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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
CME Editors
- John Bailitz, MD, FACEP
- Scott C. Sherman, MD, FAAEM
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John Bailitz, MD, FACEP
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Dr. Bailitz is Assistant Program Director, and Emergency Ultrasound Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Cook County Hospital (Stroger) in Chicago Illinois. He is also Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Rush Medical College in Chicago. Dr. Bailitz received his MD from Northwestern University in 1999 and completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago in 2003. He was awarded the Emergency Medicine Foundation’s Young Investigator Award for his prospective evaluation of Cervical Spine Injuries, presented at ACEP in 2007. He is currently completing additional research projects on Sepsis, US Education, and Clinical Education in the ED. He has authored numerous reviews, online case studies and text book chapters across a wide range of topics. He has lectured nationally on ENT emergencies and Neck Trauma. He lives just west of Chicago with his wife and three young children.
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Scott C. Sherman, MD, FAAEM
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Dr. Sherman is co-editor of the fifth edition of Emergency Orthopedics: The Extremities. In addition to being Assistant Program Director, he serves as the Medical Student Clerkship Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Cook County. In that capacity, he co-edited a second book, USMLE Road Map: Emergency Medicine for fourth year medical students. He received his MD from Northwestern University in 1998 and completed residency training in Emergency Medicine in 2002 at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Sherman is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Rush Medical College in Chicago and has lectured nationally and internationally on neurologic diseases, acid-base disorders, orthopedic injuries and wound care. He has published multiple articles in peer reviewed journals and written several textbook chapters. He is a manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Emergency Medicine, where he was named a "Top Reviewer" for 2007. He lives in the Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago with his wife and young son.
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