his bachelor's degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a medical degree from Jefferson Medical College, and he completed his emergency medicine residency at Geisinger Medical Center. In 2009, Fales became the first emergency physician to complete the prestigious Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Security and Defense Executive Leaders Program. Over the past 10 years, Fales has secured over $13 million in federal and state research and programmatic grants. His research interests include cardiac resuscitation, EMS and disaster medicine, medical simulation and pediatric emergency care.

Charles Zeller, Jr.

Zeller will be responsible for the medical school's continuing medical education program. He has served as the director of the KCMS continuing medical education program for the past 36 years and is also an associate professor of emergency medicine. Zeller earned hisundergraduate degree from Indiana University, received his medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine and completed his residency at Michigan State University Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies. Zeller is a past president of Southwest Michigan Emergency Services PC and has served on the boards of multiple professional, charitable, benevolent and community foundations.

About the WMU School of Medicine

WMU's new School of Medicine is a partnership involving the University and Kalamazoo's two teaching hospitals, Borgess Health and Bronson Healthcare. Planning has occurred over the past four years; fundraising, accreditation work, and curriculum development for the school are well underway. Expecting to welcome its first class in fall 2014, the school is a privately funded initiative housed at WMU, which is one of the nation's 139 Carnegie-designated public research