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RESIDENTS entering into the emergency medicine workforce need to be aware of the business of emergency medicine and a variety of other key clinical and practice management issues. The American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) offers presentations to residency programs at no cost your program. When scheduled, a national leader of AAEM will travel to your program and provide a presentation on key practice management issues not often discussed during residency (employment models, contracts, due process, restrictive covenants, etc) as well as a clinical or leadership presentation of your choice to the residents and faculty based specifically upon needs identified by your program.

We would like to schedule a visit in 2017-2018 to your program. Scheduling the visit is easy. Simply contact Darcy Welsh at 800-884-2236, by email at [email protected] or submit your request at http://www.aaemrsa.org/events/aaem-residency-visits.

Kevin G. Rodgers, MD FAAEMPresident, American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)Born and raised in the Maryland/Virginia area, Dr. Rodgers received a degree in Biology from the University of Virginia in 1977. He then worked as a firefighter/paramedic in Fairfax County, Virginia and as an ED Tech for the original group of EM physicians in the U.S. at Alexandria Hospital. Dr. Rodgers then

completed the Physician Associate Program at Emory University in 1980. Following graduation he worked in the emergency department at Cooper Green Hospital (Birmingham, 1981) and for the Georgia Baptist Life Flight Program (Atlanta, 1981-1982). Dr. Rodgers attended medical school at the Medical College of Virginia graduating in 1986. He completed his emergency medicine residency at Brooke Army Medical Center in 1990. At Brooke he served from 1990-1998 as the Pre-Hospital Care Director, the Assistant Program and Research Director, the Associate Program Director and Program Director.

Dr. Rodgers arrived at Indiana University in 1998 from Brooke Army Medical Center taking over as the Associate Program Director. In 2002 Kevin Rodgers and Carey Chisholm became the Co-Program Directors for the IU EM Residency and in 2013 Dr. Rodgers became the sole Program Director. In 2015 he moved to a Program Director Emeritus position in anticipation of becoming the AAEM president and continues to serve as a member of the Program Director Team. Dr. Rodgers was proud to be named the 2015 Indiana University Inspirational Teacher of the Year, and the Indiana University Emergency Medicine Residency annual faculty teaching award was renamed the Kevin Rodgers Faculty Teaching Award.

Dr. Rodgers has been very active with the American Academy of Emergency Medicine since becoming a member in 1999. He was just elected president in February after serving as vice-president (2014-2016) and treasurer (2012-2014). Dr. Rodgers previously served eight years on the board of directors and was the chair of the Education Committee from 2006-2011. In addition, he has participated as a site director for the Oral Board Review Course, as faculty for the Written Board Review Course and as the Board Liaison to the Education Committee and the AAEM Resident & Student Association. He has been honored to receive both the AAEM Program Director of the Year Award (twice) and the Joe Lex Educator of the Year Award.

Dr. Rodgers served on the SAEM Program Committee (2008-2015) and as the chair of the Resident Leadership /Chief Resident Forum (2009-2014). He is a reviewer for Academic Emergency Medicine and Journal of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Rodgers was privileged to serve with a group of Emergency Medicine educators who drafted the new ACGME Emergency Medicine Milestones (2011-2013).

His interests include cooking, wine tasting, and coaching lacrosse. Dr. Rodgers has helped maintain and staff a clinic in Haiti since 2000. His wife, Ruth, serves as a vice-president for Student Development and Dean of Students at Marian University. His family includes four sons: Pat (27), Sean (24), Ryan (21) and Dan (16).

Didactic Topics30 minute lecture (pick two)• Reversing Anticoagulants in the Patient with Brain Trauma • Evidence Based Management of Cardiogenic Shock • Evidence Based Diagnosis of Mesenteric Ischemia • Tips and Tricks for When the Bleeding Won’t Stop • The Evidence Behind RICE Therapy for Acute Sprains

1 hour lecture (pick one)• Doorway Diagnosis of the Mangled• Orthopedic Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls • Visual Quizzes (Potpourri of Visually Stimulated Cases)• Organizational Skills and Time Management for Residents• Bedside Teaching in the Emergency Department• Universal Precautions and Body Fluid Exposures• EBM Approach to Common Infections in the ED• Managing the Difficult Airway: Tips for Rapid Sequence

Intubation• Managing the Pediatric Airway• Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Case Studies• Case Studies in OB-GYN Emergencies• Tips On Taking the Oral Board Exam• Trauma Case Studies• Approach to the Patient with Syncope• Oncologic Emergencies• Acute Cephalgia• Rational Use of Antibiotics in Soft Tissue Wounds• Lightning and Electrical Injuries


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• Approach and Management of Cardiovascular Shock• Antibiotic Use in Prosthetic Device Infections• EBM Approach to Diabetic Emergencies

1-2 hour lecture• The Hand Exam and Injuries

David Farcy, MD FAAEM FCCMPresident-Elect, American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)Dr. Farcy is Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine and Medical Director of the Surgical Intensivists at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, FL. Dr. Farcy’s interest in medicine began as a medic in the U.S. Air Force and drove him to pursue a career in emergency medicine and critical

care. After graduating from Texas Tech University, Dr. Farcy attended Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara where he obtained his medical degree and completed his emergency medicine residency at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. Finding a love also for critical care, Dr. Farcy also participated in an emergency medicine/critical care fellowship at R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, MD.

