School of Medicine | University of Colorado



Highlands Ranch Hospital

1500 Park Center Drive

Highlands Ranch, CO 80129

Office: 720-516-1202

Email: Benjamin.usatch@

BEN USATCH, M.D.

|Work Experience | |

| |University of Colorado Health |

| |Attending Physician, 2018-present |

| |Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine |

| |Medical Director, Highlands Ranch Emergency Department |

| |Founding member Medical Executive Committee |

| |Quality and Safety |

| |Peer Review |

| |Emergency Management |

| |Credentials Committee Chair |

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| |Main Line Health-Lankenau Hospital |

| |Attending Physician, 2003-2018 |

| |Director of Emergency Medical Services, 2004-2018 |

| |Deputy Director of Emergency Department, 2010-2018 |

| |Manage all mid-level practitioners for the group |

| |Hospital Chest Pain Committee |

| |Hospital Stroke Committee |

| |Hospital Disaster Committee |

| |Hospital Credentialing Committee |

| |Quality control for Emergency Department QA and revisits |

| |Medical Director of MLH Based Community Paramedicine Program |

| |Systems medical director pre-hospital care and disaster management |

| |Board of Director, Main Line Emergency Medicine Associates |

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| |Mercy Health Systems (2001-2013) |

| |Director of Emergency Medical Services and Attending Physician, 2001-2004 |

| |Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine |

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| |Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (2005-2013) |

| |Note rater. Graded written notes of student physicians and foreign medical graduates for medical licensure |

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| |Episcopal Academy (2002-2018) |

| |School physician responsible for medical policy development and oversight of nurses and sports trainers |

| |Provide medical care and supervision for sporting events |

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| |Elk Mountain Ski Center (1986-2019) |

| |Patrol physician |

| |Senior certified Patroller |

| |Winter Emergency Care Instructor and Preceptor |

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| |Camp Physician (2003-2015) |

| |New Jersey Y camps; responsible for primary and emergency care of 800 campers and staff |

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| |Holland America Lines |

| |Ship physician and line officer responsible for emergency care of 2400 passengers aboard cruise ship |

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| |Medical Reserve Corp (2016-Present) |

| |Volunteer physician deployed for mass gatherings, catastrophic events and medical support as requested by the state|

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| |Dumont Export Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |

| |General Manager and Vice President (1984-1994) |

| |Ran corporate operations of international export company, managing 7 supervisors and 120 employees. Frequent |

| |travel to Africa, Europe and Asia. |

|Emergency Medical Services | |

| |Volunteer Medical Services Corporation of Lower Merion and Narberth (1982-Present) Lower Merion, Narberth, |

| |Conshohocken and Radnor |

| |Medical director: responsible for all aspects of quality assurance, provider competency, paramedic education and |

| |protocol implementation |

| |Program development and supervision over 4 EMS physicians participating in a field physician response program |

| |Paramedic-National Registry |

| |Board of Directors |

| |Former president, Board of Directors |

| |Tactical physician supporting SWAT team and patrol officers |

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| |Montgomery County EMS (2006-2018) |

| |Regional County Medical Director: one of 16 in Pennsylvania. Responsible for countywide medical oversight of 95 |

| |ambulances and over 1000 providers |

| |State Medical Advisory Committee member: development and implementation of state protocols |

| |County Medical Advisor Committee Chairman |

| |Medical Director for County EMS academy |

| |Director of County Physician Response Team |

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| |Mercy Health Systems (2001-2010) |

| |Medical Director Mercy Hospital Paramedics: responsible for all aspects of quality assurance, provider competency, |

| |paramedic education and protocol implementation |

| |Medical Director Region 1 Emergency Response Team-tactical EMS unit |

| |Developed and implemented tactical care protocols for SWAT |

| |Officers and medics |

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| |Whitemarsh Ambulance (1988-2009) |

| |Former assistant chief, lead paramedic and paramedic |

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| |Command Physician |

| |AMR Ambulance (2016-2018) |

| |Riddle EMS (2016-2018) |

| |Falck Ambulance (2015-2016) |

| |Boothwyn Fire Department (2014-2018) |

| |Transcare Ambulance (2005-2018) |

| |Radnor Ambulance (2005-2011) |

| |Medical Director: responsible for all aspects of quality assurance, provider competency, paramedic education and |

| |protocol implementation |

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| |Plymouth Ambulance (2003-2006) |

| |Associate Medical Director tactical EMS unit |

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| |AED Medical Director (2000-2018) |

| |Protocol development and deployment review for public and municipal programs |

| |Lower Merion Police Department |

| |Lower Merion Fire Departments |

| |Delaware County Fire Services |

| |Multiple private and public schools in Montgomery County Pennsylvania |

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| |Montgomery County EMS Council (2005-2018) |

| |Physician appointee to EMS Advisory Council |

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| |AllState Career Institute (2005-2018) |

