned to help one succeed in a complex business environment.

A long, rewarding career in emergency medicine and a desire to share with others the beauty and strength of the human spirit, Dr. Vukmir began writing medical fiction. His fifth work; ER: A Year in the Life, published in 2005 is a dramatic account of the daily ups and downs of a busy emergency department. Continuously busy at work, Dr. Vukmir published yet another book in 2008; ER: One Good Thing a Day, that tells of the positiveness that can result, despite the uncertainty of an ER environment.

Nevertheless, his career as an active medical, legal consultant and risk management specialist in 2009 defined his seventh work in the management arena; The Maximally Efficient and Optimally Effective Emergency Department. Completing his ER trilogy in 2012, his eighth book; ER: One Hundred, is an enjoyable chronicle of the ER where the reader uses an investigative eye to aid in the diagnosis of cases.

He returned to the medical genre in 2014, publishing his ninth work, The Physician Contract Guidebook, providing a framework to navigate the contract formulation process. This was followed in 2016 with his tenth book, Disruptive Healthcare Provider Behavior: An Evidence-Based Guide facilitating analysis and intervention into this complicated management area. The most recent addition, Legal Issues in Emergency Medicine published in 2018, summarized the Medicolegal experience encountered in acute care practice.

Likewise, he has served as an advisor and consultant for numerous media outlets on a wide range of medical and legal topics.