Standing on the Front Lines of Medicine
Emergency medicine is one of the most critical – and most challenging – fields in modern medicine. The physicians in our ranks are not only care for life-and-death injuries, traumas and illnesses, they’re often the only ones caring for the millions of under- and uninsured patients who appear in Oklahoma emergency departments every day.
The Emergency Department is the De Facto front door of the hospital and our health care system. The Emergency Physician is the leader of the Emergency Medicine team.
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OCEP is the Oklahoma Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the largest organization of emergency medicine physicians in the world.
Presidential Welcome Letter
As President of the Oklahoma College of Emergency Physicians (OCEP), I want to welcome you to our website and thank you for your interest.
The Oklahoma College of Emergency Physicians, a chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), is made up of board-certified, residency trained emergency physicians practicing in large, tertiary, and academic emergency and trauma centers, community, military, rural and tribal ERs across the state of Oklahoma.
OCEP has been present in Oklahoma since 1976 from the infancy of the specialty of emergency medicine, through the evolution of its place in the house of medicine, and the establishment of its first emergency medicine residencies. OCEP was on the front lines of the Oklahoma City Bombing, the COVID crisis and many other mass casualty disasters in our state and across the U.S. Many of our members have served gallantly in the military on the front lines and in various Army and Navy medical units around the world. We continue to serve the people of Oklahoma 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year in the de facto front door of our state’s hospitals and trauma centers.
We work extraordinarily hard to heal and treat the sick and wounded and advocate on behalf of emergency physicians, their patients, pre-hospital emergency personnel, students, residents, and emergency department staff in the pre-hospital environment, emergency departments, at the State Capitol and in Washington DC. Our physicians are trained in the acute care phase of ALL MEDICAL SPECIALTIES from mundane issues to the most acutely critically ill patients from neonatal to geriatric in age. The Emergency Department is a veritable fishbowl of medical, psychological, social, and financial problems to which our emergency physicians much master and navigate solutions daily. We are the leaders of the medical team in our state’s emergency departments. Our physicians live by the emergency medicine mantra, ANYONE, ANYTHING, ANY TIME!
As your President, I and our Board of Directors will continue to work hard on your behalf and lead the fight for emergency medicine physicians in the state of Oklahoma. Specifically, my goals during my term as President are to continue to work on member engagement and retention, developing leaders in our organization, and strengthening advocacy efforts on a state and national level. It is my goal to continue to demonstrate the value of your OCEP/ACEP membership.
I encourage anyone to contact us should you have questions regarding emergency medicine practice or training in the Great State of Oklahoma. Our promise to you is that we will continue to provide high-quality medical care to our citizens and provide educational, leadership and organizational value to our emergency physicians, students, residents, colleagues and to the community. Again, welcome to our website.
Yours sincerely and respectfully,
Kurtis A. Mayz, JD, MD, MBA, FAAP, FCLM, FAAEM, FACEP
As emergency physicians, we know you need support – and we know what support you need.
Together, we can advance the frontiers of emergency medicine, right here in Oklahoma
As a member of the Oklahoma Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, you have access to invaluable resources, advocacy, news and a network of likeminded colleagues. But, what’s more, our members will have access to you, your insights, ideas and expertise.
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Join the ranks of the Oklahoma College of Emergency Physicians and gain access to resources, education and advocacy to take your practice to the next level.
OCEP has a unique searchable map of Oklahoma ER facilities.
Quickly find the facility you require. Search by trauma designation, beds, specialties, location and more.
Total Number of Facilities
132
These are the facilities that responded to OCEP's survey.
Congratulations Dr. Goodloe!
Past OCEP president Jeff Goodloe, MD, FACEP, was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of National ACEP!
Dr. Jeffrey Goodloe served on the National ACEP Board of Directors since 2019 in multiple roles, including Chairman of the Board, Secretary-Treasurer and Vice-President of Communications. He is past president of the national Emergency Medicine Resident’s Association (EMRA) and innumerable roles in emergency medicine leadership in Oklahoma, including being Professor and core faculty at the University of Oklahoma Emergency Medicine Residency, EMS section chief of the Center for Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, two-term president of the Oklahoma College of Emergency Physicians, Emergency Medicine Advisor the the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA Basketball Club, Track Physician for NASCAR and Indy Car, Medical Director of Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) for Tulsa and OKC and medical director the the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. His leadership to the Oklahoma Emergency Medical Community cannot be measured. Quite simply, he is the best of the best in Oklahoma and nationally. He is a stud. We are all fortunate to walk in his shadows and all EM physicians in Oklahoma have directly benefitted from his work. Being such a humble servant, he would never toot his own horn. Please thank him next time you see him.
A Chat With Native American Physicians
Native Americans were the first people to practice the healing arts in the Americas, but make up the smallest demographic among emergency physicians and physicians in total. Oklahoma has more Native American emergency physicians than any other state.
Boyd Burns, DO, Named Interim Dean of OU Medical School in Tulsa
Boyd Burns DO, MBA, MHA, OCEP member and Kaiser Family Foundation Endowed Chairman of Emergency Medicine at the OU School of Community Medicine in Tulsa has been named the interim dean of the OU Medical School in Tulsa. He is the Immediate Past President of the Council of Residency Directors (CORD) and a nationally recognized voice in academic emergency medicine.
Please join us in congratulating and thanking Dr. Burns for his service.
Member Spotlight
Oklahoma College of Emergency Physicians president James Kennedye, MD, MPH, FACEP, wrote this article about his involvement in Motocross Medicine.
Spotlight on You
Would you like to be featured in OCEP’s member spotlight? Are you doing something interesting, unusual or fascinating – inside or outside of medicine? Let us know and we’ll look into including you in our next Member Spotlight.
What’s New
Find out what’s new and what’s on the horizon with the Oklahoma College of Emergency Physicians.
Did You Know?
Oklahoma Emergency Physician, Conrad Caldwell MD is a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and former F-18 Hornet and Navy Top Gun pilot.
Did You Know?
OCEP member Angela Selmon MD is a member of the famous Oklahoma Sooner Football family, the Selmon brothers, Lucious, Dewey and Lee Roy Selmon.
On both the local and national level, OCEP and ACEP work tirelessly to advocate for what emergency physicians need to best care for our patients.
Membership
The first step in joining the Oklahoma Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians is to join ACEP. But before that, why not check out some of the benefits of being a member?
About OCEP
Just who and what is the Oklahoma College of Emergency Physicians? Explore our organization further before you jump in.