LAS VEGAS—The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is pleased to announce its 2024-2025 board of directors and officers, as voted by the ACEP Council, during ACEP24.   

Board Officers

Chair of the Board, Gabe Kelen, MD, FRCP(C), FACEP, is chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Dr. Kelen is director of the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response. He is also a professor of emergency medicine, anesthesiology and critical care, and health policy and management. Dr. Kelen has extensive experience with public health, disaster health, and infectious disease with a focus on emerging infections. He is a former president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine, the Society for Teachers of Emergency Medicine, and was elected to the National Academies of Science. Dr. Kelen received his medical degree and started his residency with the University of Toronto and completed an emergency medicine residency at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

President, Alison J. Haddock, MD, FACEP, currently serves as regional dean for the Everett campus of the Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. Dr. Haddock is past chair of the board of directors of ACEP, past chair of the ACEP State Legislative Committee and a past board member for the Emergency Medicine Residents Association and Texas College of Emergency Physicians. She attended medical school at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and completed her emergency medicine residency at the University of Michigan.

President-Elect, L. Anthony Cirillo, MD, FACEP, is the director of government affairs for US Acute Care Solutions and practices clinically in AdventHealth system emergency departments in Colorado for USACS. Dr. Cirillo is the immediate past chair of the ACEP Board of Directors. He is the current board liaison to ACEP emergency medicine practice and clinical resource review committees, medical directors, cruise ship medicine, and emergency medicine practice management & health policy sections. He is a past chair of ACEP’s federal government affairs, state legislative and regulatory, and membership Committees. Dr. Cirillo previously served on the National Emergency Medicine PAC (NEMPAC) Board of Trustees. He is an ACEP representative on the ACEP/EDPMA surprise medical billing implementation task force steering committee. Dr. Cirillo is the 2018 recipient of ACEP's Colin C. Rorrie, Jr., PhD Award for Excellence in Health Policy. He earned his medical degree at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, VT and completed his residency in emergency medicine at UMASS Medical Center in Worcester, MA.

Vice President of Communications, Jeffrey M. Goodloe, MD, FACEP, is a professor of emergency medicine, EMS section chief, and director of the Oklahoma Center for Prehospital and Disaster Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine. He works clinically at Hillcrest Medical Center Emergency Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma and serves as chief medical officer for the EMS System for Metropolitan Oklahoma City and Tulsa. He is the medical director and a tactical emergency physician for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Dr. Goodloe received his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and completed an emergency medicine residency at Methodist Hospital of Indiana/Indiana University School of Medicine. He subsequently served as the inaugural EMS fellow at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

Vice President of Membership, Kristin McCabe-Kline, MD, FACEP, is vice president and chief medical information officer, AdventHealth East Florida Division and Corporate Growth/Acquisitions, and EMS medical director, Flagler County/City of Palm Coast/City of Flagler Beach. She is the co-founder and chief medical officer of WaterSafe, a nonprofit organization dedicated to drowning prevention and water safety. She previously served as vice president of an independent democratic physician group and regional medical director serving patients across the East Florida Division of AdventHealth. She served two terms as President of the Florida College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. McCabe-Kline received a medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas and completed an emergency medicine residency at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois. 

Secretary-Treasurer, Heidi C. Knowles, MD, FACEP, is emergency medicine chief of operations and medical director, John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Knowles is an assistant professor of emergency medicine with Texas Christian University and University of North Texas Health Science Center School of Medicine in Fort Worth, staff emergency physician at Texas Health Southlake, and EMS medical director, Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas. Dr. Knowles is the ACEP representative to the Federation of State Medical Boards and served as past president of the Texas College of Emergency Physicians. She received a medical degree from the University of Texas at Houston Medical School and completed an emergency medicine residency at Memorial Hermann Hospital with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston emergency medicine program.

Immediate Past President, Aisha Terry, MD, MPH, FACEP, is an associate professor of emergency medicine and health policy at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Milken Institute School of Public Health in Washington, DC. She is the senior advisor to the George Washington University Department of Emergency Medicine Health Policy Fellowship and chief executive officer of the Minority Women in Science Foundation (MWSF), a non-profit organization that empowers the dreams of future leaders with interest in science careers. She received her undergraduate degree from Duke University, her medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, her emergency medicine residency training from the University of Maryland, and her Master of Public Health from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. 

Newly Elected Board Members

C. Ryan Keay, MD, FACEP, is an emergency medicine physician at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Washington and division chief over outpatient and emergency medicine. She formerly served as the emergency department medical director at Providence. She is the medical program director of EMS for Snohomish County, Washington. Dr. Keay is a delegate to ACEP’s council, member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, Steering Committee, former chair of the Medical Director’s section and former member of the Tellers Committee. She is a past president and board member of the Washington chapter of ACEP. Her previous experience includes serving as director and president of the Washington Poison Center board, a ship physician on Antarctic and Central American expeditions, and a flight medic and volunteer firefighter in rural Alaska. Dr. Keay received her medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine and completed residency at the Denver Health Medical Center at the University of Colorado.  

