Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Huntington Beach, California, United States
Wendy C. Coates, MD is Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Senior Faculty/Education Specialist at Harbor-UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine. She served as Dean of the UCLA Acute Care College and Director of Education at Harbor-UCLA where she founded the first Fellowship in Medical Education Scholarship in 1997.
Dr. Coates’ research focus is health professions education with an emphasis on faculty and learner development, mentorship, curricular innovation and evaluation, creativity in medicine, and qualitative methods. She is a founding member of the Editorial Board for AEM Education & Training and member of the AEM Editorial Board. She is co-directing SAEM’s new Advanced Research Methodology course for Medical Education Research, “ARMED MedEd.”
Dr. Coates serves as the Secretary/Treasurer on the Board of Directors for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine after many years of active service and leadership activities within the Society that focused on advancing its mission of supporting research and education in EM. Twitter: @CoatesMedEd
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.