Ron M Walls MD, FAAEM

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.

Mike F Murphy MD, 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. 

Robert C. Luten, MD

Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine
University of Florida
Health Sciences Center
Jacksonville, FL

Aaron E. Bair, MD, MSc, FAAEM

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.

Tobias Barker, MD

Research Director
STRATUS Simulation Center
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Erik D. Barton, MD, FAAEM

Assistant Professor and Chief of Emergency Medicine
University of Utah
Health Sciences Center
Salt Lake City, UT

Diane Birnbaumer, MD

Professor and Associate Residency Director
Emergency Medicine
Harbor UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, CA

Dr. Birnbaumer is a nationally recognized educator in emergency medicine. She has received several awards for her teaching, including the American College of Emergency Physicians Outstanding Speaker of the Year Award and the American College of Emergency Physicians Outstanding Contribution to Education Award.

Kerry Broderick, MD

Intern and Fellowship Education Director
Emergency Medicine
Denver Health Medical
Denver, CO

Kerry B. Broderick is currently an Emergency Medicine Physician at Denver Health Medical Center. She holds an Assistant Professor of Surgery/Emergency appointment at the University of Colorado. She is the Associate Residency Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency at Denver Health Medical Center. She is the curriculum director for approximately 40 emergency medicine residents. She was appointed an Instructor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard in 1994 and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at SUNY Buffalo in 1995, where she was awarded Clinical Teacher of the Year in 1998.

Dr. Broderick was an emergency medicine nurse and worked at Northwestern University for 3 years after nursing school before returning to medical school. She attended Rush Medical College of Medicine in Chicago and completed her residency at the University of Chicago in 1993. She was board certified in Emergency Medicine in 1994.

Nationally, she serves on the SAEM undergraduate committee since 2000 and the ACEP Trauma and injury prevention committee since 2001. She has strong intersts in Medical education, Injury prevention, and Emergency Department screening and the Brief Negotiated Interview and referral for alcohol and substance abuse. She is part of a national research project through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that focused on increasing screening and referral for alcohol and substance abuse.

Dr. Broderick is a member of the Denver Health Medical Center Risk Management team, Injury prevention committee and the Pediatric Trauma Committee. Dr. Broderick runs a program where she and medical students from University of Colorado lecture to Denver area high schools and Middle schools on Injury prevention.

Calvin A. Brown III, MD

Attending Physician
Emergency Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

David Caro, MD

Assistant Professor and Associate Residency Director
Emergency Medicine
University of Florida, HSC
Jacksonville, FL

Dr. Dave Caro completed medical school at the University of South Florida, in Tampa, and then his residency in emergency medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Dr. Caro came to the University of Florida College of Medicine/Jacksonville in 1997 first as a clinical instructor, working 3 years in a community hospital until November, 2000. He then assumed the role of associate residency director for emergency medicine at the UFCOM/Jacksonville and has been in that position since, where he is currently involved in residency curricular development and simulation training. Dr. Caro also serves as the medical officer for the northeast Florida Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT-FL4) and has been involved in multiple disaster responses to local hurricane strikes. Dr. Caro has also served nationally as chair of the American College of Emergency Physician's Academic Affairs Committee, and has received ACEP's National Faculty Teaching Award in 2006.

Peter DeBlieux, MD, FAAEM

Clinical Professor of Medicine, Louisiana State Health Science Center
Clinical Professor of Surgery for Tulane Medical School Department of Surgery.
Director of Emergency Medicine Services of the Medical center of Louisiana at New Orleans- Charity Hospital

Dr. Peter DeBlieux, completed medical school at Louisiana State Health Science Center, completed internship in Internal Medicine LSUHSC Department of Medicine, residency and chief residency in Emergency Medicine LSUHSC Charity Hospital, completed Pulmonary Critical Care fellowship LSUHSC Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.

Former Program Director of the LSUHSC Charity Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency for ten years and is currently the Director of Resident and Faculty Development, LSUHSC Clinical Professor of Medicine attending in Emergency Medicine and the Medical Intensive Care Unit of Charity Hospital and Director of the LSUHSC Medical Student Skills Lab.

Michael A. Gibbs, MD

Professor and Chief Emergency Medicine
Maine Medical Center
Portland, ME

Steven A. Godwin, MD

Assistant Professor
Director of Medical Education
Residency Program Director
Emergency Medicine
University of Florida HSC
Jacksonville, FL

Dr. Steven (Andy) Godwin has been a member of the AMEC faculty since 2001. He is the director of Medical Education and Residency Program Director, University of Florids HSC/Jacksonville. He attended medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) where he graduated in 1993.

