President
Larry D. Weiss, MD JD FAAEM
ldw1532@yahoo.com

Larry D. Weiss serves as a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.  Dr. Weiss worked for many years at Charity Hospital in New Orleans where he served as the Albert J. Lauro Professor of Medicine at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine. After Hurricane Katrina resulted in the permanent closure of Charity Hospital, he worked in tents in New Orleans until March 2006 when he relocated to Baltimore.  In addition to full time clinical and academic responsibilities, Dr. Weiss taught at the L.S.U. School of Law, and worked as in-house counsel for a group of approximately 100 emergency physicians where he actively litigated malpractice cases in defense of emergency physicians.  Dr. Weiss previously served as President of the Orleans Parish Medical Society and has a career-long interest in organized medicine and physician advocacy.

Dr. Weiss graduated from Northwestern University and the Hahnemann Medical College.  He completed a residency in emergency medicine at Charity Hospital.  He then returned to his hometown, Pittsburgh, PA, where he worked as faculty in the emergency medicine residency program at the University of Pittsburgh for eight years.  In 1990 he returned to New Orleans where he remained until after Hurricane Katrina.

Dr. Weiss was a founding fellow of the Academy, a founder and President of AAEMLa, the Louisiana chapter of AAEM; a past member of the Legal Committee of AAEM; wrote the AAEM amicus brief in Coleman v. Deno; wrote multiple policies and white papers for AAEM; and has served on the AAEM Board of Directors since 2003.


Vice President
Howard Blumstein MD FAAEM
hblumste@wfubmc.edu

Born in Harrisburg, PA, raised in the Philadelphia area. Undergraduate education Trinity College, Hartford CT 1986, Medical School Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 1990. Residency in Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 1993. Faculty Appointment at Medical College of Pennsylvania (and its various incarnations) from 1993 to 1999, then at Wake Forest University School of Medicine from 1999 to present. Professional activities include Assistant Residency Director at both MCP and Wake Forest, Chair of the AAEM Education Committee since 1997 and service as a member of the Board of Directors of AAEM beginning in the year 2000. Married with two children, ages 4 and 7. 


Secretary-Treasurer
William T. Durkin, MD FAAEM
wtdjmd@pol.net





 
Immediate Past President
Tom Scaletta, MD FAAEM
TScaletta@aaem.org

Tom Scaletta, MD FAAEM, holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics and computer science, attended the University of Illinois Medical School, and completed his Emergency Medicine residency at Northwestern in 1991. He currently chairs the Emergency Department at Edward Hospital in Naperville, IL. Formerly, Dr. Scaletta was the ED Director of QI at San Francisco General Hospital and Associate Director of Adult Emergency Services at Cook County Hospital. Dr. Scaletta is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Cook County Hospital/Rush University.

Dr. Scaletta's clinical practice has spanned both academics and community medicine. His first seven years out of residency were spent in urban, county hospitals. His second seven have been spent directing high-volume community emergency departments and working half time taking care of patients. Dr. Scaletta authored Emergent Management of Trauma (McGraw-Hill, 2001) and Bioterrorism On Hand (McGraw-Hill, 2003). He is managing editor for eMedicine.com (trauma/orthopedics section). Dr. Scaletta has written several textbook chapters on workplace violence prevention.

Dr. Scaletta's commitment to AAEM was galvanized in the early 1990s after he was threatened with a defamation lawsuit for exposing a local program director that financially exploited residents by pressuring them to work alone at night in privately contracted EDs. Dr. Scaletta soon found that AAEM was the only professional organization willing to assist in his defense and stand-up against unfair business practices.

Dr. Scaletta has since served as chairperson of AAEM's Academic Affairs Committee and Treasurer of the AAEM-PAC. He was elected to the Board of Directors in 2000 and become an officer in 2002. Dr. Scaletta is the editor of Rules of the Road for Emergency Medicine Residents and Graduates, published by AAEM. His former column for Common Sense, "Rules of the Road Q&A," featured twenty-seven provocative articles applicable to practicing emergency physicians.

Dr. Scaletta founded Chicagoland Emergency Physicians in 2002, the first EM group in the country to meet AAEM's Certificate of Compliance regarding Fairness in the Workplace. This experience led to the development of "The Business of EM Made Easy," a seminar he offers annually in conjunction with the AAEM Scientific Assembly. Dr. Scaletta currently serves as co-Director of AAEM Services and regularly counsels members that have concerns regarding their employment situations and questions about independent group development.

Dr. Scaletta lives in La Grange, IL with his wife, Karen, and their children Jack, Peter, and Mia.


