Course Faculty
IEDLI faculty join us each year from academic and medical institutions from all over the world. In 2011, twenty-six faculty members from across Europe and the United States taught in the Essential and Advanced courses during IEDLI.
The 2012 faculty list will be online soon.
PHILIP D. ANDERSON, MD
Attending Physician & Associate Director, Quality Assurance
Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Anderson began his medical studies at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Aarhus Universitet, Århus, Denmark and graduated from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1993. He completed his specialty training in Emergency Medicine at Boston University Medical School / Boston City Hospital in 1997. He has been involved with the international development of emergency medicine for over 10 years and has led or participated in educational, quality assessment and emergency care system consulting projects in over a dozen countries, including Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, Turkey, Dubai, Ukraine, Armenia, Russia, Panama, and Honduras.
KEVIN M. BAN, MD
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Ban graduated from the Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1996 and completed a residency in emergency medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at BIDMC in 2003. Dr. Ban has focused his career on systems development, interactive medical education, and translational research emphasizing the implementation of best medical practices into clinical care. Since 2002, he has played an integral role in the development and implementation of a regional emergency medicine project to build an educational infrastructure for all emergency medicine physicians practicing in Tuscany. Since 2005, he has led a project to develop a pediatric trauma center and system serving all of Tuscany. He is the founding editor of Internal and Emergency Medicine and lectures nationally and internationally on the development of medical systems, the approach to the pediatric trauma patient and the importance of developing translation research within the field of emergency medicine.
CHRISTOPHER BAUGH, MD, MBA
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Medical Director, ED Observation Unit
Medical Director, Urgent Care at Foxborough
Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Baugh is an emergency physician and the medical director of the Emergency Department Observation Unit at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is also the medical director for the Brigham and Women's Urgent Care Center in Foxborough, Massachusetts. He studied both medicine and healthcare finance at the University of Pennsylvania, earning both MD and MBA degrees. He completed residency training at the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency program at Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General Hospitals. Dr. Baugh’s research interests include observation medicine and healthcare finance and he lectures nationally on these topics.
STEPHEN BOHAN, MS, MD, FACP, FACEP
Executive Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine,
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Emergency Medicine), Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Bohan was educated in Canada and Ireland. Before coming to Harvard, he had a twenty-year career in Navy Medicine, serving initially as the physician to the American Embassy in London. A residency in Medicine at Bethesda was followed by an appointment as Assistant Professor at the Uniformed Service University School of Medicine. While in the Navy Dr. Bohan became certified in Family Practice, Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine and served in Boston, Washington and Newport with additional duty in Russia. He has practiced Emergency Medicine and held leadership positions both in community hospitals and at major teaching centers. He developed the Observation Unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a unit that has received national and international recognition.
MATTHIAS BRACHMANN, PHD
Health Economist and Senior Consultant, Bredehorst Clinic Medical Management
Duesseldorf, Germany
Mr. Brachmann is a health economist and Senior Consultant at Bredehorst Clinic Medical Management, a Germany-based international consulting company focusing on patient flow in hospitals. Prior to his consulting engagement, Mr. Brachmann headed the executive education section of Witten/Herdecke University where he developed several programs for training doctors and other health care professionals in business administration and health economics. Mr. Brachmann is Chair of the economics section of the German Society for Interdisciplinary Emergency Departments, co-editor of the book “Emergency Department Management,” and author of several articles concerning revenue and cost in emergency medicine.
PETER R. BROWN
Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications,
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Peter Brown is Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications at Brigham and Women's Hospital where he and his staff manage all external media and internal communications for a hospital community of 15,000 people. During his 25-year television news career, he received an Emmy Award and numerous awards from the Associated Press and the Radio/Television News Directors Association. Brown has worked with various government agencies and groups, both locally and internationally, as an expert in dealing with the media during emergency events and communicating during a crisis. Recent projects include Operations "Atlas" and "Poseidon" together with the City of Boston Department of Homeland Security.
SHELLY CALDER, MSN, RN, CEN
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Emergency Medicine,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Shelley Calder is currently the Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. A native Canadian, she completed her undergraduate degree at Lakehead University and her graduate studies at Athabasca University in Canada. Subsequently, she completed a diploma in Emergency Nursing with Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Shelley is affiliated with the Emergency Nurses Association and is qualified by exam as a Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN). She is also an instructor in ACLS and the Trauma Nurse Core Course. Ms. Calder is devoted to the development of a variety of education programs essential for staff nurses in the ED. She has made significant contributions to patient care through her lectures, leadership and professional activities.