| |School medical director for EMS Division |

| |Responsible for curriculum development and approval |

| |Participate in didactic and practical training of students |

| |Maintain quality assurance |

| |Determine eligibility for matriculation |

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| |Mass Gathering Experience |

| |Republican & Democratic National Conventions-support/field physician |

| |Final 4 (4/16)-medical control, field physician for Villanova Basketball championship |

| |Hoops Mania (11/15)-medical control for Villanova basketball event |

| |Papal Visit (9/15)- Operational control of extensive resources and personnel around St. Charles Seminary and |

| |Lankenau Hospital |

| |Radnor Hunt horse race-course physician (2013-15, 2018) |

| |US OPEN-support physician and assistant medical director (4/14) |

| |Maccabe Games-event physician (6/14) |

| |Core States bicycle race-support physician (2009-2012) |

| |Stonewall Golf Tournament-Field Physician for USGA event (5/16) |

| |NASCAR field physician (7/17) |

| |Main Line Bike Race- course physician (8/17) |

| |Hoops Mania (9/17)-medical control for stadium-based Villanova basketball event |

| |Land Rover US Grand Prix-Copper Mountain-Course Physician. |

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|Education | |

| |University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado |

| |BA in Political Science, 1984 |

| |Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |

| |Post-baccalaureate program, 1993 |

| |Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |

| |Medical Degree, 1998 |

|Residency | |

| |Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |

| |Emergency Medicine Residency, 2001 |

|Licensing | |

| |Board Certification Number 210099 (2023) |

| |EMS Board Certification (2025) |

| |Pennsylvania License Number MD072305L |

| |Colorado Medical License DR. 0059476 |

| |New Jersey Medical License 25MA10122700 |

|Certifications | |

| |Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider |

| |Advanced Cardiac Life Support Instructor |

| |Advanced Trauma Life Support |

| |Advanced Trauma Life Support Instructor |

| |OEC Instructor |

| |Basic Life Support Instructor |

| |Pediatric Advance Life Support |

| |Pediatric Advance Life Support Instructor |

| |Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support |

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|Presentations and Publications | |

| |Usatch BR, Cone DC. AED Training and Skill Retention at a Ski Patrol. Poster presented at ACEP, October 2000, |

| |Philadelphia, PA. |

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| |Usatch BR, Kaplan LJ. Medical Emergencies in US Theme Parks: Focus on Automatic Defibrillator Utilization. Poster |

| |presented at PA ACEP, May 2000, York, PA. |

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| |Usatch BR, Lopez BR. Exogenous Nitric Oxide (NO) attenuates Plasma NO levels and improves vasoconstriction in a rat|

| |model of sepsis. Paper presented at SAEM, May 1998, Chicago, IL. |

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| |4/03 “Shock Management”. MCP Medical Conference, Philadelphia, PA |

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| |7/04 “Airway Management: New tools for an old problem”. PEHSC State Conference, Lancaster, PA |

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| |1/05 “Shock Management for the BLS Provider”. National Collegiate EMS Conference, Philadelphia, PA |

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| |3/05 “Current Cardiac Controversies in EMS”. EMS today/JEMS Conference, Philadelphia, |

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| |4/05 “Acute Coronary Syndromes”. EMS Medical Conference, Rosemont, PA |

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| |11/05 “Role of the Tactical Physician”. Tactical EMS symposium 2005, Chester, PA |

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| |3/07 “Primary Care in the Street”. EMS Today 2007 Baltimore, MD |

| |“Pain Management and Sedation” |

| |“Lightning Rounds with the Street Docs” |

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| |2/08 “Pathophysiology of Bleeding”. National Collegiate EMS Conference, Philadelphia, PA |

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| |Usatch, BR. “The New Hemophiliacs”. JEMS. March 2008: 90-101 |

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| |3/08 “The New Hemophiliacs”. EMS Today 2008 Baltimore, MD |

| |“Pain Management 2008” |

| |“Lightning Rounds with the Street Docs” |

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| |11/08 “Integrating EMS into STEMI management”. EMS-Cardiology Conference, Wynnewood, PA |

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| |Greenwald, E, Usatch, BR. “Broken Heart Syndrome”. JEMS. March 2009: 32-36 |

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| |Usatch, BR. “When Lightning Strikes” JEMS. April 2009: 36-40 |

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| |10/09 “Airway Management in the Trauma Patient”. Trauma Symposium, Ardmore, PA |

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| |11/09 “Pre-hospital Management of the Stroke and STEMI patient”. Hospital symposium, Wynnewood, PA |

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| |2/10 “Shock Management for the EMS Provider”. National Collegiate EMS Conference, Baltimore, MD |

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| |10/10 “Medical Command Oversight”. Panel Moderator. EMS Administration Summit, Conshohocken, PA |

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| |10/10 RAMPART: Rapid Anticonvulsant Medication Prior to Arrival Trial. At site principle investigator |

