John H. BurtonJohn Burton, M.D., has been the Residency Program Director in Emergency Medicine and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Albany Medical College in Albany, NY, since 2006. From 1999 to 2003, Dr. Burton was the Medical Director for Maine Emergency Medcal Services and, from 1995 to 2006, he worked in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. He was the founding Research Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maine Medical Center. Dr Burton's areas of research interest are procedural sedation and analgesia, emergency medical services, and management of cardiovascular emergencies. He has published extensively in the emergency medicine literature on these and related topics. He has received awards and peer recognition throughout his academic career noting a commitment to the specialty of emergency medicine. Dr Burton completed medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992, and residency training at the University of Pittsburgh Affiliated Residency in Emergency Medicine in 1995. Read More Read Less