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Dr. Dietrich Jehle, M.D.

Dr. Dietrich Jehle, M.D, a pioneer in the use of Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine, graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1979 and completed his residency at the University of Pittsburgh in 1982. Dr. Jehle assisted with the development of the Emergency Medicine Residency at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA in 1982 and then was a co-founder of the new Emergency Medicine Residency Program in 1994 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. There he served as Vice Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine and was the Clinical Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Erie County Medical Center, was a Tenured Professor of Emergency Medicine and became the Associate Medical Director for the hospital in 2008. Dr. Jehle was the 2008 recipient of the Distinguished Physician’s Award for ECMC. In 2009, he was selected as a voting member of the Board of Directors for the Erie County Medical Center. Dr. Jehle was appointed a Board Examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine, served on the Board of the New York Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, was a grant reviewer for the Small Business Innovation and Research Program for the National Institute of Health. In addition to his significant contributions to the use of ultrasound in Emergency Medicine, he has also been involved in research involving resuscitation, airway management, investigating motor vehicle crashes and bringing new technologies to emergency medicine. For 27 years, Dr. Jehle provided supervision of medical care for Buffalo Bill's fans and was the on-field airway physician for the Buffalo Bills at home. The American College of Emergency Physicians presented Dr. Jehle with the National Teaching Award in 2000 and the Emergency Ultrasound Award in 2001. In 2007, Buffalo Business First awarded him the “Health Care 50” Award and The Buffalo News acknowledged him as “Buffalo Outstanding Citizen of 2009” for his lifesaving efforts in a highway crash. In 2010, the New York State American College of Emergency Physicians presented him the "Advancing Emergency Care" award.

Dr. Jehle is a pioneer in his field, having co-authored several leading textbooks on emergency bedside ultrasonography, including “Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine,” the first text in its field in 1995. In 2003, he co-edited “Ultrasonography in Trauma: The FAST Exam” which was published by the American College of Emergency Physicians. He published the first study on the use of ultrasonography in blunt abdominal trauma by emergency physicians in the United States and the first emergency medicine study of the use of bedside ultrasound to evaluate gallbladder, aortic, renal and first trimester pregnancy pathology. In 2011, Dr. Jehle edited the first Emergency Eye Ultrasound text. In his role as Director of Emergency Ultrasonography, his group created a full time emergency ultrasound fellowship at the State University of New York at Buffalo in the mid 1990s. Academic emergency physicians from all over the United States and Canada participated in a mini-fellowship held at the State University of New York in bedside sonography for emergency department settings, revolutionizing the way care is provided to patients and advancing life saving techniques.

In January 2016, Dr. Jehle assumed the role of the Emergency Medicine Residency Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Grand Strand Medical Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and is a Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of South Carolina.