Heather T. Lounsbury, MD

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Director, Advanced Clinical Elective

P.O. Box 800699
Charlottesville, VA 22908-0699
Phone: (434) 924-8485
Fax: (434) 924-2877
E-mail: hts3r@uvahealth.org

Dr. Heather Lounsbury is a current Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia. Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, she completed her undergraduate studies in biology and philosophy at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska before returning to Arizona for medical school at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She first came to the University of Virginia for her emergency medicine residency in 2011 and served as a chief resident during her third year. She stayed for a one-year medical education fellowship and was hired as full-time faculty upon completion. 

 Dr. Lounsbury is currently the Program Director for the emergency medicine residency program. Prior to assuming that role in late 2025, after acting as an Assistant Program Director for more than five years, she was also heavily involved in undergraduate medical education as the assistant clerkship director for the required emergency medicine clerkship, co-director of the fourth year ECG didactic elective, prior director of the required third-year Life Saving Techniques Workshop, a recurrent teacher in both the Transition to Residency course and the transition to clerkships course, and a small group mentor/coach in the required longitudinal Clinical Performance Development/Foundations of Clinical Medicine course. She lectures regularly during resident conference, mentors during procedure labs, and has been one of the most active emergency medicine faculty utilizing the Simulation Center for both resident and student teaching. She is a sub-investigator on many of the research studies currently recruiting in the Emergency Department at the University of Virginia. She has lectured at and regularly attends the Virginia College of Emergency Physicians annual meeting, and is also a regular attendee at the national Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD) meeting. She is currently training to be a health professions docent at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia to further develop the use of art in medical training, focusing on observation skills, communication skills, and emotional expression. 

• Khoury V & Lounsbury HT. “One Syncope Rule to Rule Them All?”. Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department, 3^rd Ed., edited by Winters M et al, publication forthcoming.
• Lounsbury, HT & Althoff SO. “The ECG in Environmental Urgencies and Emergencies”. Electrocardiogram in Clinical Medicine, edited by Brady WJ, et al, Wiley-Blackwell, December 2020, 315-324.
• Schrepel, C., Harter, K., Streich, H., Hillman, E., Kellogg, A., Nable, J., & Pelletier-Bui, A. (2019). Essentials of the Emergency Medicine Match Process: The Couples Match Addendum, on Behalf of the CORD Advising Students Committee in Emergency Medicine. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health, 20(4.1).
• Bentley, S., Hu, K., Messman, A., Moadel, T., Khandewal, S., Streich, H., & Noelker, J. (2017). Are All Competencies Equal In The Eyes Of Residents? A Multicenter Study Of Emergency Medicine Residents’ Interest in Feedback. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health, 18(1).
• Grangeia, L., Streich, H., Stone, J., Talman, E., & Sudhir, A. (2016). Skill Retention After Completion of a Proficiency- Based Curriculum to Teach Cricothyroidotomy. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health, 17(4.1).
• Streich HT, Huff JS. (2015). “Differentiation, Evaluation, and Management of Ataxia in Adults and Children”. Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, 29(2), 2-9.
• Streich HT, Rushton WF, Charlton NP. “Death by Spice: A case report of mortality following synthetic marijuana use”. Poster at European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists meeting, Brussels 2014.