2010 Course Faculty
PHILIP D. ANDERSON, MD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Attending Physician & Director, International Emergency Medicine,
Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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
Director, Tuscan Emergency Medicine Initiative, Florence, Italy
Director, Meyer Pediatric Trauma Center Project
Assistant Clinical Professor, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Ban graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1996 and completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2003. Since 2002, he has played a leadership role in the implementation of a regional emergency medicine project to build an educational infrastructure for over 600 emergency medicine physicians in Tuscany, Italy. He has extensive experience in medical education, project innovation and medical system building. Dr. Ban leads a regional initiative in Tuscany to develop the first pediatric trauma center and system in Italy. To date, the center has cared for more than 6,000 injured children. He has also helped develop a continuous quality improvement project in several Tuscan emergency departments.
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 and is the Director of the Observation Unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a unit that has received national and international recognition.
MATTHIAS BRACHMANN
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.
ROBERT FREITAS, MHA
Co-Director, Division of International Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Mr. Freitas is currently the Co-Director for the Division of International Disaster and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians, administering projects in Italy, Denmark, and Iceland. He recently oversaw the acquisition of two emergency departments that see 70,000 patients annually. Prior to this, he was the Senior Director of Operations at UMass Memorial Medical Center, overseeing emergency departments, pharmacies, and 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. Mr. Freitas received a BA in Management from the University of Massachusetts and holds a MS in Healthcare Administration from Lesley University.
ELKE PLATZ, MD, RDMS
Research Director, Emergency Ultrasound
Attending Physician, 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. She is a candidate for the MS in Health Care Management from the Harvard School of Public Health. She also lectures nationally and internationally on emergency ultrasound and emergency medicine management topics.
STEPHANIE ROSBOROUGH, MD, MPH
Director, International Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Instructor of Medicine (Emergency Medicine), Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Rosborough 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.
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 Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine 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.
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.
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.