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Stephen Schenkel, M.D., MPP.

Stephen Schenkel, M.D., MPP.

FIELD: Emergency Medicine

POSITION/TITLE: Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine

BACKGROUND: Board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Schenkel is a member of the Department of Emergency Medicine of the University of Maryland where he also serves as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Schenkel sits on a number of key committees at Mercy, including Mercy’s Quality Council and the Emergency Department Quality Assurance Committee.

Dr. Schenkel received his B.A. from Yale University, and his Masters in Public Policy and Medical Doctorate from Harvard University. He trained and was chief resident at one of our country’s strongest Emergency Medicine Departments, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He was chair of the recently concluded Emergency Department Patient Safety Collaborative.

MISCELLANEOUS: He has numerous professional memberships, including the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Medical Association, and the Society for Academic Emergency medicine.

Dr. Schenkel is on the board of the Maryland Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, which named him Emergency Physician of the Year (2005). He was named Mercy Medical Center Emergency Department Teacher of the Year in 2006.

Dr. Schenkel has many medical publications, book chapters, journal articles and abstracts to his credit.