Rebecca B. Bloch, MD
Assistant Medical Director
Emergency Medicine
Maine Medical Center
Portland, ME

Dr. Rebecca Bloch is the Medical Director at Brighton FirstCare 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 board certified in Emergency Medicine. She earned her medical degree at University of Southern California. Her residency in Emergency Medicine was completed at University of California, San Francisco, Fresno where she also served in the position of Chief Resident. Dr. Campagne has spoken internationally on Orthopedic topics in Emergency Medicine in places such as the Netherlands and Italy and nationally at the American College of Emergency Physicians annual meeting. She is one of the faculty in the Parkmedic/Emergency Medicine Service program and serves as one of the national medical advisors to the National Park Service. She is active in community service and served as a tutor for the Violence Intervention Program at University of Southern California. Here in Fresno, she served on the board of directors of the Marjaree Mason Center.

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.

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 III 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. 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 eventually 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 prior to returning to his true passion of caring for patients and teaching residents, APPs and medical students about the exciting field of Emergency Medicine. He also provides clinical services to small, rural Critical Access Hospitals in Maine, an experience he finds challenging, meaningful and rewarding.

Christian Tomaszweski, MD
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Medical Director, Emergency Department
University of California UCSD
San Diego, CA

Dr. Christian Tomaszweski is a fellow of both the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American College of Medical Toxicology and works as a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the University of California in San Diego. He completed an emergency medicine residency at East Carolina University in North Carolina in 1989 followed by a two year fellowship in medical toxicology at Denver General Hospital and the University of Colorado. For 17 years, he taught emergency medicine while serving as Medical Director of Hyperbaric Oxygen and Director of the Medical Toxicology Fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina. During this time, he helped organize and spoke at multiple international emergency medical conferences including Italy, Argentina, Ecuador, United Arab Emirates, and Australia. He also helped direct several U.S. medical education projects in the Middle East. From 2000 to 2002 he represented Carolinas Medical Center as Deputy Director of Physician Education and Chief of Emergency Medicine at Zayed Military Hospital, Abu Dhabi. From 2006 to 2008, he was Medical Director of the Emergency Medicine Partnership between University Pittsburgh Medical Center and Hamad Corporation, Doha, Qatar. The goal of that project was to improve the delivery of free emergency care throughout Qatar. Throughout his travels, Chris has maintained professional involvement in U.S. emergency medicine by serving on the Education Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians for 12 years, the last two as chair and now currently is on the Clinical Policies Committee. He also serves as an oral examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine and as a writer for the Hyperbaric and Underwater Medicine board exam. Since 2005, he has been editor-in-chief of the official journal of the American College of Medical Toxicology, the Journal of Medical Toxicology.

Most recently, Dr. Tomaszewski completed the Rady Executive MBA program at UCSD in 2013 and currently is medical director of both emergency departments at UCSD. In 2012, he was named UCSD Health Sciences Attending Physician of the Year, as well as a San Diego Top Doc by the SD County Medical Society in 2012 and 2013. Having originally trained in marine biology with a master’s degree, he maintains his love of the ocean, both diving and surging, as a clinical attending in Hyperbaric Medicine. He has over 50 peer reviewed publications, mainly focused on novel treatments for carbon monoxide poisoning and cardiotoxicity from calcium channel and beta blockers.

David Weismiller, MD, ScM, FAAFP
Professor, Department of Family Medicine
University of Nevada School of Medicine
Las Vegas, NV

Dr. David Weismiller is a practicing Family Practitioner in Las Vegas, NV. Dr. Weismiller graduated from Jefferson Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in 1991 and has been in practice for 27 years. He completed a residency at University of Virginia Health System. Dr. Weismiller accepts multiple insurance plans including Aetna, Health Plan of Nevada, and Humana. Dr. Weismiller is board certified in Family Medicine.