CONFERENCE CHAIR:
Robert Dachs, MD
Vice Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine
Ellis Hospital, Clinical Associate Professor
Ellis Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program
Schenectady, NY

Dr. Robert Dachs is the Vice-Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, NY. He is also Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the Ellis Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program and is the previous Research Director for this residency program. Dr. Dachs graduated New York Medical College in 1985. He spent 2 years in General Surgery Residency at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA before moving on to and completing a Family Medicine Residency in Middletown, CT in 1991. Since then, Dr. Dachs has practiced Emergency Medicine full-time in the Albany-Schenectady region of New York State. During his career, Dr. Dachs has published extensively on a variety of acute and primary care topics. He has lectured nationally for many years on a broad range of topics and is a faculty member for the AAFP Board Review courses. He also developed the first Continuing Education program on Emergency and Urgent Care for Family Physicians for AAFP in 2001 and was Chairman for this course for 10 years. He has received “Teacher of the year” awards on a number of occasions from his residents and continues to have a passion for teaching. Most recently, he successfully developed the “Emergency and Urgent Care Course for Primary Care Providers” for cmemeeting.org.

Rebecca B. Bloch, MD
Medical Director
Maine Medical Center Urgent Care Plus
SANE Program at MMC
Assistant Medical Director
Maine Medical Center’s Emergency Services
Portland, ME

Dr. Rebecca Bloch is the Medical Director at Maine Medical Center Urgent Care Plus and an Assistant Medical Director at Maine Medical Center’s Emergency Department. She serves as the Medical Director for the SANE program at MMC, and directs their Women's Health curriculum. She is Board certified in Emergency Medicine and is an assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Bloch received her medical degree from University of California San Diego Medical School.

Danielle Campagne, MD, FACEP
Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency, UCSF
Fresno, CA

Dr. Danielle Campagne is an Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at UCSF School of Medicine. She serves as Vice Chief of Emergency Medicine at UCSF-Fresno. Her academic interests include research in wilderness medicine, orthopedics and critical care. She has lectured nationally and internationally on a myriad of orthopedic and sports medicine topics. Her latest academic adventure is as Editor of an Emergency Medicine Board Review textbook that was published last year by Oxford Press and she is currently an Associate Editor of the Orthopedics Section of the electronic textbook, CorePendium for EM:RAP.

Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD
Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology
Department of Family Medicine
Georgetown University Medical Center
Washington, DC

Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman is a Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology with a joint appointment in the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. Dr. Fugh-Berman codirects the M.S. program in Health and the Public Interest and directs PharmedOut, a GUMC research and education project that promotes rational prescribing, exposes the effect of pharmaceutical marketing on prescribing practices and has had a profound impact on prescribers’ perceptions of the adverse consequences of industry marketing.

Dr. Fugh-Berman has authored many key articles in peer-reviewed literature on the area of industry influence on medicine, including the first studies in the medical literature about how the pharmaceutical industry influences surgeons, pharmacists, basic scientists, and individual patients. Other key articles include a study that shows that Medicare prescribers who accept industry gifts prescribe more medications (and more expensive medications), a review of how industry uses social psychology to manipulate physicians, an exposé of how ghostwritten articles in the medical literature were used to sell menopausal hormone therapy, an article about how “key opinion leaders” are used to market drugs off-label, an explanation of drug rep tactics, an analysis of how industry uses CME to create markets, a national survey of industry interactions with family medicine residencies, and a study that documents the effect of Why Lunch Matters, a presentation that is the first to document a significant change in physicians’ perceptions about their own individual vulnerability to pharmaceutical marketing. Dr. Fugh-Berman lectures internationally and has appeared on 20/20, Nightline, the 1A, the Diane Rehm show, and every major television network.

Dr. Fugh-Berman is also an expert on botanical medicine and dietary supplements, and directs Georgetown’s Urban Herbs project, which maintains teaching gardens on campus that intermix edible, medicinal, and ornamental plants, and demonstrate permaculture, xericulture, and ecological gardening concepts. She is the author of a clinical textbook, The 5-Minute Herb and Dietary Supplement Consult, and was the author of the first chapter on complementary medicine in Harrison’s Textbook of Internal Medicine.

Previously, Dr. Fugh-Berman was a medical officer in the Contraception and Reproductive Health Branch of the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, NIH. She has also worked with the nonprofit Reproductive Toxicology Center and edited an award-winning CME newsletter on women’s health. Dr. Fugh-Berman graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed a family medicine internship in the Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx.

Autumn C. Graham, MD
Georgetown University Hospital
Medstar Washington Hospital Center
Emergency Medicine Residency, Dept of Emergency Medicine
Washington, DC

Dr. Autumn C. Graham is a board-certified emergency medicine physician in Washington, District of Columbia. She is currently licensed to practice medicine in District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland. She is affiliated with MedStar Washington Hospital Center and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.

George L. Higgins III, MD, FACEP
Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine
Maine Medical Center
Tufts University School of Medicine
Portland, ME

Dr. George L. Higgins graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine, is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, is a Fellow in the American College of Emergency Physicians, and currently holds the rank of Professor Emeritus in Emergency Medicine at Maine Medical Center, an academic medical center located in Portland, Maine. For many years, he chaired MMC’s Department of Emergency Medicine, where he was privileged to advance the academic mission of the department and to be involved with the establishment of a successful resident training program in Emergency Medicine. His career path also provided him with attractive administrative opportunities, initially as the Associate Vice President of Performance Improvement and then as the Chief Medical Officer and Vice President for Medical Affairs for the institution. Eventually he returned to his true passion of caring for patients; teaching residents, APPs and medical students about the exciting field of Emergency Medicine; and overseeing scholarly productivity as Director of Research. He also provides clinical services to small, rural hospitals, most recently Nantucket Cottage Hospital located on Nantucket Island, an experience he finds challenging, meaningful and professionally rewarding.

Roger D. Seheult, MD
Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
Beaver Medical Group, Redlands, CA
Associate Clinical Professor
UC Riverside School of Medicine, Riverside, CA
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Loma Linda, CA

Dr. Roger D. Seheult is a Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Specialist in Redlands, California. He is the former director of critical care services at San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital and is a Pulmonologist and Sleep Specialist at Beaver Medical Group where he serves on their board. He has dual academic appointments as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and Physician Assistant Sciences at the Loma Linda University Schools of Medicine and Allied Health Professions respectively. He is also an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine as well as the Medical Director for the Crafton Hills College School of Respiratory Therapy. Dr. Seheult completed his Fellowship and Residency training at Loma Linda University and is Board-Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care Medicine, and Sleep Medicine. Dr. Seheult is the co-founder of MEDCram, an on-line medical education company.