Shane B. Kappler, MD

Provider is directly employed by MedStar Health

Shane Kappler, MD, MS, FACEP, is the Medical Director of MedStar Health’s Biocontainment Unit, one of only 13 Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Centers in the country designated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response.

Dr. Kappler is a dual board-certified Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine physician. He completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and MedStar Washington Hospital Center and subsequently his fellowship training in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He holds dual academic appointments at Georgetown School of Medicine in both Emergency Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology.

Dr. Kappler is on the faculty at Georgetown University Graduate School where he teaches courses on topics related to Medical Preparedness, Response, and Capacity to bioterrorism threats. He has lectured nationally and internationally on topics of bioterrorism, preparedness, and disaster medicine. He served as a Department of Homeland Security Scholar and as a medical manager for a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team. He previously held a faculty appointment in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School where he worked clinically and as the Director of Disaster Preparedness at Cambridge Health Alliance in Boston, MA.

He continues to teach as core faculty for the Harvard Disaster Medicine Fellowship Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where he serves as the concentration director for CBRNE. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Notre Dame, his Medical Doctorate from Georgetown University School of Medicine, his Master of Science degree in Biohazardous Threat Agents and Emerging Infectious Diseases from Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and his Master of Business Administration from Johns Hopkins University.