Once employed by Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Farcy became immediately active in the Florida Chapter Division of AAEM, eventually serving on the FLAAEM board and is currently immediate past president. Working in an academic setting at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, it is his passion to educate and be a voice to constantly improve patient care.

Outside of working clinically, Dr. Farcy prides himself on the extracurricular time he gives to his many lectures, posters, and publications to further educate his fellow physicians.

Didactic Topics• Airway Management• Critical Care Updates• Early Goal Directed Therapy• ECMO• Hypothermia Management Post Cardiac Arrest• Mechanical Ventilation • Metabolic Issue Consideration with RSI• REBOA• Sedation and Analgesia Post Intubation• Sepsis-related Topics• Shock Topic• Surgical Airway is No Failure

Lisa Moreno-Walton, MD MS MSCR FAAEMSecretary-Treasurer, American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)Dr. Moreno-Walton is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and a member of the board of directors of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. She holds a Doctor of Medicine degree, a Master of Science in Clinical Research degree,

and is a National Institutes of Health Research Scholar.

At LSU, she serves as Director of Research, Director of Diversity and Director of HIV Testing and holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Surgery at Tulane University. The recipient of several research grants, Dr. Moreno-Walton has over 250 national and international presentations, 40 journal publications and six book chapters. Her research interests include HIV, violence prevention and treatment, diversity, and health care disparities. She was on the task force which started the renowned Sexual Assault Response Team in New York City, and served as the Associate Director of the Bronx division. She designed and administers a culturally competent HIV prevention and testing program in New Orleans, which is endorsed by the CDC as a model program. As a global health consultant and educator, she has served in over 25 countries to support the development of research and violence treatment and prevention and the elimination of health care disparities.

Didactic TopicsClinical:

• Assessment and Management of Chest Pain• Updates on HIV Testing and Prevention Counseling• Updates on Therapeutic Uses of Hypothermia• Use of Tranexamic Acid in Trauma• Assessment and Management of Urological Trauma• ED Management of Sexual Assault• Treating Emergencies in Fire and Water• Removing Foreign Bodies in the ED• Work Up and Management of Breast Disorders Presenting to

the ED• Updates on the Management of Headache• Emergencies of the GI Tract• When Good Electrolytes Go Bad: Emergency Management of

Electrolyte Disorders• Current Best Practice in the Treatment of Bell’s Palsy• Evaluating Suicidal Ideation in the ED• Introduction to the Emergency Management of the Trauma Patient• Trauma Care in the Elderly• The Pregnant Trauma Patient• Interpreting the ABG• Guideline Based Use of Prednisone in the ED


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• GYN Emergencies• Pregnancy and Labor: Understanding Normal Physiology• Hematologic Emergencies• Care of the Acutely Bleeding Patient• Case Studies in Pediatric Trauma• Diagnosis and Treatment of Illness Due to Chemical Agents and

Bioterrorism• Management of the Blunt Trauma Patient• Procedural Sedation: What Works and What’s New

Research and Teaching:• How To Do a Research Project• How To Design a Survey Study• The Value of Mentorship in Career Development• Inter-Generational Teaching and Learning• Teaching Cultural Competency to Residents• How to Publish a Case Report

Administrative:• Understanding Unconscious Bias and its Impact on Clinical Care• Cultural Competency in Clinical Communications• Establishing a Sexual Assault Response Team in Your ED• Care of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons• Ethical Dilemmas on Medical Mission• The History of Health Care Disparities in American Medicine• Putting Your Career on the Fast Track• When Parents and Partners Won’t Leave the Exam Room

Mark Reiter, MD MBA FAAEMImmediate Past President, American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)Dr. Reiter is the residency director at the University of Tennessee-Murfreesboro/Nashville emergency medicine residency, and a partner in Middle Tennessee Emergency Physicians. Dr. Reiter also is the CEO of Emergency Excellence, a company dedicated to emergency medicine performance improvement.

