James Shoemaker

MD, FACEP

Course Co-Director

Jamie Shoemaker, MD, FACEP is an ABEM board-certified emergency physician and is a partner in the democratic EM group, Elite Emergency Physicians Inc., located in Indiana, where he practices clinically and has served as past ED Chairman and currently serves as their Director of Quality. He completed EM residency training at Western Michigan University (formerly MSU/KCMS) in Kalamazoo, MI. Among his organized medicine leadership positions, he is past president of the Indiana chapter of ACEP, an Indiana ACEP councilor, a member of multiple national and state ACEP Committees, and serves as volunteer clinical faculty for the Indiana University School of Medicine EM Clerkship and multiple other endeavors. Currently, he serves on the National ACEP Board of Directors and has served as the Vice President of Membership as well as Secretary/Treasurer, and is board liaison to the Reimbursement Committee as well as the Coding and Nomenclature Committee and multiple ACEP sections.  Dr. Shoemaker was an Inaugural ACEP David McKenzie Reimbursement Fellow and serves all of Emergency Medicine in his position on the AMA RBRVS RUC committee.  He is also co-innovator and co-director of the ACEP/EMBC Independent EM Group Master Class – a novel curriculum to empower emergency medicine colleagues to start, maintain and/or advance their own independent EM group, Dr. Shoemaker also proudly serves as an Emergency Medicine Strategic Advisor to Ventra Health.

An inaugural ACEP Reimbursement and Leadership Development Program Fellow, Dr. Shoemaker now serves as ACEP's Alternate RUC Representative at the AMA where RVU valuation for the House of Medicine is proposed for CMS.  He is intimately involved at the local, state and national level dealing in EM advocacy for his patients and colleagues, fighting for fair EM reimbursement, and tackling health care insurer tactics that negatively impact patients and colleagues.  Dr. Shoemaker also served as an Emergency Medicine Strategic Advisor for Ventra Health to share his expertise in reimbursement and advocacy with colleagues across the nation.  He currently lives in northern Indiana with his wife, Kaili, and two sons, Keegan and Aidan.

Dr. Shoemaker is the course co-director and innovator for the ACEP/EMBC Independent EM Group Master Class.