Bio
Sean Rees is passionate about all things resuscitation and emergency critical care.
Dr. Sean Rees is as a highly accomplished emergency room physician with an impressive career spanning over 25 years. Raised in Moscow, Idaho, where his father was a philosophy professor at the University of Idaho, Dr. Rees developed a love for learning early on. He attended the University of Oregon and earned his medical degree from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland. Following medical school, he completed his Emergency Medicine residency at New York University (NYU) in New York City, graduating in 1998.
Dr. Rees has been board certified in Emergency Medicine since 1998 and is a Fellow of both the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. Before coming to Idaho, he spent 21 years practicing in the Portland area. An esteemed educator and author, Dr. Rees has published numerous articles and book chapters in core emergency medicine textbooks. He is a professor at the Resuscitation Leadership Academy and a contributing author for EMCrit, an internationally renowned podcast focusing on emergency medicine and critical care. Dr. Rees has also completed advanced training, including a year-long course for emergency department directors and a resuscitation/critical care fellowship.
Outside of medicine, Dr. Rees is a physician partner with the Lost Trail Ski Patrol and an avid outdoorsman. His hobbies include alpine, cross-country, and backcountry skiing, fly fishing, and road, mountain, and gravel biking. A devoted father of three daughters, he humorously describes his garage as an “REI annex,” equipped for any outdoor adventure—though he wishes he had more time to enjoy them all.
Dr. Rees is director of Emergency Medicine/Critical Care, director of Trauma and medical director of Pharmacy/Therapeutics and Infection Control at the Steele Memorial Medical Center
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