Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
He authored numerous academic articles and assisted in the development of clinical guidelines on the standard of care in treating patients with suspected myocardial infarction by the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology. He performed numerous research investigations in chest pain patients, reporting the usefulness of continuous 12-lead Electrocardiogram monitoring, two-hour delta cardiac marker testing, and nuclear cardiac stress testing in the emergency room. The culmination of his studies was The Erlanger Chest Pain Evaluation Protocol published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine in 2002.
In 2011 he published a novel Nashville Skyline that received a 5 star review by ForeWord Reviews.
His most recent research involved the risk stratification of chest pain patients in the emergency department. He died unexpectedly on January 31, 2014.
He was 54. Born in 1959 in Atlanta, Georgia, Fesmire grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee and graduated high school Valedictorian from the Baylor School in 1978.
He graduated Magna Cume Laude from Harvard College in 1981. In 1992 Fesmire was elected as a Fellow of American College of Emergency Physicians.
He practiced as an emergency physician at Chattanooga Memorial Hospital from 1988 until 1991 and had been practicing at Erlanger Baroness Hospital from 1991 until his death in 2014. He was Medical Director of Chest Pain Center of Erlanger Medical Center.
He was also Professor and Clinical Research Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine and Chairman of the Clinical Policy Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians.