FCEP Announces New 2009-10 Officers, Board
Members
Mylissa Graber, MD, FACEP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ORLANDO ORLANDO, FL – The Florida College of Emergency
Physicians (FCEP) is pleased to announce that Mylissa
Graber, MD, FACEP, has been elected as FCEP’s 38th
president. Dr. Graber is Emergency Department Medical
Director at Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Palm Beach
and is the Vice President of Clinical Operations in Florida
for ApolloMD emergency physician services.
“It is an incredible honor to serve as FCEP President,” said
Dr. Graber. “This is an exciting time as healthcare reform
takes center stage in our nation, and the Florida College of
Emergency Physicians will work hard to make sure Floridians
have access to the high quality emergency care that they
deserve. We want our patients to feel safe, knowing that in
an emergency they will be cared for by highly qualified
emergency physicians they can trust. We will strive to
ensure the necessary on-call specialists and all of the
great resources modern medicine has to offer are available
to help them through their crisis.”
Dr. Graber was elected to the FCEP Board of Directors in
2004. She has been an active member of the FCEP Governmental
Affairs and Medical Economics committees and served the last
six years as editor-in-chief of FCEP's membership magazine,
EMpulse. She was also instrumental in the formation of the
Emergency Medicine Residents' Association of Florida (EMRAF)
and is extremely active in emergency medicine advocacy
efforts in Tallahassee and Washington, D.C.
Before moving over to Good Samaritan Medical Center two
years ago, Dr. Graber spent five years as an emergency
physician at Coral Springs Medical Center. She received a
Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Brandeis
University; a medical degree from the University of South
Florida’s College of Medicine in Tampa; and then completed
her residency in emergency medicine at Albert Einstein
Medical Center in Philadelphia. During her residency she
served as president of the Emergency Medicine Residents’
Association (EMRA), a national organization representing
more than 80% of emergency medicine residents in the world.
Dr. Graber currently chairs the American College of
Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Audit Committee and is a member
of the ACEP Finance and Federal Government Affairs
committees. She was honored with the FCEP William T. Haeck
Member of the Year Award in 2006 and received the University
of South Florida Fred Karl Community Service Award for
outstanding volunteer service and the AMA leadership award.
Dr. Graber succeeds Ernest Page II, MD FACEP of
Orlando, who will serve as immediate past president. Amy
Conley, MD, FACEP, of Tampa, was elected to the office
of FCEP President-Elect, Vidor Friedman, MD, FACEP, of
Orlando was chosen as Vice-President, and Kelly Gray-Eurom,
MD, FACEP, of Jacksonville was selected as
Secretary/Treasurer. Four new members of the FCEP Board of
Directors were elected by the membership at large. They are:
Tony Andrulonis, MD, FACEP, of Fort Lauderdale; Jay
Falk, MD, FACEP, FCCM, of Orlando; Tracy Sanson, MD,
FACEP, of Tampa; and Joel Stern, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
of Sunny Isles Beach. Dr. Gray-Eurom was re-elected for a
second term, in addition to being elected
Secretary-Treasurer.
The Florida College of Emergency Physicians (FCEP)
represents more than 1,200 emergency physicians in the state
of Florida. FCEP members represent the health care safety
net of Florida’s residents and visitors. More than seven
million patients seek care annually in Florida emergency
departments. FCEP was founded on Oct. 15, 1971 and is
headquartered in Orlando.
