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Services system of Kansas City, Mo. He subsequently served as its first
Medical Director. Waeckerle founded the Emergency Medicine Residency Association (EMRA) in 1974 which represents emergency medicine residents to all major organizations within the specialty and other organizations in the house of medicine. He became a member of the
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Club, invited to do so in 1990. He continued in that role until 2010. He has also served the NFL as a member of the
Committee on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury from 1995 until 2009 when that committee was retired. He was then appointed to the new committee, Head, Neck and Spine Injury Committee of the
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Official Liaison in Disaster Medicine for the American College of Emergency Physicians. He chaired the Task Force on Domestic
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had collapsed" at the Hyatt
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