Nels D. Sanddal, M.S., REMT-B, CHAIR
Critical Illness and Trauma Foundation

Nels D. Sanddal, M.S., REMT-B, is the President of Critical Illness and Trauma Foundation and is currently on detachment as the Director of the Rural Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Technical Assistance Center (REMSTTAC). Nels has been involved in EMS since the 1970s and has held many state, regional, and national positions in organizations furthering EMS causes, including president of the Intermountain Regional EMS for Children Coordinating Council and core faculty for the Development of Trauma Systems Training Programs for the U.S. Department of Transportation. Nels is a Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician-Basic, volunteers with a local fire department, and has been involved with the CIT Foundation since its inception. He holds a M.S. in psychology and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in health services.  Nels served as a member of the IOM Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System and member of the Subcommittee on Prehospital EMS.

Ray Bias, R.N., B.S.N., EMT-P
Acadian Ambulace Service

Ray Bias is currently government relations manager for New Orleans for Acadian Ambulance Service.  Mr. Bias is also a registered nurse, paramedic, captain in the Naval Reserve, past chair of the Board of Directors for the National Registry of EMTs, and the only EMT who has served twice as a Board of Directors chair for the NREMT.   Mr. Bias has been on the front line of the medical and rescue efforts after Hurricane Katrina, and provided medical care in the Superdome during the storm.

A. Brent Eastman, M.D.
ScrippsHealth

A. Brent Eastman, M.D., joined Scripps in 1984 as Director of Trauma Services at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, and was appointed Chief Medical Officer in 1998. He continues to serve in the role of Director of Trauma.

Dr. Eastman received his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, where he also did his general surgical residency and served as Chief Surgical Resident. He spent one year abroad in surgical training in England at Norfolk and Norwich Hospitals.

Dr. Eastman served as Chairman of the Committee on Trauma for the American College of Surgeons from 1990-1994. This organization sets the standards for the trauma care in the United States and abroad.  The position has led to his involvement nationally and internationally in the development of trauma systems in the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and South Africa. Dr. Eastman has authored or co-authored more than 25 publications and chapters principally relating to trauma. He has held numerous appointments and chairmanships over the last two decades, including Chairman, Trauma Systems Committee for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Board of Directors, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma; and Chairman, Grant Review Committee, Center for Injury and Prevention and Control at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Dr. Eastman served as a member of the IOM Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System and member of the Subcommittee on Prehospital EMS.

Marianne Gausche-Hill, M.D., F.A.C.E.P.
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Marianne Gausche-Hill, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., F.A.A.P., serves as professor of Clinical medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).  She is the Director of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and EMS Fellowship and Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.  Dr. Gausche-Hill also serves as Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Little Company of Mary Hospital in Torrance, CA.  Board certified in both emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine, she earned her medical degree and completed her residency at UCLA.  Dr. Gausche-Hill is the first emergency physician in the United States to have completed a pediatric emergency fellowship and passed the sub-Board examination.

Dr. Gausche-Hill has done extensive research on prehospital pediatric care, authoring Pediatric Advanced Life Support: pearls of Wisdom in 2001 and Pediatric Airway Management for the Prehospital Professional early in 2004.  Her research and methodology that tracked the results of use of wind-pipe tube method versus the traditional bag-and-pump method as oxygen treatment for pediatric emergencies were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and in Annals of Emergency Medicine.  In May 1999, her worked earned the prestigious “Best Clinical Science presentation” from the Society for Academic Emergency medicine (SAEM).  Dr. Gaushe-Hill served as a member of the IOM Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System and member of the Subcommittee on Pediatric Emergency Care.

Arthur L. Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H.
Emory University School of Medicine           

Dr. Arthur Kellermann is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine, and Director of the Center for Injury Control at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. His primary research focus is injury prevention and injury control. He has also conducted landmark research on prehospital cardiac care, use of diagnostic technology in emergency departments, and health care for the poor. His papers have been published in many of the nation's leading medical journals. He is a recipient of the Hal Jayne Academic Excellence Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the Excellence in Science award from the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section of the American Public Health Association and the Scholar/Teacher Award from Emory University.  A member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Dr. Kellermann served as Co-Chair of the IOM’s Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance from 2001-2004.  Dr. Kellermann served as a member of the IOM Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System and member of the Subcommittee on Prehospital EMS.

Jane F. Knapp, M.D., F.A.A.P., F.A.C.E.P.
Children's Mercy Hospital

Jane F. Knapp, M.D., F.A.A.P., F.A.C.E.P., a native of Kansas City, Missouri, is professor of pediatrics at the Children’s Mercy Hospital University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. She graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine in 1978 and completed a residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Children’s Mercy Hospital.  Dr. Knapp was one of the first two physicians to complete a two year fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine in the United States.  Following her fellowship, Dr. Knapp served as the Director of Emergency Services at Children’s Mercy Hospital for 17 years.  In 2000, Dr. Knapp stepped down as the Director of Emergency Services and became a clinical scholar in pediatric emergency medicine at Children’s Mercy Hospital

Dr. Knapp is a recognized national leader and expert in the emergency care of children. Her past national, state, and local responsibilities include Chair of the Section of Emergency Medicine of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Chair of the Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine of the American Academy of Pediatrics, member and Chair of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Sub board of the American Board of Pediatrics, Chair of the Missouri Injury Control Advisory Committee, member of the Missouri Task Force on Fatal Child Abuse, and President of the Medical Staff of the Children’s Mercy Hospital.

