Joseph Toscano received his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine in 1989 and trained in internal medicine at the Naval Hospital in San Diego. He has been an attending emergency physician at San Ramon Regional Medical Center in San Ramon, California since 1999 and is a current, active instructor in Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support. Dr. Toscano is also an attending physician in the urgent care clinic at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. In addition to caring for patients, he is a member of the editorial boards for the journals Emergency Medicine and the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine, and he is a reviewer for the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine.