Michael Runyon, MD, MPH
Technical Director and Board Director 
North Carolina, USA

Mike is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Chief of Academic and Faculty Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of West Florida, graduating summa cum laude with a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Social Science. He received his MD, with honors, from the University of Florida and his MPH from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Mike completed his emergency medicine residency at Carolinas Medical Center, serving as chief resident during his final year. He remained at CMC for a research fellowship, joining the Emergency Medicine Faculty upon graduation. Mike founded the CMC Global Emergency Medicine Division and helped to develop the first emergency department and emergency medicine residency program in Tanzania, where he serves as an Honorary Lecturer at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam. He served as an Emergency Medicine expert reviewer for the IMAI district clinician manual and has worked with the IMAI Alliance as a Technical Consultant for several years, helping to deliver IMAI course materials over several sessions in the African and South-East Asian Regions.