Dr. Reiter graduated magna cum laude from Rutgers College where he also served as Class President. He enrolled in an accelerated BA/MD program with UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where he was elected to the AOA Honor Society and served as president of the New Jersey Medical Student Association. During this time, he also earned an MBA from the Rutgers Business School. Dr. Reiter completed his emergency medicine residency at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Dr. Reiter has been very active in organized medicine outside of emergency medicine, serving many roles within different organizations, such as on the Council on Legislation for the American Medical Association and the Board of Trustees for the Medical Society of New Jersey. An AAEM member since 2001, Dr. Reiter has served on the AAEM Board of Directors since 2005, and served as AAEM president from 2014 to 2016. He also serves on the AAEM Services Board of Directors, and is a past president of AAEM/RSA. On the AAEM board, Dr. Reiter has focused on issues such as the corporate practice of medicine, threats to ABEM/AOBEM board certification, health care policy, improving the financial strength of AAEM and building relationships with other organizations.

Dr. Reiter is married to Dr. Christina Reiter, an anesthesiologist. They have four young girls, Jenna, Cara, Emily, and Rebecca.

Didactic TopicsClinical

• Managing Burns• Pain Management in the ED• Wound Management• Transfusions• Bowel Obstruction• Trauma in Pregnancy• Peripheral Vascular Disease• Face and Jaw Emergencies• Abdominal Pain in the Elderly• Pneumonia• Tick-Borne Illnesses• Pediatric Meningitis & Sepsis• Electrical Injuries• Procedural Sedation• Emergency Medicine Myths and Facts

Non-Clinical• Finding the Right Job• Contracts and Negotiation• Documentation Pearls• Patient Presentation Skills• Emergency Physician’s Guide to Money (personal finance)• Maximizing Patient Satisfaction• Interviewing Skills• AAEM and Advocacy (board certification, due process, restrictive

covenants, open books, fee splitting, etc.)• Leadership Opportunities• Intro to EM Health Policy (EMTALA, HIPAA, Overcrowding, IOM

Report)



Megan Healy, MD FAAEMBoard Member At-Large, American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)

Dr. Healy holds a faculty appointment of Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, where she is also Assistant Program Director for the EM residency program. A Philadelphia native, she completed medical school at Drexel University College of Medicine in 2010 and residency at Temple in 2013. At Temple she also serves on the medical school admissions committee and

teaches in the Doctoring curriculum.

Megan served on the Resident and Student Association (AAEM/RSA) and the Young Physicians Section (YPS) Board of Directors as Advocacy Chair since residency and organized the first AAEM/RSA Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill in 2012. Megan recently worked to re-establish the AAEM Women in EM committee, with the mission to recruit, retain and advance women in our organization and currently works as board liaison for this committee. She also chairs the new AAEM Marketing Task Force. Her academic interests include angioedema, sepsis, and headaches/SAH. Other passions include advocacy for patients and for fair workplace practices in our specialty, medical education and leadership for women in academic medicine. She currently lives in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia with her husband, new daughter Georgia and their dog.

Didactic Topics

• From Teeth to Trachea: Managing Infections that Threaten the Airway

• Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in Women: Emerging Differences in Diagnosis and Management

• Beyond GYN: Gender Conscious Pearls for Your Practice• Care of the Critically Ill Pregnant Patient in the ED: Guidelines

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Jonathan S. Jones, MD FAAEMBoard Member At-Large, American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)Dr. Jones is Associate Professor and Residency Program Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS. He is originally from Orlando, FL, and received a BS in Physics from the University of Florida and MD from the

University of South Florida. He moved to Jackson, MS, to complete residency training at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and liked it so much he stayed on as faculty. He has served as the Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director, Assistant Program Director, and now for the last 5+ years as Program Director. He is the recipient of the 2017 AAEM/RSA Program Director of the Year Award.

He currently serves as an at-large director of the Academy after previously serving as the YPS director, and YPS vice-president. He is the Assistant Editor for Common Sense and serves on the AAEM Education and Wellness committees. He is active in organized emergency medicine and advocacy at the local and state level and is active from an educational and residency perspective with CORD and SAEM. His primary interests revolve around resident and student education, particularly in transitions of care, communication skills, consultant interactions, conflict management, and bedside teaching. His research interests include: transitions of care, resident evaluation methods, intern preparation and training, student evaluation, predictors of resident performance, and resident health and wellness. Clinically, his interests include: abdominal pain, gastrointestinal bleeding, hypertensive emergencies, and asymptomatic hypertension in the ED. In his free time, he competes in marathons and triathlons.

