Patrick Lank, MD

Dr. Patrick Lank completed his post-graduate medical training in emergency medicine (at Northwestern Memorial Hospital) and medical toxicology (through the Toxikon Consortium). He also has a Master’s of Science degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and did a year-long education fellowship through Northwestern University.

Dr. Lank works full time clinically as an emergency physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and over the last five years, has carried his prior clinical expertise and research education into the educational realm as the assistant program director of the emergency medicine residency at Northwestern University. In that role his focus has been on the development and implementation of the emergency medicine residency didactic curriculum. Academically he has been involved with multiple research projects and national panels on the topics of residency curriculum design and residency wellness.

And in the world of toxicology, Dr. Lank has been involved as a co-author or co-principal investigator on multiple studies related to benzodiazepine and opioid prescribing from the emergency department. This winter along with his co-investigators, completed a grant-funded (R18) project which has already created publications on patient understanding of prescription opioid use. With the treatment of patients who abuse addicting substances being his primary research and educational focus, he decided to sit for the addiction medicine boards and is now also board-certified in addiction medicine.