Michael Jay Bresler MD, FACEP

Dr. Bresler is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine. Well known as an educator, Dr. Bresler is frequently invited to lecture throughout the United States as well as internationally. His publications in the medical literature include a number of textbooks, textbook chapters, and peer reviewed journal articles.

Dr. Bresler has been quite active in a variety of health care arenas relating to Emergency Medicine. He has written both California and Federal health care legislation and has testified frequently on health care issues being considered by both the California state legislature and the United States Congress. Among his legislative accomplishments are a surcharge on vehicular fines, which raises over $200 million annually in California to support emergency care for indigent patients, a state law to prevent the “dumping” of medically unstable indigent patients from one hospital to another, and portions of the federal anti-dumping law which provide whistle blower protection.