Meet our Faculty
Kevin Schulz, MD, FAEMS, FACEP
Program Director, EMS Fellowship
Chief, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Section
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Assistant EMS Physician Director, Houston Fire Department
Medical Director, Memorial Hermann IRONMAN Texas Race Series
Tactical Physician, Houston Police Department SWAT Team
Kevin Schulz, MD, FAEMS, FACEP is a Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and the EMS Fellowship Program Director at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth – Houston. Dr. Schulz has over 24 years of prehospital experience, starting as a volunteer EMT, continuing through his EMS Fellowship at McGovern Medical School and on to his current position as an Assistant EMS Physician Director of the Houston Fire Department. Dr. Schulz went to medical school at Drexel University College of Medicine and completed his residency at Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, NJ. He then completed a two-year EMS fellowship at McGovern and stayed on with HFD and UTHealth after the completion of his fellowship. He is double-boarded in Emergency Medicine and EMS, and is a Fellow of the Academy of EMS (FAEMS) and a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians (FACEP). Dr. Schulz serves as the current Chair of the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP) Council of EMS Fellowship Directors and is a Past-President of the Texas Chapter of NAEMSP. he has held several positions with the Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council (SETRAC) including his current roles as Medial Director of the Cardiac Care Committee and Chair of the regional Healthcare Preparedness Coalition. He also serves as the Medical Director of the Memorial Hermann IRONMAN: Texas series of races and Co-Chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine’s Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Section. He is active in residency and medical student education about EMS and works extensively with the UTHealth Center for Interprofessional Collaboration. He has been given an Adjunct Faculty Appointment at the Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth for his contributions to mass casualty and prehospital education there. Dr. Schulz has given multiple presentations at national and regional meetings on EMS-related topics, most notably on the medical response to Hurricane Harvey in Houston and IRONMAN race medical direction topics.
He has a passion for prehospital care and for the education of the next generation of prehospital physician, and enjoys the satisfaction of watching fellowship graduates take on new and exciting roles in EMS.
Away from work, Dr. Schulz is passionate about travel, exploring new foods, cooking, tasting and collecting wine, and spending time with his wife Diana and school-aged children, Alex, and Theo. He has enjoys running and cycling, and after years of working with IRONMAN, has completed multiple 70.3 races and a full IRONMAN.
Chris Souders, MD
Faculty, EMS Fellowship
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Associate EMS Physician Director, Houston Fire Department
Chris Souders is a graduate of Baylor College of Medicine and completed his emergency medicine residency at the University of Rochester, NY. His EMS fellowship was completed with Baylor College of Medicine and the Houston Fire Department. After fellowship, he was chosen as the Associate Medical Director for the Houston Fire Department which he has held since 2003. Board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services, Dr. Souders’s primary responsibilities at HFD include dispatch protocol, provider education, and ePCR development and data analysis. Outside of the office, he enjoys traveling with his husband and exploring new places, food and wine.