In 1996, she was awarded the Missouri Health Care Communicator of the year award. Dr. Knapp was also the year 2000 recipient of the Citation of Merit, the highest award given by the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine Alumni Association.  In January 2001, Dr. Knapp was recognized through a City Council Resolution by the Mayor and City Council of Kansas City for her devotion to the children of Kansas City. She is also the 2002 recipient of the AAP Pediatric Emergency Medicine Distinguished Service Award.  Dr. Knapp served as a member of the Subcommittee on Pediatric Emergency Care for the IOM study on the Future of Emergency Care.

Brian W. Lindberg, M.B.A.
Consumer Coalition for Quality Health Care

Mr. Lindberg has served as the Executive Director of the Consumer Coalition for Quality Health Care since 1993.  The Coalition is a national, non-profit membership organization comprised of a diverse group of health care and consumer organizations representing more than 30 million Americans.  The Coalition advocates for programs and policies that address the critical need for a health care system that provides meaningful choices and information, consumer participation, grievance and appeals rights, consumer advocacy, and independent quality oversight and improvement. Mr. Lindberg also serves the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) and the National Association of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs (NASOP) as their Public Policy Consultant. 

Mr. Lindberg served on the Planning Committee for the National Quality Forum, currently serves as the Chair of its Consumer Council and as a member of its Board of Directors. He represents consumer viewpoints on Citizens for Long-Term Care, Americans for Long Term Care Security, and the consumer advisory panels of the Joint Commission, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance.  He recently completed four years as a member of the CMS Advisory Panel on Medicare Education, and has served as a Funded Consumer Representative on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. 

Mr. Lindberg worked in Congress for 10 years on the House Select Committee on Aging and the Senate Special Committee on Aging.  He holds a Bachelor of Social Work degree from Temple University, a Master’s degree in Management of Human Services from Brandeis University, and studied social and health care policy at the University of Stockholm’s International Graduate School.

Ricardo Martinez, M.D, F.A.C.E.P.
The Schumacher Group

Ricardo Martinez has dedicated his career in government, academics and the private sector to emergency medicine, health policy and prevention issues.  He is currently the Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs for The Schumacher Group, a physician-led emergency medicine management company with over 100 hospitals and 1000 physicians practicing over a spectrum of health care facilities from rural isolated emergency departments to high-volume tertiary care centers.  He is on the faculty of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and serves as Adjunct Professor of Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.  He was previously associate professor of Surgery/Emergency Medicine, and associate director of Trauma Services at Stanford University Medical Center.

Dr. Martinez served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Safety Intelligence Systems Corporation developing information networks and data vaults to improve automotive crash safety performance, knowledge and design. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Public Health Foundation (Chair 2004-2006), the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, and the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. He was chairman of the Trauma Care and Injury Control Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians.  Dr. Martinez investigated and studied motor vehicle crashes as a Visiting Fellow of the Accident Research Unit, at the University of Birmingham, England.

Dr. Martinez served five years, 1994-1999, as the 10th Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), overseeing the automotive industry and working with States, Congress, and a broadly expanded constituency to improve highway safety by embracing motor vehicle deaths as a public health crisis.  His tenure also saw the development of the EMS Agenda for the Future by the EMS community. He has been honored with national awards by the American Medical Association, the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Trauma Society, and the National Association of EMS Physicians.  Since 1988, Dr. Martinez has been the senior medical advisor to the National Football League for Super Bowl, focusing on prevention, emergency preparedness and response.

Gail L. Warden, M.H.A., F.A.C.H.E.
Henry Ford Health System

Gail L. Warden is President Emeritus of Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan, one of the nation’s leading vertically integrated health care systems.

Warden is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.  He served on its Board of Health Care Services, Committee on Quality Health Care in America, and served two terms on the Governing Council.  He chairs the board of the National Quality Forum, the Healthcare Research and Development Institute, and the newly created National Center for Healthcare Leadership.  Warden co-chairs the National Advisory Committee on Pursuing Perfection:  Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance.  He is a member of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Board of Trustees, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Board, and the RAND Health Board of Advisors.  He is director emeritus and past chairman of the Board of the National Committee on Quality Assurance.  In 1997 President Clinton appointed him to the Federal Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry.  In 1995 Warden served as chairman of the American Hospital Association Board of Trustees.  He served as a member of the Pew Health Professions Commission, the National Commission on Civic Renewal, and past chairman of the Health Research and Education Trust Board of Directors.

Warden served as president and Chief Executive Officer of Henry Ford Health System from April 1988 until June 2003.  Before joining Henry Ford Health System, Warden served as president and chief executive officer of Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound in Seattle from 1981 to 1988.  Prior to that he was executive vice president of the American Hospital Association from 1976 to 1981; and from 1965 to 1976, he served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago.

Warden is a graduate of Dartmouth College and holds an M.H.A. from the University of Michigan.  He has an honorary doctorate in public administration from Central Michigan University and is a member of the faculty of the University of Michigan School of Public Health.  Mr. Warden served as chair of the IOM Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System.

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