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
- HOUSECS 59: House Course
In the News
- Pratt Researchers Imagine Robots of Tomorrow, From the Surgical Table to Outer …
- Expiring Medications Could Pose Challenge for Astronauts on Long Space Missions…
- Algorithm Improves Accuracy of Scheduling Surgeries (Jun 27, 2023 | Duke Health…
- Algorithm Improves Accuracy of Scheduling Surgeries (Jun 26, 2023 | Duke Health)
- Let’s Talk About All Things Space Duke Space Initiative (Apr 1, 2022 | DukEngin…
- Space: The Next Frontier for Health Care (Aug 12, 2021 | School of Medicine Mag…
- Pratt Robot May Blast Off With Astronauts to Assist With Health Care (Jun 29, 2…
Representative Publications
- Howell, Thomas Clark, Hamed Zaribafzadeh, Maxwell D. Sumner, Ursula Rogers, John Rollman, Daniel M. Buckland, Michael Kent, Allan D. Kirk, Peter J. Allen, and Bruce Rogers. “Ambulatory Surgery Ensemble: Predicting Adult and Pediatric Same-Day Surgery Cases Across Specialties.” Ann Surg Open 6, no. 1 (March 2025): e534. https://doi.org/10.1097/AS9.0000000000000534.
- Zaribafzadeh, Hamed, T Clark Howell, Wendy L. Webster, Christopher J. Vail, Allan D. Kirk, Peter J. Allen, Ricardo Henao, and Daniel M. Buckland. “Development of Multiservice Machine Learning Models to Predict Postsurgical Length of Stay and Discharge Disposition at the Time of Case Posting.” Ann Surg Open 6, no. 1 (March 2025): e547. https://doi.org/10.1097/AS9.0000000000000547.
- 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.