Sanjay Arora, MD

Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Vice Chair of Academic Affairs

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Overview

Sanjay Arora, MD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. He completed his clinical training at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2005 and joined the faculty at USC where he currently serves as the Chief of the Research Division in Emergency Medicine. He is also a clinical fellow at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and is a faculty mentor at the USC Resource Center for Minority Aging Research. Additionally he is the Director of the research fellowship at USC, Director of the research education and dissemination fellowship at USC, and Director of the undergraduate/ medical student emergency medicine research program in his department. His research area of interest is utilizing emerging technology to improve the quality and efficacy of emergency care, and to bridge the gap between an emergency department visit and a stable outpatient medical home for low-income, inner city patients with chronic disease. As chronic disease and its impact on the emergency department is a large topic, he has focused his efforts on diabetes and HIV as model diseases on which to evaluate interventions centered largely around improving appointment and medication adherence. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), CAL/ACEP Emergency Medicine Research and Education Foundation (EMREF), the McKesson Foundation, the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute (SC CTSI), Gilead Sciences, the Office of AIDS Programs and Prevention, and the California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP). In 2015 he was named the top section editor by the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine and the received the Required Scholarly Project Mentor of the Year award from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. In addition to conducting research, he is a prominent educator in his field and received the speaker of the year award at both of the largest national conferences in emergency medicine (the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly and the Essentials of Emergency Medicine) in 2011.

Publications

  • Clinical validation of an AI-based blood testing device for diagnosis and prognosis of acute infection and sepsis. Nat Med. 2025 Dec; 31(12):4044-4054.. View in PubMed
  • mHealth Social Support Versus Standard Support for Diabetes Management in Safety-Net Emergency Department Patients: Randomized Phase-III Trial. JMIR Diabetes. 2025 Apr 23; 10:e56934.. View in PubMed
  • Prehospital Care for Persons Experiencing Homelessness: A Cross-Sectional Survey of the Challenges, Experiences, and Perspectives of Operational EMS Agency Medical Directors. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2024; 28(8):998-1005.. View in PubMed
  • Implementation and Evaluation of an Automated Text Message-Based Diabetes Prevention Program for Adults With Pre-diabetes. J Diabetes Sci Technol. 2024 09; 18(5):1139-1145.. View in PubMed
  • Characteristics and Outcomes of 360 Consecutive COVID-19 Patients Discharged From the Emergency Department With Supplemental Oxygen. Ann Emerg Med. 2023 01; 81(1):14-19.. View in PubMed
  • Technological Proficiencies, Engagement, and Practical Considerations for mHealth Programs at an Urban Safety-Net Hospital Emergency Departments: Data Analysis. JMIR Diabetes. 2022 Jun 06; 7(2):e23641.. View in PubMed
  • Cognitive load during training for out-of-department emergency responses. AEM Educ Train. 2022 Jun; 6(3):e10742.. View in PubMed
  • Who Stayed Home Under Safer-at-Home? Impacts of COVID-19 on Volume and Patient-Mix at an Emergency Department. West J Emerg Med. 2021 Feb 08; 22(2):234-243.. View in PubMed
  • Feasibility and Acceptability of a Text Message-Based Intervention to Reduce Overuse of Alcohol in Emergency Department Patients: Controlled Proof-of-Concept Trial. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2020 06 04; 8(6):e17557.. View in PubMed
  • Blue light phones as potential locations for deploying public access naloxone kits on a college campus. J Am Coll Health. 2022 01; 70(1):18-21.. View in PubMed