Faculty

Professor
George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in Emergency Medicine

Hometown: Dewey, OK

Residency: Scott & White Memorial Hospital, Temple, TX

Medical School: Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Undergraduate: Oklahoma State University

Interests: Golf, weight lifting/fitness, guitar and hiking

Fun Fact: My first car was a retired police cruiser

Favorite Tulsa Activity: Golf with friends

Academic Interests: Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation, Airway Management, Crotalid Envenomation, Transitions of Care, Leadership Development

Assistant Professor
Residency Program Director

Hometown: Dallas, TX

Residency: The Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI

Medical School: University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, OKC, OK

Undergraduate: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

Interests: In a band called Lightfighter with one album out on Spotify. Blues/lead guitarist. Amateur golfer. Full time dad of two girls. Favorite guitarists - Stevie Ray Vaughan & John Mayer. 

Fun Fact: It took a year to record a 6 track album.

Academic Interests: Evidence Based Medicine, Critical Care, Toxicology

Assistant Professor
Clerkship Director

Hometown: Skiatook, OK

Residency: University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine, Tulsa, OK

Medical School: University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, OK

Undergraduate: Oklahoma Wesleyan University, Bartlesville, OK

Interests: Family time, running, reading, playing piano, eating good food, golfing 

Fun Fact: I love a good estate sale 

Favorite Tulsa Activity: Gathering Place/Riverside trails

Academic Interests: Medical Student Education, Environmental Injuries and Exposures, Airway

Assistant Professor

Hometown: Owasso, OK

Residency: OU-TU School of Community Medicine, Tulsa, OK

Medical School: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR

Undergraduate: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Interests: Boxing/MMA, Guitar, Comics

Fun Fact: I’ve competed in and won a Lifeguard competition.

Favorite Tulsa Activity: Concerts at Cain’s Ballroom

Academic Interests: Difficult Airway, Leadership Development, Point of Care Ultrasound in the ED

Professor
Research Director, Director of Evidence-Based Practice

Hometown: Springfield, Missouri

Residency: Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, OK

Medical School: Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Undergraduate: Oklahoma State University

Interests: Renaissance Festivals, Leatherworking, Islay Whisky

Fun Fact: Dr. Gentges hosts (in non-pandemic times) a yearly Halloween blowout. It’s usually pretty cool.

Favorite Tulsa Activity: Sitting outside at a craft brewery in autumn

Academic Interests: Evidence Based Medicine, Emergency Department Quality and Efficiency, Sepsis and Septic Shock, Postgraduate Medical Education, Metabolic Disorders

Professor
Director Faculy Development
EMS Section Chief
Director, Oklahoma Center for Prehospital & Disaster Medicine

Hometown: Mustang, OK

Fellowship: EMS Fellowship, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Residency: Methodist Hospital of Indiana/Indiana University School of Medicine

Medical School: University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio

Undergraduate: Baylor University

Interests: Learning, growing, encouraging, and becoming a better citizen of the world.

Fun Fact: I choreographed part of my high school marching band’s competition show my senior year.  (That was pre-CAD = all pen & football field template paper.) Confirmed live music aficionado.

Favorite Tulsa Activity: Cycling along the Arkansas River.  

Academic Interests: Sudden Cardiac Arrest, Cardiac Dysrhythmias
Airway Management, Anaphylaxis, Hemostasis Therapies, Leadership Development

Assistant Professor
Director, Division of Performance & Wellness
Founder, Coaching Program

Hometown: Weston, CT

Residenty: The Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence RI

Medical School: University of California San Francisco

Undergraduate: Middlebury College, Middlebury VT

Interests: Dad Life, riding bikes, traveling, music, audiobooks

Fun Fact: Overhauling my identity from a San Francisco surfer to an Oklahoma husband+dad+professor+weekend warrior was the best decision I’ve ever made

Favorite Tulsa Activity: Adventuring with the kids, trying new restaurants with my wife, biking, thinking about biking

Academic Interests: Clinical teaching, coaching in medical education, non-technical skills in EM, physician wellness and longevity

Assistant Professor
Associate Residency Program Director

Hometown: Cincinnati, OH

Master’s Degree: Harvard School of Public Health

Residency: Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR)

Medical School: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Undergraduate: Brown University

Interests: Commuting to work and getting around by bike, gardening, traveling, piano, singing early choral music

