Drawing upon more than 16 years of experience as a Physician Assistant in emergency department settings, this emergency medicine expert specializes in acute patient stabilization, high-acuity emergency care procedures, emergency department operations, and advanced practice provider oversight. Procedural expertise includes rapid sequence intubation, complex suturing and laceration repair, incision and drainage procedures, foreign body removal, joint dislocation reduction, splint application, joint aspiration, pelvic examinations, LAP band access, and interpretation of EKGs and X-rays. Clinical emergency management experience includes sepsis, STEMI, code stroke response, trauma, arrhythmias, hypertensive emergencies, overdose cases, psychiatric evaluations, gastrointestinal bleeding, and epistaxis management, including simultaneous management of multiple high-acuity emergency department patients.

The expert also has more than 10 years of consulting experience involving emergency department operations, emergency care procedures, APP practice issues, emergency department workflow analysis, and operational process improvement. Leadership responsibilities have included long-standing service as Lead Physician Assistant within an emergency department overseeing more than 15 advanced practice providers, with administrative duties involving provider scheduling, onboarding, procedural education, chart review, corrective instruction, candidate interviews, process improvement initiatives, contract negotiation participation, and operational supervision of APP emergency medicine practice. This expert holds a Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Biology.

Extensive operational, committee, and educational involvement includes development of a fast track and pivot process initiative designed to improve emergency department throughput and reduce patients leaving without being seen through triage-based provider evaluation systems, standardized operational procedures, and real-time implementation oversight. The expert also developed a structured onboarding program for newly graduated emergency department APP providers involving supervised clinical integration, procedural training, and progressive emergency medicine education during the initial stages of practice. Committee participation has included credentialing, peer review, hospitalist and emergency department collaboration, nursing supervision, specialty coordination, and electronic medical record documentation initiatives involving APP practice standards and emergency department operations.

Additional instructional responsibilities include service as a Physician Assistant preceptor for graduate-level physician assistant students and recognition as a Preceptor of the Year award recipient for emergency medicine clinical education. Professional credentials include Physician Assistant-Certified designation through the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants and physician assistant licensure in Illinois, North Carolina, and Florida. Additional certifications include Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support, and Advanced Trauma Life Support.