Joe Sachs, MD, FACEP

Joe Sachs is an emergency physician, television writer, and Executive Producer of the HBO Max series, “The Pitt. He began his interdisciplinary career as a student at Stanford Medical School, where he simultaneously pursued a Master’s degree in Filmmaking at Stanford. After graduation, he completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at UCLA.

His television career began in 1994 with the NBC television series “ER." He remained with the program throughout its fifteen-year run, eventually serving as Executive Producer and writing a total of thirty-five episodes of the acclaimed series. He has also held positions as a writer-producer on NBC's “Mercy” (2010), ABC’s "Off the Map” (2011), and the CBS drama “NCIS: Los Angeles” (2011-2020). In 2023, he joined Max’s "The Pitt,” and wrote multiple episodes during the show's first season.

Throughout his career as a television writer, Dr. Sachs has maintained a part-time practice in Emergency Medicine at a designated trauma center for Los Angeles County, even attending to the most critical patients during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. While writing compelling drama always comes first, his commitment to state-of-the-art medical accuracy has created a positive impact on both professional and public health education all around the world.