The Emergency Medicine and Acute Care Update

is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His clinical practice spans both the intensive care unit as well as the emergency department. Dr. Donnino was the first person in the country to train in a 6-year combined emergency medicine, internal medicine, and critical care program leading to board certification in all three areas. Dr. Donnino is also the Director of the Center for Resuscitation Science and Director of Critical Care in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Donnino’s research interests include clinical trials and clinical investigations in septic shock and cardiac arrest. In the field of cardiac arrest, Dr. Donnino is the lead investigator of a multi-center clinical trial evaluating the use of steroids in post-arrest shock and a multi-center trial evaluating thiamine as a metabolic resuscitator in septic shock. Other notable studies include an investigation in microcirculatory dysfunction post-arrest, an evaluation of the human metabolome in sepsis and post-cardiac arrest, and severity of illness scoring systems in post-cardiac arrest patients. Dr. Donnino is a member of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Subcommittee at the American Heart Association and co-author of sections of the 2010 ACLS guidelines.

You may contact Dr. Donnino with your comments or questions at mdonnino@bidmc.harvard.edu.

is a Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He lectures nationally and internationally on topics such as stroke, TIA, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and various causes of weakness and dizziness. He is an internationally renowned expert on neurological emergencies. Dr. Edlow’s specialty areas include ED quality assurance, ED physical layout and facilities redesign, physician professional development, and the creation and implementation of clinical practice guidelines. For the past 15 years, Dr. Edlow has contributed to the international development of emergency medicine in a variety of countries, participating in educational, quality assessment, and emergency care systems consulting projects. Practicing medicine since 1981, he is board-certified in both emergency medicine and internal medicine.  In addition to being well-published in peer reviewed literature, Dr. Edlow has written a book on stroke, as well as two award-winning books for the lay public; one about the history of Lyme disease titled “Bull’s Eye: unraveling the medical mystery of Lyme disease,” and the second titled “The Deadly Dinner Party: 15 true medical detective stories.”

You may contact Dr. Edlow with your questions or comments at jedlow@bidmc.harvard.edu.

graduated from the M.D. Ph.D. program at the University of Florida in 2008, adult psychiatry residency program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2012 and addiction psychiatry fellowship at Yale University in 2013. He is currently an Associate Professor and the director of the psychiatric emergency room at the VA Connecticut. Dr. Fuehrlein has a strong interest in medical student and resident education, particularly surrounding addiction psychiatry and serves on multiple local and national committees in this role. In 2017 he was awarded the Irma Bland award for excellency in psychiatry resident education through the APA. In 2018 he was awarded the Clerkship Faculty Teaching Award for Outstanding Medical Student Educator and Role Model. He is also passionate about emergency psychiatry and substance use disorders and has presented and published his work surrounding opioid use disorder in the emergency room setting. In 2019 he was inducted into the American College of Psychiatrists, an organization that recognizes excellence in clinical practice, research, academic leadership, or teaching.

You may contact Dr. Fuehrlein with your comments or questions at brian.fuehrlein@yale.edu.

is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the American Health Information Management Association and was formerly the System Chief Medical Officer HCA Florida and Ocala hospitals. He formerly served as CEO of the American Osteopathic Association and the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Risk Officer for TeamHealth. He holds the following faculty appointments: Clinical Asst. Professor, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine; Clinical Asst. Professor, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is the co-author of five risk management books: Bouncebacks: Critical Care, Bouncebacks: Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine; Bouncebacks: Medical and Legal (1at and 2nd Editions) and Risk Management and the Emergency Department: Executive Leadership for Protecting Patients and Hospitals. Dr. Klauer also served as the American College of Emergency Physicians Council Speaker and subsequently as a member of their Board of Directors. Dr. Klauer earned his Executive JD, with honors, from Concord Law School in 2011.

You may contact Dr. Klauer with your comments or questions at kevinklauer1@gmail.com.

is an emergency medicine physician based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, affiliated with Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals–Jefferson Health and Capital Health Medical Center–Hopewell. He earned his medical degree from McGill University, where he also completed a five-year emergency medicine residency and served as chief resident. He is board certified in emergency medicine in both the United States and Canada. Over a career spanning more than 25 years, Dr. Kravitz has held a variety of academic and leadership roles, including Associate Program Director at Albert Einstein in Philadelphia and Assistant Director of Emergency Medicine at Capital Health. His scholarly work includes research on topics such as diabetic ketoacidosis and asthma management, with presentations at local, national, and international levels. He has authored multiple book chapters in leading emergency medicine texts, including Tintinalli and Rosen, and remains deeply committed to teaching practical, real-world clinical decision-making in the emergency department.

