Dr. Jouriles is an attending physician at Akron General Medical Center's department of emergency medicine and core faculty for the hospital’s emergency medicine residency program. He also is professor of emergency medicine at Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine.

A graduate of University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Jouriles obtained his medical degree from Case Western University and completed residency in internal medicine residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and in emergency medicine at Denver General Hospital.

Dr. Jouriles was elected president-elect of ACEP in 2007 and assumed his new duties as president of ACEP on Sunday, October 26, 2008.