Didactic TopicsClinical:

• Approach to Abdominal Pain• Approach to Hypoxia• Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding • Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding• Hypertensive Emergencies in the ED• Asymptomatic Hypertension in the ED• Interpretation of the Urinalysis

Non-clinical:• Transitions of Care• Conflict Resolution• Dealing with Difficult Consultants• Dealing with Difficult Patients• Professionalism in the ED• Bedside Teaching• Transitioning from Resident to Attending• Test-taking Skills

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• How to Give a Lecture• How to Get Involved with Organized Medicine as a Resident• How to Pass the ABEM Oral Board

Bobby Kapur, MD MPH FAAEMBoard Member At-Large, American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)Dr. Kapur is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Jackson Memorial Hospital (JMH) in Miami, FL since 2015 and has launched an academic platform based on clinical excellence, innovative education, translational research, and public health outreach at the Jackson Health System and the University of Miami

Miller School of Medicine.

Dr. Kapur served as the Founding Residency Program Director at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) from 2009-2015. Dr. Kapur was also appointed as the Founding Director of the Center for Globalization at BCM from 2011-2013. In 2014, he led a six-person team that trained nearly 1,500 people in Ebola preparedness and response in Nigeria during the middle of the epidemic in the country.

Dr. Kapur served as the International Emergency Medicine fellowship director at George Washington University from 2004-2009. At GWU, Dr. Kapur established multiple academic training programs and implemented a countrywide project in Turkey that trained more than 2,000 physicians providing emergency care in Turkey’s government hospitals.

Dr. Kapur received his Medical Doctor degree from Baylor College of Medicine and his Emergency Medicine residency from Yale School of Medicine followed by a fellowship in International Emergency Medicine from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He also completed his Master in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Kapur has published multiple peer-reviewed papers and is the senior editor for the first textbook in the field of Emergency Public Health titled Emergency Public Health: Preparedness and Response. In June 2012, Dr. Kapur was awarded the Order of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine (Fellow of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine).

Didactic Topics:• Public Health Emergencies• Emerging infectious diseases (Ebola, Zika, etc.)• Global Health and Emergency Medicine• Health and Human Rights• Improving Emergency Department Flow

Evadne Marcolini, MD FAAEM FCCMBoard Member At-Large, American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)Dr. Marcolini is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care. She has clinical appointments in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Department of Neurology; and is core faculty in the emergency department as well as the Division of Neurocritical Care and Emergency

Neurology. She has board certifications in Emergency Medicine and Neurocritical Care, and is fellowship-trained in Surgical Critical Care from the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Marcolini is the Medical Director for the SkyHealth Critical Care helicopter transport service for Yale New Haven Health. Evie has been active in AAEM as a member of Education Committee, Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Committee, and has been the co-chair for the Scientific Assembly since 2015. She has been active as a speaker for AAEM at Scientific Assembly as well as multiple international conferences sponsored by AAEM. Dr. Marcolini has given invited lectures at national and international emergency medicine conferences in the U.S., Argentina, Vietnam, Greece and Italy. She is an elected member to the Neurosciences Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and has earned a Fellowship in the American College of Critical Care Medicine. She has been awarded the American College of Emergency Physicians National Junior Faculty Teaching Award. She also has a special academic interest in Critical Care and end of life issues, and is a member of the Yale-New Haven Hospital Ethics Committee. She is a member of the American College of Critical Care Medicine Ethics committee, and teaches an ethics seminar annually for the Sherwin B. Nuland Summer Institute in Bioethics. She is a co-editor of the textbook: Emergency Department Resuscitation of the Critically Ill. She has been active as faculty for Wilderness Medical Associates International since 1992, and teaches wilderness medical courses in her free time.

Didactic Topics:• Subarachnoid Hemorrhage• Traumatic Brain Injury• Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury• Acute Ischemic Stroke• Intracerebral Hemorrhage• Neurocritical Care - Interesting Cases That Started in the

Emergency Department• Critical Care of the GI Bleeder• The Ethics of Organ Donation in the Emergency Department• Approach to the Patient in Shock• Emergency Department Evaluation and Treatment of the Dizzy

Patient• Intubation of the Neurocritically Ill Patient• Atrial Fibrillation - Advanced Management of the Critically Ill

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• Hemodynamic Monitoring in the Emergency Department• Seizures and Status Epilepticus in the Emergency Department

Terrence Mulligan, DO MPH FAAEMBoard Member At-Large, American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)

Dr. Mulligan received his medical degree in 1997 from A.T. Still University in Missouri. He completed a residency in emergency medicine in 2001 and a second residency in osteopathic manipulative medicine in 2002 in Bronx, New York. He then completed a Fellowship in International Emergency Medicine at George Washington University in 2003, and completed a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology and

Biostatistics at George Washington University in 2003. In 2006, he completed a one-year Health Policy Fellowship from American Osteopathic Association, and in 2008, he completed a Fellowship in EM Administration and Management. He has completed graduate work at Erasmus University in the Netherlands in Health Economics, Policy and Law. He is double-board certified in emergency medicine and in neuromusculoskeletal medicine/osteopathic manipulative medicine, and is a subspecialist in international emergency medicine, health policy and in EM administration and management.

