Charlotte AHEC

Andrew W. Asimos, MD

Andrew Asimos, MD is a board certified Emergency Medicine physician and the Director of Emergency Stroke Care at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Asimos has received research funding from the Emergency Medicine Foundation, the Foundation for Education and Research in Neurologic Emergencies, and Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation for his research in neurological emergencies. Dr. Asimos is an appointed member of North Carolina's State Stroke Advisory Committee, and the American Stroke Association Stroke Council's Emergency Neurovascular Care Committee. Dr. Asimos lectures extensively on the acute management of stroke, TIA, and other neurological emergencies.

Stephen Colucciello, MD, FACEP

Stephen Colucciello, MD, FACEP, joined the Carolinas Medical Center faculty in 1992, after working for many years in large county hospitals in south Florida. He trained in Emergency Medicine at the Columbia University Affiliated Hospitals.

Dr. Colucciello has a strong interest in emergency medicine education, and speaks frequently at national and international meetings on such topics as ED violence, trauma management, and cardiovascular emergencies. In 1992, he was elected ACEP's National Speaker of the Year. He is an assistant chair, the director of Clinical Services, and Trauma Coordinator for the Emergency Medicine Department at Carolinas Medical Center. His research pursuits at CMC include cardiovascular emergencies and trauma management. He is an editor of a textbook on trauma and past editor-in-chief of the emergency medicine journal, “EM Practice."

Randy Cordle, MD

Randy Cordle, MD completed his undergraduate work at The Ohio State University in 1988 and completed medical school at the University of Cincinnati in 1992. Following graduation, Dr. Cordle completed a combined residency in Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine through Methodist Hospital and Indiana University. He has since served on numerous local, state and national committees dealing with all aspects of pediatric emergency care. He also served as the President of the Idaho Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Dr. Cordle's major interests are the expansion and improvement of pediatric emergency care with an emphasis on the critical role played by preventative health initiatives and the continuity of the child's primary care home. He has special interest in child maltreatment, resuscitation, sedation and analgesia as well as educational methods and post-residency continuing education. He has written and lectured on numerous topics in Emergency Medicine with a special focus on pediatric emergency care. He serves as the Medical Director of the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine as well as the Program Director for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship.

Sean M. Fox, MD

Sean Fox, MD completed a residency in Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Maryland after completing medical school at the University of Maryland. He received a bachelor of science degree at Loyola University. Dr. Fox is a member of numerous organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the American Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. He wrote the EMRA, Emergency Medicine Pediatrics column from 2006 to 2008 and was the resident representative to the Board of Directors for the Maryland Chapter for the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Fox will be helping to develop a medical student Pediatric Emergency Medicine program at Levine Children's Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

Jeremiah Johnson, MD

Jeremiah Johnson, MD is a 2nd year pediatric emergency medicine fellow at Carolinas Medical Center. He is a member of the American college of Emergency Medicine and board certified by the American board of Emergency Medicine. He completed medical school at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, internship at Tripler Army Medical Center and emergency medicine residency at Madigan Army Medical Center. As an active duty Army physician, he has been stationed in Korea, Hawaii, Washington, and New York and he deployed to Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. His research and teaching interests include pediatric radiology and management of pediatric cardiac arrhythmias.

Jeff Kline, MD

Jeff Kline, MD received his medical doctorate from the Medical College of Virginia in 1990. He completed residency training in emergency medicine at the Carolinas Medical Center in 1993 and then a research fellowship in 1994. Dr. Kline’s research fellowship and early research career focused on cardiac contractility and energy metabolism in shock states.

This interest led Dr. Kline to focus on cardiopulmonary stress induced by severe pulmonary embolism. He developed and published a rat model of pulmonary embolism and subsequently began clinical studies using breath-based methods to diagnose and assess the severity of pulmonary embolism in humans. His research interest has expanded to include the development of breath-based devices to diagnose PE and computerized devices to predict pretest probability. He has written 16 US patents for novel medical devices. To help translate these ideas into practice, he cofounded BreathQuant Medical Systems Inc, a privately held medical device company, currently supported by substantial venture capital funding.

Over the past 7 years, he has published over 75 original manuscripts as first or senior author in the area of pulmonary embolism, and has trained 9 research fellows, all of whom hold faculty positions in emergency medicine. In 2004, he was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors at SAEM, followed by 2 years as Secretary-Treasurer, and in 2009, he was elected President Elect. He has received the National research awards given by ACEP and SAEM. He is or has been PI on three NIH/NHLBI-sponsored grants, including an R01, an R42 and a Fast-track R41/R42; he is the mentor on two NIH-funded K23 grants to two former research fellows, and has received funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to serve as mentor for a Medical Student Research Fellowship. He resides in Charlotte NC, with his wife Judy, and two children, Hannah (14) and Paul (11).

Emily MacNeill, MD

Emily MacNeill, MD completed a combined residency in emergency medicine and pediatrics from the Indiana University. She attended medical school at the Indiana University after completing a Bachelor of Science and Biology at Brown University in Rhode Island.

Dr. MacNeill has varied interests in international medicine community outreach and is a member of multiple organizations including the Academy of Emergency Medicine, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the American Academy for Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine Resident's Association. Dr. MacNeill is the Associate Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director and has coordinated the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal Club and Book Club.

David A. Pearson, MD, MS

Dave received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida in 1997 and 1998, respectively. He completed medical school at Vanderbilt University in 2002 and completed an Emergency Medicine residency at the Denver Health Medical Center in 2006. Shortly thereafter, Dave joined the Carolinas Medical Center clinical faculty. His interests include clinical teaching, therapeutic hypothermia, post-resuscitation stabilization, and international medicine.

Stacy Reynolds, MD

Stacy Reynolds, MD completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburg, a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh as well as a Pediatric residency in at the Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She did graduate training at Drexel University in Philadelphia and her undergraduate training was at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

She is a member of multiple organizations including the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Pediatrics, as well as the Society for Critical Care. Dr. Reynolds will be helping to build the research presence within the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine while continuing her personal research interests and interests in teaching and simulations.

Robert W. Schafermeyer, MD, FACEP, FAAP, FIFEM

Robert W. Schafermeyer, MD, FACEP, FAAP, FIFEM has been an Emergency Medicine faculty member since 1981. He served as Residency Program Director from 1982-1991 and as acting chairman from 1989-1991. Dr. Schafermeyer is currently the associate chair for the Department of Emergency Medicine and director of the Division of Education and oversees the Subspecialty Fellowship programs.

Dr. Schafermeyer is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics. He received a certificate of added qualifications in Pediatric Emergency Medicine from ABEM. He was a member and chair of the American Board of Emergency Medicine Subspecialty Exam Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He currently serves as an Oral Board Examiner for ABEM.

Dr. Schafermeyer has a longstanding interest in education and research. He believes that the greatest aspect of a career in academic emergency medicine is fostering the growth and development of the residents, seeing their contributions to the specialty by the graduates of our residency program and their involvement in advocacy efforts on behalf of their patients and their specialty.

Joanna York, MD

Joanna York, MD received her degree from the University of Washington, School of Medicine and completed her residency training in Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in June of 2007 and was Board Certified in Pediatrics in October of 2007; Since July of 2007 Dr. York has been at Carolinas Medical Center and is completing a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship.