Teresa Riech, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACEP

Dr. Teresa Riech trained at University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford, completing a combined Doctorate of Medicine and Masters of Public Health program. The focus of her Masters degree is Health Policy and Administration. She completed the combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics program at Indiana University, followed by Emergency Medicine Residency at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria. She is an attending physician in the Emergency Department at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, and since 2011 has served as the Director of the Pediatric Emergency Department. She is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics. In addition to her civilian career, Dr. Riech also served in the Illinois Air National Guard and US Air Force for 21 years, recently retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. During her military career, she served as a flight medic, and then an F-16 Flight Surgeon. Her military career took her on medivac and disaster response missions in locations such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Guyana South America, as well as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. She also served as an emergency response physician for NASA’s shuttle program. Her research interests include pain management in the Pediatric ED population, disaster preparedness, and Virtual Reality training programs, most recently in development of virtual reality training programs for Emergency Medicine training and mass casualty disaster response.