James Scheulen, P.A., M.B.A.
Chief Administrative Officer, Emergency Medicine and Capacity Management, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Executive Director, CEPAR
President, Johns Hopkins Emergency Medical Services
Education
Loyola College/M.B.A. (1988)
Background
James Scheulen is the chief administrative officer for emergency medicine and capacity management for Johns Hopkins Medicine and president of Johns Hopkins Emergency Medical Services. He is responsible for the operations of five Johns Hopkins Health System emergency departments, which together manage nearly 300,000 patient visits each year. Scheulen is considered an expert in hospital and emergency department operations, and is a leader in applying system engineering concepts to health care management.
Scheulen is the founder and director of the Hopkins Access Line and Johns Hopkins Lifeline critical care transportation service. As chief administrative officer, he leads efforts to manage hospital capacity for Johns Hopkins Medicine, guiding institutional efforts at process improvement and operationalizing a one-of-a-kind command center for hospital capacity optimization.
Scheulen is active in the leadership of pre-hospital emergency medical services (EMS) and emergency preparedness for Johns Hopkins and the state of Maryland, and was appointed by the governor of Maryland to the EMS board, which oversees the operation of all EMS activity in the state. With the director of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Scheulen is responsible for the creation and ongoing operations of the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR), designed to ensure a coordinated response to critical events across the Johns Hopkins enterprise.
Scheulen has more than 30 peer-reviewed publications on topics including care of the burn patient, emergency department operations and crowding, disaster preparedness and, most recently, the use of simulation modeling in designing emergency departments and in hospital and emergency department operations.
Publications
Peterson SM, Harbertson CA, Scheulen JJ, Kelen GD. Trends and Characterization of Academic Emergency Department Patient Visits: A Five-year Review. Academic Emergency Medicine. 2018 Aug 13. doi: 10.1111/acem. 13550
Martinez, D., Kane E., Jalalpour M., Scheulen J., Rupani H., Toteja R., Barbara C., Bush B., Levin S. An Electronic Dashboard to Monitor Patient Flow at The Johns Hopkins Hospital: Communication of Key Performance Indicators Using the Donabedian Model. Journal of Medical Systems. 2018 Jun 18;42(8):133. doi: 10.1007/s10916-018-0988-4.
Hinson J., Martinez D., Schmitz P., Toerper M., Radu D., Scheulen J., Stewart de Ramirez S., Levin S. Accuracy of emergency department triage using the Emergency Severity Index and independent predictors of under-triage and over-triage in Brazil: a retrospective cohort analysis. International Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2018 Jan 15;11(1):3. doi: 10.1186/s12245-017-0161-8.
Reznek, M., Scheulen, J., Harbertson, C., Kotowski, K., Kelen, G. Contributions of Academic Emergency Medicine Programs to U.S. Health Care: Summary of the AAAEM-AACEM Benchmarking Data, Academic Emergency Medicine. 2018 Apr;25(4):444-452. doi: 10.1111/acem.13337. Epub 2017 Nov 13.
Madsen, T., Linden, J., Rounds, K., Hsieh, Y., Lopez, B., Boatright, D., Garg, N., Heron, S., Jameson, A., Kass, D., Lall, M., Melendez, A., Scheulen, J., Sethuraman, K. and Safdar, B. Current status of gender and racial/ethnic disparities among academic emergency medicine physicians, Academic Emergency Medicine. 2017 Oct;24(10):1182-1192. doi: 10.1111/acem.13269. Epub 2017 Sep 21.