Amal Mattu, MD, FAAEM, FACEP
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Amal Mattu has been a faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) for nearly 30 years, earning an international reputation as an expert in emergency cardiology.
Dr. Mattu received his bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1988 and his medical degree from UMSOM in 1993.
In 1996, he joined UMSOM’s Division of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Surgery. Mattu completed the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)/Emergency Medicine Foundation Teaching Fellowship in 1997 and became board certified in emergency medicine in 1998. He was promoted to assistant professor at UMSOM in 1999, associate professor in 2004, and full professor with tenure in 2010.
Mattu’s primary area of academic focus is emergency cardiology. He has written two best-selling textbooks on electrocardiography and has served as an editor for 28 other medical texts, including the American Heart Association’s “Textbook of Emergency Cardiovascular Care and CPR.”
Mattu is one of emergency medicine’s most revered educators, providing over 1,500 lectures at the local, regional, national, and international levels, and contributing to more than 4,000 hours of continuing medical education. He has spoken in 33 countries across six continents at major national and international conferences and at notable institutions such as the Mayo Clinic, Harvard University, Stanford University, and Yale University. He is the only physician in the country to be an invited speaker at each of the past 25 Scientific Assemblies of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM).
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mattu provided monthly webinars focusing on the cardiovascular complications of COVID-19 for an international consortium of prehospital medical directors and was the invited speaker on this topic for the European Society of Cardiology. In September 2020, he co-authored the U.S. Guidelines on the management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction in the setting of COVID-19.
At UMSOM, Mattu served as the emergency medicine residency director from 2002 to 2011 and became the only person to win national Program Director of the Year awards from AAEM and the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association for his contributions to residency education. Mattu founded the Emergency Cardiology Fellowship Program in 2012 and remains its co-director, and he was director of the Emergency Medicine Research Scholars Program from 2013 to 2020. He has served as vice chairman of academic affairs since 2018.
Mattu has received numerous education awards, including 11 national teaching awards. He was named the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s Teacher of the Year in 2000 and is the only person to win the highest education awards from both the ACEP and AAEM.
Mattu has hosted educational podcasts monthly since 2007 and online video lectures focused on electrocardiography weekly since 2011, educating tens of thousands of health care providers around the world. Over the past decade, his ECGWeekly.com electrocardiography videos have been viewed more than 2 million times by health care providers in more than 150 countries.
