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The Board of Directors of the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) named Earl J. Reisdorff, M.D., as its new Executive Director effective May 1, 2010.  Dr. Reisdorff is currently a practicing emergency physician and Director of Medical Education at Ingham Regional Medical Center in Lansing, Michigan.  He is currently an associate professor in Emergency Medicine, and past Program Director of the Michigan State University Emergency Medicine Residency Program.   Dr. Reisdorff has been active with ABEM as an Oral Board Certification Examiner since 1994, an item writer for the qualifying examination from 1999-2009, a Senior Case Reviewer for the oral certification examination, and has participated as a member of the Case Development Panel.   Dr. Reisdorff has served the emergency medicine community through his involvement with related organizations.  He served on the Board of Directors of the Michigan College of Emergency Physicians (MCEP) from 1998 to 2003, and served as President of MCEP from 2004 to 2005.  In 2003, Dr. Reisdorff was appointed by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to the Council on Graduate Medical Education; an advisory group to both DHHS and the Congress on physician workforce and training.

Dr. Reisdorff has authored multiple peer reviewed articles, chapters, and textbooks.  He has presented over 300 scientific and didactic presentations, and received several awards for excellence in teaching.  He has served as a peer-reviewer for multiple scientific specialty journals.   Dr. Reisdorff lives in Okemos, Michigan with his wife Jane and his daughters Rebecca and Hannah.   The American Board of Emergency Medicine is one of the 24 medical specialty boards of the American Board of Medical Specialties.  Founded in 1976, ABEM develops and administers the Emergency Medicine certification examination for physicians who have met the ABEM credentialing requirements.  ABEM has over 26,000 emergency physicians currently credentialed.