EMS and Disaster Medicine
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Name: Linda L. Herman, MD, FACEP Title: Program Director Kaweah Delta EM Residency, Department of Emergency Medicine Institution: Kaweah Delta Health care district
Bio: Ohio State University College of Medicine 1983 - 1987 |
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Name: Gabrielle A. Jacquet, MD, MPH Title: Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director of Global Health, BMC Emergency Medicine Residency; Assistant Director of Global Health, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine Institution: Boston University School of Medicine / Boston Medical Center
Bio: Dr. Gabrielle Jacquet is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine and an Attending Physician in the Emergency Department at Boston Medical Center. She received
her MD from the University of Vermont and her MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Jacquet completed her Residency in Emergency Medicine at Denver Health and her Fellowship in International Emergency Medicine
and Public Health at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Jacquet focuses her work on improving and standardizing the delivery of global health training and experiences within undergraduate and graduate medical education. She has taught emergency
medicine, assisted in developing emergency care systems and training programs, and conducted research in India, Ghana, Sudan, Rwanda, South Africa, Haiti, and Colombia. Dr. Jacquet has over 25 peer-reviewed publications and has
lectured at many national and international emergency medicine conferences. Most recently, Dr. Jacquet has focused her time on founding and serving as Course Director for the newly released Practitioner’s Guide to Global
Health: a 3-part open-access, online, interactive course available at edX.org. Dr. Jacquet is the director of global health for the BMC emergency medicine residency program and the assistant director of global health at the BU
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Name: Nilanka Mudithakumara, MBBS, D.Sp.Med, Pg.Dip.Med.Phys Bio: As a 2nd year Emergency Medicine Registrar in Sri Lanka with other qualifications in Sports Medicine and Medical Physiology, represents Sri Lanka College of Emergency Physicians. A memeber of IFEM Trainee Special Interest Group since 2023. The First place winner at the " Young Faculty Presentations " of Inaugural Conference of SACEM, January 2023 (South Asian Collaborative for Emergency Medicine) and has been invited to present at EMCON 2023 (as the award). Presented abstracts at several international/national conferences (oral/poster). Working as the chair of upcoming Inaugural International Conference of Emergency Point-of-care Ultrasound, 2023 Colombo. Currently involved in effective teaching and training the fellow Medical professionals and students, active patient management, Ultrasound accreditation and multiple landmark researches. Proficient in several languages, and keen in motivational talking and public speaking. |
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Name: Jessie Nelson, MD Title: Director of EM Education Research, Senior Staff Physician, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine Institution: Regions Hospital/University of Minnesota
Bio: Dr. Jessie Nelson is a senior staff physician from the Emergency Medicine Department at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, MN. She currently serves as Director of Emergency Medicine Education Research at Regions and is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota. She is active in the training of medical students and residents. She is fellowship trained in medical education and simulation and served as Physician Faculty for the HealthPartners Simulation Center for Patient Safety at Metropolitan State University for several years. Her passion is educational strategy and methodology, and she's always looking for new ways to help learners learn and teachers teach. |
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