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| |11/10 “The Differential of Chest Pain”. Cardiology Conference, Wynnewood, PA |

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| |3/11 “The Games Teenagers Play”. EMS Today 2011 Baltimore, MD |

| |“End of Life Care for the Prehospital Provider” |

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| |11/11 “Teenage Foleys”. Dual county education symposium, Bucks County PA |

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| |2/12 “Drugs of Abuse and Adolescent Challenges”. National Collegiate EMS Conference, Baltimore, MD |

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| |3/12 “Head Injury and the Traumatic Airway”. Trauma symposium, Ardmore, PA |

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| |11/12 “Seconds Count”. Cardiology Review, Wynnewood, PA |

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| |4/13 “OB Emergencies”. Pediatric Symposium, Ardmore, PA |

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| |11/13 “Winter Sports Injuries”. Journal of Trauma |

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| |9/14 “Advanced Skills for the Basic Provider”. Villanova University |

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| |11/14 “The New Era of EMS care: PA Rules and Regulations”. Wynnewood, PA |

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| |2/15 “OB Emergencies” National Collegiate EMS Conference. Baltimore, MD |

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| |2/15 “Ketamine for the Prehospital Provider”. EMS Today 2015 Baltimore, MD |

| |“End of Life Care for the Prehospital Provider” |

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| |11/15 “Papal visit Hot-wash and PA updates”. Wynnewood, PA |

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| |11/15 “Ketamine Use in the Street”. New Jersey State EMS Conference, Atlantic City, NJ |

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| |4/16 Harmonious Consultations: Overdose in the ER |

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| |5/16 WBEB radio interview: “Surviving stroke” |

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| |5/16 WDAS radio interview: “What to do if you have a stroke” |

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| |5/16 Journal Club: Merging EMS with research |

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| |9/16 Opioid Overdose and Narcan Utilization: How to care for those around us, Wynnewood, PA |

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| |11/16 “Every Second Counts”. Cardiology Seminar. Wynnewood, PA |

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| |1/17 “Schwartz Rounds: A challenging overdose” |

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| |2/17 “The Art of the Differential in EMS”. Paoli, PA |

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| |3/17 “Ketamine for the field provider: Excited Delirium and Beyond”. Rowan University, NJ |

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| |4/17 “Opioid Symposium: Management for the layperson” Aracadia University, PA. |

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| |4/17 “Patient transport and case discussions”. Recognizing and Responding to Neurologic Emergencies. Wynnewood, PA |

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| |4/17 “2017 Speaker Trainer for Activase lecturers”. Webinar |

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| |8/17 Resident Grand Rounds “Challenging stroke presentations” |

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| |8/17 Lankenau Grand Rounds “The Kinematics of Trauma” |

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| |9/17 “Ketamine for the field: Next steps in the protocol” PA EMS Conference. Lancaster, PA |

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| |9/17 “Atypical Stroke presentations” Oregon EMS Conference. Bend, OR |

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| |10/17 “Harmonious Consultation: An interesting case of crush syndrome” Wynnewood, PA |

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| |10/17 EMS Expo: Clinical scenario preparation and physician medical director for I-Sim clinical challenge. Las |

| |Vegas, NV |

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| |1/18 Paoli EMS conference “The state of the protocols: What’s new and what’s coming” |

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| |3/18 GFAC Regional EMS Conference “Infectious Disease for the Streets”, Malvern, PA |

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| |5/18 “From Deficits to Disability in Ischemic Stroke”. Meridian Neuroscience Symposium, Hackensack, NJ |

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| |6/18 “An Evaluator’s View of the EMS World Expo Clinical Challenge”. EMS |

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| |1/19 “Change of Mental Status on the Slopes”. University of Colorado Dept of Wilderness Medicine training. Loveland|

| |ski area. |

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| |1/19 “Slope-side Stroke Management”. Eldora Ski Area |

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| |1/19 “Slope-side Chest Pain Management”. Eldora Ski Area |

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| |9/19 “Current Stroke Management for the EMS Provider”. Oregon State EMS Conference |

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| |9/19 “Ask the Street Doctors Panel”. Oregon State EMS Conference |

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| |9/19 “The Art of the Differential”. Oregon State EMS Conference |

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| |11/19 “Back to the Basics: Improving Stroke Outcomes”. Dignity Health. Sacramento, CA. |

|Awards | |

| |2013-2018 Top Doctors-Emergency Medicine |

| |Main Line Today Magazine |

| |Physician of the Year, Distinguished Leadership Award, Delaware Valley Stroke Council, 2011 |

| |Local Hero Award, Neighborhood Excellence Initiative, Bank of America 10/08 |

| |Citation from Pennsylvania House of Representatives-10/03 |

| |Pennsylvania Emergency Physician of the Year-2003, Pennsylvania Emergency Health Services Council |

| |2018 David J Lindstrom EMS Innovation Award, PA EMS Council |

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