Contributors

Negean Afifi, DO

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Steven E. Aks, DO

Director, The Toxikon Consortium

Division of Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Associate Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Chicago, Illinois

Amer Zia Aldeen, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Kim L. Askew, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

John Bailitz, MD, RDMS

Emergency Ultrasound Director

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Chicago, Illinois

Jeffery A. Baker, MD

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Ochsner Health System

Clinical Instructor

University of Queensland, Ochsner Clinical School

New Orleans, Louisiana

Jonathan Bankoff, MD, FACEP

Medical Director

Emergency Department

Middlesex Hospital

Middletown, Connecticut

Eric H. Beck, DO, NREMT-P

Assistant Professor

Section of Emergency Medicine

The University of Chicago

EMS Medical Director

Chicago EMS

Illinois EMS Region 11, Medical Directors Consortium

Chicago, Illinois

Lauren Emily Bence, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Chicago Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Steven H. Bowman, MD, FACEP

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Program Director

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Sean M. Bryant, MD

Associate Professor

Emergency Medicine

Assistant Fellowship Director

Toxikon Consortium

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Associate Medical Director

Illinois Poison Center

Chicago, Illinois

Ann Buchanan, MD

Assistant Director/Trauma Medical Director

Department of Emergency Medicine

St. David's Medical Center

Austin, Texas

Paul E. Casey, MD

Instructor in Clinical Medicine

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rush University Medical Center

Chicago, Illinois

Esther H. Chen, MD

Associate Professor

Emergency Medicine

University of California, San Francisco General Hospital

San Francisco, California

George Chiampas, DO

Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Team Physician, Northwestern University

Medical Director, Bank of America Chicago Marathon

Chicago, Illinois

Kristine Cieslak, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Pediatrics

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Chicago, Illinois

Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Children's Memorial at Central DuPage Hospital

Winfield, Illinois

Michael T. Cudnik, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

The Ohio State University Medical Center

Columbus, Ohio

Joanna Wieczorek Davidson, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

John Davis, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Medicine

The Ohio State University

Attending Physician

Department of Medicine

Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio

Alex de la Fuente, MD

Private Practice

Everett, Washington

Nicole M. Deiorio, MD

Associate Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Director, Medical Student Education

Oregon Health and Science University

Portland, Oregon

E. Paul DeKoning, MD, MS

Assistant Professor

Emergency Medicine

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Medical Student Education Director

Emergency Medicine

Dartmouth Medical School

Lebanon, New Hampshire

Bradley L. Demeter, MD

EMS Physician

Emergency Medicine

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

Vinodinee L. Dissanayake, MD

Global Toxicology Fellow Emergency Medicine

University of Illinois at Chicago and Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Clinical Instructor

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

Marc Doucette, MD

Associate Professor

Emergency Medicine

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Attending Physician

Emergency Medicine

St. Anthony Hospital System

Denver, Colorado

Matthew T. Emery, MD

Assistant Professor

Emergency Medicine

Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Spectrum Health Hospital-Butterworth Campus

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Rakesh S. Engineer, MD

Assistant Professor

Emergency Medicine

Case School of Medicine

Attending Physician

Emergency Services Institute

Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, Ohio

Jorge Fernandez, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Southern California

Director of Medical Student Education

Department of Emergency Medicine

LA County + USC Medical Center

Los Angeles, California

Michael T. Fitch, MD, PhD, FACEP, FAAEM

Associate Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Wake Forest School of Medicine

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Alison R. Foster, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine

Northwestern University

Chicago, Illinois

Douglas Franzen, MD, M.Ed, FACEP

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center

Richmond, Virginia

Casey Glass, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Wake Forest Health Sciences

Winston Salem, North Carolina

David C. Gordon, MD

Assistant Professor

Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

Nihja O. Gordon, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Krista A. Grandey, DO

Department of Emergencey Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Pilar Guerrero, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Marianne Haughey, MD

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Department of Emergency Medicine

Jacobi Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Bronx, New York

Tarlan Hedayati, MD

Assistant Program Director

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Chicago, Illinois

Corey R. Heitz, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Roanoke, Virginia

