John P. Bedolla MD, FACEP

John Bedolla, M.D., is the assistant director of research education and an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Dell Medical School. He has been a faculty member since 1998. since He previously served as a affiliate faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and faculty at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Bedolla holds a Bachelor of Arts from the Plan II Honors program at The University of Texas at Austin. He graduated from UT Southwestern Medical School and trained in surgery at Oregon Health Sciences University and in emergency medicine at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt in New York City.

He is a fellow of the Texas Leadership and Advocacy Program of the Texas College of Emergency Physicians. He is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the Society for Medical Decision Making, the American Stroke Society, the American Society for Health Care Risk Management, and the International Council of Motorsports Sciences.

Bedolla has served in many leadership roles including as medical student clerkship director, hospital chief of staff, morbidity and mortality director, peer review director, and physician liaison for a state medical board. He is the director of risk management for Emergency Service Partners, which has about 1.2 million patient visits per year. Bedolla is also creator and director of SafetyCore, an evidence-based medical risk reduction program.