MEET OUR CORE FACULTY
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Michael Epter, DO, FAAEM
Residency Program Director Vice Chair for Education |
Residency: Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center
Started as Faculty: 2013 Academic Interests: Resident Education, Physician Wellness, Neurology |
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Jeffrey Stowell, MD
Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine - University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine - Creighton University School of Medicine |
Medical school: University of Arizona
Residency: The University of Texas at Houston Fellowship: Denver Health Ultrasound Fellowship Started as Faculty: 2015 Academic Interests: Ultrasound, Critical Care and Resuscitation, Resident Education |
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Amrita Vempati, MD
Attending Physician Associate Residency Program Director |
Medical School: Wayne State University School of Medicine
Residency: St. John Hospital and Medical Center Started as faculty: 2018 Academic Interests: Medical education, Simulation |
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Aneesh Narang, MD
Attending Physician Associate Residency Program Director for Banner-affiliated Hospitals |
Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Residency: Boston University Medical Center Academic Interests: Simulation, student education, residency curriculum development, difficult airway management |
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Geoff Comp, DO, FAWM
Attending Physician Associate Residency Program Director |
Medical school: Kansas City University Medical College of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: Doctors Hospital/Ohio Health Started as Faculty: 2019 Academic Interests: Wilderness Medicine |
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Patricia Bayless, MD, FACEP
Attending Physician Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix |
Residency: Texas Tech University/El Paso
Started as Faculty: 1986 Academic Interests: Biomedical Ethics, Medical Practice Management, Medical Informatics Personal Statement: Simple things are simple and don't assume |
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David Bell, MD, PhD
Attending Physician Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix |
Residency: Maricopa Medical Center
Academic Interests: Board preparation, medical ethics Personal Statement: What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June? |
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Paul Blackburn, DO, FACOEP, FACEP
Attending Physician Former Residency Program Director Clinical Associate Professor, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix |
Residency: Internship Tulsa Regional Medical Center 1983-1984
Emergency Medicine: Michigan State University/Lansing 1989-1992 Started as Faculty: 1992 Academic Interests: Ophthalmology, Medical Education |
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Levi Filler, DO
Attending Physician Associate Director, Emergency Ultrasound Division Clinical Assistant professor, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix Clinical Assistant professor, Creighton University |
Medical School: Midwestern University, Arizona
Residency: Maricopa Medical Center Started as Faculty: 2018 Fellowship: Emergency Ultrasound, Valleywise Health Academic interests: Emergency Ultrasound, curriculum development |
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Kara Iskyan Geren, MD, MPH
Attending Physician Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix |
Residency: Allegheny General Hospital Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine
Started as Faculty: 2010 Academic Interests: Advocacy, Public Health |
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Bruce Horwood, MD, FACEP
Attending Physician Prehospital Medical Director Associate Trauma Director |
Residency: Maricopa Medical Center
Started as Faculty: 1993 Academic Interests: EMS, Trauma, Airway Management |
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Carl Mitchell, MD
Attending Physician Director, Emergency Ultrasound Division Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix |
Residency: Kern Medical Center
Started as Faculty: 2014 Fellowship: Emergency Ultrasound, Maricopa Medical Center Academic Interests: Emergency Ultrasound, Regional Anesthesia, Medical Informatics, Medical Education Personal Statement: If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. |
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Jack Palmer, MD
Attending Physician |
Medical School: Suny Upstate Medical University
Residency: University of Cincinnati Emergency Medicine (2013) Started as Faculty: 2020 Academic Interests: Teaching/education, Leadership, Operations/ Administration |
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Paul Pugsley, MD
Attending Physician Clinical Instructor, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix |
Medical School: Albany Medical College
Residency: Maricopa Medical Center Started as Faculty: 2019 Fellowship: Valleywise Health-Mayo Clinic Admin Fellowship Academic Interests: Emergency Department and Hospital Operations, Quality Improvement, Healthcare Economics, Stroke Management, Arrhythmia Management |
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Shirley Shao, MD
Attending Physician |
Medical School: SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Residency: University of Pittsburgh Started as Faculty: 2020 Fellowship: Toxicology, University of Pittsburgh Academic Interests: Emergency Department and Hospital Operations, Quality Improvement, Healthcare Economics, Stroke Management, Arrhythmia Management |
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Dan Quan, DO, FAAEM
Director of Research Director, Medical Toxicology Consultation Service Clinical Associate Professor, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix Attending Physician |
Residency: Provident Hospital of Cook County, Chicago
Fellowship: Medical Toxicology, Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ Started as Faculty: 2008 Academic Interests: Toxicology |
