Charles E. Stewart

Charles Stewart is an emergency physician and has written extensively on his 40+ year experiences "in the pit." An eclectic taste in reading and a passionate desire to put ink to paper have resulted in a wide variety of published articles, books, and computer programs. An engineering background led to an early interest in computers. Exposure in the military led to an interest in chemical warfare agents and blast effects.

Dr. Stewart is still a practicing physician. He has been board certified in Emergency Medicinefor 38 years (2022) Dr. Stewart has the European Master’s in Disaster Medicine and completed his MPH at Tulane University’s online learning program, where he also was inducted into Delta Omega, the Public Health Honor Society and received the Dean’s Scholastic Award.

He has had an interest in field emergency medicine since his second year of medical school at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a prior OK-1 DMAT member and was the medical director for OK-TF1 Urban Search and Rescue unit. He was also the medical director for the Tulsa Tech Paramedic program in Tulsa.

During his military service, he was the medical director of Fort Carson Army Hospital Emergency Department, the medical officer for the NAIC/CAIC unit of Fort Carson, and the medical advisor for the 571st Medical Detachment (Air Ambulance), one of the most active MAST units in the United States. He left the army as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1982. His initial commission was in 1969 as a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

After a research fellowship in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, he decided to write about some of his experiences. He is the author of over 150 articles and seven books, including Weapons of Mass Casualties published by Jones and Bartlett in 2003, and Emergency Airway Management, published by Brady in 2002. He served as an oral examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Stewart was a medical advisory board member for the EMS association of Colorado for many years. Dr. Stewart is a peer reviewer for Military Medicine, Emergency Medicine Reports, , The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine The European Journal of Emergency Medicine, and for Emergency Medicine Practice. He is an Editorial Board member for the European Journal of Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medicine Reports. In his spare time, he is a ‘slush’ reviewer for Baen Publications (science fiction publishing company).

He has been writing and teaching about explosives effects and biological and chemical terrorism for over 25 years, since his experience as a medical officer with the NAIC/CAIC unit. (Nuclear Accident/Incident Control and Chemical Accident/Incident Control.) He is the author of the chapter on bioterrorism in Paul Maniscalco's Understanding Terrorism published by Brady, and of the chapters on field decontamination and chemical warfare agents in John Sullivan's Toxicology, published by Williams and Wilkins. He is also the author of Bioterrorism, published by American Health Consultants in 2000, and updated in 2001. Dr. Stewart was a section editor and contributor of multiple chapters in Ciottone's Disaster Medicine in both the first edition and the second edition. He was the chair of the committee to rewrite the Basic Disaster Life Support Course chapter on Bioterrorism and has been a member of the American College of Emergency Physician’s Disaster Preparedness and Response Committee.

He has given his lectures on terrorism, disaster medicine and related topics to the United States Air Force Academy, the Coast Guard, the United States Navy, Urban Area Security Initiative and the Department of Homeland Security among many others. He has been invited to speak in multiple countries including India, Hong Cong, Italy, and France as well.

Dr. Stewart was the director of the Oklahoma Disaster Institute and a Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine until the ODI was downsized due to budget constraints. Dr. Stewart was also a visiting professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of the Urals in Sverdlovsk (Ekatrinburg), Russia (The site of the Sverdlovsk Anthrax release in 1979). He is a current Visiting Professor for the European Master of Disaster Medicine.

His hobbies include hiking, biking, metalworking, woodworking, computers and electronics, amateur radio (N0PRZ – Amateur Extra), and writing. He also shoots competitive pistol. He maintains (with his wife’s help) websites at www.storysmith.net and www.moljinar.com.