Faculty

Dr. Amal Mattu, FAAEM, FACEP, is currently Associate Professor and Program Director in Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.  Since completing emergency medicine residency and a teaching fellowship, Dr. Mattu has rapidly become one of the leading educators in emergency medicine in topics pertaining to emergency cardiology and geriatric emergency medicine.  He has authored or edited four texts pertaining to high-risk emergency medicine and emergency electrocardiography (http://giantsteps-em.com/Textbooks.htm). Additionally, he is the first emergency physician to serve as primary Guest Editor for volumes of Cardiology Clinics and Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, and he is the Consulting Editor for Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America.  Dr. Mattu is a frequent speaker on the national and international CME circuit and has been invited to lecture in more than 10 countries on topics pertaining to emergency cardiology and geriatric emergency medicine.  He has been a featured speaker for Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medicine Reviews and Perspectives (EMRAP).

Dr. Mattu has received more than a dozen teaching awards, including national teaching awards from ACEP and AAEM, and in 2000 he was selected as Teacher of the Year from among the entire faculty of the University of Maryland at Baltimore.  He had the distinction of being named Residency Director of the Year in 2006 by the AAEM Resident and Student Association. In addition, Dr. Mattu had the honor of receiving the 2006 ACEP Rookie Of The Year and Outstanding Speaker Of The Year awards, and in 2007 the Maryland Chapter of ACEP named him the Maryland State Emergency Physician of the Year.

Dr. Ghazala Sharieff, FAAEM, FACEP, FAAP, is currently the Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine for Palomar-Pomerado Health System and California Emergency Physicians.  She also serves as Associate Clinical Professor at Children's  Hospital and Health Center/University of California, San Diego.  She is double boarded in Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency  Medicine.  Dr. Sharieff has published numerous chapters, original research papers and review articles in the field of pediatric emergency medicine.   She worked as assistant editor for the pediatric section of the latest edition of Harwood Nuss’ Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine and has published a QuickGlance handbook on pediatric emergency medicine.  She is active on the editorial boards for the Journal of Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Reports and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice.  She has served as a board member of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and was co-chair of the AAEM Education Committee for five years.

She is currently the Chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Pediatric Committee, which leads the way in directing the acute care of children.  Dr Sharieff has lectured at multiple conferences nationally and internationally and is often featured on Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medicine Reviews And Perspectives (EMRAP). She is well-known for her engaging and enthusiastic teaching style. Dr. Sharieff has won many teaching awards including Best Overall Instructor from the San Diego Naval Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program, The AAEM Young Educator of the Year Award and the ACEP Service to Section Award.

Dr. Joe Lex, FAAEM, has been involved in Emergency Medicine for almost 40 years, initially as an Army medic with the 25th Infantry "Tropic Lightning" Division in Vietnam.  He spent several years as an Emergency Medicine Technician and Certified Emergency Nurse before beginning Medical School at age 35.  After an Emergency Medicine residency, he was a community "pit doc" for 14 years before joining the staff at Temple University in Philadelphia.  He was Chair of Education for the American Academy of Emergency Medicinefor five years.  The AAEM honored him by renaming the Educator of the Year award the "Joe Lex Award."  He has been an invited speaker at more than 180 conferences regionally, nationally, and internationally.  He has been a featured speaker numerous times on Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine, Practical Reviews in Emergency Medicine, and Emergency Medicine Reviews and Perspectives (EMRAP). 

Among his honors are the Vickrey Award for Outstanding Contributions to Emergency Medicine Education from York Hospital, the Excellence in Teaching Award from Temple University Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program, the Outstanding Educator Award from University of Maryland Emergency Medicine Residency Program, the Visiting Professor Award from the Department of Emergency Medicine, Mayo Medical School, the Holt Award for Student Leadership from the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, and the Combat Medic Badge for service in Vietnam.   Dr. Lex serves on the Editorial Board of EMedHome  (www.emedhome.com) and is an Advisory Board Member for the Foundation for Education and Research in Neurological Emergencies  (www.ferne.org).  His extensive involvement in International Education has led to numerous distinctions, including honorary memberships in both Polskie Towarzystwo Medycyny Ratunkowej and Sociedad Argentina de Emergencias.

We're thrilled that our Guest Speaker this year will be
Dr. Billy Mallon.

William K.“Billy” Mallon, FAAEM, FACEP

William K. “Billy” Mallon is one of the best-known names, faces, and voices in Emergency Medicine.  He attended medical school at The University of Massachusetts, and then completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Los Angeles County / University of Southern California Medical Center, where he stayed on faculty and rapidly rose to become residency director.  Since then, he has published dozens of articles and chapters, and was primary editor of the PEER VI Board Review Question and Answer book.  Among his awards and honors, he was selected as “Residency Director of the Decade” at LAC+USC and Outstanding Teacher at USC Medical School.  He received a National Faculty Teaching Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians in 2002, a Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant in Aid, and is a graduate of the Gorgas School of Tropical Medicine in Lima, Peru. 

You’ve heard Billy on any of a number of recorded CME programs, including Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medical Abstracts, and Emergency Medicine Reviews and Perspectives (EMRAP), where he is a regular contributor.  You’ve also seen him at any of several hundred live presentations, regional, national, and international.  If you visit www.CMEDownload.com, you will find the “Mallon page” dedicated solely to many of the numerous talks he has given in recent years. 

He has given talks on five different continents and more than 20 countries, and he never fails to stimulate thought – and sometimes controversy – with his outspoken take on Emergency Medicine education.  We are pleased that Billy has agreed to be our fourth speaker in 2008, and can guarantee everyone an unforgettable experience.