Larry D. Weiss serves as a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Weiss worked for many years at Charity Hospital in New Orleans where he served as the Albert J. Lauro Professor of Medicine at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine. After Hurricane Katrina resulted in the permanent closure of Charity Hospital, he worked in tents in New Orleans until March 2006 when he relocated to Baltimore. In addition to full time clinical and academic responsibilities, Dr. Weiss taught at the L.S.U. School of Law, and worked as in-house counsel for a group of approximately 100 emergency physicians where he actively litigated malpractice cases in defense of emergency physicians. Dr. Weiss previously served as President of the Orleans Parish Medical Society and has a career-long interest in organized medicine and physician advocacy.
Dr. Weiss graduated from Northwestern University and the Hahnemann Medical College. He completed a residency in emergency medicine at Charity Hospital. He then returned to his hometown, Pittsburgh, PA, where he worked as faculty in the emergency medicine residency program at the University of Pittsburgh for eight years. In 1990 he returned to New Orleans where he remained until after Hurricane Katrina.
Dr. Weiss was a founding fellow of the Academy, a founder and President of AAEMLa, the Louisiana chapter of AAEM; a past member of the Legal Committee of AAEM; wrote the AAEM amicus brief in Coleman v. Deno; wrote multiple policies and white papers for AAEM; and has served on the AAEM Board of Directors since 2003.
Born in Harrisburg, PA, raised in the Philadelphia area. Undergraduate education Trinity College, Hartford CT 1986, Medical School Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 1990. Residency in Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 1993. Faculty Appointment at Medical College of Pennsylvania (and its various incarnations) from 1993 to 1999, then at Wake Forest University School of Medicine from 1999 to present. Professional activities include Assistant Residency Director at both MCP and Wake Forest, Chair of the AAEM Education Committee since 1997 and service as a member of the Board of Directors of AAEM beginning in the year 2000. Married with two children, ages 4 and 7.
Secretary-Treasurer
William T. Durkin, MD MBA FAAEM wtdjmd@pol.net
Tom Scaletta, MD FAAEM, attended the University of Illinois Medical School and completed his EM residency at Northwestern in 1991. He currently chairs the ED at Edward Hospital in Naperville, IL. Formerly, Dr. Scaletta was the ED Director of QI at San Francisco General Hospital and Associate Director of Adult Emergency Services at Cook County Hospital. Dr. Scaletta is an Assistant Professor of EM at Cook County Hospital/Rush University.
Dr. Scaletta is currently the President of Emergency Excellence (www.emergencyexcellence.com), a company he co-founded in 2008 that is dedicated to emergency medicine performance improvement and the recognition of EM Centers of Excellence.
Dr. Scaletta's clinical practice has centered on ED administration spanning academic and community settings – from urban, county hospitals to high-volume community emergency departments. Dr. Scaletta authored Emergent Management of Trauma (McGraw-Hill, 2001) and Bioterrorism On Hand (McGraw-Hill, 2003). He is managing editor for eMedicine.com (trauma/orthopedics section). Dr. Scaletta has written several textbook chapters on workplace violence prevention.
Dr. Scaletta's commitment to AAEM was galvanized in the early 1990s after he was threatened with a defamation lawsuit for exposing a local program director that financially exploited residents by pressuring them to work alone at night in privately contracted EDs. Dr. Scaletta soon found that AAEM was the only professional organization willing to assist in his defense and stand-up against unfair business practices.
Dr. Scaletta has since served as chairperson of AAEM's Academic Affairs Committee and Treasurer of the AAEM-PAC. He was elected to the Board of Directors in 2000 and become an officer in 2002. He was AAEM’s President from 2006-2008. Dr. Scaletta is the editor of Rules of the Road for EM Residents and Graduates, published by AAEM. His former column for Common Sense, "Rules of the Road Q&A," featured twenty-seven provocative articles applicable to practicing EPs.
Dr. Scaletta founded the first EM group in the country to meet AAEM's Certificate of Compliance regarding Fairness in the Workplace. Dr. Scaletta currently serves as co-Director of AAEM Services and regularly counsels members that have concerns regarding their employment situations and questions about independent group development.
Dr. Scaletta lives in the suburbs of Chicago and enjoys spending time with his family, playing tennis, and practicing EM.
Past Presidents Council Representative
Joseph P. Wood, MD JD FAAEM soxdoc6@yahoo.com
Dr. Wood is currently practicing emergency medicine full time at the Mayo Clinic hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona. Prior to that he worked for 14 years in a busy community hospital and 7 years in a level-1 trauma center/teaching hospital, both in the Chicago area. In addition to receiving an MD from the University of Illinois, he earned a law degree from the University of Chicago. He lectures nationally and internationally on diagnostic ultrasound and medical-legal issues. His other clinical interest is sports medicine (he served as one of the team physicians for the Chicago White Sox while practicing in Chicago). He is a founding fellow of the Academy. He was elected to the Board of Directors in 1997 and was elected Vice-President in 1999.
Andy Mayer is a 1986 graduate of the LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans. He completed an internship in internal medicine at Emory University before retuning to his native New Orleans to enter the LSU/Charity Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency. He completed this residency as a chief resident in 1990.
