NFEM - Key Persons

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• Assistant Vice Chancellor for Clinical Affairs of the University of Mississippi Medical Center

Angela M. Mills, MD, is a nationally recognized leader and expert in Emergency Medicine. She serves as the inaugural chair of the newly designated Department of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and chief of Emergency Medicine Services at New York-Presbyterian. Dr. Mills previously served in various roles in emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Health System before becoming vice chair in 2013. The Columbia Trustees' approval of the new Department of Emergency Medicine recognizes the evolution of emergency medicine as an academic discipline. The Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons now joins leading medical schools with academic emergency departments, which will further contribute to the academic rigor and research in the field. Widely published, Dr. Mills has focused her research on emergency diagnostic imaging, clinical operations in emergency services, and the evaluation of undifferentiated abdominal pain. She has authored more than 90 scientific publications and has received research funding from federal agencies and industry. Dedicated to combining scholarship with mentoring, Dr. Mills has influenced the careers of numerous junior faculty and trainees. She is strongly committed to education with a teaching style that allows for growth and pursuit of individual research interest. Dr. Mills was honored in 2018 with two prestigious awards: the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the Mid-Career Award from the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine. She serves on numerous national and local committees and task forces and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the premier academic organization in the field of emergency medicine. Dr. Mills received her undergraduate degree from Muhlenberg College and graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha distinction from Temple University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania where she served as chief resident.

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• CEO
• PRESIDENT
• Professor of Emergency Medicine

Professor of Emergency Medicine; Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine; Physician in Chief for Statewide Emergency Medicine Services University of Maryland Medical Center Emergency Medicine

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• Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital MGH Trustees Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School

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• SECRETARY
• TREASURER

Mr. Sheehan's law practice includes general corporate representation, health care, complex real estate financing transactions, and complex litigation matters for a broad spectrum of healthcare entities, businesses in real estate development, and governmental entities. Mr. Sheehan has represented a wide array of interests in emergency medicine for more than 25 years, including numerous emergency medicine practice groups affiliated with Maryland Emergency Medicine Network which he helped form in 1998. He has negotiated a number of hospital contracts with emergency medicine groups. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Maryland Emergency Medicine Network during its rapid expansion to include ten Maryland hospital systems. He has provided legal representation for employment agreements, restrictive covenants, and the defense of individual emergency medicine physicians before the Board of Physicians, and has assisted in the development of research projects in emergency medicine. Mr. Sheehan has provided long term legal representation to the University of Maryland Department of Emergency Medicine as well as other academic medicine groups in surgery, radiation oncology, cardiology, and internal medicine. He has also represented an academic medical center as it expanded into entrepreneurial activities. Mr. Sheehan has represented numerous developers and owners in real estate matters, including commercial building projects, mixed use developments, transit-oriented development and residential communities. The representation has included HUD-insured projects, public and private bond financing, special taxing districts, and development agreements. He has represented owners in tax increment financing deals in several counties, including the first TIF approved in Howard County, Maryland. A graduate of Boston College (B.S.) and Georgetown University (J.D.), Mr. Sheehan has served as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the first Chief Legal Counsel for the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, and an Assistant Attorney General in Maryland, where he was awarded the Attorney General's Exceptional Service Award. Mr. Sheehan has served on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and the Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, Inc. (MICPEL), has guest lectured at several law schools, and has served on the adjunct faculty of the Institute for Politics at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. One of Mr. Sheehan's recent cases resulted in reported decisions by the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland in Della Ratta v. Dyas, 183 Md. App. 344 (2008), and the Court of Appeals of Maryland in Della Ratta v. Dyas, 414 Md. 556 (2010). The decisions have important implications in corporate and partnership law. Mr. Sheehan is married to Janet Owens, the former County Executive for Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Mr. Sheehan managed her campaigns for elective office.

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• Vice President
• Specialist
• VICE PRESIDENT / Medical Director for Drug Development, PATH

Dr. Taylor is a specialist in infectious diseases. He began his career working as an epidemiologist at the CDC and field researcher at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He has continued working with pharmaceutical companies on clinical trials for therapeutics and vaccines. Dr. Taylor is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases and a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Dr. Taylor's expertise is in the design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials for development of products for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. He joined PATH in 2015 as a Senior Medical Officer in vaccine development, and began working full-time in drug development in 2017. His career is devoted to clinical research and product development. Dr. Taylor spent 20 years in government research - first at the Centers for Disease Control and then at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research - and 10 years with the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries in both drug and vaccine research and development. During his career, Dr. Taylor has worked on the fluoroquinolone antibiotics for gastroenterological and sexually transmitted diseases, rifaximin for traveler's diarrhea, vaccines for the prevention of cholera, and other enteric infectious illnesses and influenza vaccines. Dr. Taylor received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School, his M.Sc. in Medical Parasitology from the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and his ID fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. He has authored 176 peer reviewed papers and 25 review articles.

