MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY:

NATIONAL URBAN EMS MEDICAL DIRECTORS (EAGLES COALITION)

Faculty

Paul E. Pepe, MD, MPH - Medical Director, City of Dallas EMS and the Dallas Metropolitan BioTel EMS System; Medical Director, Dallas Metropolitan Medical Response System; Professor of Medicine, Surgery, Public Health and Chair, Emergency Medicine, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the Parkland Health and Hospital System, Dallas.

City of Atlanta

Eric Ossmann, MD, FACEP, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Co- Director Section of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, Medical Director Grady Emergency Medical Service, Associate Medical Director EmoryFlight


City of Austin

Edward M. Racht, M.D. is the Medical Director for the City of Austin / Travis County Emergency Medical Services Clinical Practice, a diverse group of Providers and agencies including the Austin Fire Department, Austin / Travis 911 Emergency Communications, Austin / Travis County Emergency Medical Services, Travis County Parks Department, STARFlight helicopter, Lower Colorado River Authority Rangers, Austin Aviation Police, fifteen volunteer first responder fire departments and EMS agencies and a Corporate Response Group made up of eighteen regional corporate response teams. Dr. Racht is active at the state and national level serving as the Chairperson of the Governor’s EMS & Trauma Advisory Council for the State of Texas as well as the Texas Affiliate Board of Directors of the American Heart Association. He has also been active in International EMS, serving as a consultant to the World Bank and as the American founder of the Vladivostok and Moscow, Russia EMS Training Centers.


City of Boston

Peter Moyer, MD - Medical Director, City of Boston EMS, and Professor of Emergency Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.

City of Chicago

Paula J. Willoughby, DO, MPHE - Medical Director, Chicago Fire Department; Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago.

City of Cleveland

Thomas E. Collins, MD, Medical Director, City of Cleveland EMS and Fire Department, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Case University, Cleveland, Ohio

City of Detroit

Brooks F. Bock, MD, FACEP
Specialist-in-Chief, Emergency Medicine, Detroit Medical Center
Dayanandan Professor & Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Wayne State University
Chief, Department of Emergency Medicine, Detroit Receiving Hospital
Immediate Past President, American Board of Emergency Medicine
Oral Examiner, American Board of Emergency Medicine
Chair, AMA Section Council on Emergency Medicine
Past President, American College of Emergency Physicians

El Paso

James Loflin MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Medical Director, Division of Emergency Medical Services, Department of Emergency Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas.


City of Fort Worth

John Griswell, MD, MDiv, FACEP, Medical Director, MedStar (City of Fort Worth EMS), Medical Director, Emergency Department, Hugley Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas


 

City of Louisville


Neal Richmond, MD - CEO, Louisville Metro EMS


City of Los Angeles

Marc Eckstein, MD, FACEP is the Medical Director of the Los Angeles Fire Department, which is the nation's second busiest EMS provider. Dr. Eckstein is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, and the Director of Prehospital Care at the Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center. A former New York City paramedic, Dr. Eckstein has over 20 years experience in EMS. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and lectures around the world on EMS and disaster preparedness topics.


City of Miami

Kathleen S. Schrank, MD, Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine EMS Medical Director, City of Miami Fire Rescue and Village of Key Biscayne Fire Rescue


City of Milwaukee

Ronald G. Pirrallo, MD, Director of Medical Services for the Milwaukee County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) System; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin Emergency Medicine

City of Nashville

Corey Slovis, MD - Medical Director, Nashville EMS, Nashville Fire Department; Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

City of New York

Bradley Kaufman, MD Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
SUNY Downstate School of Medicine, Brooklyn, NY


City of Philadelphia

Crawford Mechem, MD - Medical Director, City of Philadelphia EMS, Philadelphia Fire Department and Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania.

City of Phoenix

John V. Gallagher MD, FACEP, FAAEM, Phoenix Fire Dept. EMS Medical Director, Base Hospital Medical Director, St. Luke's Medical Center, Attending Emergency Physician, St.Luke's Medical Center

City of Richmond

Joseph P. Ornato, MD - Medical Director, Richmond Ambulance Authority, City of Richmond EMS; and Professor of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine (Cardiology) and Chair of Emergency Medicine Virginia Commonwealth, University, Richmond, VA.

City of San Diego

James Dunford, MD - Medical Director, City of San Diego EMS and Clinical Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Diego.


City of San Francisco

S. Marshal Isaacs, MD - Medical Director, City of San Franscisco EMS, San Francisco Fire Department; Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery, the University of California, San Francisco; and Attending Physician, and San Francisco General Hospital.

City of Seattle

Michael K. Copass, MD - Medical Director, Seattle Medic I Program, City of Seattle EMS, Seattle Fire Department, and Professor of Medicine and Neurology, University of Washington, and Director of Emergency Services, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA.

 


City of Tucson

Terence Valenzuela, MDEmergency Medicine Professor, University of Arizona, Arizona Health Sciences Center; Tucson Fire Department Medical Director

 

Federal Agency Medical Directors/Medical Officers
Richard Carmona, United States Surgeon Genera;, Commander, USPHS Commissioned Corps; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

William P. Fabbri, MD, FACEP, Medical Officer, FBI Headquarter Health Care Program Unit

Tracey Hoke, MD, National Institute of Health

Nelson Tang, MD - Medical director United States Secret Service; Assistant Professor and Director, Division of Special Operations, Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Special Guest Faculty

Heightman, A.J., Editor, JEMS Magazine


McBurney, Ruth, (President Elect of Health Physics Society), Manager of Radiation Safety Licensing Branch, Texas Department of State Health Services.
Mengazzi, James J. Ph. D., Emergency Medicine, the University of Pittsburg School of Medicine

Minei, Joseph, MD. UT Southwestern Medical Center, Assistant Professor. Medical director of trauma services and co-director of the surgical intensive care unit at Parkland Memorial Hospital; Director of the surgical critical care fellowship in the Department of Surgery; Chief of the Section of Trauma in the Burn/Trauma/Critical Care Division.
Fowler, Raymond, MD. Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, UTSW Medical Center; Assistant EMS Director, BioTel
ACEP-NAEMSP National Presidents

Robert E. O'Connor, MD, MPH - President-Elect, National Association of EMS Physicians; Professor of Emergency Medicine, Residency Program Director, Thomas Jefferson University; Director of Education and Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware


Robert Suter, DO, Emergency Department Medical Director, Spring Branch Medical Center, Houston, TX; Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, University Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX,  Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA; Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University of Health Science, Bethesda, MD.


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