Emergency Medicine
For 6 years, the Good Samaritans provided critical
knowledge and skills for Vietnam to establish its first
Emergency Medicine program.
Changing Lives, one at a time!
What's New:
October 2014
2015 Emergency Medicine Symposium.
The next EM Symposium will be held from March 9-13, 2015 in Ha Long Bay. The focus will be on Stroke Care.. There will be 3 conferences: Leadership, Physician Symposium, Nursing. For more information please contact us here.
Current News:
October 2014
"For The Love of a Child" 2014
The Annual Benefit Dinner for the Children of Vietnam will be held on October 25, 2015 at Riverside Community Hospital in Riverside, CA. Purchase your tickets HERE
Tamara Thomas, MD, FACEP
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Associate Dean for Faculty Development |
Dr. Tamara L. Thomas’ professional endeavors have focused on education and training in emergency medicine on the local, national and international level. As director of an international emergency medicine fellowship for the past 10 years, she has focused on emergency medicine systems development in many parts of the world, as well as education and training for specific emergency medicine programs. She has participated in projects in Central America, Southeast Asia, South Pacific, China, Africa, the Middle East, India, and Afghanistan.
Dr. Thomas is past chair of ACEP’s International Emergency Medicine Section and currently chairs the Education Committee for the International Section. She served as Vice-President of a nongovernmental development organization, Emergency International, Inc, and gained recognition as a leader in medical education. She was awarded the Fellow of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine in 2006.
As Associate Dean for Faculty Development at LLU School of Medicine, she coordinates recruitment of physicians for the faculty practice as well as faculty development initiatives. She has served on multiple committees for LLUMC and currently is President of the Medical Staff.
Her research areas of interest include disaster medicine, faculty development and international emergency medicine system development. She has collaborated with the Center for Critical Event Preparedness at Johns Hopkins University on developing competency-based curriculum to create standard “best practice” education content for clinicians in disaster response.
She is an investigator for PACER project a nation-wide consortium funded by the Department of Homeland Security Centers for Excellence program. She has also participated as an investigator for CURE. She served as a member of the Emergency Medical Care Committee for San Bernardino County, CA and is a Disaster Medical Assistance Team member. She is experienced in prehospital training and teaches at Crafton Hills Community College Paramedic Program and served as California State Medical Director for International Trauma Life Support program. She enjoys reading, music, cooking, snow skiing, and water skiing.