The Emergency Medicine patient Safety Foundation (EMPSF) is a national, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that was formed in 2003 to identify and respond to challenges of providing safe, quality health care in the practice of Emergency Medicine.

Meet Our Distinguished Board Of Directors

l-r: Bernard Dannenberg, Board Member 2011, Ramon Johnson, Chairman EMPSF 2011

Board of Directors:

Graham T. Billingham, MD, FACEP, Chairman Emeritus EMPSF, CMO & SR VP Business Development, EPIC, RRG

Robert A. Bitterman, MD, JD, FACEP, President, Bitterman Health Law Consulting Group, Inc

Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD, President, Patient Safety and Health Care Consulting

Bernard W. Dannenberg, MD, FAAP, FACEP, Davies Family Endowed Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Division of Emergency Medicine

Marc Ganz, Esq.,McGrane & Nosich & Ganz, PA

Michael J. Gerardi, MD, FACEP, President, Superior Insurance Company, RRG

Michelle Hoppes, RN, MS, AHRMQR, DFASHRM, Sedgwick, SVP and National Director of Healthcare Risk Management and Patient Safety

Ramon Johnson, MD, FACEP, FAAP, Chairman, EMPSF, Associate Director, Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center, Board Member, American College of Emergency Physicians

John A. Marx, MD, FAAEM, Chair Emeritus, Department of Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill

Dianne Vass, Executive Director, EMPSF

Robert L. Wears, MD, MS, PhD, Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of Florida