Louis Ling is with Superior Value in Program Accreditation (SVinPA), a consulting partnership with Drs. Mary Lieh Lai and John Potts. He was Senior Vice-President for Accreditation (SVP-A) for Hospital-based specialties at the ACGME for almost nine years until Covid-19.
Previously, he was Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the University of Minnesota for seven years and Chief Academic Officer at Hennepin County Medical Center /Hennepin Healthcare for 20 years..
He practiced emergency medicine for over 35 years and at times directed the emergency medicine, medical toxicology and transitional year programs. He was editor for five editions of Rosen’s Emergency Medicine, three editions of Harwood-Nuss’ Clinical Emergency Medicine and three toxicology textbooks.
As one of the first medical toxicologists in the country, he directed a regional poison center for 18 years, published in that field, and led the medical school to the approval of the academic emergency department. Dr. Ling was Chair of the Academic Affairs and GME committees of ACEP, President of ABEM; the last Secretary-Treasurer of UAEM and helped form SAEM as the first Secretary-Treasurer. As President of SAEM, he started the journal Academic Emergency Medicine. He started the Council of Residency Directors, was on the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Physician Scholars, the planning committee for the 1994 Macy Conference on Emergency Medicine, the AMA Governing Council for the Section on Medical Schools. He was Chair of the RRC for Emergency Medicine, a member of the Institutional Review Committee and was on the ACGME Board of Directors.
He was on the faculty of the emergency department where he saw patients and taught residents at HCMC until 2021. He continues to teach medical students in simulations and procedure labs at the University of Minnesota.