ROBERT FREITAS, MHA
Executive Director, Consulting Division
Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Mr. Freitas is currently the Executive Director for the Emergency Medicine Consulting Division at Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians. He has been involved with the international development of emergency medicine for over 20 years and has participated in educational, quality assessment and emergency care systems consulting projects in Denmark, Iceland, and Italy, Armenia, and The Republic of Georgia. Robert recently oversaw the acquisition of two emergency departments that see 70,000 patients annually and, prior to this, he was the Senior Director of Operations at UMass Memorial Medical Center where he oversaw emergency departments, pharmacies, security, safety and other departments. He has managed public safety helicopter rescue programs, as well as ground ambulance programs, and has consulted on emergency management and EMS in numerous countries.
JOHN D. HALAMKA, MD, MS
Chief Information Officer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Chief Information Officer, Heard Medical School
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chairman, New England Healthcare Exchange Network
Co-Chair, National HIT Standards Committee
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
John D. Halamka, MD, MS, is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chief Information Officer of Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), co-Chair of the national HIT Standards Committee, and a practicing Emergency Physician. As Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he is responsible for all clinical, financial, administrative and academic information technology serving 3,000 doctors, 14,000 employees and two million patients. As Chief Information Officer of Harvard Medical School, he oversees all educational, research and administrative computing for 18,000 faculty and 3,000 students. As Chairman of NEHEN he oversees clinical and administrative data exchange in Massachusetts. As Co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee he facilitates the process of electronic standards harmonization among stakeholders nationwide.
MANUEL HERNANDEZ, MD, MBA
Principal, Cannon Design and Director, Healthcare Performance Initiative
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
With more than 20 years of administrative and clinical experience in both the private and public healthcare sectors, Dr. Hernandez leads Cannon Design’s Healthcare Performance Initiative, an essential component of the firm’s architectural team structure that provides consulting services to help optimize clinical operations, service excellence and strategic planning initiatives as well as improve financial outcomes for healthcare organizations. Board-certified in emergency medicine, Dr. Hernandez provided clinical and administrative oversight to nearly 25 emergency departments in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina as the vice president of medical affairs for EDCare Management, Inc. He also provided clinical and administrative oversight for inpatient hospitalist programs in his region. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Hernandez holds a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of California at Irvine and has been an invited presenter on the performance and operational efficiency of many aspects of healthcare.
STEPHANIE KAYDEN, MD, MPH
Director, International Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Instructor of Medicine (Emergency Medicine), Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Kayden is the Director of the International Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She also serves on the International Section Steering Committee for the American College of Emergency Physicians and as core faculty for the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. She is on the editorial board of the American Medical Association’s Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. She has worked to improve emergency medical systems, humanitarian aid and disaster response in more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.
JOSHUA M. KOSOWSKY, MD
Clinical Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Kosowsky is Clinical Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kosowsky’s expertise are in the field of emergency cardiovascular care. He currently directs a renowned chest-pain center and lectures nationally and internationally on cardiovascular emergencies. Dr. Kosowsky is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Policies Subcommittee on Decompensated Heart Failure and he has served on the steering committee for the University HealthCare consortium CHF benchmarking study. He serves on the Institutional Review Board for Partners HealthCare and is an active reviewer for The Journal of Emergency Medicine and Annals of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Kosowsky’s research interests deal with the application of emerging diagnostic and therapeutic technologies to emergency cardiac care. He has published original research articles on the effectiveness of non-invasive ventilation, impedance cardiography, and B-type natriuretic peptide testing.
ELKE PLATZ, MD, MS
Research Director, Emergency Ultrasound, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Elke Platz is an emergency physician and the Research Director for Emergency Ultrasound at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. A native German, she graduated from the Philipps-University Marburg in Germany and subsequently completed an internship in internal medicine in Luzern, Switzerland. After relocating to the United States, she received her residency training in emergency medicine at Orlando Regional Medical Center, Florida, and then completed an emergency ultrasound fellowship at MetroHealth Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Dr. Platz holds a Master of Science in Health Care Management from the Harvard School of Public Health and lectures nationally and internationally on emergency ultrasound and emergency medicine management topics.
NEIL RATHLEV, MD
Chair and Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
and Baystate Medical Center
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Neils Rathlev is Chair and Professor of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Baystate Medical Center. His current academic interests are focused in the area of health services research. He served as the co-principal investigator for the Urgent Matters Grant which was sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2003. The goal of this project was to implement Rapid-Cycle Change to enhance flow in the emergency department (ED). This project resulted in a significant decrease in ED length of stay and ambulance diversion. Dr. Rathlev published the results in an article entitled “Time Series Analysis of Daily Emergency Department Length of Stay” in the Annals of Emergency Medicine in 2007. His current research is focused on determining adverse outcomes of ED crowding and the impact of a ban on ambulance diversion in the state of Massachusetts.
