USMLE Road Map: Emergency Medicine

Assistant Residency Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, John Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL Joseph Weber, Ph.D. (San Francisco, CA) has more than a decade of experience in digital video and its application to television services. He is currently Director of Product Management at personal video recorder (PVR) pioneer TiVo, Inc. Previously, as Director for Digital Video Platforms in the Strategic Assessment department for Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Dr. Weber participated in the department’s analysis of new technologies and business models that affect the cable industry. His particular focus was on the next generation of digital video technology and the transition of cable services to digital technologies. Dr. Weber also served as a product marketing manager at C-Cube Microsystems and participated in the development of consumer MPEG-2 video encoding technology, including the first PVR devices. Dr. Weber received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. His thesis was on the measurement and use of visual motion, in particular as applied to robotics. He also holds a Master of Arts in Physics from Berkeley, an MBA from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Notre Dame. After completing his Ph.D., he was a lecturer at the California Institute of Technology and then at Santa Clara University, where he taught classes on video compression, image processing, and computer vision.

• USMLE Road Map: Emergency Medicine1. Resuscitation2. Cardiovascular Emergencies 3. Pulmonary Emergencies 4. Abdominal Emergencies 5. Infectious Disease Emergencies 6. Genitourinary Emergencies 7. Obstetrics and Gynecology 8. Pediatrics 9. Toxicology 10. Environmental Emergencies 11. Metabolic/Endocrine Emergencies 12. Hematologic and Oncologic Emergencies 13. HEENT Emergencies 14. Neurologic Emergencies 15. Trauma 16. Orthopedics 17. Dermatology 18. Common Procedures