Shane Kappler, MD, MS, FACEP, FAAEM

Dr. Shane Kappler is a dual board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician and Critical Care Physician. He completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at the Georgetown University Hospital and Washington Hospital Center Emergency Medicine Residency program where he served as Chief Resident. He subsequently completed his subspecialty fellowship training in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Maryland Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program where he also served as Chief Fellow. He works clinically both as an Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine physician within the Medstar Health system at their Level 1 Trauma Center. There he serves as the Director of the Section of Critical Care for the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Director of the Biocontainment Unit and Biothreats for the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care. 

Dr. Kappler is faculty at Georgetown University Graduate School where he teaches a course on Medical Preparedness, Response, and Capacity to bioterrorism threats. He has lectured nationally and internationally on topics of bioterrorism, preparedness, and disaster medicine. He has served as a Department of Homeland Security Scholar, was a medical manager for a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team, has consulted for the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center, and has lectured to FEMA on topics related to biological Pandemics. He previously held a faculty appointment in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School where he worked clinically and was the Director of Disaster Preparedness for the Department of Emergency Medicine at CHA in Boston, MA. He continues to teach as core Faculty for the BIDMC Harvard Disaster Medicine Fellowship Program and directs the fellowship concentration in bioterrorism and CBRNE. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Notre Dame, his Medical Doctorate from Georgetown University School of Medicine, his Master of Science degree in Biohazardous Threat Agents and Emerging Infectious Diseases from Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and his Master of Business Administration from Johns Hopkins University.