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AccessEmergency Medicine Advisory Board
- Judith E. Tintinalli, MD, MS, FACEP
- Stephen H. Thomas, MD, MPH
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Judith E. Tintinalli, MD, MS, FACEP
- Professor and Chair Emeritus (1991-2007), Department of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Policy and Administration, University
of North Carolina School of Public Health
- Lecturer, Medical Journalism, University of North Carolina School of
Journalism and Mass Communications
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Dr. Tintinalli is Professor and Chair Emeritus of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was founding Chair of the department and held the position from 1991 to 2007. The
Department of Emergency Medicine has 20 clinical faculty and 2 research
faculty, a fully accredited 3 year emergency medicine residency program, and
Divisions of Emergency Medical Services and Informatics.
She received her MD from Wayne State University, and completed residency
training and received her MPH from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Dr. Tintinalli was president of the American Board of Emergency Medicine from
1989 to 1990, was the founding president of the Council of Emergency Medicine
Residency Directors, and was chairman of the Liaison Residency Committee
(forerunner of the ACME sponsored Residency Review Committee). She is editor in
chief of the world’s largest selling emergency medicine textbook, Emergency
Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, in its 6th (2004) McGraw-Hill
edition, and co-editor of Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies, 2nd ed,
McGraw-Hill, 2004. She has been both a Board Member, and the Deputy Editor of
the Annals of Emergency Medicine. She was elected to the National Academy of
Sciences, Institute of Medicine, in 1997, and, in 2005, was a member of the
North Carolina Institute of Medicine, Task Force on the Uninsured. She is
currently President-Elect of the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency
Medicine and is Editor in Chief of AccessEmergencyMedicine scheduled for
release in the fall of 2006.
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Stephen H. Thomas, MD, MPH
- George Kaiser Family Foundation Professor & Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine |
Dr. Thomas finished LSU's six-year MD program in 1990, moving to North Carolina
to train in Emergency Medicine at East Carolina University. After a fellowship
in Air Medical Transport at ECU, he joined the faculty at Harvard and
Massachusetts General Hospital. He obtained a Masters in Public Health
(Quantitative Methods concentration) at Harvard University in 1999. He has been
involved with the EM medical student clerkship at MGH since arriving in Boston,
and was a founding faculty member of the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine
Residency. He also works at Boston MedFlight, a consortium program sponsored by
Boston's Level I trauma centers. Ongoing areas of clinical research include
prehospital medicine, analgesia, and evaluation of new technologies in the air
medical and ED settings. His professional organization memberships include the
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), where he has worked with and
chaired the Undergraduate Education Committee. He has also chaired, and
continues to serve on, the Air Medical Services Task Force of the National
Association of Emergency Medical Services Physicians (NAEMSP). Previously, he was Director of Academic Affairs in the MGH Department of Emergency Services, and an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard. He is currently George Kaiser Family Foundation Professor & Chair in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine.
Updates Editorial Board
- Sandra L. Werner, MD, FACEP
- Matt Lewin, MD, MPH
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Sandra L. Werner, MD, FACEP
- Associate Program Director, MetroHealth Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) EM Residency Program
- Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Case Western Reserve University |
Dr. Werner graduated from the Medical College of Virginia and completed her emergency medicine residency and an ultrasound fellowship at MetroHealth Medical Center/CCF/CWRU. She has interests in ultrasound, EMS and resident education and has published ultrasound research in Annals of Emergency Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine and the Journal of Emergency Medicine. She serves as course director for Ohio ACEP ultrasound courses. A flight physician with MetroHealth’s Lifeflight program and a member of the Cleveland EMS Medical Advisory Board, she is also a past editor for the Yearbook of Emergency Medicine.
Matt Lewin, MD, MPH
- Clinical Instructor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
- Director of Emergency Medicine Research, University of California, San Francisco
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Matt Lewin is an MD, PhD and a Director of Emergency Medicine Research at University of California, San Francisco. He publishes regularly in leading medical journals such as Annals of Emergency Medicine, Lancet and others. He has been named "Top Peer-Reviewer" at Annals of Emergency Medicine for four consecutive years. His interests include fundamental aspects of neurophysiology and pain, travel and expedition medicine. Dr. Lewin is an expedition doctor for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City as well as a house doctor for the San Francisco Opera.
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