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ACGME Director

Louis J. Ling, MD
Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the University of Minnesota Medical School
Associate Medical Director for Medical Education at Hennepin County Medical Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Louis J. Ling is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pharmacy, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the University of Minnesota Medical School, as well as Associate Medical Director for Medical Education at Hennepin County Medical Center, both in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Dr. Ling is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School and completed his residency in emergency medicine at the University of Chicago, and has practiced emergency medicine for over 25 years at Hennepin County Medical Center. As one of the first board certified medical toxicologists in the country, Dr. Ling served as the Medical Director of the Hennepin Regional Poison Center for 18 years.  Dr. Ling has published in medical toxicology as well as three textbooks in medical toxicology and is co-editor of the three-volume standard textbook: Rosen’s Emergency Medicin and the single volume Harwood-Nuss textbook

 
Dr. Ling served as chair of the Academic Affairs and the Graduate Medical Education Committees of the American College of Emergency Physician, Chair of the Certification Committee of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, and President of the American Board of Emergency Medicine. As President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, he started the journal Academic Emergency Medicine.  Currently, Dr. Ling serves on the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Physician Scholar program and the Governing Council for the Section on Medical Schools where he is the liaison to the Council on Medical Education of the AMA.

He was a resident member and a subsequently a regular member and Chair of the Residency Review Committee in Emergency Medicine.  He was a member of the original Institutional Review Committee.