J. Stephen Bohan, MD

Executive Vice Chair
Clinical Director
Emergency Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Ron M Walls M.D.

Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine
Editor, Journal Watch
Editor, Rosen’s Textbook of Emergency Medicine
Editorial Board, Emergency Medicine Practice

Dr. Walls is Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Medicine (Emergency Medicine) at Harvard Medical School. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Manual of Emergency Airway Management, Senior Editor of Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, Editor-in-Chief of UpToDate, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal Watch for Emergency Medicine, published by the Massachusetts Medical Society (publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine.) He is a peer reviewer for Anesthesia, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the six emergency medicine journals in North America and Europe.

Dr. Walls has researched, published and taught in the areas of Emergency Medicine, with an emphasis on emergency airway management for many years. He is the principle investigator of NEAR - the National Emergency Airway Registry, a multi-center, international, emergency airway research project that has studied over 16,000 Emergency Department intubations in over 30 centers. He has been a regular speaker at the ACEP Annual Scientific Assembly for the past 19 years and at numerous other regional, national and international meetings and has been an invited visiting professor at 39
institutions. Dr. Walls has over 130 scientific publications, 10 editions of 4 textbooks, and 18 textbook chapters.

Tobias Barker, MD

Research Director
STRATUS Simulation Center
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Laura Bontempo, MD

Emergency Medicine Program
Director Yale-New Haven
Hospital
Assistant Professor
Yale Medical School
New Haven, CT

David F. M. Brown, MD

Associate Chief
Emergency Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Wyatt Decker, MD

Chairman
Department of Emergency Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Joshua Kosowsky, MD

Clinical Director
Department of Emergency Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Mike F Murphy M.D., FRCPC (EM), FRCPC (Anes.)

Professor and Chair
Department of Anesthesia
Professor of
Emergency Medicine
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Dr Murphy is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology in both the US and Canada. He completed his emergency medicine residency training at Denver General Hospital in Denver, Colorado, and his anesthesiology training at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He has served as Chief of Emergency Medicine of the Victoria General Hospital and the Izaak Walton Killam Children’s Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia; and McMaster University Medical Center, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, all the while also practicing as an anesthesiologist in each institution. Dr. Murphy was appointed as the first Executive Director of Emergency Medical Services for the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, and was responsible for designing and implementing a high performance, full service, advanced life support EMS system in the province, using advanced training systems. He identified the advantages offered by simulation in training EMTs and Paramedics and implemented a simulation center to undertake such training in the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia. He subsequently led initiatives for development of advanced EMS training systems in Trinidad and Tobago, St Kitts Nevis, and Cuba. He is currently the Clinical Chief of Anesthesiology, Lincoln Medical Center, Lincolnton, NC; Clinical Assistant Professor Emergency Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill and an Emergency Physician at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. Dr Murphy served on the Canadian Airway Focus Group of the Canadian Anesthesiologist’s Society and is on the Board of the Society for Airway Management (SAM). Dr Murphy is an internationally recognized educator in the field of airway management. With Dr. Walls, Dr. Murphy is a founding Co-Director of the National Emergency Airway Management Course. (see above)

Peter S. Pang, MD

Associate Medical Director,
Emergency Medicine
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Assistant Professor of
Emergency Medicine
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL

W. Frank Peacock, MD

Director of Clinical Operations
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Charles Pozner, MD

Medical Director
STRATUS Simulation Center
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Malini K Singh, MD MPH

Clinical Instructor
San Francisco General Hospital,
Department of Emergency
Services
Community Health Network of
San Francisco
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of California,
San Francisco School of
Medicine
San Francisco, CA

Richard D. Zane, MD

Vice Chair, Emergency Medicine
Medical Director
Emergency Cardiac Neuro Unit
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Dr. Richard Zane is vice chair of the department of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and faculty at Harvard Medical School. He also serves as medical director for emergency preparedness and bio-defense and director of pre-hospital care for Partners Healthcare. Dr. Zane has had extensive experience in designing systems of pre-hospital care and disaster response and has been an advisor to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on issues of hospital emergency preparedness. In his role as director of pre-hospital care, Dr. Zane oversees the transfer and transportation of over 50,000 ambulance patients per year.

Dr. Zane attended Temple University School of Medicine graduating in 1993 and then went on to specialty training in Emergency Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has been at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School since 1998