Emergency Course Faculty

Ron M. Walls, MD, FAAEM Professor and Chair, Emergency Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Ron M. 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 The New England Journal of Medicine, the six emergency medicine journals in North America and Europe and the journal, Anesthesia. Dr. Walls has researched, published and taught in the area of Emergency Medicine, with an emphasis on emergency airway management for more than twenty years.  He is the principle investigator of NEAR (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 and at numerous regional, national and international meetings.  Dr. Walls has over 130 scientific publications, 10 editions of 4 textbooks, and 18 textbook chapters. Robert C. Luten, MD Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine University of Florida Health Sciences Center Jacksonville, Florida Robert C. Luten has dedicated his career to the advancement of pediatric emergency care.  He is considered a pioneer in the specialty of pediatric emergency medicine and was a founding board member of that specialty.  He has taken a leadership role in childhood emergency initiatives in the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Red Cross, the American Heart Association, the American College of Emergency Physicians and other national organizations. He was a charter member of the Pediatric Subcommittee on Childhood Resuscitation of the American Heart Association, co-author and co-founder of the PALS and leading author and editor of the APLS jointly sponsored by the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Pediatrics.  He is a past president of the Society for Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Dr. Luten has edited several textbooks and is widely published in the area of childhood emergencies.  He is the author and principal instructor of the pediatric section of The Dificult Airway Course: Emergency. As creator and author of the studies which formed the basis of the Broselow Tape and the Broselow-Luten Color Coding Kids System, Dr. Luten has dramatically improved the practice of pediatric emergency medicine over the course of his career.   Dr. Luten is currently professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida, Shands in Jacksonville, FL.  He is board certified in Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, and Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Jennifer Avegno, MD Director of Undergraduate Medical Education Associate Residency Director Clinical Instructor LSU Health Sciences Center Emergency Medicine New Orleans, LA Aaron E. Bair, MD Director, Disaster Preparedness and Simulation Training UC Davis Medical Center Associate Professor UC Davis School of Medicine Dr. Bair completed his training and chief residency in emergency medicine at UC Davis in 1997.  He joined the Emergency Medicine faculty at UC Davis in 1998.  His areas of research 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 for the TheAirwaySite.com. Diane Birnbaumer, MD Associate Residency Director Harbor UCLA Medical Center Professor David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Torrance, California Kerry A. Broderick, MD Senior Faculty Denver Health Medical Center Assistant Professor University of Colorado Denver, Colorado Calvin A. Brown, MD, FAAEM Director of Medical Student Education Brigham & Women's Hospital Instructor Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts Steven C. Carleton, MD Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine University Hospital Associate Clinical Professor University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Cincinnati, Ohio David Caro, MD Residency Director University of Florida Health Sciences Center Assistant Professor University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville, Florida Peter DeBlieux, MD, FAAEM Director, Faculty and Resident Development Director of Emergency Medicine Services LSU Health Sciences Center Professor Tulane University School of Medicine New Orleans, Louisiana Michael Gibbs, MD Chief, Emergency Medicine Maine Medical Center Professor University of Vermont College of Medicine Portland, Maine Steven A. Godwin, MD Residency Director and Director of Medical Education Medical Director, Center for Simulation nd Safety Research University of Florida Health Sciences Center Associate Professor University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville, Florida Michael G. Gonzalez, MD Difficult Airway Director, Director of Procedural Competency USAF-Europe Critical Care Air Transport Deputy Director Deputy Chief, Department of Emergency Medicine Ramstein AB/Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Landstuhl, Germany Alan Heffner, MD Pulmonary and Cricital Care Consultants Department of Internal Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte, North Carolina Andy S. Jagoda, MD Medical Director, Emergency Department Mount Sinai Medical Center Professor and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, New York Niranjan Kissoon, MD Senior Medical Director, Acute and Critical Care Programs Associate Head, Department of Pediatrics British Columbia Children's Hospital Professor University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia Erik G. Laurin, MD, FAAEM Director, Medical Student Education UC Davis Medical Center Associate Professor UC Davis School of Medicine Sacramento, California Andrew T. McAfee, MD, MSc Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine Brigham & Women's Hospital Affiliate Faculty Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts Nathan Mick, MD Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Maine Medical Center Assistant Professor University of Vermont College of Medicine Portland, Maine Josh Nagler, MD Attending Physician Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Children's Hospital Boston Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts Bret P. Nelson, MD Director of Emergency Ultrasound Assistant Residency Director, Emergency Department Mount Sinai Medical Center Assistant Professor Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, New York Charles N. Pozner, MD Medical Director, STRATUS Simulation Center Brigham & Women's Hospital Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts Robert Reardon, MD, FAAEM Faculty Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine Hennepin County Medical Center Associate Professor University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota John C. Sakles, MD, FAAEM Assistant Residency Director Director of Procedural Competency Arizona Health Sciences Center Professor University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, Arizona Julie Slick, MD Staff Physician LSU Public Interim Hospital Clinical Instructor LSU Health Sciences Center New Orlean, Louisiana Katren Tyler, MD Attending Physician Department of Emergency Medicine UC Davis Medical Center Assistant Professor UC Davis School of Medicine Sacramento, California Robert  Vissers, MD Chief, Department of Emergency Medicine Associate Chief Medical Officer Legacy Emanuel Health Center Adjunct Associate Professor University of Oregon Health Sciences Center Robert J. Vissers, MD is currently the Associate Chief Medical Officer and Chief of Emergency Medicine at Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland, Oregon.  He is Adjunct associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University.  Prior to moving to Oregon, Dr. Vissers served as Emergency Medicine Residency Director at the University of North Carolina from 1997 to 2004.  He then moved to Boston where he served as Attending Faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Instructor at the Harvard Medical School. It was here that his academic interest in airway management began.  He was site investigator for the first NEAR study.  Dr. Vissers 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 on the faculty of The Difficult 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, Department of Emergency Medicine Brigham & Women's Hospital Associate Professor Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts