Rita Cydulka, MD, MS

Rita Cydulka, MD, MS, retired from the full-time practice of emergency medicine (EM) at Metrohealth Medical Center in 2014. At the time of her retirement, she was a tenured professor and vice chair of the Department of EM and an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Case Western Reserve University Medical School in Cleveland. She served on the SAEM Board of Directors from 1997-2000, the ABEM Board of Directors from 2002-2010, and as President of the ABEM Board from 2007-2008. In 2008, Dr. Cydulka was honored with the SAEM Advancement of Women in Academic EM Award.

She is the author or co-author of numerous articles, abstracts, and book chapters, as well as an editor of Tintinalli's EM: A Study Guide, 7th Edition. In her retirement, she enjoys time with her family, travels, hikes, reads, works a few shifts in the ED, and serves as a ship director on Lindbald-National Geographic Ships, which are small expedition ships that travel all around the world.