NAME AND TITLE:
S. V. MAHADEVAN, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Associate Professor of Surgery/Emergency Medicine
Director, Stanford Emergency Medicine International
Stanford University School of Medicine
BRIEF BIO:
Dr. S.V. Mahadevan, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine/Surgery at Stanford University
School of Medicine, is founder and director of Stanford Emergency Medicine International (SEMI),
and he co-directs the International Emergency Medicine Fellowship. Dr. Mahadevan has an M.D.
from the UCLA School of Medicine (1992), completed residency training at UCLA/UCLA-Olive View
Emergency Medicine Residency (1996), and has been board certified by the American Board of
Emergency Medicine (ABEM) since 1998. He is a board member of the American Academy for
Emergency Medicine in India (AAEMI) and the Global Academy of Emergency Medicine (GAEM),
and he has Visiting Professor status by the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education
and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India.
He has written, traveled, and taught widely, presenting over 500 invited lectures worldwide and
authoring over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and multimedia publications. He was
instrumental in setting up India's first international paramedic training institute (2007), India’s first
prehospital research center (2009), Nepal's first Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system (2010),
India's first guidelines for prehospital care (2011) and Cambodia's first emergency medicine
strengthening program (2012). He is lead editor of the textbook, An Introduction to Clinical
Emergency Medicine, which was awarded the 2006 American Medical Writer’s Association Award:
Physician’s Category as the top medical textbook in the United States for all specialties.
Dr. Mahadevan has received numerous prestigious national and international teaching awards
including the Council of Residency Director’s (CORD) National Faculty Teaching Award (2003),
American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) National Faculty Teaching Award (2012),
California ACEP Education Award (2011), the Stanford-Kaiser Emergency Medicine Resident
Bedside Teaching Award (2003), Stanford Biodesign Faculty Teaching Award (2008), Denise
O'Leary Award for Excellence (2012), the Arthur L. Bloomfield Award: Excellence in the Teaching of
Clinical Medicine (2012), the Society for Emergency Medicine in India (SEMI) Excellence Award for
EMS (2012) and the 4th Lifeline-AAEMI Award for the advancement of EMS in India (2013).