Wendy C. Coates, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
Biography
Wendy C. Coates, MD is Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in the UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine. She served as Dean of the UCLA Acute Care College and Director of Education at Harbor-UCLA where she founded the first Fellowship in Medical Education Scholarship in 1997. She enjoys continued active mentorship of promising academic emergency medicine academic physicins. She graduated with honors from Allegheny College, earned her MD from Case Western Reserve University, and completed the EM residency at the Medical College of Pennsylvania/Allegheny General.
Dr. Coates is an education scientist whose research focus is Health Professions Education with an emphasis on faculty and learner development, mentorship, curricular innovation and evaluation, creativity in medicine, and qualitative methods. In addition to several peer reviewed publications and textbook chapters, she is a founding member of the Editorial Board for AEM Education & Training, member of the AEM Editorial Board, Associate Editor for the Journal of Dance Medicine and Science and was an ABEM Item Writer for 9 years.
Dr. Coates is past-president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and has dedicated many years of active service and leadership activities within the Society that focus on advancing its mission of supporting research and education in EM.
Dr. Coates is an education scientist whose research focus is Health Professions Education with an emphasis on faculty and learner development, mentorship, curricular innovation and evaluation, creativity in medicine, and qualitative methods. In addition to several peer reviewed publications and textbook chapters, she is a founding member of the Editorial Board for AEM Education & Training, member of the AEM Editorial Board, Associate Editor for the Journal of Dance Medicine and Science and was an ABEM Item Writer for 9 years.
Dr. Coates is past-president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and has dedicated many years of active service and leadership activities within the Society that focus on advancing its mission of supporting research and education in EM.
