Joshua Niforatos, MD, MTS is an Emergency Physician and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is an Attending Physician at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Emergency Departments.  

Prior to joining the Johns Hopkins faculty, he was Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, as well as a staff emergency physician at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital. He completed his emergency medicine residency training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and received his Medical Degree from Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine with Special Qualifications in Biomedical Research.  

He has over 80 peer-reviewed publications focusing on meta-research and infectious diseases, financial conflicts of interest, and limitations to statistical approaches in the published literature.  Joshua’s current focus and expertise relate to identifying drivers of physician practice variation, identifying and de-implementing low-value care in the ED, ED clinical pathways, and developing AI / health tech solutions to these problems.