After his graduation from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in 1973, Dr. Stephan G. Lynn, MD completed a five year training program in the Department of Surgery at the Roosevelt Hospital in 1978 and received his certification from the American Board of Surgery in 1979. In 1978, he began the lifelong practice of Emergency Medicine and in 1979 and 1981 became the Director and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center. In 1983, Dr. Lynn became the first Board Certified Emergency Physician anywhere in the Columbia University System. Since then, he has served on the committee that defined trauma center standards for New York City and, later, New York State. He became the Chair of the Regional EMS Council of New York City, the state designated agency responsible for Emergency Care in the City and was the founding Chair of the Regional Emergency Medical Advisory Committee (the physician’s committee of REMSCo). He was elected the President of the New York Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians and in the early nineties chaired the National ACEP taskforce on Hospital and Emergency Department Overcrowding. As a primary author for the American College of Emergency Physician’s textbook on ED Design, Dr. Lynn continues to serve on the American Institute of Architects – HCFA taskforce that writes Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospital and Health Care Facilities, the national standard for all hospital construction. Dr. Lynn founded the Emergency Medicine Residency at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital that now has grown to one of the most successful EM residencies in NYC; the program has 42 residents and an ultrasound fellowship. He is proud of his community work and is presently the Vice President of the West 69th Street Block Association and is President of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. He was just honored as one of the Founders of the St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Crime Victim’s Treatment Center, the first comprehensive Rape and Domestic Treatment Center in New York State.