Each October at Scientific Assembly, the ACEP Council elects new leaders for the College. The Council, which represents all 53 Chapters, 32 Sections of Membership, the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association, the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and the Association of Academic Chairs in Emergency Medicine, will elect four members to the ACEP Board of Directors and the College’s President-Elect. Read more about the candidates and thir

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President-Elect

The following Board members are candidates for the office of President-Elect.

Andrew I. Bern, MD, FACEP

Current Professional Position: Attending Physician, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Team Health SE travel team, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Internships and Residency: Residency: The Affiliated Hospitals of the University of Louisville/ University Hospital. Internal Medicine Residency and Internship: State University of New York at Downstate Medical Center.

Medical Degree: State University of New York at Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y. (1976)

Elected to the Board: 2007, 2010

Alex M. Rosenau, DO, CPE, FACEP

Current Professional Position: Senior Vice Chair and Assistant Medical Director for Emergency Medicine, Lehigh Valley Health Network/Lehigh Valley Physician Group, Allentown, Pa.

Internships and Residency: Internship: AOH, Allentown, PA; Residency: Botsford General Hospital, Farmington Hills, Michigan.

Medical Degree: Philadelphia (Pa.) College of Osteopathic Medicine (DO 1981).Elected to the Board: 2006, 2009

Robert C. Solomon, MD, FACEP

Current Professional Position: Attending Physician (Academic) and Emergency Medicine Core Faculty, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Internships and Residency: Residency: The Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Medical Degree: University of Pittsburgh (Pa.) (1982)

Elected to the Board: 2006, 2009

Board of Directors

The ACEP Board of Directors provides a day-to-day management and direction of the College. These members of the College have been nominated by the ACEP Board Nominating Committee to fill 3-year positions on the ACEP Board of Directors.

Vidor Friedman MD, FACEP

Current Professional Position: Managing Partner, Florida Emergency Physicians, Maitland, Fla., Vice President for Governmental Affairs, Florida Emergency Physicians, Maitland, Fla., Emergency Physician, Florida Hospitals, Orlando, Fla.

Internships and Residency: Residency: Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Michigan State University, Lansing, Mich.

Medical Degree: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio (1986)

William Jaquis, MD, FACEP

Current Professional Position: System Chief of Emergency Medicine, LifeBridge Health, Baltimore, Md., Chief of Emergency Medicine and Attending Physician, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, Md.

Internships and Residency: Case Western – Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio. Medical Degree: Medical College of Ohio, Toledo (1989)

David P. John, MD, FACEP

Current Professional Position: Staff Emergency Physician Johnson Memorial Medical Center, Stafford Springs, CT

Internships and Residency: Resident/Intern: Surgical intern and neurosurgical resident, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn. Resident: Lincoln Medical, Mental Health Center, Bronx, N.Y.

Medical Degree: Boston University, Boston, Mass. (1988)

Jay A. Kaplan, MD, FACEP (Incumbent)

Current Professional Position: Director of Service and Operational Excellence, CEP America Physician Partners, Physician Coach/Speaker, Studer Group.

Internships and Residency: Residency: University of California, Davis Sacramento Medical Center Family Medicine Residency.

Medical Degree: Harvard University, Boston, Mass. (1975) Elected to the Board, 2008

Sharon E. Mace, MD, FACEP

Current Professional Position: Staff Physician, Director of Observation Unit, Director of Pediatric Education/Quality Improvement, Director of Research, Cleveland Clinic Emergency Department, Cleveland, Ohio.

Internships and Residency: Residency: Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio.

Medical Degree: Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, N.Y. (1975)

Rebecca B. Parker, MD, FACEP (Incumbent) Current Professional

Position: Executive Vice President, EmCare North Division. Staff physician, Provena Covenant, Urbana, Ill., and Centegra Health System, McHenry and Woodstock, Ill., President, Team Parker LLC, Consulting Group Coding, Billing, and Compliance, Clinical Assistant Professor, Texas Tech El Paso Department of Emergency Medicine.

Internships and Residency: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center-El Paso. Medical Degree: Northwestern University (1995)Elected to the Board, 2008

Tracy G. Sanson, MD, FACEP

Current Professional Position: Leadership Development Educator, TeamHealth Medical Directors Patient Safety Office, Emergency Physician, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Fla., Director, USF Division of Global Emergency Medicine Sciences, USF, Tampa, Fla., Education Director, Emergency Medicine Residency, USF, Tampa, Fla.

Internships and Residency: Residency: University of Illinois, Chicago, Ill.

Medical Degree: University of Illinois, Chicago, Ill. (1987)