Fun Fact: I’ve lived for short stints in several countries: Guatemala, South Africa, Rwanda, Uganda, and Lebanon

Favorite Tulsa Activity: Gathering Place with family, FC Tulsa games, biking around and exploring downtown

Academic Interests: Social medicine, Health systems development,  Disaster preparedness and response

Associate Director, University of Oklahoma
Department of Emergency Medicine
Center for Pre-Hospital and Disaster Medicine
Oklahoma Highway Patrol Special Operations Division
US Marshals Task Force
Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Department Tactical Team

Undergraduate: George Washington University

Academic Interests: Disaster Response, Tactical Civilian/Military Medicine, Water Safety, Survival and Rescue, Emergency Medicine Skill Development, Sports Medicine

Clinical Assistant Professor

Hometown: Edmond (Deer Creek), Oklahoma

Residency: Wake Forest Emergency Medicine 

Medical School: OU School of Community School of Medicine

Undergraduate: University of Oklahoma

Interests: Traveling, being outside with our dog, spending time with my family, watching a new series or action movie, trying new restaurants.

Fun Fact: I grew up doing falconry with my Dad and hunting with birds of prey.

Favorite Tulsa Activity: Walking the Midland Valley Trail, eating at Bohemia Pizza, enjoying a local and showing people around the great state of Oklahoma.

Academic Interests: EMS, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Social medicine, and critical care.

Assistant Professor

Hometown: Fairhope, AL

Residency: OU-TU School of Community Medicine

Medical School: University of Colorado

Undergraduate: Colorado State University

Interests: Professional hockey (Go Avs!), world travel, exotic (spicy) foods, Corgis, video games.

Fun Fact: I drove busses in my past life and still maintain an active CDL.

Favorite Tulsa Activity: Sampling local Tulsa breweries.

Academic Interests: Critical care, simulation, rural emergency medicine.

Clinical Assistant Professor

Hometown: Maple Valley, Washington

Residency: University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine, Tulsa, OK

Medical School: Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Undergraduate: Saint Martin’s University

Interests: Playing soccer, tattoos, guitars, reading non-medical books, rolling BJJ (gi and no gi), small dogs, attempting to sleep.

Fun Fact: I got stung by a scorpion once. I did not get pancreatitis.

Favorite Tulsa Activity: Family time at the Gathering Place. Coffee at Double Shot. Pizza at Bohemian.

Academic Interests: Performance optimization, leadership development, mentorship, wellness. 

Assistant Clerkship Director
Director of Clinical Quality Improvement

Hometown: Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany

Emergency Medicine Residency: University of Oklahoma

Internal Medicine Residency: University of Oklahoma

General Surgery Internship: Klinikum Frankfurt, Oder, Germany

Internal Medicine Internship: Klinikum Bad Saarow, Germany

Medical School: Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Interests: Fishing, hunting, camping and cooking 

Fun Fact: I was in Berlin the night the Berlin wall fell and was one of the first people from East Germany to go to West Berlin. That was also the night I passed my first kidney stone. 

Favorite Tulsa Activity: Oktoberfest

Academic Interests: Resident Training "Hands on," History Medicine

Clinical Assistant Professor

Hometown: Tulsa, OK

Master’s Degree: Oklahoma State University- Center for Health Sciences 

Residency: UNC Health Southeastern

Medical School: Oklahoma State University- School of Osteopathic Medicine 

Undergraduate: The University of Tulsa 

Interests: Hiking, visiting national parks, spending time with my five animals (2 dogs and 3 cats)

Fun Fact: I love road trips! I believe they are the best way to visit major destinations and see smaller interesting places throughout the country along the way. 

Favorite Tulsa Activity: Tulsa and the nearby areas have some amazing outdoor opportunities. The Gathering Place, Redbud Valley, and Turkey Mountain just to name a few! 

Academic Interests: Graduate and Post-Graduate Medical Education, Leadership development, Global health 

Professor
Vice Chair, Director of Emergency Ultrasound

Hometown: Beggs, Oklahoma

Residency: University of Pittsburgh

Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine

Undergraduate: University of Oklahoma

Interests: Travel, cooking, lake time, anything with my 3 very active, crazy kids

Fun Fact: I have mad basketball skills

Favorite Tulsa Activity: The Gathering Place and going to the lake!

Academic Interests: Emergency Ultrasound, Women’s Health, Emergency Psychiatry, Palliative Care