He joined the West Jefferson Emergency Physicians Group in the suburban New Orleans area after residency. He has been a partner in this democratic single hospital group since that time. This group has been very active in AAEM particularly at the state level. Dr. Mayer has been in the full time practice of clinical emergency medicine since 1990.
Dr. Mayer has been active in the Louisiana Chapter of AAEM since it’s founding. He has served as treasurer, vice-president and president. He is currently the Immediate Past-President.
He is pleased to be involved in resident education again as LSU and Tulane now sends many types of residents including emergency medicine residents to West Jefferson Medical Center since the closing of Charity Hospital due to Hurricane Katrina.
Interests outside of medicine include travel, fishing, history and most recently home remodeling since Katrina came to New Orleans. He is married and has three children and resides in New Orleans.
Lisa Mills, MD FAAEM, completed her Emergency Medicine residency training at the University of Texas Southwestern/Parkland Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She then completed an Ultrasound Fellowship at Louisiana State University in New Orleans. Dr. Mills stayed at LSU in New Orleans to build the Emergency Medicine Ultrasound program and to develop bedside ultrasound throughout the hospital. Her career also includes experience in a variety of private practice settings.
Dr. Mills has been active with AAEM since residency. She served a 3 year term on the Board of Directors for the Louisiana State Chapter of AAEM. She is currently the Chair of the AAEM Women’s Interest Group.
Dr. Mills’ research interests include diagnostic ultrasonography and stress disorders. Her advocacy aims include physician wellness and physician representation in the business of the practice of Emergency Medicine. She is particularly interested in establishing gender equality in Emergency Medicine.
Mark Reiter, MD MBA is the Director of Medical Student Education at the St. Luke’s Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency in Bethlehem, PA. Dr. Reiter graduated magna cum laude from Rutgers College where he also served as Class President. He enrolled in an accelerated BA/MD program with UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where he was elected to the AOA Honor Society and served as President of the New Jersey Medical Student Association. During this time, he also earned an MBA from the Rutgers Business School. Dr. Reiter completed his emergency medicine residency at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Dr. Reiter is the CEO of Emergency Excellence (www.emergencyexcellence.com), a company dedicated to emergency medicine performance improvement.
Dr. Reiter has been very active in organized medicine outside of emergency medicine, serving many roles within different organizations, such as on the Council on Legislation for the American Medical Association and the Board of Trustees for the Medical Society of New Jersey. He has been awarded Resident of the Year by AAEM, Medical Student of the Year by NJ-ACEP, and Excellence in Emergency Medicine by SAEM.
An AAEM member since 2001, Dr. Reiter has served on the AAEM Board of Directors since 2005. He also serves on the AAEM Services Board of Directors, and is a past President of AAEM/RSA. On the AAEM Board, Dr. Reiter has focused on issues such as the corporate practice of medicine, threats to ABEM/AOBEM board certification, healthcare policy, improving the financial strength of AAEM, and building relationships with other organizations.
Dr. Reiter is married to Dr. Christina Reiter, an anesthesiologist. They have two young girls, Jenna and Cara.
Indrani A. Sheridan, MD FAAEM, is currently Director of International Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida Gainesville. She is active in promoting Emergency Medicine in many countries through conferences, workshops, curriculum development and technical support.
Dr Sheridan went to medical school in Ireland and did her internship at Albany Medical College in New York. She completed EM Residency in Jacksonville, Florida. Her clinical practice has spanned both academics and community medicine. From 2000 to 2004 she worked in both urban and rural settings as an independent contractor within a large democratic group, then subsequently joined academics because of her interest in education and International Emergency Medicine. She has served as Assistant Residency Director and given multiple lectures both nationally and internationally on topics ranging from cultural competency to delivering bad news, child abuse, sexual assault, eye trauma, diving medicine, international curriculum development and many others.
She is currently chair of the ACCME subcommittee for AAEM, has been an examiner for the Oral Boards Course and served on the Education committee including during the last four international conferences in which AAEM played a major role: Spain, France, Argentina and Italy.
Dr Sheridan is interested in fostering the highest caliber of knowledge acquisition and dispersal to all emergency physicians, and helping to ensure that high quality emergency care is available to every patient regardless of the setting: urban, rural, developed or developing nation. She is committed to representing the AAEM membership in shaping the future of the organization and the specialty, based on their needs, and the realities of practice in an increasingly demanding environment.
Andy Walker graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 1981 with a B.A. in Biology, magna cum laude. In 1985 he received the M.D., cum laude, from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis where he was also elected to membership in Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Shands-Jacksonville Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida in 1988. There he was lucky enough to train under such notable emergency physicians as Ann Harwood-Nuss and Bob Luten.
After working for two large contract management groups, Dr. Walker was hired by Paul Auerbach at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and returned to Tennessee to help launch the state’s first residency program in Emergency Medicine. During his nearly eight years at Vanderbilt, three classes of Emergency Medicine residents graduated, and two of these three voted to give Dr. Walker the coveted Cory Slovis Award, which is given annually by the graduating residents for excellence in bedside teaching.
