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Timothy E. Lum, M.D.

Timothy E. Lum, M.D.

Emergency Medicine

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Office (585) 341-6880
Fax (585) 341-8221

About Me

Timothy E. Lum, M.D. is board-certified in Emergency Medicine and is Chief of the Emergency Department at Highland Hospital.

www.urmc.edu/highland/departments-centers/emergency.aspx

Dr. Lum was born and raised in Rochester, NY and attended Aquinas Institute. He went on to graduate f...
Timothy E. Lum, M.D. is board-certified in Emergency Medicine and is Chief of the Emergency Department at Highland Hospital.

www.urmc.edu/highland/departments-centers/emergency.aspx

Dr. Lum was born and raised in Rochester, NY and attended Aquinas Institute. He went on to graduate from Boston College with a degree in English, and then spent two years in Truk, Micronesia where he taught high school as a Jesuit International Volunteer.

Dr. Lum earned a Master's Degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He attended medical school and completed a three-year residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Certified Specialties

Emergency Medicine - American Board of Emergency Medicine

Faculty Appointments

Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine - Department of Emergency Medicine (SMD)

Credentials

Residency & Fellowship

Residency, Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center. 2003 - 2005

Internship, Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center. 2002 - 2003

Education

MD | University of Rochester. 2002

Publications

Journal Articles

Profiles in patient safety: misplaced femoral line guidewire and multiple failures to detect the foreign body on chest radiography.

Lum TE, Fairbanks RJ, Pennington EC, Zwemer FL

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.. 2005 July 12 (7):658-62. Epub 1900 01 01.

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