Dr. Mulligan is a Clinical Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, where he is the Director of the International Emergency Medicine (IEM) program and the IEM Fellowship. From 2006-2010, Dr. Mulligan was living and working in the Netherlands directing two emergency departments and EM residencies at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, and at UMC Utrecht, two of the first EM programs in that country, and contributed heavily to EM development in Netherlands. During that time, he completed graduate work in a Master of Science program in Health Economics, Policy and Law at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Dr Mulligan is also an Extraordinary Senior Lecturer/Visiting Assistant Professor at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa, and a Visiting Professor at Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital, Hunan Normal University, in Changsha, China.

He is a board member of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM), acting as North American Regional Representative to IFEM, representing ACEP, AAEM, SAEM, ACOEP, CAEP and multiple other North American EM Societies. He has been active with IFEM since 2005. He is a co-founder and board member of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM), a board member of the Global Academy for EM, and a board member for the American Academy of EM for India (AAEMI). He is the immediate past-chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Section for International Emergency Medicine, the chair of the AAEM International Committee, a member of

the SAEM Global EM Academy and the SAEM International Outreach Taskforce, and the co-founder of the International EM Fellowship Consortium (http://www.iemfellowships.com/). He is an Associate Editor and co-founder of the peer-reviewed journal, The African Journal of Emergency Medicine, and is an executive editor of Emergency Physicians International magazine. He is a co-author of the IFEM Model Curriculum for Medical Student Education in EM, a co-author of the IFEM Model Curriculum for EM Specialists, and is the main author of the IFEM Model Curriculum for CME/CPD.

Over the last twelve years, Dr. Mulligan has initiated and participated in emergency medicine and acute care system development programs in over three dozen countries. He has established and assisted in establishing residencies in emergency medicine, national and international EM societies, fellowships in EM and EM subspecialties, schools for emergency nursing, training schools for paramedics, relief agencies for underserved areas, disaster medicine and disaster preparation, hospital disaster preparedness and hospital trauma system development all around the world. He has delivered over 400 lectures, symposia and educational programs nationally and internationally for over twenty local, national and international EM organizations. In 2010, he was honored with the special award, “The Order of the IFEM” for “extensive and continuous commitment to the specialty of Emergency Medicine in his own country and for significant contributions to supporting the development and advancement of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine.” In June 2012, he was nominated for the award, “Best Personal Contribution to Emergency Medicine in the Netherlands” by the Dutch Society for Emergency Physicians. In October 2012, he received the highest award from the ACEP International EM Section for “Individual Achievement in International Emergency Medicine Development.” Most recently, Dr. Mulligan was awarded the “International Emergency Medicine Leadership” by AAEM in 2015.

Didactic TopicsGlobal EM Development*

• EM Development Around the World• How to Build an EM Society• Building EM Residencies• How To Be An EM Director/EM Residency Director• EM Development and Public Health• Global EM and Health Policy• The Role of IFEM in Global Emergency Medicine• International/Global Emergency Medicine Fellowships• The International EM Fellowship Consortium

EM Administration and Management*• ED Triage Solutions: Streaming and the Death of Triage• Building a Geriatric ED


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General Didactic/Clinical Topics:• Trauma : Introduction to Trauma; The Trauma Team; Trauma

literature updates (2016); Head/Chest/Abdominal/Pelvic/Pediatric / OBGYN / Pregnant patient / Orthopedic / Environmental / Burns

*Additional topics on these subjects may be available.

Brian Potts, MD MBA FAAEMBoard Member At-Large, American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)

Dr. Potts is a graduate of Stanford University with a B.S. in Biological Sciences. He attended medical school at University of California, Irvine where he completed a combined MD/MBA degree program and stayed to then complete his emergency medicine residency at University of California, Irvine in 2007.

Brian works for Berkeley Emergency Medical Group in two community emergency departments in Berkeley and Oakland, CA at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. He is the Medical Director and Chair of their Berkeley emergency department and the Chief Financial Officer for his group. Brian has held numerous national and state leadership roles in the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) and most recently served as the chair of the State Chapter Committee since 2012. He has been a previous board member twice while serving as Young Physician Section (YPS) Director in 2011 and as president of AAEM Resident and Student Association (RSA) in 2007. He is also a past president of YPS in 2010 and past president of the AAEM/RSA Medical Student Section in 2004. He was honored with the James Keaney Award in 2015 and AAEM Resident of the Year in 2005. Within the California Chapter Division (CAL/AAEM), Brian is a past president of CAL/AAEM in 2010 and has been a member of the chapter’s Board of Directors since 2006. He is also the Managing Editor of the CAL/AAEM News Service, an electronic news service with over 1,500 emergency physicians, residents, and students subscribers for the last 15 years.