PETER K. RUPP, MD
Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, Lindenhofspital
Bern, Switzerland
Dr. Rupp graduated from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich in Germany in 1984. He completed both his residency in internal medicine and a critical care fellowship at Munich City Hospital. In addition to his clinical work, he has held leadership positions in the prehospital field and has served as Medical Director of the EMS systems in both Munich and Berne. After relocating to Switzerland, he became Head of the surgical Emergency Department at the University Hospital of Berne and, subsequently, chairman of the Hirslanden Hospitals in Berne. Dr. Rupp has been involved in the training of emergency physicians through educational, quality improvement and emergency care consulting projects in both Germany and Switzerland for 20 years.
MARC SABBE, MD, PhD
Co-director, Emergency Department, UZ Leuven
Attending Physician, UZ Leuven
Professor, Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Catholic University of Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
Marc Sabbe is a full professor in emergency and disaster medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium and an attending emergency physician at the University Hospitals of Leuven, where he also served as department director from 2002 until 2007. After training as an anesthesiologist, Dr. Sabbe spent three years as a research fellow at both the Mayo Clinic and at the University of California San Diego. Subsequently, he completed his residency in emergency medicine and a training in hospital management in Leuven. In the nineties, Dr. Sabbe was co-director of the European course series "Concepts and Developments in Emergency Medicine." He was co-founder and is now Honorary Secretary of the European Society for Emergency Medicine. He belongs to the editorial board of the European Journal of Emergency Medicine and also lectures and publishes internationally on many emergency medicine topics.
ANDREW SCHENKEL, PHD
Assistant Professor, Stockholm School of Economics
Instructor, Coach, Executive MBA Program, Stockholm School of Economics
Stockholm, Sweden
Dr. Schenkel has a Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Organization at SSE. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. His research focuses on learning and networks, with a particular focus on the interrelationships between network structure, micro-processes, and learning. Dr. Schenkel teaches on the graduate and executive levels at SSE in Sweden. His subjects include: organizational design and change, organizational behavior, human resources management, knowledge management, and social capital.
INGER SØNDERGAARD, MD
Director, Emergency Department, Herlev Hospital
Herlev, Denmark
Dr. Søndergaard is currently the Director of the Emergency Department at Herlev Hospital in Herlev, Denmark. After completing her medical studies at the University of Odense in Denmark, she went on to complete her specialty training in Internal Medicine at the University of Connecticut Hartford Hospital where she subsequently served as a member of the Emergency Medicine faculty from 1990 to 1997. Dr. Søndergaard returned to Denmark in 1997 and, after working for two years in internal medicine, went on to establish the Emergency Department at Glostrup Hospital where she remained until moving to Herlev in 2008. She is actively involved in teaching clinical emergency medicine throughout Denmark and is a founding member of the Danish Society for Emergency Medicine.
CARRIE TIBBLES, MD
Director of Organizational Development, Department of Emergency Medicine, BIDMC
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, BIDMC
Associate Director, Graduate Medical Education, BIDMC
Associate Program Director, BIDMC Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Tibbles graduated from Boston University School of Medicine before completing an emergency medicine residency at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As the Director of Organizational Development, Dr. Tibbles has expertise in the application of Lean principles in the Emergency Department. Dr. Tibbles has also focused much of her career on risk management strategies and has led two multi-center projects designed to improve communication among providers in the emergency department. She currently works as a risk management consultant for CRICO/Harvard Risk Management implementing education programs and risk mitigation strategies to address current trends in malpractice data. She has authored numerous educational publications and is a cover editor for the book Avoiding Common Errors in Emergency Medicine.
JASON A. TRACY, MD
Chief, Emergency Medicine, Whidden Memorial Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Tracy was chief resident at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR) and from 2003-2007 was the assistant program director of the residency. In 2005, Dr. Tracy became the Director of Operations at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and subsequently became the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Nashoba Valley Medical Center. Most recently Dr. Tracy was appointed as the Site Chief of Emergency Medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance’s Whidden campus. As Site Chief, Dr. Tracy oversees all operations of this emergency department which cares for 42,000 patients per year. Dr. Tracy lectures internationally on emergency department design and operations as well as the use of ultrasound in the emergency department.
RON WALLS, MD, FRCPC
Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Division of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Walls is the Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a noted leader in emergency medicine education and administration and has received national awards for his teaching and academic leadership from ACEP, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. He has been a visiting professor at over 30 academic medical centers and is a leading scholar in emergency medicine.
RICHARD WOLFE, MD
Chief of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Wolfe graduated from the Faculte de Medecine Necker-Enfants Malades, France, in 1984. He trained for three years in emergency medicine at Denver General Hospital. Following residency, he became Associate Residency Director and then Residency Director for Emergency Medicine at Denver General Hospital. In 1994 he became the Residency Director for the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency for Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1999, Dr. Wolfe became Chief of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is also an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is very active in the American College of Emergency Physicians.