Coppola and his wife celebrated the birth of their second son, Luca Christian, on March 5; he joins brother Antonio Timothy, who just turned 2. Coppola is academic chair and program director of the emergency medicine residency program at John Peter Smith Health Network in Fort Worth, TX; adjunct clinical professor of emergency medicine at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Worth; and deputy surgeon of the Texas Medical Brigade, Texas State Guard. He also is serving a two-year term as speaker of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), of which he is a fellow; this deliberative assembly brings to ACEP the collective wisdom and counsel of its chartered chapters, sections, the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association, the Association of Academic Chairs in Emergency Medicine, the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
