Amy Hildreth MD, MHPE

Education

- Masters in Health Professions Education, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
- Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- MD, George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Washington, DC
- B.S., University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD

Biography

Dr. Amy Hildreth attended the University of Maryland, and was selected for the Navy Health Professions Scholarship Program to obtain her medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is board certified in Emergency Medicine and holds an appointment as Fellow in the American College of Emergency Physicians. She separated from the Navy after six years of active duty service and joined the University Faculty as the Clerkship Director for the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine. During her military service she held academic roles at Naval Medical Center San Diego and Walter Reed National Military Center, as well as operational roles from her deployments to a Role 3 in Afghanistan as well as with a mobile Role 2 stationed out of Bahrain. Dr. Hildreth has an extensive background in simulation and education, she completed her Masters in Health Professions Education at the Uniformed Services University in 2023.

Career Highlights: Positions, Projects, Deployements, Awards and Additional Publications

Dean’s Annual Teaching Award, NCR Clinical Sciences Faculty, USU (2025)

Dean’s Impact Award, USU (2025)

Expeditionary Resuscitative Surgical System 29, Task Force 51/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade (2022)

EM Academic Director, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (2021-2023)

Assistant Program Director, Naval Medical Center San Diego, Emergency Medicine Residency (2019-2021)

NATO Role 3 MMU, Kandahar Afghanistan (2018)

Representative Bibliography

Hildreth AF, Cole R, Shen C, Rudinsky SL, Matolinets N. Givens M. Modern military mass casualty response: A qualitative study from medical responders in the Ukraine Conflict. Diast Med Pub Health Prep. 2025;20:e6. Published online December 26, 2025. doi:10.1017/dmp.2025.10226

Hildreth AF, Pearce E, Rudinsky SL, Shen C, Cole R. Do students learn from playing the patient? A study of peer role-play in prehospital simulation. Sim in Healthcare. Published online December 12, 2025. doi:10.1097/SIH.0000000000000904

Cole R, Pearce E, Kenny S, Hildreth AF. Strategies for teaching uncertainty tolerance in medical education: A qualitative study. J Amer Coll Emerg Physicians Open. 2025;7(1):100298. Published online December 12, 2025. doi:10.1016/j.acepjo.2025.100298

Hildreth AF, Austin A, Monahan P, Battista A. The critical missing piece: Investing in military healthcare simulation professionals for enhanced readiness. Mil Med. Published online November 9, 2025. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usaf555

Hildreth AF, Cole R, Henderson J, Shen C. Time is a Tool: Evaluation of a prolonged casualty care curriculum with a focus on temporal fidelity. Mil Med. 2025; 190(7-8):e1727-e1733. doi:10.1093/milmed/usaf017. PMID 39836376.

Yue IL, Allen DS, Chung J, Ruppert A, Papalski WN, Sons N, Zarow G, Good CJ, Devenny LE, Cady HJ, Sonntag EMD, Adams RC, Hildreth AF. Self-described training needs of Special Operations Forces medics and the birth of the TACMED division. J Spec Oper Med. 2024;24(3):49-57. PMID: 39288031.

Hildreth AF, Maggio LA, Iteen A, Wojahn AL, Cook DA, Battista A. Technology-enhanced simulation in emergency medicine: Updated systematic review and meta-analysis 1991-2021. AEM Educ Train. 2023 Mar 14;7(2):e10848. doi: 10.1002/aet2.10848. PMID: 36936085; PMCID: PMC10014971.