CIEMS - The Center for International Emergency Medical Services

Staff

Dan Karlin

Dan is a resident physician at Tufts Medical Center and The Floating Hospital for Children in Boston. He has an MD from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and an MA in Clinical Informatics and Cognitive Science from the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. His primary research interests are in the field of cognitive science in clinical medicine, specifically assessing decision-making strategies used by medical professionals. His work has focused on the emergency department, where he examined the triage process, and evaluated the workflow and decision making of triage staff. He has also worked on developing methods to study inpatient child and adolescent psychiatry. Dan graduated Columbia College with a BA in Neuroscience and Behavior. He started working in EMS at the age of sixteen when he joined the Chappaqua Volunteer Ambulance Corps, he went on to receive New York State EMT certification a short time later. He continued in EMS serving as the Director and Chief Medical officer of Columbia University Emergency Medical Services. In September of 2001, Dan worked as a medical supervisor in the early stages of the rescue effort at the World Trade Center collapse. He has worked in diverse emergency medical services fields having served as a rescue supervisor and hill chief for Mount Snow Ski Patrol. He is also an advisor to the Colorado Medical Society on Clinical Informatics and Evidence Based Medicine. He has extensive experience in leadership development and team building, licensure in two-way radio communications system design, and has earned FEMA certification in Incident Management.

Tielman Van Vleck

Tielman is currently a Ph.D. student of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, researching methods for extracting information from clinical narrative and summarization of patient history. Previously, he worked at the Healthcare Management Council, Inc., a healthcare consulting firm in Needham, MA. He earned his bachelors in economics from Colby College where he trained and practiced as an EMT. He also serves on the board of the Trudeau Institute, an immunological research laboratory in Saranac Lake, NY.

Bob Kelly

Bob Kelly majored in International Political Economy at the Colorado College. He spent 4.5 months in Senegal between his 2nd and 3rd year, where he worked for the NGO CRESP. His experiences in Senegal played a key role in his decision to pursue medicine. Bob returned to Senegal in 2004 to work with CRESP again. Most recently Bob spent 2 weeks in Rwanda attached to an Engineers Without Borders project. Bob is currently a Medical Student at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

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