Tareg A. Bey, MD, FACEP

Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of International Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine
University of California at Irvine, School of Medicine

Dr. Tareg A. Bey is Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of International Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California at Irvine (UCI). He is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology in the U.S. and in Anesthesia and Critical Care in Europe. Before his UCI appointment in December 2000, he was Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery in the Division of Emergency Medicine and Assistant Fellowship Director for the Medical Toxicology Program at UT Southwestern Medical/Parkland Memorial Center in Dallas, Texas. Prior to his position in Texas, he completed the final two of six years of training in Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Johann Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. As an anesthesiologist, he also served as a German EMS physician on the frontlines of prehospital care, flying over 150 aeromedical missions on the rescue helicopter and responding to over 800 land-based emergency calls within Germany.  In addition, he oversaw the Shock and Trauma Room admissions at the University of Mainz, Germany. During this period, he performed over 2000 procedures in the fields of neurosurgery, head, neck and dental surgery, general, vascular and orthopedic surgery, high risk obstetrics and pediatric anesthesia. He also served on the acute pain service.

Dr. Bey has authored numerous articles and book chapters on nuclear, biological and chemical threats, medical toxicology, emergency medicine, difficult airway management and international emergency medical systems and designs. He is published in such journals as Prehospital Emergency Care, the International Journal of Disaster Medicine, Resuscitation, the Annals of Emergency Medicine, the Journal of Emergency Medicine and the German Notfall & Rettungsmedizin.  He has also authored two key front page articles for the Deutsche Ärzteblatt, the national journal for all German physicians with a circulation of over 380,000.
 
Dr. Bey has been an ATLS and PALS instructor for nearly a decade, including for the U.S. military in Germany.  He also contributed to the Advanced Hazardous Life Support (AHLS), which he currently teaches internationally. He received the Excellence in Teaching Award by the UCI School of Medicine in 2005 and three consecutive annual Faculty Student Teaching Awards by the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California. He also participated in Evidence Based Medicine Training at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Bey regularly teaches national and international courses on advanced airway management and nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) warfare and counterterrorism. He is an international speaker and has been an invited faculty at the renowned Monterrey Institute for International Studies, Center for Nonproliferation Studies.  He recently was invited to be visiting Professor and Scientific Chairman at the King Edward Memorial Hospital and the Seth G.S. Medical College in Mumbai, India. He is Senior Health Policy Advisor, Institute for Global and Regional Readiness based in Washington, D.C. and has been a Medical Advisor to the Danish Police.

Dr. Bey completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at the Beth Israel Medical Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, N.Y. and a fellowship in Medical Toxicology in Tucson, AZ. In Germany he did a residency in anesthesiology and critical care in Tubingen, Munich, and the University of Mainz. Dr. Bey earned his medical degree and a Doctorate with magna cum laude in neuropharmacology from the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany in 1987. He is a certified SCUBA rescue diver and he speaks fluent German, French and Italian. His has special interest in traveling and cooking, especially Italian cuisine.