Dr. Stiell received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Western Ontario and completed residencies in family medicine and emergency medicine at McGill University. He also holds a Master of Science degree in epidemiology from the University of Ottawa.

Raymond L. Fowler, M.D.
Outstanding Contribution in EMS Award

Dr. Fowler is a professor of emergency medicine, surgery, health professions, and emergency medical education at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He is also Chief of Operations for the BioTel EMS system serving the Dallas area, co-chief in the section on EMS, disaster medicine and homeland security and a member of the attending emergency medicine faculty at Parkland Memorial Hospital.

Dr. Fowler has played a central role in the development of EMS medical direction and the recognition of the discipline as a subspecialty. Among many other accomplishments, he served on the initial steering committee to form the National Association of EMS Physicians, later becoming the association’s fourth president, and helped lead the expansion and proliferation of the International Trauma Life Support International program.

A gifted and acclaimed lecturer in all areas of emergency medicine, he is a prolific author of more than 30 textbook chapters on topics in the specialty. He is the senior editor for the current edition of “Emergency Medical Services: Clinical Practice and Systems Oversight,” NAEMSP’s new landmark four-volume textbook that sets the foundation for EMS medical direction as a subspecialty.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in pre-medicine from the University of Georgia and earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. After starting a categorical surgery residency at Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hospital, he began emergency medicine and EMS practice in 1978.

Todd B. Taylor, M.D.
Colin C. Rorrie, Jr., PhD Award for Excellence in Health Policy

Dr. Taylor practiced emergency medicine for 18 years at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix. He left clinical practice in 2006 and remains active in emergency medical education and advocacy related to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), administrative emergency medicine, and medical informatics. For the last five years, Dr. Taylor was a physician executive and medical informaticist with Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group, where he helped develop and market a variety of healthcare-related software.

For more than two decades, he worked weekend nights to accommodate his passion for advocacy—and his commitment has played an integral role in key policy victories. As Arizona ACEP President and Vice President for Public Affairs, he helped the chapter achieve major legislative successes that improved safety for healthcare workers, limited payment denial for emergency care, expanded Arizona Medicaid to include retrospective payment, and elevated the burden of proof in malpractice lawsuits.