Dr. Dietrich Jehle, MD

Dietrich Jehle, MD, FACEP, RDMS serves as Program Director, Professor, and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Dr. Jehle assisted with the development of the Emergency Medicine Residency at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA in 1982. He relocated to Buffalo, NY to develop a new Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the University of Buffalo which began in 1994 for which he served as the APD. He served as Vice Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at State University of New York at Buffalo, was the Clinical Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) for 17 years, Dietrich was promoted to the rank of Tenured Professor of Emergency Medicine and became the Associate Medical Director for the hospital in 2008. Dr. Jehle was the 2008 recipient of the Distinguished Physician Award for ECMC. In 2009, he was selected as a voting member of the Board of Directors for the Erie County Medical Center.
For 27 years, Dr. Jehle provided supervision of medical care for game day guests for the Buffalo Bills and has been the on-field airway physician for Buffalo Bills home games. The American College of Emergency Physicians presented Dietrich with the National Teaching Award in 2000 and the Emergency Ultrasound Award in 2001. In 2007, Buffalo Business First awarded him the Health Care 50 Award, and The Buffalo News acknowledged him as Buffalo Outstanding Citizen of 2009 for his lifesaving efforts in a highway crash that he witnessed. In 2010, NYACEP presented him with the "Advancing Emergency Care" award.
January 2016, Dr. Jehle transitioned to assume the role of the Founding Emergency Medicine Residency Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Grand Strand Medical Center and Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of South Carolina. Dietrich was recruited to the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2021 to serve as chairman and program director for the emergency medicine residency program which was approved in 2023.