Didactic Topics• Patient Satisfaction and Customer Service • EM Billing and Coding • EM Documentation Pearls• Physician Group Governance• Physician Contracts• Pediatric Respiratory Emergencies: A Review• Organophosphate Poisonings• Oncologic Emergencies

Thomas Tobin, MD MBA FAAEMBoard Member At-Large, American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)

Dr. Tobin practices clinically in Washington State. He returned to his home state after completing medical school at Albany Medical College in New York and EM Residency at University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.

He started his career in Spokane at Deaconess Medical Center where he became a partner and later business manager and president of the single practice democratic group. During that time he was also given the appointment of Clinical Instructor, University of Washington, Department of Medicine. Tom also held medical director positions for an EMS Service and Paramedic Training program in Deer Park, WA and Spokane, WA, respectively.

Tom gained an interest in rural medicine and critical access hospitals during his work as a Medical Director for the Rural Healthcare Quality Network in Washington State. In this role he reviewed and provided support to critical access hospitals within the state. In addition he worked with his fellow medical directors to develop protocols and review processes that met the unique needs of this rural facilities.

After completing his MBA at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville he accepted the CMO position with a management services organization. As CMO he helped contract development and procurement. His primary role was in the day-to-day clinical and operations management of the medical practice at each hospital site.

Currently Tom works as a locum’s tenens EM physician in Washington and Idaho. He also provides consulting services in healthcare business and practice operations. He has experience in contract negotiations and review of physician contracts.

Didactic Topics• Negotiations• Contracts• Coding & Billing Optimization• Practice Group Structure• Resident to Attending: Smoothing the Transition



Howard Blumstein, MD FAAEMPast Presidents Council RepresentativeBorn in Harrisburg, PA, raised in the Philadelphia area. Undergraduate education Trinity College, Hartford CT 1986, Medical School Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 1990. Residency in Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 1993. Faculty Appointment at Medical College of Pennsylvania (and its various

incarnations) from 1993 to 1999, then at Wake Forest University School of Medicine from 1999 to present. Activities with AAEM include service as chair of the AAEM Education Committee (1997-2000), member of the Board of Directors of AAEM (2000-2006), secretary treasurer (2006-2008) vice president (2008-2010), president (2010- 2012), immediate past president (2012-2014), and past presidents council representative (2017-2019).

Professional highlights include Assistant Residency Director at both MCP and Wake Forest, Medical Director of the Emergency Department, Chair of the Clinical Safety Committee and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine all at Wake Forest University/NC Baptist Medical Hospital. Was awarded the David K. Wagner Award by AAEM in 2016.

Didactic Topics• ED Patient Safety • Malpractice Basics • Reading That First Contract • Billing and Coding Workshop (1 ½ hours) • Financial Planning for Beginners• The Expert Witness Conundrum

William T. Durkin, Jr., MD MBA FAAEMPast President, American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)Dr. Durkin is a graduate of Georgetown University with a major in biology and a minor in theology. He is also a graduate of the medical school at Georgetown University. After completing a surgical internship at Georgetown University Medical Center, he returned to his native New England and did

a residency at New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston, MA. He then went on to serve in the U.S. Navy. His operational assignment was as the shipboard medical officer and department head aboard the USS Sierra (AD-17). The ship was home ported in Charleston, SC, but deployed to the Indian Ocean during which time Dr. Durkin actually had the opportunity to travel around the world supporting the medical departments of smaller ships in several foreign ports. His next assignment was in the emergency department of the Naval

Hospital, San Diego, where he was a member of the inaugural medical faculty that began the first EM residency in the Navy.

Upon leaving the Navy, Bill practiced in community hospitals in San Diego. He served as assistant medical director, phase III clinical trials investigator, co-founded AccuQual-Super Doc Systems, taught classes for the nursing and medical staffs, and was elected Chief of Service. He then moved to the Washington, DC, area where he was Director/VP of Emergency Services at Southern Maryland Hospital. Dr. Durkin presently works for himself doing clinical and consulting work.

In 2008, Bill completed his MBA at the University of Tennessee and was elected to the Phi Alpha Phi Honor Society.

After meeting Jim Keaney and Scott Plantz, founders of the Academy, at a conference in San Diego, he became a founding member of AAEM. From 1998-2004 and again 2007-2008, Dr. Durkin served on the Board of Directors, as secretary-treasurer from 2004-2006 and again from 2008-2010, vice president from 2010-2012. He formed the USAAEM Chapter Division, was one of the original board members of CAL/AAEM, treasurer of CAL/AAEM; co-founded AAEM Services, wrote and/or sponsored many of the original policies of AAEM. In addition, he founded the Practice Management Committee, served on the Education Committee, Finance Committee, MEMC executive committee and is the AAEM executive director of the Pan Pacific Emergency Medicine Conference. He has also served on several of the state and interim committees. Bill has lectured at the Scientific Assembly, numerous residency programs, the Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Conference as well as the Pan-Pacific Emergency Medicine Conference.