After a one year internship in Internal Medicine at MUSC, he completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida HSC in Jacksonville, Florida. Upon residency graduation in 1997, he remained on staff as the Assistant Residency Director and Student Clerkship Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine. He assumed the role Director of Medical Education and Residency Program Director in 2000. He is active in simulation education and is now the University of Florida HSC/Jacksonville Medical Director for Simulation Training. Dr. Godwin is a member of the ACEP Clinical Policies Committee, most recently acting as chair and co-chair for the policies on procedural sedation and asymptomatic hypertension in the emergency department. He is also a member of the Editorial Board for Emergency Medicine Practice. He has authored and co-authored numerous publications including resources on pediatric and adult procedural sedation and airway management. He has been a frequent faculty member for ACEP Scientific Assembly and is a 2005 recipient of the ACEP Faculty Teaching Award.

Andy S. Jagoda, MD, FACEP

Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs
Medical Director
Emergency Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

Andy Jagoda, MD, FACEP, Residency Director; Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs. Dr. Jagoda received his medical degree from Georgetown University in 1982, and completed his emergency medicine residency at the Georgetown/George Washington/MIEMMS joint program in 1985. He spent 9 years in the Navy after which he was first faculty at the George Washington University, and then at the University of Florida; he came to Mount Sinai in 1995. He is nationally recognized for his involvement in emergency medicine education and for his work in the areas of neurologic emergencies. He has published extensively, and has co-edited several books including the Saunders’ textbook Emergency
Medicine. He authored the Good Housekeeping book of First Aid, and co-authored Mosby’s book, Neuologic Emergencies. He is on the editorial board of the Annals of Emergency Medicine and he is the Associate Editor of Emergency Medicine Practice. He is the Co-Chair of the ACEP Clinical Policies Committee. Dr. Jagoda is a member of the Executive Committee of the Brain Attack Coalition at the National Institute of Neurologic Diseases and Stroke. He is on the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Education and Research in Neurologic Emergencies and for the New York State Brain Injury Association. Dr. Jagoda is the Director of the International Studies Program at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and has been involved in the development of emergency medicine in Italy and in Holland.

NIRANJAN KISSOON, M.B.B.S., CPE, FAAP, FACPE, FCCM, FRCP(C)

Senior Medical Director, Acute and Critical Care Programs,
British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital,
Associate Head and Professor, Pediatrics,
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Dr. Kissoon is Senior Medical Director of Acute and Critical Care Programs at the BC Children’s Hospital and Associate Head and Professor, Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia. Prior to this position he served as Director of the Pediatric Critical Care Unit and Research and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Florida (1992-2004).

He received his MD at the University of the West Indies (1978), Pediatrics at the University of Calgary (1982) and Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto (1984). He completed his CIMM at Carnegie Mellon University in 2001. He is the associate editor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine and is a member of the editorial board of five other journals. He is a peer reviewer for over two dozen journals. He is the recipient of several teaching and research awards and has been a visiting professor at 54 institutions.

Dr. Kissoon’s background in both pediatric emergency and pediatric critical care has afforded him unique insight into the overall delivery of care for the critically ill child. He is a recognized expert in the field of pediatric emergency and pediatric critical care and has contributed to over 200 peer reviewed publications as well as authored over 30 book chapters pertaining to pediatric emergency and/or pediatric critical care medicine.

Some of Dr. Kissoon’s current research interests include: resuscitation, nitric oxide in asthma and septic shock.

Nathan Mick, MD

Medical Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Maine Medical Center
Assistant Professor
University of Vermont College of Medicine
Portland, Maine

Ian R. Morris BEng, MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Chief
VG Site,
Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Center
Sub-Speciality Chief
Thoracic Anesthesia and Liver Transplantation
Anesthesia Professor
Department of Anesthesia
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada

John C. Sakles, MD, FAAEM

Associate Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

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.

Richard D. Zane, MD, FAAEM

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

Dr. Richard Zane is vice chair of the department of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and faculty at Harvard Medical School. He also serves as medical director for emergency preparedness and bio-defense and director of pre-hospital care for Partners Healthcare. Dr. Zane has had extensive experience in designing systems of pre-hospital care and disaster response and has been an advisor to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on issues of hospital emergency preparedness. In his role as director of pre-hospital care, Dr. Zane oversees the transfer and transportation of over 50,000 ambulance patients per year.

Dr. Zane attended Temple University School of Medicine graduating in 1993 and then went on to specialty training in Emergency Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has been at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School since 1998