Ross A. Heller, MD, MBA

Associate Professor

Department of Surgery/Division of Emergency Medicine

Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Saint Louis, Missouri

Colleen N. Hickey, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Katherine M. Hiller, MD, MPH, FACEP

Associate Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Arizona College of Medicine

Tucson, Arizona

Russ Horowitz, MD, RDMS

Assistant Professor

Department of Pediatrics

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Attending Physician, Director Emergency Ultrasound

Division of Emergency Medicine

Children's Memorial Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Craig Huston, MD

Emergency Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Blessing Hospital

Quincy, Illinois

Harry C. Karydes, DO

Assistant Professor

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Chicago, Illinois

Elizabeth W. Kelly, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Wake Forest School of Medicine

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Chad S. Kessler, MD

Section Chief, Emergency Medicine

Department of Medicine

Jesse Brown VA Medical Center

Chicago, Illinois

Sorabh Khandelwal, MD

Associate Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Assistant Dean for Clinical Sciences

College of Medicine

The Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio

Basem F. Khishfe, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Brian C. Kitamura, MD

Emergency Medicine

Maricopa Integrated Health System

Phoenix, Arizona

Nicholas E. Kman, MD, FACEP

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

The Ohio State University College of Medicine

Columbus, Ohio

Amy V. Kontrick, MD

Assistant Professor

Emergency Medicine

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Chicago, Illinois

Carl M. Kraemer, MD, FAAEM, FACEP

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Saint Louis University School of Medicine

St. Louis, Missouri

Brian Krieger, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Rashid E. Kysia, MD, MPH

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Assistant Professor

Rush Medical College

Chicago, Illinois

Patrick M. Lank, MD

Fellow

Division of Medical Toxicology

Toxikon Consortium

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

William B. Lauth, MD, FACEP

Clinical Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rosalind Franklin University, The Chicago Medical School

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center

North Chicago, Illinois

Moses S. Lee, MD, FAAEM, FACEP

Assistant Professor

Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Attending Physician

Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Trevor J. Lewis, MD

Associate Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Medical Director Emergency Department

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Nathan Lewis, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Richmond, Virginia

Chuang-yuan Lin, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Jenny J. Lu, MD, MS

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Medical Toxicology

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

David E. Manthey, MD

Professor

Emergency Medicine

Wake Forest School of Medicine

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Anitha E. Mathew, MD

Clinical Instructor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Emory University School of Medicine

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Emory University Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital

Atlanta, Georgia

Alisa A. McQueen, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine

University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Attending Physician

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

University of Chicago Comer's Children Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Biswadev Mitra, MBBS, MHSM, PhD, FACEM

Emergency & Trauma Centre

The Alfred Hospital

Melbourne, Australia

Brooks L. Moore, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Emory University School of Medicine

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Emory University Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital

Atlanta, Georgia

Tom Morrissey, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Department Emergency Medicine

University of Florida-Jacksonville

Jacksonville, Florida

Jordan B. Moskoff, MD

Associate Medical Director

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Chicago, Illinois

Mark B. Mycyk, MD, FACEP, FACMT

Associate Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Isam F. Nasr, MD, FACEP

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Michael E. Nelson, MD, MS

Attending Physician, Medical Toxicology Fellow

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Northshore University Health System

Evanston, Illinois

Erik K. Nordquist, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Paula E. Oldeg, MD, FACEP

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

West Suburban Medical Center

Oak Park, Illinois

Adjunct Clinical Instructor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Chicago, Illinois

S. Margaret Paik, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Department of Pediatrics

Associate Section Chief, Pediatric Emergency Medicine

The University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Lisa R. Palivos, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Jonathon D. Palmer, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Little Rock, Arkansas

Matthew S. Patton, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Chicago, Illinois

Rahul G. Patwari, MD

Medical Student Clerkship Director

Assistant Professor

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Chicago, Illinois

Monika Pitzele, MD, PhD

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Mount Sinai Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Henry Z. Pitzele, MD, FACEP

