02/26/2014

Bio - Michael Gerardi, MD, FAAP, FACEP

President-Elect, 2013-2014

Dr. Michael Gerardi is the Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Goryeb Children’s Hospital and faculty in the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship and the Residency in Emergency Medicine at Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, New Jersey. He is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He completed his B.S. and M.D. at Georgetown University and his residencies in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Emory University. He is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine and practices clinically in adult and pediatric emergency medicine.

He has been an advocate for advancing pediatric emergency care for children around the world with the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He served for 10 years as a member of the Pediatric Subcommittee of the American Heart Association’s Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee. During this tenure, he evaluated the international body of resuscitation research and worked with international researchers in developing evidence-based guidelines for pediatric advanced life support. He served on the AAP/ACEP’s Advanced Pediatric Life Support (APLS®) Course Task Force to develop and promote international standard approaches to care for pediatric emergencies. He is a member of numerous editorial boards of Pediatric EM publications. He is a past Chair of ACEP’s Pediatric Emergency Medicine Committee and during his tenure, helped forge collaborative relationships between AAP, ACEP and EMSC.

Over the last two decades, Dr. Gerardi has served on many ACEP Committees and Task Forces including Medical Legal, Reimbursement, Coding Nomenclature and Advisory, and Finance Committee. He has also served as ACEP Liaison to National Conference of Insurance Legislators and FAIR Health’s Physician Advisory Group. He lectures regularly throughout the United States on health policy, emergency medicine practice, pediatric emergency medicine and risk management issues.

In October 2008, Dr. Gerardi was elected to the Board of Directors of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and re-elected in October 2011. The Board of ACEP elected him Secretary-Treasurer for 2012 and Vice President for 2013. In October 2013, he was elected President-Elect of ACEP for 2013-2014.

He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Emergency Medicine Foundation and served as its Chair in 2011, during which he promoted health systems research. Dr. Gerardi was a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation and served as a trustee from 2005 - 2013.

Dr. Gerardi served in the United States Air Force as faculty at their largest teaching facility in San Antonio and as a flight surgeon with a fighter squadron from 1989 to 1993. He then joined Emergency Medical Associates, a democratic emergency physician partnership in New Jersey (NJ) and New York, for which he now serves as a Senior Vice President.