Everything you need to feature HuMed and Dr. David Spiro.

David Spiro, MD, MPH, is a pediatric emergency physician with 25 years in emergency medicine. He is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), where he serves as Section Chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Pharmacology and Toxicology and holds an Endowed Chair, and he practices at Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock.

Dr. Spiro earned his medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco, completed his pediatrics residency at the University of Colorado and Denver Children's Hospital, and trained in pediatric emergency medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he also earned an MPH in epidemiology. His path has included work as a general pediatrician on the Oregon coast and on a Native American reservation, and faculty appointments at Yale and at Oregon Health & Science University. At OHSU he co-founded the pediatric emergency medicine fellowship and helped raise the philanthropic funding for a new pediatric emergency department that opened in 2009. He has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed articles.

He is the host of HuMed, which gives physicians a place to tell the stories they rarely share: the patient they still think about, the mistake that changed them, the moment they almost walked away. HuMed unveils the human side of medicine.