Al O. Giwa LLB, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAAEM

Dr. Giwa is a graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (MD), George Washington School of Business (MBA), and the Clarkson University/Icahn School of Medicine (MBE). He majored in Philosophy at Clark University and entered medicine initially to pursue a career in Bioethics after leaving law (LLB-University of Ilorin). He is an officer in the US Army Reserve where he was previously the Medical Director for the Combat Medic Instructors program and is currently the Command Surgeon and head of Medical Innovation of the Innovation Command of the USAR.

His specific professional interests are Law and Ethics in Healthcare, Combat Medicine, Resuscitation/Critical Care in the Emergency Department, and Difficult Airway Management. He is a member of the Mount Sinai Ethics Committee, a Fellow of both the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the American College of Emergency Physicians, an editor of several peer-reviewed journals in critical care, trauma, and emergency medicine, and board-certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He is the Inaugural Chair of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine's Ethics Committee, and a member of AAEM’s s Legal, Clinical Practice, and International Committees.