A native of Dugway, Utah, he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Duke University. He earned his medical degree from Washington University and completed his internship and residency in surgery at the University of Utah Medical Center.

David S. Howes, M.D.
Outstanding Contribution in Education Award

Dr. Howes, a professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Chicago, has educated emergency medicine physicians, residents, and students for three decades. A popular ACEP lecturer, he has taught a generation of emergency physicians through more than a thousand hours of ACEP-sponsored activities at the national and state level.

Dr. Howes emphasizes the importance of superb clinical skills and communication between emergency physicians and patients – and between attending physicians and residents. He is the author of more than 100 publications, including original research papers, abstracts, book chapters, monographs, and reviews. His recent textbook on preparing for the emergency medicine oral boards brings his insights to an even broader audience.

His residents and students have honored him as a mentor and teacher. He has also received a host of organizational awards, including ACEP’s National Faculty Teaching Award, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine’s Program Director of the Year Award, and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s Diversity Interest Group Visionary Educator Award. In 2012, the Dean of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine awarded him the first ever honorary title of program director emeritus as the University of Chicago Medical Center’s longest serving residency director.

He holds Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine degrees from the University of Wisconsin and completed his residency training at the University of Rochester.

Ian G. Stiell, M.D.
Outstanding Contribution in Research Award

Dr. Stiell is a professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and distinguished professor and University Health Research Chair at the University of Ottawa. He is also a practicing emergency physician at The Ottawa Hospital and senior scientist at the hospital’s research institute.

Internationally recognized for his research in emergency medicine, he focuses on the development of clinical decision rules and the conduct of clinical trials involving acutely ill and injured patients treated by out-of-hospital services and in emergency departments.

He is best known for the development of the Ottawa Ankle Rules and Canadian C-Spine Rule, and as the principal investigator for the landmark OPALS Studies for out-of-hospital care. Dr. Stiell is the principal investigator for one of three Canadian sites in the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium, which is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the National Institutes of Health, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, the American Hospital Association and National Defence Canada. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academies of Science.