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Biographies of
Committee Members
DONALD N. MEDEARIS, ,IR., M.D. (Chairman), is Charles Wilder
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and Chief of the Children's
Service at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He serves on the
Division of Medical Ethics Steering Committee at Harvard Medical School
and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Ameri-
can Medical School Pediatric Department Chairmen. He served as Dean of
the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and as Director of the
Department of Pediatrics at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital. He
also served on the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Prob-
lems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. Elected to the
Institute of Medicine in 1983, Dr. Medearis has served on several IOM
studies, most recently on the Committee on the Effects of Medical Liability
on Maternal and Child Health Care.
RICHARD B. DONKER, Ed.D., has spent the past 15 years in a vari-
ety of executive positions with Memorial Hospitals Association (MHA),
Modesto, California. From 1988 to 1992, he was Vice President of Clinical
Services. Previous activities include development of one of the first heli-
copter ambulance services in the United States, of an early Preferred Pro-
vider Organization, and of a nascent "fast track" emergency department.
Prior to his employment with MHA, he was one of the first paramedics in
Northern California. Dr. Donker is a frequent consultant, lecturer, and
author on topics of EMS and EMS systems and health care planning. In
1992, he left health care to become the Managing Director of Global Busi
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ness Network, an international think tank and strategic planning consulting
firm based in Emeryville, California.
MARTIN R. EICHELBERGER, M.D., is Director of Emergency Trauma
Services and Attending Surgeon at Children's National Medical Center in
Washington' D.C. He is Professor of Surgery and of Pediatrics at George
Washington University School of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Sur-
gery at F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services Univer-
sity of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland. He is also a member of
the National Advisory Council for Injury Control for the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention and a member of the American College of
Surgeons' National Committee on Trauma. Dr. Eichelberger also serves as
President of the National SAFE KIDS campaign, a nationwide voluntary
effort to develop injury prevention programs.
J. ALEX HAILER, JR., M.D., retired in 1992 as the Children's Sur-
geon-in-Charge at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Robert Garrett Pro-
fessor of Pediatric Surgery at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
He is now Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Emergency Medicine, and Pediat-
rics at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as Profes-
sor of Surgery and Pediatric Surgery at The University of Maryland School
of Medicine. Dr. Hailer is also Associate Medical Director for Emergency
Medical Services for Children in the Maryland Institute of Emergency Medical
Services Systems. Dr. Haller serves on the Committee on Pediatric Emer-
gency Medicine of the American Academy of Pediatrics, is a Fellow of the
Surgical Section of the AAP, and is a Senior Member of the Committee on
Trauma of the American College of Surgeons.
ROBERT L. BARMAN is Administrator of Grant Memorial Hospital
in Petersburg, West Virginia, where he has served since 1965. He sits on
the Board of Trustees of the West Virginia Hospital Association and the
West Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation. He was a member
of the Advisory Committee on "Strategic Options for Rural Hospitals Under
50 Beds" funded by the Pew Foundation for the Hospital Research and
Educational Trust of the American Hospital Association. He also serves on
the National Advisory Committee to the Office of Rural Health Policy,
Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C.; the Advisory
Committee for the EACH/PCH Program, Office of Rural Health, Charles-
ton, West Virginia; and the Region Policy Board of the American Hospital
.
Association.
EDGAR B. JACKSON, JR., M.D., is Clinical Professor of Medicine
at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio,
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and Associate Chief of Staff for the University Hospitals of Cleveland. Dr.
Jackson presently serves on the National Advisory Committee of the Pro-
gram to Strengthen Hospital Nursing for Improved Patient Care under the
aegis of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Pew Charitable Trust
and is also on the American College of Physicians Committee on Under-
represented Minorities. Dr. Jackson was elected as a member of the Insti-
tute of Medicine in 1991.
MARILYN A. KRUEGER is a County Commissioner in St. Louis
County, Minnesota. She is the immediate past president of the Association
of Minnesota Counties. Ms. Krueger currently chairs the Health Policy
Steering Committee for the National Association of Counties and serves as
a member of the Regional Coordination Board for Minnesota Care. Minne-
sota Care, created by state legislation passed in 1992, is intended to provide
health care for all Minnesota residents.
JENNIFER LEANING, M.D., is Medical Director, Health Centers Di-
vision, of the Harvard Community Health Plan. She is an Instructor in
Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Instructor in Health and Social Be-
havior at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Attending Emergency
Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Leaning is on the Board
of Directors of Physicians for Human Rights and Physicians for Social
Responsibility and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Metro
Boston National Disaster Medical System.
SUSAN D. McHENRY is Director of the Office of Emergency Medical
Services for the Virginia Department of Health and is responsible for the
coordination and direction of the statewide emergency medical services pro-
gram. She is a member and past president of the National Association of
State Emergency Medical Services Directors and a founding member of the
American Trauma Society. She is also a member of the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration's National Faculty for the Development of
Trauma Systems Training Course and a member of the Acute Care Trauma
Systems Panel for the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
PATRICIA A. MURRIN, R.N., M.P.H., is Prehospital/Trauma Coordi-
nator for the County of San Diego Department of Health Services, Division
of Emergency Medical Services. Before accepting her position with the
County in 1982, Ms. Murrin worked as a critical care/emergency nurse.
She is a member of the California Emergency and Critical Care Coalition
and serves on its steering committee. Ms. Murrin also serves on six of the
ten committees of the California EMS-C targeted issues project, chairing
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both the Prevention and Information Management Systems Committees. She
is President of the Emergency Medical Services Administrators' Associa-
tion of California and serves on Emergency Medical Advisory Boards of
several community colleges in the area.