Dr. Durkin has always advocated for the practicing community emergency physician. He has a strong interest in the business of emergency medicine and finance. Bill’s outside interests include sailing, biking, fine wine collecting, travel and investing.

Didactic Topics• Personal Financial Management • Political Advocacy and Representation• LEAN Processes in ED Management • ED Management Topics


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Robert McNamara, MD MAAEM FAAEMPast President, American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)Dr. McNamara received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in 1982 and then completed his EM residency at the Medical College of Pennsylvania under David Wagner, MD, one of the founders of the specialty. Dr. McNamara stayed on as faculty at MCP and was the residency program

director for many years until he departed for Temple University School of Medicine in 1999. At Temple, Dr. McNamara along with his faculty was successful in the creation of a full academic department of EM in 2001 and he currently serves as Chairman at Temple. His scholarly contributions include over 100 articles and abstracts and numerous textbook chapters. He was involved in the first studies bringing intraosseous infusion and magnesium therapy for asthma to attention of the EM community. Dr. McNamara is on the editorial board of The Journal of Emergency Medicine, AAEM’s official journal.

In organized medicine he has been active with SAEM, CORD and the Pennsylvania Medical Society but is best known for his work as a founding member of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. Dr. McNamara served as AAEM’s president from 1996 until 2002 helping to lead it from a fledgling organization to one of over 8,000 members with strong political and educational contributions to the specialty. Dr. McNamara is now the Chief Medical Officer of the newly formed AAEM Physician Group. Dr. McNamara was born and raised in Philadelphia, and currently resides in Lafayette Hill, PA. His outside interests include dragon boat racing where he serves as a coach of Team USA. Teams under his direction have won over 100 medals at the World Championships and currently hold two world records.

Didactic Topics• Abdominal Pain in the Older Patient • With or Without? What EM Physicians Can Learn from the

Radiologist’s Guidelines • Wellness for EM Physicians • 25+ Years of Emergency Medicine: Important Clinical, Political

and Behavioral Lessons • The History and Current State of Emergency Medicine• The Corporate Practice of Emergency Medicine

Larry Weiss, MD JD MAAEM FAAEMPast President, American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)Dr. Weiss serves as a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Weiss worked for many years at Charity Hospital in New Orleans where he served as the Albert J. Lauro Professor of Medicine at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine. After Hurricane Katrina

resulted in the permanent closure of Charity Hospital, he worked in tents in New Orleans until March 2006 when he relocated to Baltimore. In addition to full time clinical and academic responsibilities, Dr. Weiss taught at the LSU School of Law, and worked as in-house counsel for a group of approximately 100 emergency physicians where he actively litigated malpractice cases in defense of emergency physicians. Dr. Weiss previously served as president of the Orleans Parish Medical Society and has a career-long interest in organized medicine and physician advocacy.

Dr. Weiss graduated from Northwestern University and the Hahnemann Medical College. He completed a residency in emergency medicine at Charity Hospital. He then returned to his hometown, Pittsburgh, PA, where he worked as faculty in the emergency medicine residency program at the University of Pittsburgh for eight years. In 1990 he returned to New Orleans where he remained until after Hurricane Katrina.

Dr. Weiss was a founding fellow of the Academy, a founder and president of AAEMLa, the AAEM Louisiana Chapter Division; wrote the AAEM amicus brief in Coleman v. Deno; wrote multiple policies and white papers for AAEM; and served on the AAEM board of directors from 2003-2012, including a term as president from 2008 until 2010. Dr. Weiss was re-elected by the Past Presidents Council to the AAEM board of directors in 2015 as their representative to the board.

Didactic Topics• EMTALA• The Liability Crisis• The Art of Emergency Medicine Documentation• Advanced Documentation Skills in Emergency Medicine: Acute

Coronary Syndrome• Advanced Documentation Skills in Emergency Medicine: High

Risk Presentations• Advanced Documentation Skills in Emergency Medicine:

Unstable Patients• Medical Consent Statutes and Case Law • The Right to Die and Consent at the End of Life• Contract Law for the Emergency Physician• Anatomy of a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit• Medical Malpractice Insurance• Avoiding Fraud Violations in Medical Practice



