Current Professional Positions: Chairman of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Vice President, University of Physician Associates.

Group: University Physicians Associates and faculty, Department of Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center.

Residency: Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, 1976 1978; Emergency Medicine Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 1978- 1980.

Year Appointed to Board: 2007


Bio: Dr. Sklar has served as chairman of the department of emergency medicine for the University of New Mexico School of Medicine since 1993 and senior associate dean of the university's school of medicine from 2002-2005. He also has served as chief of staff from 1995 to 1997 and vice chairman for the department of emergency medicine from 1991-1993. Previously Dr. Sklar served as clinical director of the emergency department and medical director for the Albuquerque Fire Department.

At the state level, Dr. Sklar has served in numerous leadership roles, including president of the New Mexico Chapter of ACEP and co-chair of the Chapter's Continuing Education Committee.

He received his medical degree from Stanford University Medical School in 1976 and completed fellowships in emergency medicine at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, in 1980, and in internal medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in 1978.