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Joseph Sciammarella, MD, FACP, FACEP
Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Corps, U.S. Army Reserve
Joseph Sciammarella, MD, FACP, FACEP, is board-certified in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine. He is a full-time Emergency Medicine physician and has practiced Emergency Medicine for 23 years. Dr. Sciammarella served as the full-time Medical Director of the Suffolk County, NY Emergency Medical Services system from 1989-1994. He is the author of numerous scientific articles, has written chapters in several emergency medicine textbooks, and is the author/editor of an Emergency Medicine board review CD-ROM program. He has lectured extensively before national and international emergency medicine and cardiovascular care audiences. In 1994, Dr. Sciammarella was a featured participant on the nationally broadcast PBS documentary “When Seconds Count”.
Dr. Sciammarella studied Bo Fung Do Kung Fu under Phil Messina at Modern Warrior in Lindenhurst, NY for 10 years and continues to serve as Modern Warrior’s Medical Consultant. He is also an AWSDA-certified Rape Prevention Instructor, a member of the American Society for Law Enforcement Training and is a charter member and Medical Adviser to ILEETA. From 1999 - 2000 he served as the medical consultant for the defense team in the Amadou Diallo murder trial in New York State.
In 2004, at the age of 50, Dr. Sciammarella was sworn into the U.S. Army reserve as a Major in the Medical Corps. Now a Lieutenant Colonel, Dr. Sciammarella is a veteran of the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
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