Roderick Fontenette

MD, FACEP

Dr. Fontenette is recently retired from the Air Force after serving 21 years on active duty.  He now works as the Medical Director of the Intensive Care Unit at St. Helena Hosptial in the Napa Valley and does academic Emergency Medicine at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California.

His most recent Air Force assignment was as the Associate Program Director for one of the Air Forces' four Emergency Medicine residency programs partnered with UC Davis Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine in Sacramento, California.  

Dr. Fontenette is a board-certified Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine physician. He completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Maryland University College Asian Division, while serving on active duty in the United States Air Force in Misawa, Japan. He attended medical school at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, Louisiana.  He completed emergency medicine residency training at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in partnership with the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and Critical Care fellowship training with Indiana University Health at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana.  He completed his Masters of Health Care Management from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.  

He has lectured nationally and internationally on a wide range of emergency medicine and critical care medicine topics and has an interest in neurologic emergencies and resuscitative medicine.