• Antitrust Violations in Medical Practice• EMS and the Law• Limiting Your Risk When Evaluating ACS• Risk Reduction in Emergency Medicine• Lowering Your Risk When Interacting with Difficult Patients• Dealing with Difficult People in the Workplace• Preparing Your Own Defense• The Practice Rights of Emergency Physicians• Heath Care Reform: What’s in it for Emergency Medicine?• Federal Regulation of GME• AMA and Refusals of Care: Potential Legal Disasters• Other health law topics upon request

Joseph P. Wood, MD JD MAAEM FAAEMPast President, American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) Dr. Wood is currently practicing emergency medicine full time at the Mayo Clinic hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona. Prior to that he worked for 14 years in a busy community hospital and seven years in a level-1 trauma center/teaching hospital, both in the Chicago area. In addition to receiving an MD from the University of Illinois,

he earned a law degree from the University of Chicago. He lectures nationally and internationally on diagnostic ultrasound and medical-legal issues. His other clinical interest is sports medicine (he served as one of the team physicians for the Chicago White Sox while practicing in Chicago). He is a founding fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. He was elected to the Board of Directors in 1997, was elected vice-president in 1999, and president in 2001.

Didactic Topics• Bedside Ultrasound in Medical Emergencies• Ultrasound Guided Procedures• Medical and Legal Issues in Clinical Practice• Contracts (includes the AAEM talk)• Avoiding Medical Malpractice Suits

Robert E. Suter, DO MHA FAAEMPast Member of the Board of Directors, American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)Dr. Suter is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Texas-Southwestern. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, then received his DO and MHA degrees from Des Moines University in Des Moines, Iowa. Dr. Suter did his residency training in

emergency medicine at Brooke Army-Wilford Hall USAF Medical Centers in San Antonio, Texas and is board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and the AOBEM, serving as an Oral Examiner for ABEM.

Dr. Suter has a long history of service to emergency medicine on a state, national and international level. During residency he was president of EMRA, participated in numerous state and national committees, served on the boards of several EMS organizations and was the Co-Chair of the federal project “EMS Agenda for the Future.” He also served as a member of the ACEP Council, ACEP Board of Directors, was ACEP president in 2004-05 and on the Board of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine, serving as IFEM president in 2006. He was elected to the AAEM Board in 2011.

Dr. Suter also holds appointments as a Professor at the Medical College of Georgia, Des Moines University and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, where he serves as a Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. He has received top honors from a number of national and international organizations.

Dr. Suter is the author of numerous studies, papers and textbook chapters in emergency medicine, and has given hundreds of presentations worldwide. He is particularly recognized as an integrative scholar in a number of areas, and for his advocacy for workplace fairness and emergency medicine board certification.

In 2017, Dr. Suter received the highest honor in Army Academic Medicine from the Surgeon General of the Army. The Major General Lewis Asply Malogne Award is given to one Colonel per year who the selection committee feels most emulates Maj. Gen. Malogne, by achieving a balance of excellence in both military medical leadership and academic excellence. Dr. Suter is the first emergency physician to win the award.

Didactic TopicsA List:

• Evidence Based Treatment of Acute CHF• Pediatric Fever• Pediatric Trauma• Neonatal Emergencies• ED Approach to Chest Pain/Cardiac Markers • Altered Mental Status

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• Environmental Emergencies • Controversies in Pain Management • Risk Management of Wounds and Fractures

B List:• Understanding Billing and Coding• Starting and Maintaining a Democratic Group • EM Around the World • ED Preparedness for Nuclear, Biological & Chemical Terrorism • The Future of Emergency Medicine in the New Millennium • Prehospital Care in the New Millennium

C List: (older talks)• Health Care Reform• All Chest Pain Isn’t MI: Pulmonary Emboli, Aortic Dissection,

Pericarditis • Endocrine Emergencies • Child with a Limp • Advances in the Treatment of Acute Coronary Syndromes• Leadership and Mentoring in Emergency Medicine • Utilization of Physician Extenders in the ED • Managed Care and Economics in Emergency Medicine • Short-Term Observation in the ED • Effective Orientation of Emergency Physicians • Managing the Problem Provider • Marketing Your ED to EMS • Marketing Your ED to Administration

Questions?Contact Darcy Welsh at (800) 884-2236 or [email protected].

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1 Make a list of available dates.

2 Pick your top three speakers and corresponding didactic topics.

3 Complete the residency visit application online at http://www.aaemrsa.org/forms/residency-visit.php.

4 The AAEM office will coordinate the logistics and compile an itinerary.

5 An AAEM national leader will visit at no cost to you or your program!

Are you ready to fill those educational gaps in your academic schedule?

Documents

RESIDENCY VISIT SPEAKERS - aaemrsa.org · • Doorway Diagnosis of the Mangled • Orthopedic Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls • Visual Quizzes (Potpourri of Visually Stimulated Cases)