Dr. Matthew Fuller is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Fuller also is Director of Global Health and Director of Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship in the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Fuller has a longstanding interest in underserved and at risk populations, and has current and historical collaborative projects in Syria, Peru, Vietnam, and the Navajo Nation.
Currently, Dr. Fuller is Executive Chair of Ayni Wasi/Sacred Valley Health, a community health worker focused NGO in the Sacred Valley of Peru. This organization has strong relationships with a growing number (15) of indigenous communities where CHWs are trained in a longitudinal curriculum and coordinate with government health clinics to provide health surveillance, education and empowerment to local populations, some of whom reside at over 14,000 feet!
Dr. Fuller is also ACEP deputy ambassador to Vietnam, where he has long running collaborative projects with Vietnamese partners at two of the largest centers of care in Ho Chi Minh City, focused on providing robust Emergency Medicine focused education to colleagues. The Diploma in Emergency Medicine is the only specialty specific, significant and formalized training process for physicians practicing in Emergency settings country wide currently. It is supported by the Vietnamese Society of Emergency Medicine, and has attracted the attention of the Vietnamese Ministry of Health as a model for further Emergency Medicine educational efforts country wide.
Dr. Fuller conceptualized and contributed substantially to the Syrian Emergency Medicine Education Collaborative (SEMEC), during the Syrian Civil War, providing education and support for healthcare providers under extreme duress. During the course of a year, the collaborative provided training, support in decision-making, for a large number of Syrian colleagues.
As Director of the Global Emergency Medicine fellowship, Dr. Fuller has mentored and graduated over 10 fellows over the past decade. He has expanded the fellowship successfully to a contingent of 2 fellows, expanded partnership with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, offering fellows additional training for a Master’s of Science in Public Health Degree, and helped mentor colleagues in Global Health across medical specialties.
Dr. Fuller has numerous publications contributing to the larger body of Global Health and Public Health, with publications featured in The Salt Lake Tribune, KSL, and global publications including The Guardian and Newsweek. He is active in Air Quality advocacy locally within Salt Lake City, Utah and globally.
