John Bedolla , MD

John Bedolla, MD, is the USACS National Director of Risk Science. He previously served as Medical Director of Risk Management at Emergency Service Partners, now USACS South. His background includes extensive experience in peer review, state medical boards, and litigation.

Dr. Bedolla has held numerous academic roles, including clerkship director and research director at UT Southwestern and UT Austin. He is on the medical education faculty at University of Texas Dell Medical School in statistics, basic science, clinical skills, and mechanisms of disease. Dr. Bedolla has authored multiple peer-reviewed articles in wide-ranging fields, from motorcycle races to resuscitation to terrorism, but always with an eye to probability analysis. He is also active in ACEP, where he chairs the national Medical Legal Committee.

Dr. Bedolla earned his medical degree from University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He completed two years of categorical general surgery training before switching to emergency medicine. He then completed his emergency medicine residency at St. Luke's Roosevelt Medical Center, located in New York City.