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• Tenured Professor and Interim Chair in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University

David W. Wright, MD, is a tenured Professor and Interim Chair in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University. He is a translational researcher with a bench-top to bedside approach to problem solving, working in both the basic sciences and clinical research arena. He was the Principal Investigator for the large NIH funded multicenter clinical trial called, ProTECT III, Progesterone for Traumatic Brain Injury, the world's first large scale clinical trial of this treatment as well as the site Principal Investigator for the NETT southeastern HUB. He is currently the PI on a CDC award aimed at improving recovery for children who sustain traumatic brain injuries. Dr. Wright is a practicing physician working in the Grady Memorial Hospital Emergency Department, the region's only Level I trauma center. In addition, he is conducting collaborative research with the Georgia Institute of Technology to develop new technologies for detecting cognitive impairment resulting from mild TBI and early Alzheimer's disease. He has won several awards for research excellence from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine and was the recipient of the 2008 Health Care Heroes Award from the Atlanta Business Chronicles. Dr. Wright has mentored dozens of graduate level degree-seeking students (including thesis committee membership), medical students as a research project advisor, and undergraduate students in research and career development.

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• Professor and Chair in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California San Francisco ( UCSF ) School of Medicine

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• Board Member for the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine
• Chief of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Wolfe graduated from the Faculte de Medecine Necker-Enfants Malades, France, in 1984. He trained for one year in Internal Medicine at Saint Joseph's Hospital and for three years in Emergency Medicine at Denver General Hospital. In addition to working for six years as an Emergency Medicine attending, he became Associate Residency Director and then Residency Director for Emergency Medicine at Denver General Hospital. Dr. Wolfe arrived in Boston in 1994 as the Residency Director for the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency for Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital. This was the first Emergency Medicine residency affiliated with Harvard Medical School. In 1999, Dr. Wolfe became Chief of Emergency Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is also an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Under Dr. Wolfe's leadership, the Emergency Department at Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians (HMFP) has grown into a multi-institutional network seeing more than 300,000 patients a year. It hosts some of the leading experts in emergency preparedness and an internationally recognized fellowship in disaster medicine. His department also has become nationally renowned for its innovative uses of information technology to improve emergency care and to allow seamless communication with multiple hospitals and physician groups. He has remained active in global health, overseeing BIDMC's response to the Haitian disaster and personally leading one of the teams providing emergency care to earthquake victims and leading the efforts during the Boston Marathon bombing. Dr. Wolfe is a Board member for the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine and a former Chair of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine's Finance Committee. Some of Dr. Wolfe's areas of expertise include innovative approaches to the management of shock and sepsis, and emergency management of trauma patients.

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• VICE PRESIDENT
• Professor and Director of Research

Dr. Thom is a Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland. Dr. Thom is a Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland. In addition to board certification in Emergency Medicine, his training includes a PhD in microbial physiology. He has had continuous laboratory research support from NIH, DoD, and other agencies for over 38 years. Dr. Thom has also successfully mentored over 40 scholars representing diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, many of whom are now faculty members of academic Departments of Emergency Medicine. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, Dr. Thom was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania where he was medical director of several clinical programs and also obtained ACGME approval for a new EM sub-specialty at Penn in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine.

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• Professor and Chair Department of Emergency Medicine University of California, San Diego Health Sciences

Dr. Chan completed both medical school and an internship in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. Prior to that time, Dr. Chan had worked in Washington, DC in the Office of the Assistant Surgeon General, and in the state capitol at the California State Senate. He completed his training in Emergency Medicine at UCSD in 1996 where he served as chief resident. His research interests include ED crowding and efficiency, informatics in health care, and tactical, disaster and prehospital medicine. He has received more than $20 million in research grants from the NIH, NSF, US Dept of Justice and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Chan is editor of the Cardiology section of the Journal of Emergency Medicine and has authored and edited three textbooks: Atlas of Emergency Procedures, ECG in Emergency Medicine and Acute Care, and Sudden Deaths in Custody.