JAMES Le PATURAS, EMTP, has been Director' Emergency Medical
Services, at Bridgeport Hospital in Connecticut since 1981. Previously, he
was the Director of Prehospital Care Services for St. Luke 's-Roosevelt Hos-
pital Center in New York City. He served two terms as president of the
National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians and was chairman
of the Board of Trustees for the NAEMT Foundation. Mr. Paturas is a
contributor to the American Heart Association's "1992 Guidelines for Car-
diopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiac Care" and chairs the
ACLS/PALS Committee in Connecticut. He serves as a member of the
Board of Directors for the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Ser-
vices. He has recently been appointed to the State of Connecticut's EMS
Advisory Board Executive Committee and the Trauma Advisory Committee
and chairs the EMS Public Information and Education Committee for the
Department of Health.
BARRY G. RABE, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Health Politics in
the Department of Public Health Policy and Administration in the School of
Public Health at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also an
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the
University. Dr. Rabe worked as a Staff Associate in the Governmental
Studies Program at the Brookings Institution from 1984 to 1987. He is
presently serving on the University of Michigan Provost's Task Force on
Environmental Studies and the North American Environmental Assessment
Panel. He has written extensively in the area of intergovernmental relations
and health policy.
DONALD F. SCHWARZ, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., is Assistant Profes-
sor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
Director of the Adolescent Clinic at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia,
and Principal Coordinator of the Philadelphia Injury Prevention Program.
,IAMES S. SEIDEL, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Pediatrics at the
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine and Chief of
General and Emergency Pediatrics at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He is
the past chair of the American Heart Association Subcommittee on Pediatric
Resuscitation and one of the authors and developers of the Pediatric Ad-
vanced Life Support Course. For many years he was a member of the
American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine
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and helped develop the Advanced Pediatric Life Support Course, which is
co-sponsored by the AAP and the American College of Emergency Physi-
cians. He is presently Co-Director of the National Emergency Medical
Services Resource Alliance, a federally funded national center developed to
help municipalities, states, and regions improve their capacity to deliver
emergency services to children.
CALVIN C.~. SIA, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the
School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, and maintains a full-time private
practice in pediatrics. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Kapiolani
Children's Medical Center and is chairman of the Interagency School Health
Planning Group for the Department of Health and Department of Education
for the state of Hawaii. He is a member of the American Academy of
Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine, delegate for the
AAP in the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association, and
chair of the AMA's Section Council on Pediatrics. He initiated a variety of
comprehensive health services programs for children and families in Hawaii
and was instrumental in the passage of federal legislation authorizing the
Emergency Medical Services for Children Demonstration Grant Program.
RUTH E.K. STEIN, M.D., is Professor and Vice Chairman in the De-
partment of Pediatrics and Director of the Division of General Pediatrics at
the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. She is also
Pediatrician-in-Chief at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, where she
has worked for 20 years in a busy urban emergency department of a level I
trauma center. She is a clinician, administrator, teacher, and researcher in
the area of health care delivery and has developed a number of multidisciplinary
programs to improve health care services for children. Her work has fo-
cused especially on issues related to the care of children who have serious
ongoing health conditions. She is Principal Investigator of the Preventive
Intervention Research Center for Child Health at the Albert Einstein Col-
lege of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, funded in large part by the
National Institute of Mental Health. She has served as president of the
Ambulatory Pediatric Association and has been an active advocate for im-
provements in child health services.
GARY R. STRANGE, M.D., is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
and Director of the Program in Emergency Medicine at the University of
Illinois in Chicago. He is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency
Physicians, where he has served as Chairman of the Pediatric Emergency
Medicine Committee and Chairman of the Section on Pediatric Emergency
Medicine. He represented the ACEP at the Interspecialty Conference on
Pediatric Emergency Care, the Cross-National Conference on Child Health,
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and was active in the planning and authorship of the Advanced Pediatric
Life Support Course. He is currently working with the ACEP and McGraw
Hill Publishing Company to plan a Study Guide in Pediatric Emergency
Medicine. He has been active in the prehospital field through the develop-
ment and direction of paramedic, emergency medical technician, and mo-
hile intensive care nurse courses for the U-S. Army.
JOSEPH J. TEPAS III, M.D., is Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at
the University of Florida College of Medicine. He is director of surgical
training at the University of Florida Health Science Center, Jacksonville,
and was principal investigator for Florida's EMS-C federal demonstration
project. Dr. Tepas' major research efforts have focused on care of the
injured child and have resulted in his appointment to numerous national
committees. He is currently Chairman of the Committee on Trauma of the
American Pediatric Surgical Association and is a member of the Committee
on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons.
JOSEPH A. WEINBERG, M.D., is Director of Emergency Services at
Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee, and Associate
Professor in the Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Uni-
versity of Tennessee, Memphis. He chairs the Committee on Pediatric Emergency
Medicine of the American Academy of Pediatrics and represented the AAP
on the American Medical Association's Commission on Emergency Medical
Services until the Commission's charter expired in 1989. He also served on
the Steering Committee of the AAP's Section of Emergency Medicine and
was Chairman of the Tennessee Chapter's EMS-C Committee. He is the
pediatric consultant for trauma center designation for the State of Tennessee
and serves on many local and state organizations related to emergency ser-
vices and education.
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