Deputy Director

Emergency Medicine

Jesse Brown VA Medical Center

Clinical Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

Natalie Radford, MD

Associate Professor

Department of Clinical Medicine

Florida State University

Attending Physician

Bixler Emergency Department

Tallahassee Memorial Hospital

Tallahassee, Florida

Christopher Reverte, MD

Chief Resident

Department of Emergency Medicine

LA County + USC Medical Center

Los Angeles, California

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

St. Luke's-Roosevelt

New York, New York

Neil Rifenbark, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Southern California

Department of Emergency Medicine

LA County + USC Medical Center

Los Angeles, California

Rebecca R. Roberts, MD

Director, Research Division

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Sarah E. Ronan-Bentle, MD, MS, FACEP

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Attending Physician

Center for Emergency Care

University Hospital

Cincinnati, Ohio

David H. Rosenbaum, MD, FAAEM

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

WakeMed Health and Hospitals

Raleigh, North Carolina

Adjunct Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Christopher Ross, MD, FRCPC, FACEP, FAAEM

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Associate Chair

Planning, Education, and Research

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

John Sarko, MD

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Maricopa Medical Center

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Arizona Phoenix School of Medicine

Phoenix, Arizona

Shari Schabowski, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Conor D. Schaye, MD, MPH

Department of Emergency Medicine

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Michael A. Schindlbeck, MD, FACEP

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Assistant Residency Director

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Suzanne M. Schmidt, MD, FAAP

Clinical Instructor

Department of Pediatrics

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Attending Physician

Department of Pediatrics

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

Theresa M. Schwab, MD

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Advocate Christ Medical Center

Oak Lawn, Illinois

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

Brian R. Sellers, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Chicago, Illinois

Emily L. Senecal, MD

Clinical Instructor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Michelle Sergel, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Scott C. Sherman, MD

Medical Student Clerkship Director

PA Residency Director

Associate Residency Director

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Rush Medical College

Chicago, Illinois

Jeffrey N. Siegelman, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia

Jessica Sime, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine

Union Memorial Hospital

Baltimore, Maryland

Lauren M. Smith, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

William Thomas Smith, MD

Emergency Medicine

Oregon Health and Sciences University

Portland, Oregon

Shannon E. Staley, MD

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow

Department of Pediatrics

University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Christine R. Stehman, MD

Clinical Fellow

Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Burn, and Surgical Critical Care

Associate Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Harsh Sule, MD, FAAEM, FACEP

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Thomas Jefferson University & Hospitals

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Gim A. Tan, MBBS, FACEM

Adjunct Lecturer

Department of Emergency Medicine

Monash University

Senior Emergency Physician

Emergency and Trauma Centre

The Alfred Hospital

Melbourne, Australia

Katie L. Tataris, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Matthew C. Tews, DO

Associate Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Medical College of Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

S. Spencer Topp, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Florida Health Science Center-Jacksonville

Jacksonville, Florida

Brandon C. Tudor, MD

Private Practice

Everett, Washington

Katrina R. Wade, MD, FAAEM, FAAP

Associate Professor

Department of Surgery, Emergency Medicine Division

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics

Department of Pediatrics

Saint Louis University School of Medicine

St. Louis, Missouri

David A. Wald, DO

Professor of Emergency Medicine

Medical Director, William Maul Measey Institute for Clinical Simulation and Patient Safety

Temple University School of Medicine

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Joseph Walline, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine

Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Saint Louis, Missouri

Joseph M. Weber, MD

EMS Medical Director

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Rush Medical College

Chicago, Illinois

Joanne C. Witsil, PharmD, RN, BCPS

Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor

Department of Pharmacy Practice

University of Illinois at Chicago

Clinical Pharmacist

Department of Emergency Medicine

Cook County (Stroger) Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Kathleen A. Wittels, MD

Instructor in Medicine

Department of Emergency Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Associate Clerkship Director

Department of Emergency Medicine

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Lynne M. Yancey, MD, FACEP

Associate Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Denver, Colorado

Attending Physician

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Colorado Hospital

Aurora, Colorado

Leslie S. Zun, MD

Professor

Emergency Medicine

Chicago Medical School

Chair

Emergency Medicine

Mount Sinai Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

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