In 1999 Dr. Walker left academic medicine and joined Cumberland Emergency Physicians, P.C., a one-hospital democratic group in Nashville. He remains there today, where he serves as chairman of his hospital’s Peer Review/Quality Assurance Committee. He is a Founding Fellow of AAEM and was instrumental in forming the Tennessee chapter of AAEM (TNAAEM). After the Tennessee Supreme Court outlawed restrictive covenants in physician employment contracts in 2005, he helped lead the effort the following year that defeated a legislative attempt to restore them. In fact that attempt would have been successful if not for AAEM and TNAAEM.
Dr. Walker lives with his wife Sherry in Nashville. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, tennis, science fiction, travel, history and libertarian political philosophy.
Dr. Williams is a founding fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. She has served on several AAEM committees throughout the years including, but not limited to, the Education Committee. She has served as Secretary-Treasurer for the California Chapter of AAEM and continues to serve on its Board of Directors. Dr. Williams also serves on the Editorial Board for the AAEM Section of MedScape. She has served as the Trauma Track Chair for MEMC IV and is currently serving in that capacity for MEMC V.
Dr. Williams is the Chair of the Emergency Medicine Committee of International Trauma Care, formerly the International Trauma, Anesthesia and Critical Care Society. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science as well as a Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. As the Immediate Past Chair of the Emergency Medicine Section of the National Medical Association (NMA) she has been commissioned to serve on the House of Delegates of the NMA.
Dr. Williams completed her medical education in 1982 at the University of California at Irvine. She did her internship and residency in Emergency Medicine at Martin Luther King, Jr./Charles R. Drew Medical Center from 1982-1985. She was an active part of the faculty of the Emergency Medicine Department from 1989-2007. She served as Assistant Residency Director and was the Residency Director at the time of the unfortunate closure of the program in 2007.
She has also been in the clinical practice of Emergency Medicine since 1984. She is especially concerned about the lack of due process for emergency physicians which she has seen deteriorate through the years.
Dr. Williams is married. Her husband, Robert Lozoya, is a retired Marine and history buff. They reside in Rancho Palos Verdes, California and enjoy family and travel.
David Vega is the Associate Program Director at York Hospital, a community teaching hospital in York, Pennsylvania. He completed his residency training at the York Hospital/Penn State Emergency Medicine Residency Program. He is a graduate of Penn State University College of Medicine.
David served as the founding president of the Young Physicians Section in AAEM after chairing the Young Physicians Section taskforce. After two more years on the YPS Board of Directors, he was elected to serve as YPS Director on the AAEM Board. He also serves as the editor of Common Sense and as series editor for AAEM's Ask the Experts in Emergency Medicine on Medscape. His areas of interest include resident and student education, as well as administrative and legal aspects of emergency medicine.
AAEM/RSA Representative
Michael Ybarra, MD
JEM Editor - Ex-Officio Board Member
Stephen Hayden, MD FAAEM shayden@ucsd.edu
Dr. Stephen Hayden graduated from the accelerated six-year biomedical program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Albany Medical College and was elected to the alpha omega alpha honor medical society. He did a General Surgery internship at the San Diego Naval Hospital, which was followed by a tour of duty as senior flight surgeon for the Naval Strike Warfare Center at the NAS Fallon, Nevada. He additionally served as the medical director for Fallon's High Sierra Search and Rescue helicopter unit. Dr. Hayden then completed an Emergency Medicine residency at the University Hospital in Stony Brook, New York, where he served as chief resident in 1993.
He joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego Department of Emergency Medicine in July 1993, and is board certified in both Emergency Medicine, and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine. He served as Director for the UCSD Emergency Medicine Residency Training Program, is a past president of the Council of Residency Directors for Emergency Medicine (CORD), and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Hayden is a primary editor for the textbook, The Five-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult. He is an item writer for the written certification examination of the American Board of Emergency Medicine as well as an oral examiner. He was the 1996 recipient of the EMRA scholarship for the ACEP/Emergency Medicine Foundation Teaching Fellowship, 1999 ACEP National Faculty Teaching Award, 2002 UCSD Golden Apple Teaching Award, 2005 AAEM Residency Program Director of the Year, and selected in 2006/2007 as one of America's Top Physicians. Areas of research and teaching interest are evidence-based emergency medicine, emergency airway management, and imaging in emergency medicine.
Dr. Hayden is married with three children ages 12, 10, and 8, and enjoys sailing, tennis and will be testing soon for his second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
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President
Vice President
Secretary-Treasurer
Immediate Past President
Past Presidents Council Representative
Kevin Beier, MD FAAEM
Christopher C. Lee, MD MS FAAEM
Andrew P. Mayer, MD FAAEM 
Lisa D. Mills, MD FAAEM
Mark Reiter, MD MBA FAAEM
Indrani A. Sheridan, MD FAAEM 
Andy Walker, MD FAAEM
Joanne Williams, MD FAAEM
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AAEM/RSA Representative
JEM Editor - Ex-Officio Board Member