The Clinicians Behind AAEME's Programs.
Every AAEME course is taught by credentialed clinicians with active practice and direct medicolegal experience in impairment rating evaluation. Our faculty have built, defended, and testified to impairment rating reports in workers' compensation, motor vehicle, and disability proceedings. They are subject-matter experts in what they teach.
How AAEME Selects Its Instructors
AAEME does not operate on a single-instructor model. Each course is developed and taught by a faculty member with documented expertise in that specific clinical or methodological area. Every instructor is vetted against the same standards before they teach a single AAEME program.
Christine G. Caldwell
Christine G. Caldwell founded AAEME in 2003 after more than a decade developing the clinical, software, and educational infrastructure that now defines impairment rating practice in the United States. She is the principal architect of the CIRS™ and NIRSAT™ credentials and remains actively involved in AAEME's program development and direct support of certified physicians.
Christine has more than forty years of professional experience spanning clinical nursing, medical-legal consulting, medical file review, and impairment rating evaluation. She founded the American Academy of Expert Medical Evaluators in 2003 to deliver rigorous, accredited impairment rating education at a national scale, building on the curriculum and certification work she had developed since 1992 through WholePerson Technologies and Health Management Systems.
She is the architect of the CIRS™ designation, developed in cooperation with Tufts School of Medicine, and the NIRSAT™ program, the only privately developed impairment rating certification incorporated into a state's governing statutes. She has testified before the legislatures of California, Nevada, Maine, Texas, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin on workers' compensation cost containment and impairment rating standards, and her testimony has directly shaped the adoption of the AMA Guides as the workers' compensation standard across the federal government and 47 states and territories.
Christine continues to lead AAEME's program development, serves as the primary point of contact for certified physicians, and personally signs every CIRS™ and NIRSAT™ certificate the Academy issues.
AAEME Instructors
Listed alphabetically by surname. Every faculty member meets the standards above, teaches within their documented area of expertise, and maintains active practice in their field.
AAFP Sponsoring Physician
AAEME's continuing medical education accreditation through the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) requires a designated AAFP Fellow to serve as Sponsoring Physician. Dr. Mills is not a teaching faculty member, but his role makes AAEME's AAFP-accredited CME credit possible by ensuring curriculum alignment with AAFP Prescribed Credit criteria.
Dr. Mills is a board-certified Family Physician and senior healthcare executive with deep expertise in clinical governance, value-based benefit design, and population health management. He has served as Global Chief Medical Officer for both Goldman Sachs and Aon, designing multi-million dollar cost-savings and health initiatives for global employers.
As a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians (FAAFP) and AAEME's designated AAFP Sponsoring Physician, Dr. Mills ensures that all curriculum components align with AAFP Prescribed Credit criteria, anchoring impairment rating education to the foundational core competencies of Family Medicine.
Learn From the People Who Built This Field.
AAEME courses are taught by clinicians who do this work every day. Browse the course catalog or get in touch to discuss which program fits your practice.