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Biographies

AccessEmergency Medicine Advisory Board

- Judith E. Tintinalli, MD, MS, FACEP
- Stephen H. Thomas, MD, MPH



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

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.


Stephen H. Thomas, MD, MPH

- Director of Academic Affairs, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine

- Associate Medical Director, Boston MedFlight

- Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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). He is currently Director of Academic Affairs in the MGH Department of Emergency Services, and is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard.


Updates Editorial Board

- Rita Cydulka, MD, MS, FACEP
- Matt Lewin, MD, MPH


Rita Cydulka, MD, MS, FACEP

- Vice Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University

- Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, Case Western Reserve University

Dr. Cydulka received her MD and completed residency training in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. She received her MS from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Dr. Cydulka is Vice-Chair and Associate Professor of the Department of Emergency Medicine at MetroHealth Medical at Case Western Reserve University. She was the founding residency director of the Case Western Reserve University/MetroHealth Medical Center program in Emergency Medicine from its inception until 1999, when she took an academic sabbatical to pursue studies in Biostatistics and Epidemiology/Health Services Research. She is an active contributor to the scientific literature, with over 100 publications in peer review journals and textbooks. Her research interests include emergency treatment of respiratory diseases and health care outcomes. She is a co-editor of Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide and is on the editorial board of Annals of Emergency Medicine. She previously served on the editorial board of Academic Emergency Medicine and was a past editor of the Yearbook of Emergency Medicine. She is currently president of the American Board of Emergency Medicine and a member of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) Coordinating Committee. She previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and as a consultant to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services in the development of quality indicators for emergency care.


Matt Lewin, MD, MPH

- Clinical Instructor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

- Director of Emergency Medicine Research, University of California, San Francisco

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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