David M. Schreck, M.D., M.S., FACP, FACEP, FHM

Dr. David M. Schreck is CEO of Acute Medical Management, Inc which is a management services organization whose vision is to transform the delivery of quality acute care services to outpatient community facilities at a fraction of the usual cost. Dr. Schreck was previously Vice President of Atlantic Health System, with responsibility for care transitions across the medical care enterprise including Emergency Medicine, Hospital Medicine, Urgent Care, and post-acute care.

Dr. Schreck is past Chairman of Emergency Medicine and Hospital Medicine at the Summit Medical Group in Berkeley Heights, NJ.  Dr. Schreck is also Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He has also held positions as past Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Overlook Medical Center in Summit, NJ, and Adjunct Professor of Chemical Biology and Physiology at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Prior to joining the Summit Medical Group, Dr. Schreck held the administrative positions of Chairman of Emergency Medicine at Capital Health System, Trenton, NJ, and Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center in Plainfield, NJ.  Dr. Schreck has also served as Senior Vice President of Business Development and Strategy for Emergency Medical Associates of NJ, and President and Medical Director of Emergency Medical Associates’ Urgent Care, Primary Care and Hospital Medicine divisions.  

After earning a dual BS degree in Chemistry and MS degree in Biomedical Engineering-Science in 1975 from Stevens Institute of Technology, Dr. Schreck completed his MD degree from Loyola University Chicago - Stritch School of Medicine in 1980. Dr. Schreck then completed dual residency programs in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine as a Visiting Clinical Fellow of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

As a nationally recognized emergency physician and hospitalist, Dr. Schreck has an extensive research experience in developing and implementing medical devices based on physiologic systems models including cardiac monitors and ECG diagnostic applications. Dr. Schreck is also an inventor of medical devices including the nitinol cardiovascular catheter stent.  Dr. Schreck has more than 30 years of point-of-care medical experience in the emergency department and in primary/urgent care practice and is considered an expert in designing efficient ED/urgent care operations and developing hospitalist programs. Dr. Schreck has an extensive bibliography resulting from his more than 35 years of experience in clinical research, and he has lectured nationally on asthma, acid-base fluid and electrolyte analysis, cardiac arrhythmias, clinical research methods, heart failure, electrocardiogram analysis, mathematical modeling, healthcare business operations, artificial neural network applications, and medical applications of fractal and chaotic dynamics. Dr. Schreck is a past Editor of the peer reviewed journal Computers in Biology and Medicine published by Elsevier. Dr Schreck is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the Society of Hospital Medicine. He is also the recipient of several national and state research awards in emergency and critical care medicine.