Mel Herbert, MD, FACEP
Dr. Herbert is an internationally recognized and award-winning educator in emergency medicine. He currently serves as an attending physician and associate professor of emergency medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC at the LAC+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles. Dr. Herbert is the owner and editor of EMRAP, a monthly emergency medicine–focused audio-education series with more than 20,000 subscribers worldwide. He’s also the owner and conference chair of Essentials of Emergency Medicine, the largest privately run emergency medicine conference in the world. Dr. Herbert has received honors throughout his career, including the ACEP Honorable Mention Outstanding Speaker of the Year Award and ACEP National Faculty Teaching Award. Dr. Herbert is a cofounder of Hippo Education, a website that combines learning theory, multimedia, and expert teachers to make the study of emergency medicine fun.

Council Meritorious Service Award

Andrew I. Bern, MD, FACEP
Dr. Bern is a full-time emergency physician and independent health care consultant in South Florida. A former member of ACEP’s Board of Directors, Dr. Bern served with the EMS, Critical Care, Air Medical Transport, Wilderness, and Disaster Sections. He was also a founding member of the Disaster, Geriatric, Tactical, Telemedicine, and Disaster Medicine Sections. On the ACEP Council, he served on the Steering Committee, numerous Council sub-committees, and the Reference Committee. Dr. Bern was instrumental in creating ACEP’s Grant Program. He was an active participant in the creation of the Health Policy Grant Program and serves as a Councillor from Florida. Dr. Bern participated in the joint subcommittees of Reimbursement Committee and the State Legislative/Regulatory Committee on the issue of fair reimbursement and model legislation.

Colin C. Rorrie Jr., PhD, Award for Excellence in Health Policy

James C. Mitchiner, MD, MPH, FACEP
Dr. Mitchiner is an attending emergency physician at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. As medical director at MPRO—Michigan’s federally designated health care quality-improvement organization—he oversees Medicare quality-of-care reviews, quality-improvement activities, and EMTALA-sanctioned reviews. Throughout his career, he has called for single-payer national health insurance—a controversial idea that gains more support every year. Since 2002, Dr. Mitchiner has been a dynamic member of the ACEP Federal Government Affairs Committee and other task forces and work groups. He joins the College’s lobbying effort on Capitol Hill every spring. As a Michigan State Medical Society board member, Dr. Mitchiner supported smoke-free air legislation and continues to fight repeal of the state’s mandatory motorcycle helmet law.

James D. Mills Outstanding Contribution to Emergency Medicine Award