Education Working Integrated Product Team

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is pleased to announce the selection of the members and alternates for the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners (NRCME) Education Working Integrated Product Team (WIPT). The Education WIPT represents the FMCSA medical examiner candidate base in the development and maintenance of the FMCSA medical examiner training. The Education WIPT is responsible for assisting with development of the initial core curriculum specifications for medical examiner training and the first version of the online Medical Examiner Handbook. This group will have the ongoing task of assisting with the maintenance of these items.

The Education WIPT is composed of members and alternates who represent each of the primary professions performing commercial motor vehicle (CMV) driver physical examinations: doctors of medicine (MD) and osteopathy (DO), advanced practice nurses (APN), physician assistants (PA) and chiropractors (DC).

Certification Test WIPT Members & Alternates

Members	Alternates
Jim Ausfahl (MD - Illinois)	Craig Anderson (DC - Missouri)
William Lemon (DC - Alabama)	James Daniels (MD - Illinois)
Patrick Leong (DO - New Hampshire)	James Davidson (PA - Washington)
Jodi Maniscalco (PA - Massachusetts)	Thomas Moran (PA - Illinois)
Michael Megehee (DC - Oregon)	Michael Sheets (APN - Oregon)
Alfred O'Daire, Jr. (PA - Virginia)	Mark Weisberg (DO - Nevada)
Dennis Phillips (DO - Wisconsin)	Gary Wight (DC - Idaho)
Joseph Sentef, Jr. (MD - Tennessee)	John Williams, Sr. (MD - Wisconsin)
Linda Sitton (APN - Missouri)	Lucinda Zoeller (APN - Illinois)
Rebecca Sturdevant (APN - Montana)

Member Biographies
Alternate Biographies

Participant Selection

Applications for the Education WIPT were solicited through the NRCME Web site and through messages to national medical groups and medical professionals representing the primary professions performing CMV driver physical examinations.

Members and alternates were selected from geographically diverse sections of the country and represent many different work environments.

In an effort to ensure members and alternates are representative of the overall medical examiner population, they were selected based on the following criteria:

Medical profession
Work environment
Regional location
Rural and urban location
Number of CMV driver physical examinations performed annually
Number of years performing CMV driver physical examinations
Ability to make a three-to-five year commitment to serve on the WIPT
Willingness to refrain from participating in activities constituting a conflict of interest