Ronald A. Hellstern MD, FACEP

Ron Hellstern received both his undergraduate and medical degrees with honors from the University of Missouri-Columbia where he was also elected to membership in the medical honor society Alpha Omega Alpha.

He has had a highly entrepreneurial career founding the Dallas-Fort Worth CareFlight air ambulance service, the Primacare Medical Center network of physician-owned urgent care centers in DFW, a regional emergency medicine contract ED staffing company, billing and transcription companies, and a large multi-specialty group practice management firm, also based in Dallas-Fort Worth.

Dr. Hellstern has had extensive practice management, coding, billing, and medical leadership development experience. He is a charter faculty member of the American College of Emergency Physicians' Emergency Department Director's Academy and currently represents emergency medicine on the Emergency Nurses' Association Nurse Staffing Guidelines Task Force.