Daniel Buckland

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Buckland is an Attending Physician at Duke University Hospital Emergency Department. He is the Director of the Duke Acute Care Technology Lab where he leads research in developing technology for the diagnosis and treatment of acute disease in data science and robotics projects by managing collaborative research projects between clinicians and engineers. His work at involves studying how advancements in autonomy impact safety critical systems, including the healthcare system. As part of his focus on autonomy, he is the Medical Director of the the Laboratory for Transformational Administration (LTA) an Operational Data Science group in the Duke Department of Surgery.
In addition, Dr. Buckland is the Deputy Chair of the Human System Risk Board of the Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer via an Intergovernmental Personnel Act agreement with NASA, where he determines the human system risk of spaceflight and how standards, countermeasures, and mission design can mitigate risk.

Appointments and Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
  • Assistant Professor in Surgery

Contact Information

  • Office Location: 2301 Erwin Road, DUMC Box 3096, Durham, NC 27710
  • Email Address: dan.buckland@duke.edu

Education

  • M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006
  • Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011
  • M.D. Harvard Medical School, 2014

Courses Taught

  • ME 394: Engineering Undergraduate Fellows Projects
  • HOUSECS 59: House Course

In the News

Representative Publications

  • Smith, Paul, Alexander Baughman, Caleb Cram, Patrick Estep, and Daniel Buckland. “Assessments of Physiology And Cognition in Hybrid-reality Environments (APACHE) - A VR “Sandbox” for Planetary Spacewalk Research.” In ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Posters, 1–2. ACM, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641234.3671062.
  • Diaz, Thomas E., Emma C. Ives, Diana I. Lazare, and Daniel M. Buckland. “Expiration analysis of the International Space Station formulary for exploration mission planning.” NPJ Microgravity 10, no. 1 (July 23, 2024): 76. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-024-00414-3.
  • Starks, Monique A., Audrey L. Blewer, Christine Chow, Edward Sharpe, Lee Van Vleet, Evan Arnold, Daniel M. Buckland, et al. “Incorporation of Drone Technology Into the Chain of Survival for OHCA: Estimation of Time Needed for Bystander Treatment of OHCA and CPR Performance.” Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 17, no. 4 (April 2024): e010061. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.123.010061.
  • Ward, Jessica, Robert J. Reynolds, Erin Connell, Wilma Anton, Avalon Kabeel, Jacqueline M. Charvat, Nicholas Nartey, et al. “Levels of evidence for human system risk evaluation.” NPJ Microgravity 10, no. 1 (March 20, 2024): 33. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-024-00372-w.
  • Antonsen, Erik, Robert J. Reynolds, Jacqueline Charvat, Erin Connell, Avalon Monti, Devan Petersen, Nicholas Nartey, et al. “Causal diagramming for assessing human system risk in spaceflight.” NPJ Microgravity 10, no. 1 (March 19, 2024): 32. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-024-00375-7.