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2010-2011 AAEM Board of Directors
Professional highlights include Assistant Residency Director at both MCP and Wake Forest, Medical Director of the Emergency Department, Chair of the Clinical Safety Committee and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine all at Wake Forest University/NC Baptist Medical Hospital. Divorced with two children, ages 14 and 17.
Vice President
Secretary-Treasurer Mark Reiter, MD MBA is the Director of Medical Student Education at the St. Luke’s Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency in Bethlehem, PA. Dr. Reiter graduated magna cum laude from Rutgers College where he also served as Class President. He enrolled in an accelerated BA/MD program with UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where he was elected to the AOA Honor Society and served as President of the New Jersey Medical Student Association. During this time, he also earned an MBA from the Rutgers Business School. Dr. Reiter completed his emergency medicine residency at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Dr. Reiter is the CEO of Emergency Excellence (www.emergencyexcellence.com), a company dedicated to emergency medicine performance improvement. Dr. Reiter has been very active in organized medicine outside of emergency medicine, serving many roles within different organizations, such as on the Council on Legislation for the American Medical Association and the Board of Trustees for the Medical Society of New Jersey. He has been awarded Resident of the Year by AAEM, Medical Student of the Year by NJ-ACEP, and Excellence in Emergency Medicine by SAEM. An AAEM member since 2001, Dr. Reiter has served on the AAEM Board of Directors since 2005. He also serves on the AAEM Services Board of Directors, and is a past President of AAEM/RSA. On the AAEM Board, Dr. Reiter has focused on issues such as the corporate practice of medicine, threats to ABEM/AOBEM board certification, healthcare policy, improving the financial strength of AAEM, and building relationships with other organizations. Dr. Reiter is married to Dr. Christina Reiter, an anesthesiologist. They have two young girls, Jenna and Cara.
Robert McNamara, MD, FAAEM, received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in 1982 and then completed his EM residency at the Medical College of Pennsylvania under David Wagner, MD one of the founders of the specialty. Dr. McNamara stayed on as faculty at MCP and was the residency program director for many years until he departed for Temple University School of Medicine in 1999. At Temple, Dr. McNamara along with his faculty was successful in the creation of a full academic department of EM in 2001 and he currently serves as Chairman at Temple. His scholarly contributions include over 100 articles and abstracts and numerous textbook chapters. He was involved in the first studies bringing intraosseous infusion and magnesium therapy for asthma to attention of the EM community. Dr. McNamara is on the editorial board of The Journal of Emergency Medicine, AAEM's official journal. In organized medicine he has been active with SAEM, CORD and the Pennsylvania Medical Society but is best known for his work as a founding member of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. Dr. McNamara served as AAEM’s President from 1996 until 2002 helping to lead it from a fledgling organization to one of over 5,000 members with strong political and educational contributions to the specialty. Dr. McNamara was born and raised in Philadelphia and currently resides in Lafayette Hill, PA, with his wife and four children. His outside interests include dragon boat racing where he serves as Head Coach of Team USA. Teams under his direction have won 50 medals at the World Championships. Board Members
He is a strong advocate for the working emergency physician, fairness and transparency in the workplace, and high-volume ED benchmarking.
Lisa Mills, MD FAAEM, completed her Emergency Medicine residency training at the University of Texas Southwestern/Parkland Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She then completed an Ultrasound Fellowship at Louisiana State University in New Orleans. Dr. Mills stayed at LSU in New Orleans to build the Emergency Medicine Ultrasound program and to develop bedside ultrasound throughout the hospital. Her career also includes experience in a variety of private practice settings. Dr. Mills has been active with AAEM since residency. She served a 3 year term on the Board of Directors for the Louisiana State Chapter of AAEM. She is currently the Chair of the AAEM Women’s Interest Group. Dr. Mills’ research interests include diagnostic ultrasonography and stress disorders. Her advocacy aims include physician wellness and physician representation in the business of the practice of Emergency Medicine. She is particularly interested in establishing gender equality in Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Schofer graduated from Ursinus College (Collegeville, PA) with a BS in Biology and Exercise & Sports Science and completed medical school in 2001 at the MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine (Philadelphia, PA). After medical school, he completed a transitional internship at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) and then deployed to Iraq with the United States Marine Corps. In 2006 he completed his emergency medicine residency at NMCSD, where he served as academic chief resident. After practicing for two years at US Naval Hospital Okinawa (Okinawa, Japan), he completed an emergency ultrasound fellowship at Christiana Care Health System (Newark, DE). He is currently the Emergency Ultrasound Director at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (Portsmouth, VA). Dr. Schofer has an interest in medical publishing and editing, serving as chief editor of two of AAEM's textbooks, AAEM's Rules of the Road for Medical Students and Emergency Medicine: A Focused Review of the Core Curriculum. He has over 70 professional publications. Dr. Schofer's involvement in AAEM is extensive, having served as the President of the AAEM student, resident, and military organizations and chapters. He is an active member of the Education Committee and the primary organizer of preconference courses for the Uniformed Services Chapter of AAEM. He has over 40 years of combined service to AAEM in leadership positions and committees.
In 1999 Dr. Walker left academic medicine and joined Cumberland Emergency Physicians, P.C., a one-hospital democratic group in Nashville. There he has served as chairman of his hospital's Peer Review/Quality Assurance Committee and on its Medical Executive 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. That attempt would not have been successful if not for TNAAEM. Dr. Walker and TNAAEM are currently leading a crusade in their state to change the definition of malpractice for medical care provided under the unfunded federal mandate known as EMTALA (the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act), from simple negligence to gross negligence. This change in the law would essentially eliminate unreasonable lawsuits against emergency physicians and the on-call specialists who provide the medical safety net in Tennessee.
Dr. Williams is a founding fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. She has served on several AAEM committees throughout the years including, but not limited to, the Education Committee. She has served as Secretary-Treasurer for the California Chapter of AAEM and continues to serve on its Board of Directors. Dr. Williams also serves on the Editorial Board for the AAEM Section of MedScape. She has served as the Trauma Track Chair for MEMC IV and is currently serving in that capacity for MEMC V. Dr. Williams is the Chair of the Emergency Medicine Committee of International Trauma Care, formerly the International Trauma, Anesthesia and Critical Care Society. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science as well as a Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. As the Immediate Past Chair of the Emergency Medicine Section of the National Medical Association (NMA) she has been commissioned to serve on the House of Delegates of the NMA. Dr. Williams completed her medical education in 1982 at the University of California at Irvine. She did her internship and residency in Emergency Medicine at Martin Luther King, Jr./Charles R. Drew Medical Center from 1982-1985. She was an active part of the faculty of the Emergency Medicine Department from 1989-2007. She served as Assistant Residency Director and was the Residency Director at the time of the unfortunate closure of the program in 2007. She has also been in the clinical practice of Emergency Medicine since 1984. She is especially concerned about the lack of due process for emergency physicians which she has seen deteriorate through the years. Dr. Williams is married. Her husband, Robert Lozoya, is a retired Marine and history buff. They reside in Rancho Palos Verdes, California and enjoy family and travel.
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. Last updated: Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
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President
Immediate Past President
Past Presidents Council Representative
Kevin Beier, MD FAAEM
Michael L. Epter, DO FAAEM
Christopher C. Lee, MD MS FAAEM
Andrew P. Mayer, MD FAAEM 
Lisa D. Mills, MD FAAEM
Joel M. Schofer, MD RDMS FAAEM
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Joanne Williams, MD FAAEM
YPS Director 
AAEM/RSA Representative
JEM Editor - Ex-Officio Board Member