Past Presidents Council Representative
Joseph P. Wood, MD JD FAAEM
soxdoc6@yahoo.com

Dr. Wood is currently practicing emergency medicine full time at the Mayo Clinic hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona. Prior to that he worked for 14 years in a busy community hospital and 7 years in a level-1 trauma center/teaching hospital, both in the Chicago area. In addition to receiving an MD from the University of Illinois, he earned a law degree from the University of Chicago. He lectures nationally and internationally on diagnostic ultrasound and medical-legal issues. His other clinical interest is sports medicine (he served as one of the team physicians for the Chicago White Sox while practicing in Chicago). He is a founding fellow of the Academy. He was elected to the Board of Directors in 1997 and was elected Vice-President in 1999.


Board Members

Michael C. Choo, MD FAAEM
pessochoo@earthlink.net







David Kramer, MD FAAEM
dkramer@yorkhospital.edu

A graduate of St. Louis University Medical School, Dr. Kramer completed his emergency medicine training at Detroit Receiving Hospital/Wayne State University in 1984, where he served as chief resident during the 1983/84 academic year. He has served as Program Director at Northwestern University in Chicago and Emory University in Atlanta prior to his current position as Program Director and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at York Hospital in York, PA. As a board certified emergency physician and professional educator, Dr. Kramer's highest priorities are the education and wellness of emergency medicine residents. He served as a specialist site visitor for the RRC-EM and is an oral board examiner for ABEM. He currently does peer review for Academic Emergency Medicine and is on the editorial board of Emergency Medicine Reports. In addition, he is currently Chairman of the Academic Affairs Committee of AAEM and was recently honored with the Peter Rosen award by AAEM. Dr. Kramer has been a program director for over 15 years and is committed to the success of every resident and the continued growth and development of his program and emergency medicine education in general. He eagerly embraces new technologies and educational advances in the training of his residents. Also, as a program director, Dr. Kramer is committed to the wellness of his residents both during their training and in their future careers. His interest in and commitment to AAEM stems from his concern about the career opportunities for his and all residents in emergency medicine. Dr. Kramer lives in York, PA with his wife Tiffany, daughter Taylor 8 (a gymnast) and son Nicholas 12 (a mathlete).


Christopher C. Lee, MD MS FAAEM
christolee@notes.cc.sunysb.edu







James Li, MD FAAEM
jamesli@hms.harvard.edu

James Li is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His interests are primarily clinical, and he has worked as an emergency physician in 17 hospitals throughout the U.S. (mostly as a solo practitioner), as well as 4 internationally, not including his training or current practices. Presently, he has a full-time clinical practice, working at Mount Auburn Hospital, Waltham Deaconess Hospital, and Boston Medical Center. He has won many teaching awards, and has been twice named top consultant by the Annals of Emergency Medicine, where he serves as a reviewer. He is also a founder of the Field Course for Remote Medical Service (www.remotemedicine.org), a nonprofit group dedicated to medical service and education in the developing world.

Dr. Li graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle in 1992, then completed a residency in emergency medicine at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, where he served as chief resident in 1997. He has published over 30 original papers and chapters, with subjects including toxicology, trauma, airway management, stroke, urology, cardiology, infectious disease, anesthesia and health policy. Appointed as a Board member for the year 2002, his goals for AAEM participation include development of further public education of the essential role of specifically-trained, board-certified practitioners in emergency medicine, adoption of ethical guidelines for researchers involved in manufacturer-sponsored trials, and change in emergency department reimbursement strategies from the "prudent layperson" to an expert-based model.


Andrew P. Mayer, MD FAAEM
andrewmayer@cox.net

Andy Mayer is a 1986 graduate of the LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans. He completed an internship in internal medicine at Emory University before retuning to his native New Orleans to enter the LSU/Charity Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency. He completed this residency as a chief resident in 1990.
 
He joined the West Jefferson Emergency Physicians Group in the suburban New Orleans area after residency. He has been a partner in this democratic single hospital group since that time. This group has been very active in AAEM particularly at the state level. Dr. Mayer has been in the full time practice of clinical emergency medicine since 1990.

Dr. Mayer has been active in the Louisiana Chapter of AAEM since it’s founding. He has served as treasurer, vice-president and president. He is currently the Immediate Past-President.

He is pleased to be involved in resident education again as LSU and Tulane now sends many types of residents including emergency medicine residents to West Jefferson Medical Center since the closing of Charity Hospital due to Hurricane Katrina.

Interests outside of medicine include travel, fishing, history and most recently home remodeling since Katrina came to New Orleans. He is married and has three children and resides in New Orleans. 


