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Biographies

AccessEmergency Medicine Advisory Board

- Judith E. Tintinalli, MD, MS, FACEP
- Stephen H. Thomas, MD, MPH

- David M. Cline, MD, FACEP

- Mary Jo Wagner, MD, FACEP

- Kevin Biese, MD, MAT

Judith E. Tintinalli, MD, MS, FACEP - Professor and Chair Emeritus (1991-), Department of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine - Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina School of Public Health - Lecturer, Medical Journalism, University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications

Dr. Tintinalli received her MD from Wayne State University, and completed residency training and received her MPH from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Dr. Tintinalli was president of the American Board of Emergency Medicine from 1989 to 1990, the founding president of the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors, and chairman of the Liaison Residency Committee (forerunner of the ACME sponsored Residency Review Committee) and a past President of the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, in 1997, and in 2005 was a member of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine Task Force on the Uninsured.

Dr. Tintinalli is Editor-in-Chief of AccessEmergencyMedicine, the McGraw-Hill digital library for emergency medicine (www.accessemergencymedicine.com) and Editor-in-Chief of the world’s best-selling emergency medicine textbook, Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 7th edition (2010). She is also a co-editor of EMS: A Practical Global Guidebook (PMPH, Sheldon, Connecticut, 2010), sponsored by the International Federation of Emergency Medicine. She has been an editorial board member, and a deputy editor of Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Stephen H. Thomas, MD, MPH - George Kaiser Family Foundation Professor & Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine

Dr. Thomas finished LSU's six-year MD program in 1990, moving to North Carolina to train in Emergency Medicine at East Carolina University. After a fellowship in Air Medical Transport at ECU, he joined the faculty at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital. He obtained a Masters in Public Health (with a concentration in Quantitative Methods) at Harvard University in 1999. Over the course of sixteen years at Harvard, Thomas was primarily involved with medical student education and helicopter EMS, also serving as a founding faculty member of the Harvard Affiliated EM Residency, ultimately rising to Associate Professor at Harvard. In 2009 he took over as the first Kaiser Foundation Professor & Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Oklahoma. Ongoing areas of clinical research include prehospital medicine, analgesia, and evaluation of new technologies in the air medical and ED settings. His professional organization memberships include the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), where he has worked with and chaired the Undergraduate Education Committee. He has also chaired, and continues to serve on, the Air Medical Services Task Force of the National Association of Emergency Medical Services Physicians (NAEMSP).

David M. Cline, MD, FACEP - Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of Departmental Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine - Adjunct Professor, Hypertension and Vascular Disease Research Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Dr. Cline received his MD from Wayne State University in 1982. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1985. After serving a two-year commitment to the National Health Service in Tarboro, North Carolina, he joined the faculty at East Carolina University, becoming an associate professor there in 1993.

That same year Dr. Cline joined the faculty of University of North Carolina as a Clinical Associate Professor as part of the initiative to start the UNC’s EM residency training program, for which he served as the Assistant Residency Director at the program’s affiliate hospital, WakeMed, in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 2001, he moved to Winston Salem, North Carolina, to serve as Research Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and in 2010 he was promoted to Professor of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Cline is co-editor of the seventh edition of Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine, two editions of Emergency Medicine: Just the Facts, three editions of the Emergency Medicine Manual, as well as the textbook Abdominal Emergencies. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Academic Emergency Medicine.

Mary Jo Wagner, MD, FACEP - Synergy Medical Education Alliance / Michigan State University Residency Director - Michigan State University Professor of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Mary Jo Wagner is the Residency Director at Synergy Medical Education Alliance / Michigan State University in Saginaw, Michigan, where she is also a Professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Michigan State University and has practiced emergency medicine at the two Saginaw community hospitals for almost fifteen years. She is a graduate of Boston University School of Medicine and completed her residency at St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio.

Dr. Wagner has a long-term commitment to resident teaching, faculty development and medical education in emergency medicine, as well as a long history of service to emergency medicine on a state and national level. She has just finished nine years of service on the Board of Directors of the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD), including serving as President from 2007 to 2009. She is editor of the ACEP board review books PEER VI, PEER VII, and PEER VIII, as well as several other textbooks.

Dr. Wagner has served in several positions in the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) including as Chair of both the ACEP Education Committee and the Federal Government Affairs Committee. She has been a faculty member at the ACEP Teaching Fellowship since 2002. In 2009 she received the Outstanding Contribution in Education Award from ACEP. She has served on several Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) committees and is active in their residency consultant service.

Kevin Biese, MD, MAT - University of North Carolina Emergency Medicine Residency Director, Chapel Hill North Carolina

Dr. Kevin Biese attended medical school at the University of North Carolina after teaching middle school science courses in Charlotte, North Carolina. Upon graduating in 2002, he attended Harvard’s Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program, completing in 2006. He then became an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at UNC Chapel Hill, where he currently serves as residency director as well as one of ten heads of academic colleges for the medical school. His primary interests in Emergency Medicine are education and the care of geriatric patients and he has published and presented in both these areas. He is most interested in utilizing new technologies to meet the educational demands of today’s medical trainees and caregivers.

Sandra L. Werner, MD, FACEP - Associate Program Director, MetroHealth Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) EM Residency Program - Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Case Western Reserve University