Robert W. Strauss, MD, FACEP
Dr. Strauss is a practicing emergency physician at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati and Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton. He’s also TeamHealth’s vice president for program development. Dr. Strauss has served ACEP and the specialty in key leadership positions, including Chair of the Educational Meetings Committee and Director of the Emergency Department Directors Academy. He has led more than 75 national conferences. Dr. Strauss is the recipient of ACEP’s Outstanding Speaker and Outstanding Contribution to Education in Emergency Medicine awards. As an author, his seminal works on ED management have inspired readers to excellence. Dr. Strauss has served with distinction as the chair of the ACGME Residency Review Committee for Emergency Medicine and on the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He’s been a residency program director and medical staff leader.

John A. Rupke Legacy Award

Stephen V. Cantrill, MD, FACEP
Dr. Cantrill is an emergency physician and consultant at Denver Health Medical Center, where he served as the associate director of the department of emergency medicine for nearly two decades. Though “retired,” he’s at Denver Health every day. In the early 1980s, Dr. Cantrill pioneered the use of computers in emergency medicine. He implemented early systems at Denver General and lectured widely. Dr. Cantrill was an early leader in bringing the principles of quality and safety to emergency medicine. Founder of the Denver Health–based Weapons of Mass Destruction Training Center, he is also a nationally recognized expert and leader in the field of disaster preparedness and mass casualty events. Dr. Cantrill has served on the ACEP Council and on countless committees, task forces, and working groups. From his breakthrough 1983 work, “Guidelines for Cost Containment in Emergency Medicine” with Dr. Stephen Karas, to his service as chair of ACEP’s Quality and Performance Committee, Dr. Cantrill’s contributions have advanced the College and the specialty.

Disaster Medical Sciences Award

Carl H. Schultz, MD, FACEP
Dr. Schultz is an internationally recognized expert in the field of disaster medicine. He is a professor of emergency medicine at the University of California (UC), Irvine School of Medicine, director of the EMS and disaster medical sciences fellowship, director of research at the Center for Disaster Medical Sciences, and director of disaster medical services for the department of emergency medicine at UC Irvine Medical Center. He has over 80 publications in the field of disaster medicine. His research has been funded by multiple agencies, including the National Science Foundation. He is the only emergency physician in the United States to serve on the terrorism task forces for both the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and ACEP, and he chaired ACEP’s Disaster Committee for two years. He served as a consultant to the Department of Defense and other national and international groups, and a grant reviewer for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on the topic of bioterrorism. He is also co-editor for Koenig and Schultz’s Disaster Medicine: Comprehensive Principles and Practices and first author of two disaster medicine chapters in Rosen’s Emergency Medicine.