Louis J. Ling, M.D.

Louis J. Ling, M.D. is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pharmacy and Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the University of Minnesota Medical School, as well as Associate Medical Director for Medical Education at Hennepin County Medical Center, both in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School and did his residency in emergency medicine at the University of Chicago. He spent one year on the faculty at the University of Illinois before returning to the University of Minnesota. He has practiced emergency medicine for over 25 years at Hennepin County Medical Center and at times has been responsible for the training programs in emergency medicine and the transitional year and has been the Medical Director of the Hennepin Regional Poison Center. Dr. Ling has published in medical toxicology and is co-editor of five textbooks in medical toxicology and emergency medicine.

He has served as chair of the Academic Affairs Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians and is Past-president of both the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He is Past-chair of the Residency Review Committee in Emergency Medicine, was a member of the Institutional Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and Past-chair of the Certification Committee of the American Association of Poison Control Centers. He is currently on the Governing Council of the Section on Medical Schools of the American Medical Association.