Team Spotlight:
ANTHONY FALCON, MPA, PA-C
Clinical Leadership Experience in Emergency Medicine
For over three decades, Dr. Komasara has built a distinguished career as an attending emergency physician, medical director, and academic professor. He is dual board-certified and a Fellow of the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Throughout his tenure, he has been a driving force in advancing clinical quality and fostering physician-hospital alignment. This leadership is grounded by his extensive experience at Garden City Hospital in Michigan, where he served as both Chairman and Vice-Chairman of Emergency Medicine, as well as Chairman of the Clinical Quality Review Committee. His administrative expertise further extends to community-wide emergency services, having previously served as the Medical Director for the Calhoun County, Michigan Medical Control Authority.
Beyond his departmental leadership, Dr. Komasara’s influence reaches deeply into the academic, athletic, and educational realms. He has shared his expertise as a Clinical Assistant Professor at both Michigan State University and Wayne State University and has spent years navigating the intersection of emergency services and sports medicine as the longtime Team Physician for the Plymouth Whalers hockey team. As a recognized authority in medical education and emergency ultrasound, he has directed numerous ultrasound review courses and lent his expertise to the Education Committee for the Michigan College of Emergency Physicians for over a decade. These varied experiences provide Dr. Komasara with a unique perspective on managing medical teams and innovating clinical care.
Interview with Anthony Falcon
Q: When did you decide to become a physician?
I became enamored with medicine while studying anatomy and physiology for a degree in personal training and massage therapy. I quickly transitioned to PA school to go deeper into medicine.
Q: What is your favorite part about working with LEP and ECP?
Our work dynamic is relaxed and collegial, insulating us from inevitable ED challenges and burnout.
Q: What do you find most exciting about your job?
The fast paced and unpredictable nature of ED medicine, never a dull or complacent moment.
Q: What do you like to do outside of work?
Playing ball with my golden doodle Sazerac, trying to make Michelin level home meals and Netflix binging.
Q: What is one thing you wish more people understood about emergency medicine?
The importance of self-advocacy: taking ownership of knowing and understanding your pathology, medications and health history.
Q: What has been the most meaningful moment in your medical career so far?
Working towards a healthy work/life balance.
Q: What advice would you give to a new physician entering the field?
Be the provider that facilitates all your colleagues. No job is beneath you, no one’s perspective is unworthy.
About Lake Emergency Partners (LEP):
Lake Emergency Partners (LEP) is an emergency medicine group with a unique partnership and ownership model that attracts emergency medicine professionals seeking the culture of accountability and innovation necessary to meet today’s healthcare challenges. LEP’s mission is to provide the highest level of patient care by valuing, supporting, and treating physicians fairly. LEP supports emergency departments within Insight Health and OSF Health Systems throughout Illinois and Michigan.
About Emergency Care Partners (ECP):
Headquartered in Pensacola, Florida, ECP is the largest single specialty provider of emergency medicine in the United States. With client partners in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Vermont, ECP currently treats more than 1,700,000 patient visits annually at 66 sites of service. ECP supports a clinical workforce of 1000+ physicians and mid-level providers. The company employs a differentiated model relative to other platforms in the industry, highlighted by the ability to maintain ownership through its physician partnership model with regional/local groups to maintain their brand and clinical autonomy while benefitting from ECP’s resources.
For more information, please visit www.ecp.net.