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About the Journal Watch Emergency Medicine Editorial Board
Ron M. Walls, MD, FRCPC, FAAEM, Editor-in-Chief
Ron M. Walls, MD, FRCPC, FAAEM, is Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has conducted extensive clinical research on emergency airway management and emergency cardiology. He is the principal investigator of NEAR (the National Emergency Airway Registry), co-chaired the steering committee for ER-TIMI 19 (Early Retavase-Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction), and has investigated strategies for identifying patients with acute ischemic coronary syndromes. Dr. Walls is Senior Editor of Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice (5th and 6th editions), Editor-in-Chief for UpToDate, Editor-in-Chief of the Manual of Emergency Airway Management, and serves as a peer reviewer for six emergency medicine and anesthesia journals and the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Walls has been Editor-in-Chief of Journal Watch Emergency Medicine since the publication's launch in 1997.
John A. Marx, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, Deputy Editor
John A. Marx, MD, FAAEM, is Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina. In addition, he is Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Marx's research emphasis is on trauma, especially abdominal trauma, and alcohol-related emergencies. He is a former president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Dr. Marx is Editor-in-Chief of Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice (5th and 6th editions) and was a member of the founding editorial boards of Academic Emergency Medicine, Journal of Emergency Medicine, and Emergindex (Microindex). He has been writing for Journal Watch Emergency Medicine since the publication's launch in 1997 and has been Deputy Editor since 2002.
Aaron E. Bair, MD, MSc, FAAEM, FACEP, Associate Editor
Aaron E. Bair, MD, MSc, FAAEM, FACEP, is Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Bair's primary teaching and research interests focus on procedural competency in emergency airway management and emergency ultrasound. His current research is directed at workflow efficiency using computer modeling. He has been writing for Journal Watch Emergency Medicine since 2006.
Katherine Bakes, MD, Associate Editor
Katherine Bakes, MD, is Director of the Denver Emergency Center for Children, Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and Clinical Instructor at The Children’s Hospital of Denver. Her research interests include emergency department improvement measures, pediatric diabetic ketoacidosis, pediatric trauma, pediatric medical resuscitation, and care of victims of sexual assault. Named one of the top doctors for Denver, Colorado, in 2009, Dr. Bakes is a physician advisor for the Colorado Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) advisory board. She is a coeditor of Emergency Medicine Secrets, 5th edition. Dr. Bakes has been writing for Journal Watch Emergency Medicine since 2009.
Diane M. Birnbaumer, MD, FACEP, Associate Editor
Diane M. Birnbaumer, MD, FACEP, is Associate Residency Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California-Los Angeles. A lecturer on emergency medicine topics nationally and internationally, Dr. Birnbaumer recently received both the Outstanding Speaker of the Year Award and the Outstanding Contribution to Education Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians. Her areas of interests are airway management, infectious diseases, and emergencies in the elderly patient. She has been writing for Journal Watch Emergency Medicine since the publication's launch in 1997.
J. Stephen Bohan, MD, MS, FACP, FACEP, Associate Editor
J. Stephen Bohan, MD, MS, FACP, FACEP, is Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is also Assistant Professor at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bohan studies emergency department design and operations and the role of evidence-based medicine in clinical decision making and in the management of chest pain. Before joining Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr. Bohan had a career as a U.S. Naval Medical Officer, serving in Europe, Asia, and North America. Dr. Bohan has been writing for Journal Watch Emergency Medicine since 2000.
Kristi L. Koenig, MD, FACEP, Associate Editor
Kristi L. Koenig, MD, FACEP, is Director of Public Health Preparedness and Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California at Irvine. She is an internationally recognized expert on homeland security, disaster medicine, emergency medical services, and health policy and systems management. Dr. Koenig has written numerous peer-reviewed articles and lectured in more than a dozen countries. Her federal government experience includes a prior appointment by the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs as National Director of the Emergency Office and Principal Advisor to the Under Secretary for Health. She has been writing for Journal Watch Emergency Medicine since the publication's launch in 1997.
Richard D. Zane, MD, FAAEM, Associate Editor
Richard D. Zane, MD, FAAEM, is Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Assistant Professor at the Harvard Medical School. His primary research interests are emergency medical services and prehospital care, emergency preparedness, and bioterrorism defense. He has had extensive experience in designing systems for prehospital care and disaster response, and has been an advisor to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on issues of hospital emergency preparedness. Dr. Zane has been writing for Journal Watch Emergency Medicine since 2002.
Emily L. Brown, MD, Resident Editor
Emily L. Brown, MD, is an emergency medicine resident in the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Her clinical interests include the use of simulation in medical education and the development of translatable assessment tools in medical student and resident education. She joined the editorial board of Journal Watch Emergency Medicine as its first resident editor in June 2009.
Daniel J. Pallin, MD, MPH, Contributing Editor
Daniel J. Pallin, MD, MPH, is Research Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also a member of the emergency medicine faculty at Children’s Hospital Boston and teaches epidemiology at Harvard Medical School. With residency training in both emergency medicine and public health/preventive medicine, Dr. Pallin’s interests lie in the application of epidemiological methods to patient-oriented research. He focuses on infectious diseases but also conducts research in airway management, information technology, and other topics. Dr. Pallin has been writing for Journal Watch Emergency Medicine since 2003.
Peter Rosen, MD, FACEP, Contributing Editor
Peter Rosen, MD, FACEP, attends in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel/Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and is Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Medical School. His research interests have focused on airway management, resident and postgraduate education, management of difficult patients, and medical decisions and decision errors. Dr. Rosen was elected to the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine in 1993. The founding editor of what is now Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, Dr. Rosen is the recipient of numerous awards and honors for his important contributions to the field of emergency medicine. He is also a senior board member and consultant to the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Rosen has been contributing to Journal Watch Emergency Medicine since the publication's launch in 1997.
EDITORS WHO HAVE LEFT THE BOARD SINCE JANUARY 2007
Tiffany M. Osborn, MD, Associate Editor 2006–2009
Tiffany M. Osborn, MD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Surgical/Trauma Critical Care at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She splits her clinical time between the emergency department and the surgical/trauma intensive care unit at the University of Virginia. (Dr. Osborn is currently on sabbatical in England.) Her primary research interests are in sepsis syndrome and critical care training and certification for emergency physicians. Dr. Osborn is the immediate past chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians critical care section and serves as an international representative for ACEP on the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC). She participated in the development of the sepsis care bundles and the Surviving Sepsis Guidelines and edited the SSC manual on developing a sepsis program. Dr. Osborn wrote for Journal Watch Emergency Medicine from 2006 to 2009.