Physician Receives Prestigious Award
POSTED: June 1, 2008
Dr. C. David Burkland, district medical director at MedExpress Urgent Care, was honored with the Excellence in Emergency Medicine Award by the West Virginia chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Burkland was recognized for his decades of mentoring medical students and residents, including student nurses, physician assistants, EMTs, and paramedics. In his extensive career, Burkland has been on the state Advanced Cardiac Life Support faculty, and a national representative for International Trauma Life Support, formerly Basic Trauma Life Support, which he led in West Virginia and helped to establish in other states when the program was started.
He was department chair of Emergency Medicine at Wheeling Hospital, where he served on several hospital committees, and participated in, or spearheaded, patient care and quality improvement initiatives. Burkland is a past president of the West Virginia Chapter of ACEP and served the organization for many years.
Burkland is District Medical Director at MedExpress Urgent Care, which has centers in both West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and prides itself on providing exceptional customer service in a welcoming environment.
The West Virginia ACEP commends Burkland for being “recognized statewide as an expert in Quality Assurance and Customer Service, with an emphasis on patient centered care, which has inspired those with whom he has worked, as well as those he has taught.î He wrote the chapter on Quality Assurance and Continuous Process Improvement for Howell’s Emergency Medicine, Vol. 1, published in 1998.
