Emergency Department Staff

  • Full-time faculty physician supervision 24 hrs per day; triple coverage by faculty 14 hrs/day

  • Emergency Medicine PGY-3 residents: 24 hrs per day, double coverage 16 hrs/day
  • Residents and medical students
  • Physician assistants and students
  • Nursing staffing:Total FTE's 117 including management & office support staff
  • Registered nurses: 50.5 FTE's
  • Nursing asst: 22.5 FTE's
  • Health unit coordinators: 20.9 FTE's

Staff Listing:

Joseph Clinton, MD Chief of Service, Emergency Medicine
Cher Adkinson, MD Medical Director, Hyperbaric Medicine
Michelle Biros, MD Research Director, Emergency Medicine
Pauline Bradford Clinical Systems Coordinator
Doug Brunette, MD Director, Residency Program
Robert Collier, MD Assistant Director, Residency Program
Sherry Murphy Assistant Nurse Manager
Richard Gray, MD Clinical Faculty, Emergency Medicine
William Heegaard, MD Medical Director, Occupational Medicine
Jeff Ho, MD Asst Medical Director, Prehospital Care
Willie Larson Assistant Nurse Manager
Louis Ling, MD Associate Medical Director, HCMC
Robert Long, MD Associate Medical Director, HCMC Ambulance Service
Brian Mahoney, MD Medical Director, HCMC Ambulance & EMS Education
John McGill, MD Director, Orthopedic & Internal Medicine Education in ED
Michelle Noltimier Director, Emergency Department/
Emergency Express Care
Dave Plummer, MD Director, Performance Improvement & Ultrasound Education
Gordon Rockswold, MD Teaching Faculty, International Emergency Medicine
Kristi Roers Clinical Nurse Educator
Ernest Ruiz, MD Head, Program in emergency Medicine, Founder & Immediate Past Chief, Emergency Medicine, HCMC
Robert Rusank, MD Director, Medical Student Rotation in Emergency Medicine
Steve Smith, MD Director, PGY-1 Rotation in Emergency Medicine
Steve Sterner, MD Asst. Chief of Service, Emergency Medicine Medical Director, Adult Emergency Dept & Urgent Care
Greg Torok Assistant Nurse Manager
Albert Tsai, MD Medical Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Nursing Management Clinical Nurse Manager