Emily Damuth, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. She majored in molecular biology at Colgate University where she also played Division I college basketball. As co-captain of the women’s basketball team, she helped lead Colgate to a conference championship and its first-ever qualification for the NCAA tournament. She received her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School where she was selected for the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. She trained in emergency medicine at Duke University Medical Center prior to completing fellowship in critical care medicine at Cooper University Hospital.

Dr. Damuth splits her clinical time between the emergency department and multidisciplinary critical care units. She serves as the section head for Cooper’s ECMO program and is an Assistant Program Director for the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. She received the Diane Barton Caring Award in 2020 and was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society in 2022. She was named a Top Doc in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine by Philadelphia Magazine and SJ Magazine in 2023 and 2024. She is passionate about medical education and received a Golden Apple Teaching Award in 2020. She does research on health disparities in ECMO utilization and outcome.