Indrani A. Sheridan, MD FAAEM
indranisheridan@gmail.com

Indrani A. Sheridan, MD FAAEM, is currently Director of International Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida Gainesville. She is active in promoting Emergency Medicine in many countries through conferences, workshops, curriculum development and technical support.

Dr Sheridan went to medical school in Ireland and did her internship at Albany Medical College in New York. She completed EM Residency in Jacksonville, Florida. Her clinical practice has spanned both academics and community medicine. From 2000 to 2004 she worked in both urban and rural settings as an independent contractor within a large democratic group, then subsequently joined academics because of her interest in education and International Emergency Medicine. She has served as Assistant Residency Director and given multiple lectures both nationally and internationally on topics ranging from cultural competency to delivering bad news, child abuse, sexual assault, eye trauma, diving medicine, international curriculum development and many others.

She is currently chair of the ACCME subcommittee for AAEM, has been an examiner for the Oral Boards Course and served on the Education committee including during the last four international conferences in which AAEM played a major role: Spain, France, Argentina and Italy.

Dr Sheridan is interested in fostering the highest caliber of knowledge acquisition and dispersal to all emergency physicians, and helping to ensure that high quality emergency care is available to every patient regardless of the setting: urban, rural, developed or developing nation. She is committed to representing the AAEM membership in shaping the future of the organization and the specialty, based on their needs, and the realities of practice in an increasingly demanding environment.


Andy Walker, MD FAAEM
awalkermd@comcast.net

Andy Walker graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 1981 with a B.A. in Biology, magna cum laude. In 1985 he received the M.D., cum laude, from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis where he was also elected to membership in Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Shands-Jacksonville Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida in 1988. There he was lucky enough to train under such notable emergency physicians as Ann Harwood-Nuss and Bob Luten.
 
After working for two large contract management groups, Dr. Walker was hired by Paul Auerbach at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and returned to Tennessee to help launch the state’s first residency program in Emergency Medicine. During his nearly eight years at Vanderbilt, three classes of Emergency Medicine residents graduated, and two of these three voted to give Dr. Walker the coveted Cory Slovis Award, which is given annually by the graduating residents for excellence in bedside teaching.

In 1999 Dr. Walker left academic medicine and joined Cumberland Emergency Physicians, P.C., a one-hospital democratic group in Nashville. He remains there today, where he serves as chairman of his hospital’s Peer Review/Quality Assurance Committee. He is a Founding Fellow of AAEM and was instrumental in forming the Tennessee chapter of AAEM (TNAAEM). After the Tennessee Supreme Court outlawed restrictive covenants in physician employment contracts in 2005, he helped lead the effort the following year that defeated a legislative attempt to restore them. In fact that attempt would have been successful if not for AAEM and TNAAEM.

Dr. Walker lives with his wife Sherry in Nashville. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, tennis, science fiction, travel, history and libertarian political philosophy.


Joanne Williams, MD FAAEM
realerdoc@aol.com








AAEM/RSA Representative
Andrew Pickens, MD JD MBA




 


JEM Editor - Ex-Officio Board Member
Stephen Hayden, MD FAAEM
shayden@ucsd.edu

Dr. Stephen Hayden graduated from the accelerated six-year biomedical program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Albany Medical College and was elected to the alpha omega alpha honor medical society.  He did a General Surgery internship at the San Diego Naval Hospital, which was followed by a tour of duty as senior flight surgeon for the Naval Strike Warfare Center at the NAS Fallon, Nevada.  He additionally served as the medical director for Fallon's High Sierra Search and Rescue helicopter unit.  Dr. Hayden then completed an Emergency Medicine residency at the University Hospital in Stony Brook, New York, where he served as chief resident in 1993.

He joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego Department of Emergency Medicine in July 1993, and is board certified in both Emergency Medicine, and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine.  He served as Director for the UCSD Emergency Medicine Residency Training Program, is a past president of the Council of Residency Directors for Emergency Medicine (CORD), and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Hayden is a primary editor for the textbook, The Five-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult.  He is an item writer for the written certification examination of the American Board of Emergency Medicine as well as an oral examiner.  He was the 1996 recipient of the EMRA scholarship for the ACEP/Emergency Medicine Foundation Teaching Fellowship, 1999 ACEP National Faculty Teaching Award, 2002 UCSD Golden Apple Teaching Award, 2005 AAEM Residency Program Director of the Year, and selected in 2006/2007 as one of America's Top Physicians.  Areas of research and teaching interest are evidence-based emergency medicine, emergency airway management, and imaging in emergency medicine.

Dr. Hayden is married with three children ages 12, 10, and 8, and enjoys sailing, tennis and will be testing soon for his second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.