National Emergency Medicine Board Review Faculty

This is the BEST faculty I have ever had at any conference!

 

Rick Bukata is the editor and founder of Emergency Medical Abstracts and, as such, has been studying the literature of emergency medicine in depth since 1977. He has personally given presentations at over 250 CME courses and has been the co-moderator of a monthly 90-minute CME audio program for the last 20 years. As a result of his educational endeavors, Rick was awarded the Education Award of the American College of Emergency Physicians in 1993 and the College’s “Outstanding Speaker of the Year” award in 2000. Rick is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Southern California.

 

Kevin Klauer is Director of the Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME) and the  Chief Medical Officer for Emergency Medicine Physicians, Ltd., based in Canton, Ohio. He also serves on the  Board of Directors for Physicians Specialty Limited Risk Retention Group. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor  at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Klauer serves as Editor-in-Chief for Emergency Physicians Monthly publication and is the Co-Author of two risk management books: Emergency Medicine Bouncebacks: Medical and Legal and Risk Management and the Emergency Department: Executive Leadership for Protecting Patients and Hospitals. Dr. Klauer also serves as ACEP Council Vice Speaker.

Diane Birnbaumer is Senior Faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California-Los Angeles. A lecturer on emergency medicine topics nationally and internationally, she received both the Outstanding Speaker of the Year Award and the Outstanding Contribution to Education Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians. Her areas of interest are airway management, infectious diseases, emergencies in the elderly patient and teaching teachers how to teach. She’s an Associate Editor for Journal Watch Emergency Medicine and has been a member of the editorial board since the publication’s launch in 1997.

 

 

Billy Mallon is currently the Director of International Emergency Medicine at the Los Angeles County / University of Southern California Medical Center, and formerly its Residency Program Director for over 10 years, Billy Mallon, has been a major influence in creating one of the highest ranked emergency medicine training programs in the country.  His enthusiastic speaking style, combined with his solid knowledge base, has resulted in speaking invitations throughout the United States as well as in Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Italy, Iceland, Chile and Japan. Billy was named the Residency Program Director of the Year in 2003 by AAEM and, in addition, has received the Education Award of the California Chapter of ACEP.

 

 

Amal Mattu is a frequent speaker on the national and international CME circuit on topics related to emergency cardiology and geriatrics.  He is the author of the best-selling texts ECGs for the Emergency Physician Volume 1 and Volume 2, has served as chief editor for two other popular textbooks focused on errors in emergency medicine. In 1996, he joined the faculty of emergency medicine at the University of Maryland, and since that time he has received more than a dozen teaching awards, including Teacher of the Year from the University of Maryland at Baltimore, and national teaching awards from the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the American College of Emergency Physicians.

 

 

Peter Sokolove has been on a fast track when it comes to speaking awards -- all reflecting his passion for teaching emergency medicine in an entertaining, comprehensive and engaging manner. Peter has been the recipient of the ACEP National Emergency Medicine Faculty Teaching Award, the ACEP Outstanding Speaker of the Year Award, the ACEP “Rookie Faculty of the Year” Award and the Cal/ACEP Education Award. Peter is currently Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs at the University of California, Davis, where he served as the emergency medicine residency Program Director for over 10 years.

 

 

Stuart Swadron is currently the Vice Chair for Education and also a former Program Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Los Angeles County University of California Medical Center.  Stuart is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Canada and was awarded the ACEP National Emergency Medicine Faculty Teaching Award, the AAEM Program Director of the Year Award and the Master Teacher Award at the University of Southern California.  His knowledge base is broad and deep, and he has a particularly engaging speaking style coupled with a dry wit.

The hardest course I've ever loved, the best use of humor, best use of time, the best syllabus and most professional presenters.

 

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