Highlighting Our Faculty 

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York Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program Faculty Members…

• Started our first Emergency Medicine-based Fellowship training program at York Hospital - the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Program (Kehrl)
• Earned the distinguished RDMS ultrasound designation (Kehrl)
• Responded with FEMA teams to natural disasters including Hurricane Katrina (Bledsoe)
• Feature a member of the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) Board of Directors (Kramer)
• Include two ABEM Oral Board Examiners (Amsterdam, Kramer), Team Leader, and ABEM Exam Item Writer and Editor (Kramer)
• Sit on the York Hospital Board of Directors and include the Vice Chair of the WellSpan Health Department of Research’s IRB (Benenson)
• Include the Medical Director of the York Hospital Medical Simulation Center (Kepner)
• Edited the AAEM-published book: Rules of the Road for Young Physicians (Vega)
• Lecture regionally (PaACEP Written Board Review Course) and nationally (American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians-ACOEP Annual Meeting) on Obstetrics Emergencies (Rotondo)
• Include four approved Course Directors for APLS: the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Course (DiPasquale, Johnson, Vega, Bohrn)
• Currently sit on the Board of Trustees of the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association, include a Delegate in the House of Delegates of both the American Osteopathic Association and the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association, and have served as the Past President of the Pennsylvania State Board of Osteopathic Medicine (Dowd)
• Serve as a Physician Site Reviewer for the national Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services (CAAS), and sit on the Editorial Advisory Board of Emergency Physicians Monthly (Bledsoe)
• Are members of the Peer Review groups for Annals of Emergency Medicine (Kramer), Academic Emergency Medicine (Kramer, Pollack), and the Journal of Emergency Medicine (Pollack, Bohrn)
• Direct our region’s most active SAFE/DOVE teams (Rozzi)
• Had lectures published via the nationally-distributed Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine series (Schrading)
• Served as President, and currently Immediate Past President, of the AAEM Young Physicians Section (Vega)  
• Serve on the PaACEP Board of Directors, and as national ACEP Councilors, representing the State of Pennsylvania and PaACEP (Bohrn, Rotondo)
• Edit the Pepid medical information series (Schrading)
• Include our Chairman, who is also trained in Dentistry, has completed a Master's Degree in Medical Management, and is certified as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (Amsterdam)
• Are among the elite group to be elected as Fellows of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM), and directed our first two Wilderness Medicine Courses  (Bowman)
• Serve on the AAEM Board of Directors as the YPS Director (Vega)
• Serve as a Councillor representing the Forensics Section at the national ACEP Council Meeting (Rozzi)
• Are winners of the Drexel University College of Medicine's 2009 June Klinghoffer, M.D. Clinical Educator Award and the 2006 Dean’s Special Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching, and recent nominees for the Drexel University Golden Apple teaching awards (Bohrn)
• Serve on the Editorial Board of the AAEM/Medscape.com Ask the Experts series (Vega)
• Completed the prestigious ACEP/EMF Teaching Fellowship (Benenson, Kramer, Pollack, Rotondo, Rumsey, Schrading, Schirk)
• Completed the prestigious ACEP/EMF Research Fellowship (Benenson, Bledsoe, Pollack)
• Include a past Vice President of the AAEM Resident Student Association (Hall)
• Serve on the Editorial Board for Emergency Medicine Reports (Kramer)
• Serve as current President of the York County Medical Society (Bowman)
• Include the first PALS and APLS: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Resource course director for courses in China (DiPasquale)
• Serve on the Board of Directors for the AAEM Young Physicians Section (Hall)
• Are site directors for the Drexel University Primary Care Practicum Program, one of only two Emergency Medicine sites for this program (Bohrn)
• Are course directors for our Medical Student Summer Externship Program, allowing early exposure to Emergency Medicine and enhancing development of medical students' clinical skills (Hall)
• Serve as the Editor for the AAEM Common Sense newsletter (Vega)
• Serves on the Board of Directors of AAEM (Vega)

Our faculty members are an energetic and talented group.  There are 290 years of experience in clinical teaching among our faculty.  This represents and average of nearly 12 years of clinical experience per faculty member.  Dedication to the residency program and to the education of our residents is evident in this cohesive and committed group.  Please click
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Visiting Professors and Guest Speakers

We are fortunate to be able to attract outstanding speakers in all areas of Emergency Medicine.  Our residents, students, and faculty routinely attend educational conferences by renowned speakers from all over the country. Over the last few years, we have hosted Larry Weiss, MD, JD, FAAEM, President of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM), Tom Scaletta, MD, FAAEM, Immediae Past President of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM), Angela Gardner, MD, FACEP, President of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), and Debra Perina, MD, President of the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) as guest speakers for our program. 

 In addition, two special lectureships have been established which honor the memory of special members of our residency family.  The Catherine Zelko Memorial Lectures, in November of each year, honor Cathy Zelko, one of our program coordinators who died suddenly several years ago.  The Vickrey Memorial Lectures honor Fabien Vickrey, M.D., a 2001 graduate of our program and a Chief Resident, who died following complications from ALS several years ago.  Associated awards for excellence in emergency medicine education have been established along with these lectureships.  In addition, the York Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program Award for Excellence in Emergency Ultrasound was established in 2009.  Below is a list of past award winners:

Vickrey Memorial Award for Excellence in Emergency Medicine Education

• J. Christian Fox, MD, RDMS  (University of California-Irvine) - 2009
• Sheryl Heron, MD  (Emory University) - 2008
• John Burton, MD  (Albany Medical College) - 2007
• Rob Rogers, MD (University of Maryland) - 2006
• Joe Lex, MD  (Temple University) - 2005
• Amal Mattu, MD  (University of Maryland) - 2004

Zelko Memorial Award for Excellence in Emergency Medicine Education

• J. Ward Donovan, MD, FACMT (Penn State University/PinnacleHealth Toxicology Center) - 2009
• Emanuel Rivers, MD  (Henry Ford Medical Center) - 2008
• Stephen Adams, MD (Northwestern University) - 2007
• Robert Fawcett, MD  (York Hospital) - 2006
• Joe Lex, MD  (Temple University) - 2005
• Gregory Henry, MD  (University of Michigan) - 2004

Cohen Honorary Award for Outstanding Contributions to Emergency Medicine Faculty Development

• David Manthey, MD  (Wake Forest University) - 2008

York Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program Excellence in Emergency Ultrasound Award

• J. Christian Fox, MD, RDMS
• Beatrice Hoffmann, MD, RDMS
• Thompson Kehrl, MD
• C. Heather Rumsey, MD