Jennifer Casaletto, MD, FACEP, is a physician at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a practicing emergency physician with CirrusMD. Previous academic leadership positions include founding emergency medicine residency program director at Virginia Tech-Carilion and associate residency program director at Maricopa Medical Center. She is a current member of ACEP’s National Emergency Medicine Political Action Committee (NEMPAC) board of directors and serves as an oral board examiner and item writer for the American Board of Emergency Medicine. She is past-chair of ACEP’s Academic Affairs Committee, Educational Meetings Subcommittee and Young Physicians Section, past-president of the Arizona College of Emergency Physicians, and past-chair of the Arizona Governor’s Domestic Violence Council’s Health Cares About Family Violence Subcommittee via an appointment to Arizona’s Committee on the Impact of Domestic Violence and the Courts. Dr. Casaletto earned her medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and completed a residency in emergency medicine at Carolinas Medical Center.

Diana B. Nordlund, DO, JD, FACEP, is corporate compliance officer and attending physician with Emergency Care Specialists in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dr. Nordlund is outgoing chair of ACEP’s Medical Legal Committee, past chair of ACEP's Reference Committee B, past co-chair of ACEP's EM Reproductive Health and Patient Safety Task Force, and past subcommittee chair of ACEP's Council Steering Committee.  She is past president of the Michigan College of Emergency Physicians (MCEP) and past chair of MCEP's State Legislative Committee and MCEP's Leadership Development Task Force. Dr. Nordlund earned her medical degree from Andrew Taylor Still University and completed residency training at MetroHealth Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After residency, she earned her Juris Doctor from Cooley Law School. In addition to full-time clinical emergency medicine, Dr. Nordlund has practiced medical malpractice defense law with Henn Lesperance, PLC, and physician contract law with Nordlund Hulverson, PLLC. 

Current Board Members

Chadd K. Kraus, DO, DrPH, CPE, FACEP, is an emergency physician and vice chair, research, in the Department of Emergency and Hospital Medicine at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He is a clinical professor of emergency medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) and professor at the University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine. Dr. Kraus is the inaugural director of research for the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM), a past president of the Pennsylvania College of Emergency Physicians (PACEP), and a past chair of the Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) Board of Trustees. An ABEM-certified emergency physician, Dr. Kraus attended medical school at PCOM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, completed emergency medicine residency training at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and completed Master (MPH) and Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degrees at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

Abhi Mehrotra, MD, MBA, FACEP, is a clinical professor and vice chair of strategic initiatives and operations, University of North Carolina Department of Emergency Medicine. He has held numerous teaching positions with the University of North Carolina Department of Emergency Medicine and Kenan-Flagler Business School. He is a past president of the North Carolina chapter of ACEP and an extensively published author of book chapters and peer-reviewed publications on topics spanning emergency medicine. Dr. Mehrotra is an oral examiner and item writer for the American Board of Emergency Medicine, member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and maintains an active role in numerous other medical societies. He earned a medical degree from The Ohio State University and completed an emergency medicine residency at University of North Carolina Hospitals.

Henry Z. Pitzele, MD, FACEP, is an Emergency Physician and Chief Health Informatics Officer at Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago, and part-time attending physician at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, a level one trauma center, and Mesa View Regional Medical Center in Mesquite, Nevada, a critical access hospital. He is a past president of the Illinois ACEP chapter and member of the Illinois ACEP chapter board of directors. Dr. Pitzele has a medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine and completed an emergency medicine residency at University of Illinois at Chicago.

James L. Shoemaker, Jr., MD, FACEP, is an attending physician and partner, and director of quality and compliance, with the democratic group Elite Emergency Physicians, Inc., and volunteer clerkship faculty, Indiana University School of Medicine. He was an ACEP David McKenzie Reimbursement and Leadership Development Fellow and currently serves as ACEP’s alternate representative to the American Medical Association Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC). He is the immediate past vice president of membership for the ACEP Board of Directors. He is co-creator and co-director of the ACEP/EMBC Independent Emergency Medicine Group Master Class.  He also serves as an Emergency Medicine Strategic Advisor for Ventra Health.  Dr. Shoemaker earned a medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine and completed his residency at Michigan State University/Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies.

Ryan Stanton, MD, FACEP, is an emergency physician with Central Emergency Physicians in Kentucky. Dr. Stanton is the EMS medical director for Lexington-Fayette Urban County, and medical director for the AMR/NASCAR safety team and other EMS agencies. Dr. Stanton is a chief medical contributor for Fox 56 News and creator/host of the ACEP Frontline podcast. He is a past president of the Kentucky Chapter of ACEP. Dr. Stanton has a medical degree from James H. Quillen College of Medicine and completed his residency in emergency medicine at the University of Kentucky. 

2024-2025 ACEP Council Officers

Council Speaker, Melissa Wysong Costello, MD, MS, FACEP, FAEMS, is a practicing community emergency physician from Mobile, Alabama. She is the national medical director of revenue cycle and patient advocacy for Global Medical Response and has 30 years of EMS experience as a clinician and a medical director. Dr. Costello is a past president of the Alabama Chapter of ACEP and a past vice president of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama. She earned a medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and a Master of Science in Health Care Delivery from Arizona State University. She completed emergency medicine residency at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Council Vice-Speaker, Michael James McCrea, MD, FACEP, FAAEM is an attending physician at Mercy-Health-St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio, and curriculum director, Mercy St. Vincent emergency medicine residency. He is a published author of peer-reviewed research and educational materials. He held roles including staff physician, attending physician, quality director, and medical director in multiple counties with Premier Physician Services. He has served for more than a decade on ACEP task forces and committees including his current role on the educational meeting planning committee and chair of the bylaws committee. Dr. McCrea is a past president of the Ohio Chapter of ACEP and current member of its Board of Directors. He earned a medical degree at the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo and completed his emergency medicine residency at The Ohio State University Medical Center.