About Robert Holman Consulting
Robert Holman Consulting advises clients on innovations in health care policy, emergency medical services (EMS) medical direction and training, and community medicine. Dr. Holman is dedicated to transforming health systems by connecting patients to the right care. He is passionate about improving access to quality care and ensuring the best outcomes for patients.
April 2024 article on Nurse Triage Line
September 2024 article on predictors of transport in EMS opioid patients
Dr. Holman with DC Mayor Muriel Bowser at the opening of the DC Stabilization Center
Strong Medical Direction
Transformative Training
Innovative Programming
Clinical Expertise
Service:
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Advises executives on providing strong, patient-focused medical direction that reaches all levels of the organization.
Experience:
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Longest serving Medical Director for the DC Fire and EMS Department from 2016 to 2024.
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Assisted with transformation of long-troubled EMS agency, advising Fire Chief as member of executive leadership team, reforming training curriculum, revising medical protocols, and enhancing capacity of the Office of the Medical Director.
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Utstein cardiac arrest survival rates increased from below the national average in 2016 to tied for number one in the US in 2023; number of neurologically intact survivors increased by 200%.
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Improved Stroke bundle of care performance from 7% in October 2022 to 70% in May 2024.
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Recipient of the 2024 Eagle Award for National Leadership in EMS, awarded by the Metropolitan EMS Medical Directors Global Alliance
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Designs medical training programs that give providers cutting edge, research-based knowledge and tools they need to effectively treat patients.
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Established Paramedic Grand Rounds, quarterly four-hour symposia on EMS involving local faculty.
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Established Field Training and Education Program, a 20-week training and mentoring program for entering paramedics.
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Designed and launched bi-annual cadaveric training every for all paramedics.
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Launched state-of-the-art immersive simulation lab for EMS training.
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Implemented video laryngoscopy for endotracheal intubation
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Builds innovative health care policies and programs that improve systems efficiencies and connect patients to the right care.
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Experience:
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Designed and launched the Right Care, Right Now Nurse Triage Line, the largest 911 diversion program in the country.
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Facilitated inter-agency collaboration to establish the DC Stabilization Center that diverts intoxicated patients from emergency rooms to specialized community stabilization center.
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Launched field transfusion of whole blood in large urban environment, contributing to decreased homicide rate.
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Conducted Hospital Liaison Officer pilot to improve department’s ambulance patient offloading times.
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Advises on clinical policy by leveraging decades in private practice, academia, and setting practice standards.
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Experience:
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24 years of private practice of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine.
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Full professor and Associate Dean for Medical Education at Georgetown University School of Medicine.
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12 teaching awards at Georgetown, including two Humanism in Medicine awards.
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16 years on National Board of Medical Examiners.
