Mike F Murphy M.D., FRCPC (EM), FRCPC (Anes.)

Professor and Chair, Anesthesia
Professor, Emergency Medicine
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Dr. Murphy is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology in both the US and Canada. He completed his emergency medicine residency training at Denver General Hospital in Denver, Colorado, and his anesthesiology training at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He has served as Chief of Emergency Medicine of the Victoria General Hospital and the Izaak Walton Killam Children’s Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia; and McMaster University Medical Center, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, all the while also practicing as an anesthesiologist in each institution. Dr. Murphy was appointed as the first Executive Director of Emergency Medical Services for the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, and was responsible for designing and implementing a high performance, full service, advanced life support EMS system in the province, using advanced training systems. He implemented a simulation center in Nova Scotia. He subsequently led initiatives for development of advanced EMS training systems in Trinidad and Tobago, St Kitts Nevis, and Cuba. He served as the Clinical Chief of Anesthesiology, Lincoln Medical Center, Lincolnton, NC; Clinical Assistant Professor Emergency Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill and an Emergency Physician at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. Currently, Dr Murphy is Professor and Chair of Anesthesia and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Dalhousie University.  He served on the Canadian Airway Focus Group of the Canadian Anesthesiologist’s Society and is on the Board of the Society for Airway Management (SAM). Dr Murphy is an internationally recognized educator in the field of airway management. With Dr. Walls, Dr. Murphy is a founding Co-Director of The Difficult Airway Course. 

Ron M Walls M.D.

Professor and Chair, Emergency Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Dr. Walls is Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Medicine (Emergency Medicine) at Harvard Medical School. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Manual of Emergency Airway Management, Senior Editor of Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, Editor-in-Chief of UpToDate, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal Watch for Emergency Medicine, published by the Massachusetts Medical Society (publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine.) He is a peer reviewer for Anesthesia, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the six emergency medicine journals in North America and Europe.

Dr. Walls has researched, published and taught in the areas of Emergency Medicine, with an emphasis on emergency airway management for many years. He is the principle investigator of NEAR - the National Emergency Airway Registry, a multi-center, international, emergency airway research project that has studied over 16,000 Emergency Department intubations in over 30 centers. He has been a regular speaker at the ACEP Annual Scientific Assembly for the past 19 years and at numerous other regional, national and international meetings and has been an invited visiting professor at 39 institutions. Dr. Walls has over 130 scientific publications, 10 editions of 4 textbooks, and 18 textbook chapters.

Jan Acebo, EMT-P

AMR-Multnomah
County Training Officer
Portland, OR

Leigh Avery, RN, EMT-P

Leigh Avery, RN, EMT-P
Flight Nurse
Life Flight
Portland, OR

Aaron E. Bair, MD, MSc

Associate Professor
Director of Emergency Medicine Disaster Preparedness and Simulation Training
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of California, Davis
Sacramento, CA

Dr. Bair completed his training and chief residency in emergency medicine at UC Davis in 1997. He joined the EM faculty at UC Davis in 1998. His areas of research focus are related to procedural competency (airway management and emergency ultrasound use) as well as computational modeling of ED workflow. He has authored multiple textbook chapters related to emergency airway management, including contributions in UpToDate Emergency Medicine. He lectures frequently on topics related to difficult airway management and has taught the subject internationally. Dr. Bair joined the faculty of the Airway Course in 2002. He serves as a reviewer for multiple emergency medicine journals and is an associate editor for Journal Watch Emergency Medicine. Dr. Bair is the medical director, Editor-in-Chief, for the TheAirwaySite.com.

Jeff Birrer, EMT-P

Paramedic
Portland, OR

Dan Bissell, MD

Attending Physician
Legacy Salmon Creek
Hospital
Vancouver, WA

Jeff Campbell, MD

Attending Physician
Emergency Department
Legacy Emanuel Hospital
Portland, OR

David Dawson

Denver Health Medical
Denver, CO

Chad Dill, RRT, EMT-P

MedCenter Air
Charlotte, NC

Jeff Disney, MD

Attending Physician
Department of Emergency Medicine
Oregon Health Sciences University
Portland, OR

Will Dunn, BA, NREMT-P

Training Supervisor
Eagle County Ambulance District
Vail, CO
Paramedic
Denver Health Paramedic Division
Denver, CO

Fred Ellinger, Jr., NREMT-P 

Aloysius Fobi, MD

Attending Physician
Emergency Department
Legacy Emanuel Hospital
Portland, OR

Seth Grant, EMT-P

Paramedic
Portland, OR

Brian Jefferson, RN, NREMT-P

Philadelphia, PA

Arthur Kanowitz, MD, FACEP

President and CEO
Medical Director
InnoMed R&D LLC

Mike Keller, NREMT-P

Currciculum Faculty Member
Gaston College
Dallas, NC

Douglas Morrow, RN, BSN, CFRN, NREMT-P

Ritu Sahni, MD

Attending Physician
Department of Emergency Medicine
Oregon Health Sciences University
Portland, OR
EMS Director
Lake Oswego

Mary Beth Skarote, NREMT-P

Lead Paramedic/Educator
MedCenter Air
Charlotte, NC

Duane K. Spencer, BS, NREMT-P

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
JeffSTAT
Philadelphia, PA

Doug Swanson, MD

Medical Director
MedCenter Air
Charlotte, NC

Dennis Taylor, ACNP, NREMT-P

Acute Care Nurse Practioner
Trauma Services
Carolinas Medical Center
Charlotte, NC

Robert J. Vissers, MD

Medical Director
Department of Emergency Medicine
Legacy Emanuel Hospital
Adjunct Associate Professor
Oregon Health Sciences University
Portland, OR

Dr. Vissers completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of British Columbia in 1995, where he served as Chief Resident. His first appointment was as Attending Faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston and Instructor at the Harvard Medical School. It was here that his academic interest in airway management began and was site investigator for the first NEAR study. He also began working with airway course during this time. He was the Emergency Medicine Residency Director at the University of North Carolina from 1997 to 2004. He then moved to his present position as Chief of Emergency Medicine at Emanuel Hospital, and Adjunct Associate Professor at OHSU, Portland Oregon. He is an author on over forty publications, many related to airway management. He has served on several editorial boards, including Academic Emergency Medicine, Journal Watch for Emergency Medicine, and The Journal of Emergency Medicine. He is an Item Writer for the American Board of Emergency Medicine. His national teaching experience is extensive. He has been faculty on The Airway Course since 1997 and national faculty for the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Scientific Assembly for the past seven years. In 1999 he was awarded the ACEP National Teaching Award.

Gerald Wydro, MD

Temple University Hospital
Temple University School of Medicine
STAR Technical Institute
Philadelphia, PA

Adam Zwislewski, RN, BSN, CCRN, CFRN