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Thomas Whiting, DO
Clerkship Director Attending Physician |
Residency: Creighton/Maricopa Emergency Medicine
Fellowship: Ultrasound, Creighton/Maricopa Emergency Medicine Started as Faculty: 2020 Academic Interests: Ultrasound, Medical Education |
PART TIME FACULTY
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Murtaza Akhter, MD
Attending Physician Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix |
Medical school: Northwestern University Feinberg SOM
Residency: Grady, Emory University School of Medicine Fellowship: Neurologic Emergencies, MGH/Harvard Started as faculty: 2015 Academic Interests: Neurologic Emergencies and Research Personal Interests: Conan O'Brien, Basketball, Theatre/Plays, Eating Outdoors, and Cutie Pies |
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Thomas L. Bostwick, MD, FACEP, AMO, CAPT, USPHS (retired)
Attending Physician Director, Advanced Practice Provider Program Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix |
Residency: Maricopa Medical Center
Started as Faculty: 1997 Academic Interests: Aviation/Ship Medicine, MIlitary Medicine, Orthopedics, Clinical Education, EMS Personal Statement: "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unaware" |
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Brad Butler, MD
Attending Physician Clinical Associate Professor, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix |
Residency: Maricopa Medical Center
Started as Faculty: 1998 Academic Interests: Military medicine, analgesia & sedation, rural medicine, organizational medicine Personal Interests: Family, Fitness, Commander in US Navy Reserve |
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Daniel Brooks, MD
Attending Physician Medical Director, Banner University Medical Center – Phoenix, Poison Center |
Residency: University of Pittsburgh
Fellowship: Medical Toxicology, Banner University Medical Center – Phoenix |
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Patrick Connell, MD, FACEP
Attending Physician |
Medical school: University of Arizona College of Medicine, MD, 1974
Residency: University of Arizona Health Sciences Center Academic interests: global medicine, HIV, parasitic diseases Hobbies: fly small planes, classical piano Dr. Connell works in Central America 8 months per year doing emergency medicine, teaching, & working to build a new hospital. |
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Chris Crowe, MD
Attending Physician |
Medical school: University of Arizona College of Medicine
Residency: Maricopa Medical Center class of 2014 Academic interests: CPR quality, Resuscitation |
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Tim Davie, MD
Attending Physician |
Medical School: UCSD
Residency: Maricopa Medical Center, class of 2015 Started as faculty: 2015 Academic interests: Cognitive heuristics, risk management, efficiency |
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Jason Grimsman, DO
Attending Physician |
Medical school: Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ
Residency: Emergency Medicine, Baystate Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine Fellowship: Emergency Ultrasound, Maricopa Medical Center Started as Faculty: 2014 Academic Interests: Ultrasounding all of the things, teaching the next generation of EM docs to be better than me Personal Interests: Saving the world from itself through medicine, sarcasm, and a bit of luck |
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Kenneth C. Jackimczyk, MD, FACEP
Attending Physician Professor, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix Former Residency Program Director |
Residency: Denver Colorado
Started as Faculty: 1983 Academic Interests: EMS, Trauma, Faculty Development Personal statement: The path to clinical excellence is a journey not a sprint. Read everyday about the patients you see. |
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Frank LoVecchio, DO, FACEP
Attending Physician Associate Medical Director, Samaritan Regional Poison Control Center Professor, Research Scholar Track, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix |
Residency: Mount Sinai School of Medicine Integrated Program in Emergency Medicine
Fellowship: Medical Toxicology and Medical Forensics Started as Faculty: 1996 Academic Interests: Infectious Disease, Toxicology, Outcomes Research Personal Statement: Have fun and learn |
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Pedro Roque, MD
Attending Physician |
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Residency: Maricopa Medical Center (2014 Academic interests: Quality improvement, ultrasound |
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Tim Ryan, DO
Attending Physician Full-time clinical faculty at Abrazo Central (formerly Phoenix Baptist Hospital); former Chief of Staff |
Medical School: Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA
Residency: Mercy St. Vincent ED Residency, Toledo, OH Started as faculty: 2014 Academic interests: Sepsis, stroke care, and resident education post residency. Personal interests: Notre Dame football, fishing, traveling, golf, and spending time with family. |
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Jesse Shriki, DO
Attending Physician |
Residency: Maricopa Medical Center
Academic interests: Ultrasound, toxicology, pediatrics, medical literature & statistics |
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Alexander Toledo, DO, PharmD, FAAEM, FAAP
Attending Physician Chief, Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Child Health Medical Director, Pediatric Emergency Department, Arizona Children's Center at Maricopa Medical Center Assistant Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Child Health |
Residency: Morristown Memorial Hospital, Mount Sinai College of Medicine, Morristown NJ
Fellowship: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston TX Started as Faculty: 2014 Academic Interests: Pediatric Emergentology, Pediatric Pharmacology, Forensic Pharmacokinetics |
