In 2007, Dr. Saussy was diagnosed with an aggressive form of uterine cancer that metastasized to her lungs, and she spent 2007–2008 battling this disease. Blessed with an amazing team, she was able to continue to work, traveling weekly to and from Texas for treatment.

In 2010, she resigned and practiced emergency medicine full time as an asssistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at LSU until joining Vidacare/Teleflex and working as one of the medical directors of global clinical and medical affairs.

In July 2015, Dr. Saussy began as EMS medical director/assistant fire chief for DC Fire and EMS. She followed many competent EMS medical directors, and with the promise from the fire department, the deputy mayor of public safety, and the mayor, she was poised to reform a system plagued by years of controversy and intrinsic shortfalls that affected quality patient care. However, it was not to be, and on February 12, 2016, Dr. Saussy resigned. She is currently working clinically in a critical access hospital in Virginia with Riverside Physicians Group.

Dr. Saussy is married to Bob Davis, the former USA Today reporter who wrote the game changing EMS series “Six Minutes to Live” and lives in Alexandria, Virginia. They have five grown daughters.

Outstanding Contribution in Research Award

Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., MD, DrPH, FACEP

Dr. Camargo is professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School, professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Conn Chair in Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, all in Boston.

Dr. Camargo founded and directs the Emergency Medicine Network (EMNet), an international research collaboration with more than 230 hospitals. EMNet focuses on respiratory/allergy emergencies, emergency care health policy, and other public health issues. Dr. Camargo’s research also focuses on nutrition and respiratory/allergy disorders in large cohort studies and in randomized controlled trials.

Dr. Camargo is past president of the American College of Epidemiology and has served on many national committees, including those for the 2005 US dietary guidelines, 2007 National Institutes of Health (NIH) asthma guidelines, and 2010 NIH food allergy guidelines. He has more than 750 publications.

Dr. Camargo was born in Cleveland to a Colombian father and French mother. The family lived in Colombia when he was a child, but then moved more permanently to the San Francisco Bay Area. Dr. Camargo received his BA from Stanford University (1983); MPH from the University of California, Berkeley (1989); MD from the University of California, San Francisco (1990); and DrPH from Harvard School of Public Health (1996). He completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital (1993), and research fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (1996), both in Boston.