Dr. Fowler has played an important role in the history of EMS medical direction and provider education. He served on the initial steering committee to form the National Association of EMS Physicians, later becoming its fourth President, and he is past-President of the Georgia College of Emergency Physicians. He was a leader in the expansion and proliferation of the Basic Trauma Life Support International program, having served as National Program Director and BTLS Medical Director for the State of Georgia. A native of Georgia, he is now in his thirty-first year of emergency medicine practice and EMS medical direction, having been Medical Director of Parkway Medical Center Emergency Department in Lithia Springs, Georgia for twenty years and on the state EMS council of Georgia for almost thirty years.
He is now Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Surgery, and Allied Health at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Attending Emergency Medicine Faculty at Parkland Memorial Hospital Emergency Department, the Chief of Operations for the Dallas Area BioTel System, and Co-Chief of the Section on EMS, Disaster Medicine, and Homeland Security at the University of Texas Southwestern.
A prolific author of over twenty textbook chapters on emergency medicine, Dr. Fowler is Senior Editor for the new edition of Prehospital Systems and Medical Oversight, the upcoming textbook from the National Association of EMS Physicians and for which he was a founding author. He was a founding author of the National EMS Medical Director Training Course and Practicum. He is a contributing author for numerous recent textbooks including Lippincott?s The Medical Response to Terrorism, Lippincott?s Tactical Emergency Medicine, and McGraw-Hill?s The Paramedic. He is a principal author and designer of the National Disaster Life Support program, jointly developed and sponsored by the AMA, CDC, DHS, Medical College of Georgia, and UT Southwestern Medical Center, one of the most active disaster and anti-terrorism training programs in the nation.
Dr. Fowler is avidly involved in international EMS research. He is Co-Principal Investigator for the Dallas Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium and Co-Principal Investigator for the Dallas arm of the NIH-NHLBI IMMEDIATE trial. Through these studies, Dr. Fowler is leading the EMS coordination in Dallas and Fort Worth of some fourteen hundred paramedics in research in CPR, traumatic hemorrhagic shock, traumatic brain injury, and acute coronary syndromes.
A gifted and acclaimed lecturer in all areas of EMS, Dr. Fowler is now leading the EMS continuing education industry through his work in streaming Internet-based EMS education at www.utsw.ws. A collection of his lectures, as well as his novels in progress, ?A Time in Space? and ?Spring in the Woods?, may be found at his website, www.rayfowler.com.
Fowler RL, Pepe PE, "Fluid resuscitation in the patient with major trauma" Curr Opin Anaesth, 15:173-178, April 2002
Fowler RL, Pepe PE, Lewis RJ, "Shock evaluation and management" In: Basic Trauma Life Support, Campbell JE (Ed), 4th ed:95-106, 2000
Fowler RL, "EMS Legislation" In: Prehospital Systems and Medical Oversight, Kuehl A (ed), 2nd ed 1994
Fowler RL, "Interpretation of Electrocardiograms Video Tape Series, Principal lecturer" Mosby Publishing, 1993
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