Dr. Diana L. Fite is an attending physician at two hospital emergency departments in Houston, Methodist Willowbrook and Christus Saint Catherine’s, as well as at free standing emergency facilities in Tomball and Katy, Texas. She served for 22 years as part-time clinical assistant professor for the emergency medicine residency program at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.

Her father was an English neurosurgeon who immigrated to the United States to escape socialized medicine. Her mother was an operating room nurse. Dr. Fite grew up in the Texas Panhandle, received

her undergraduate education at West Texas State University and her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.

When she graduated, there were no emergency medicine residencies in Texas or surrounding states, so she pursued obstetrics and gynecology and took every possible elective month in the emergency department. She worked hard to help establish emergency medicine in Texas and lectured extensively on child abuse and domestic violence. She has served for 22 years as the Texas College of Emergency Physicians’ legislative chair.

In 1995, Dr. Fite became the first female president of TCEP and the first emergency physician to serve as president of the 12,000-member Harris County Medical Society. In both roles, she raised the visibility of emergency medicine and championed issues of importance to the emergency physicians and patients.

Dr. Fite lives in Tomball, Texas, and is the proud and devoted mother of eight children: Tracy, Anna, Arthur, Elizabeth, Alexandria, Renée, Aaron, and Amanda.

Amal Mattu, M.D., FACEP

Outstanding Contribution in Education Award

ACEP presents the Outstanding Contribution in Education Award to a member who has made a significant contribution to the educational aspects of emergency medicine.

Dr. Mattu is a tenured professor, vice chair and director of the Faculty Development Fellowship, and the Emergency Cardiology Fellowship in the Department of Emergency Medicine, at the University of Maryland.

Born in Columbus, Ohio, he grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. After college, he received his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. He completed an emergency medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, followed by a teaching fellowship with a special focus on emergency cardiology.

Dr. Mattu’s areas of academic focus are emergency cardiology, geriatric emergency medicine, and faculty development. Since joining the faculty at the University of Maryland in 1996, he has received more than 20 awards for lecturing and teaching, including national awards from ACEP. He is the author of “ECGs for the Emergency Physician,” Volumes 1 and 2, and has served as an editor for 13 other textbooks in emergency medicine, including ACEP’s “Electrocardiography in Emergency Medicine.”