Administration & Operations, EMRA Spotlight

Meet Phillip Tseng, MD, MBA, MEd

We're pleased to introduce Phillip Tseng, MD, MBA, MEd, vice chair of the EMRA Admin & Ops Committee, 2020-2021.

Phillip TsengProgram: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Your goal as an EMRA leader: To inspire and maximize the potential of others.

Top 3 traits of a great leader: 
1. Humility
2. Circumspection
3. Not necessarily having all the right answers, but asking all the right questions.

What is something people don't know about you?
I obsess about health care costs because I grew up in a family without health insurance. Financial toxicity is a very real, underrecognized entity in 21st-century medicine.

If I weren't an emergency physician, I would be: A health economist or financial markets analyst - or a travel bum


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