Christopher Eric McCoy, MD, MPH

Dr. C. Eric McCoy is the designer and founder of southern California's first emergency medicine simulation fellowship program. He is also the Base Hospital Medical Director and Director of Emergency Medical Services at UC Irvine Medical Center. He graduated from UC Irvine Emergency Medicine residency program and subsequently completed a fellowship in Emergency Medical Services/Disaster Medical Sciences at UC Irvine while simultaneously completing a master of public health at UCLA.

Dr. McCoy has a passion for education and has more than 20 years of experience in designing educational curriculum and programs. He has leveraged his expertise in education and training to create both a domestic and international medical simulation fellowships where his fellows have the opportunity to educate/train and form cooperative collaborative relationships with medical students, residents, nurses, allied health professionals, EMTs, paramedics, and physicians while developing innovative simulation curriculum. Curriculum from his simulation program has been implemented at local, regional, and international levels. He completed a project where he and an EMS colleague designed and created a fully immersive prehospital medicine course overseas that was simulation based and included the army, navy, nurses, physicians, paramedics and allied health care professionals. He has utilized his expertise in EMS, public health, and education to develop novel simulation curriculum that is delivered both in and outside of the simulation center environment.

Dr. McCoy is also the course director and instructor for the school of medicine's course on the fundamentals of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics. He also teaches courses in Evidence-Based Medicine at national and international programs. Education and insight on the fundamentals of evidenced based medicine, epidemiology, and biostatistics provide a unique learning opportunity for fellows of this program and serve as the foundation for designing and implementing simulation research projects with sound methodology.

Dr. McCoy has a true passion for education and appreciates the opportunity to provide service to the community through educational offerings.