You may contact Dr. Kravitz with your questions or comments at joel_kravtiz@hotmail.com.

is a family and sports medicine physician and serves as Medical Director of Rush Copley Sports Medicine and Assistant Professor at Rush Medical College in Chicago. He maintains an active clinical practice and has held numerous leadership roles in medical education, including Director of Sports Medicine for the Rush Copley Family Medicine Residency. Dr. Patel is a nationally recognized expert in sports and musculoskeletal medicine, has authored and edited multiple publications and textbooks including Concussion Management in Primary Care and regularly presents at national and regional CME conferences. He serves as a subject matter expert and chair for multiple AAFP CME programs and is a member of the AAFP Education Advisory Panel for Emergency and Urgent Care.

You may contact Dr. Deepak with any questions or comments at Deepak_S_Patel@Rush.edu.

is an Emergency Physician and Chief Health Informatics Officer at Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago, and part-time attending physician at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, a level one trauma center. He is currently the Vice President of Communications for ACEP and a member of the ACEP Board of Directors. Dr. Pitzele has a medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine and completed an emergency medicine residency at University of Illinois at Chicago.

You may contact Dr. Pitzele with your questions or comments at pitztele@gmail.com.

is the Assistant Dean for Career Advising in the Office of Student Affairs at Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and Associate Professor (Educational Scholar) of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Medical Education at Los Angeles General Medical Center. A native South Dakotan, she trained in Emergency Medicine and was chief resident at Los Angeles County/ USC Medical Center and completed a Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at Loma Linda University. She has been core Emergency Medicine faculty at LAC/USC Medical Center since 2010 where she continues to care for both sick/injured children and adults. Dr. Rose is a prolific educator with over 100 publications and over 1000 invited presentations locally, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Rose has been awarded several education awards including multiple LAC/USC faculty of the year awards, outstanding teaching performance, and the Honorable Mention Outstanding Speaker of the Year for the American College of Emergency Physician Scientific Assembly. She has been course director for several national Pediatric Emergency Medicine courses and has published two textbooks--one on life-threatening rashes and a practical clinical textbook for pediatric emergencies for EM-trained providers.

You may contact Dr. Rose with your questions or comments at emilyros@usc.edu.

is an Associate Professor and clinician educator in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School. He serves as Director of the Emergency Radiology elective for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program and has been recognized repeatedly for excellence in clinical teaching, earning awards such as the University Emergency Medicine Foundation “Excellence in Clinical Teaching” (2016) and the national ACEP Faculty Teaching Award. Board certified in Emergency Medicine, he is also an attending physician at Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam Hospital, and Hasbro Children’s Hospital, where he combines frontline patient care with educational leadership and innovative work in emergency radiology and medical simulation.

You may contact Dr. Tubbs with your comments or questions at tubbsrj@gmail.com.

earned his M.D. from the University of Michigan, completed his radiology residency at Johns Hopkins, and a neuroradiology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. An internationally recognized expert in neuroradiology, he has authored or edited four textbooks, published more than 350 peer-reviewed articles, and lectured on five continents. He received the RSNA Educator Award and the Gold Medal of the American Society of Neuroradiology. Dr. Yousem is a past President of the American Society of Neuroradiology and remains active in national and international radiologic leadership.

You may contact Dr. Yousem with your questions or comments at dyousem1@jhu.edu.

is a Professor of Emergency Medicine, with a secondary appointment in Psychiatry, at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago, Illinois. He also serves as Chief Medical Officer for Hamdard Health Alliance and practices at Northwestern Medicine. Dr. Zun earned his medical degree from Rush Medical College and an MBA from Northwestern University’s School of Management. He is an internationally recognized expert in emergency medicine and behavioral emergencies, with extensive experience lecturing and presenting research around the world. A past President of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry, he has also served in leadership roles with the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the Coalition for Psychiatric Emergencies. He is the chief editor of Behavioral Emergencies for Healthcare Providers and has directed the National Update on Behavioral Emergencies conference for over 17 years.

You may contact Dr. Zun with your comments or questions at leszun@gmail.com.