Esther Hwang, DO, MPH, FACEP

Dr. Esther Hwang is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Emory University and works clinically with Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta’s only Level 1 trauma center. She is the Medical Director for AMR DeKalb County and associate Medical Director for the Emory-Grady EMS Biosafety Transport Team (BST), who safely transported the first patients to be treated for Ebola Virus infection in the United States to Emory University for care in 2014. She is also a Local Emergency Medical Advisor (LEMA) for the National Park Services for the Atlanta Region, serving three major National Park areas including the Chattahoochee River, the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic Site, and Kennesaw Mountain. Dr. Hwang completed a fellowship in EMS at Emory University in 2020. She is currently the NAEMSP Operational EMS Committee chair, serving the term for 2023 – 2025. She is also the current Vice President for the NAEMSP – Georgia Chapter. Her academic interests include emergency and disaster preparedness for CBRNE events and tactical EMS. Her primary focus is on CBRNE HazMat emergency preparedness resiliency. She has spoken regionally, nationally, and internationally on topics pertaining mass casualty disaster triage and tactical EMS.