Kevin Biese

MD, MAT, FACEP

Chair

Dr. Biese serves as an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) and Internal Medicine, Vice-Chair of Academic Affairs, and Director of the Division of Geriatrics Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Medicine as well as a Vice-Chair of the Board of the UNC Health Alliance and UNC Senior Alliance. He also serves as a consultant with West Health, a San Diego based philanthropic organization dedicated to improving care for older adults (https://www.westhealth.org ). With the support of the John A. Hartford (https://www.johnahartford.org) and West Health Foundations, he is the co-leader alongside Dr. Ula Hwang of the national Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative (https://gedcollaborative.com), serving as PI of the implementation arm. He is grateful to chair the first Board of Governors for the ACEP Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Program (https://www.acep.org/geda/) which has now improved the quality of care in over 420 emergency departments in 40 states and 4 countries.