Executive Committee

2024-2025 ADIEM Executive Committee

 

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    Katrina Gipson, MD, MPH

    President

    Emory University School of Medicine

    Dr. Gipson received a BS in biomedical engineering with a concentration in biotechnology from Yale University and an MD from Case Western Reserve University with Honors with Distinction in Research. During medical school, she received an MPH in Health Management and Policy from the University of Michigan. She completed postgraduate training in emergency medicine (EM) at University Hospitals Case Medical Center and a Health Policy Fellowship at George Washington University. Dr. Gipson views her path through EM through the lens of diversity, inclusion, and health equity as forms of justice. She is committed to educational and workforce diversity and inclusivity and works to ensure that learners deliver care with cultural humility in an inclusive environment.

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    Sreeja Natesan, MD

    President-Elect

    Duke University

    Dr. Sree Natesan is an Associate Professor and Associate Program Director in the Duke University Department of Emergency Medicine. She is committed to the advancement of education, clinical teaching/feedback, and diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI). Dr. Natesan has had a broad clinical and research training experience and has proved herself a leader in medical education, having been awarded several awards from prestigious associations including CORD and ACEP, and is a leader in several national committees including the CORD Education Committee, Co-Chair of the CORD Best Practices Subcommittee, and Chair of the CORD DEI Committee. Dr. Natesan is actively involved in community outreach, mentorship, and pipeline/pathway programs. She has helped lead institutional and national conferences on holistic review for resident recruitment, implicit bias, and upstander training against microaggressions. Her primary research interest and expertise is in clinical teaching and feedback by incorporating innovative novel strategies in the emergency department as well as advancing DEI.

  • Ryan E. Tsuchida

    Secretary-Treasurer

    University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Dr. Ryan Tsuchida is an Assistant Professor of emergency medicine (EM) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Assistant Dean for Multicultural Affairs for Health Professions Learners at UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Tsuchida has a long-standing commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. While attending medical school at the University of Michigan, he founded the Transgender M4 elective and created a student-run faculty development seminar on LGBTQ+ Health. While in residency, he organized and participated in several institutional and departmental programs including acting as lead house officer liaison for a multi-site ACGME collaborative on health care disparities and quality improvement. Within the department, he has participated in the residency’s holistic review process for residency applications, been a member of the program director search committee, and published a commentary on the RAND blog on the importance of health system workforce diversity. Now as faculty, Dr. Tsuchida chairs the department's EDI committee and is involved in institutional URiM mentorship programs. Through his various committee works, he has presented didactics at the SAEM 2021-24 annual meetings on resident-driven recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority medical students and has been an unconscious bias workshop facilitator for SAEM committee and academy chairs. His work has been recognized by the University of Michigan Medical School’s award for Excellence in Institutional Change To Promote Health Equity, SAEM’s ADIEM Future Outstanding Academician Award, and the University of Wisconsin Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Award for Excellence in Leadership and Service.

  • Cassandra Kim Bradby, MD

    Immediate Past President

    Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University

    Dr. Cassandra Bradby is an emergency medicine (EM) physician and Assistant Professor at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. As a graduate of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN, she has dedicated her career to improving diversity and inclusion in medicine through mentoring and education. After finishing up as the Education Chief Resident at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, NY, Dr. Bradby headed back to Greenville, NC, where she now serves as the Residency Program Director and Vice Chair for Diversity and Inclusion for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vidant Medical Center.

  • Eliot H. Blum, MD

    Member-at-Large

    Emory University School of Medicine

    Dr. Eliot Blum is an Assistant Professor of emergency medicine (EM) at Emory. He serves as the chair of the LGBTQ+ Subcommittee of ADIEM, the LGBTQIA+ Subcommittee Chair in his department’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and is also the faculty advisor for the Emory GME Pride Committee. Dr. Blum works extensively in the community and serves as the medical director for Atlanta Pride and the AIDS Vaccine 200 bicycle race. Additionally, he works on the Transgender Task Force for Healthcare Reform through the Medical Associate of Georgia. He currently works at Grady Memorial Hospital and lectures nationally and within the school of medicine on LGBTQIA+ health, mentoring, and allyship. In 2023, Dr. Blum helped start a GME-wide mentoring program for LGBTQIA+ medical students and residents and was awarded "Faculty Mentor of the Year" by his department.

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    Moises Gallegos, MD, MPH

    Member-at-Large

    Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine

    Dr. Moises Gallegos attended Harvard College where he studied neurobiology and topics in mind, brain, and behavior. He earned his MD from Stanford School of Medicine and concurrently earned a master's in Public Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his residency and was Chief Resident at Baylor College of Medicine while working at Ben Taub General Hospital. He began his academic career as an Assistant Professor in the Henry J.N. Taub Department of Emergency Medicine (EM) at Ben Taub and rejoined the Stanford Department of EM in 2019 as a Clinical Assistant Professor. He is the Clerkship Director for EMED301A, the required EM rotation. Dr. Gallegos is currently completing coursework to obtain his Master of Education in the Health Professions from Johns Hopkins University School of Education.

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    Tiffany Mitchell, MD

    Member-at-Large

    Mount Sinai School of Medicine

    Dr. Tiffany Mitchell is an emergency medicine (EM) physician in New York City. She obtained her Bachelor's of Science from Columbia University before attending the Keck School of Medicine at USC. Dr. Mitchell completed residency training at the Jacobi-Montefiore Emergency Medicine Program before joining the faculty at The Mount Sinai Hospital. She has served in several roles on a number of ADIEM and SAEM committees.

  • Melanie F. Molina, MD, MAS

    Development Officer

    University of California, San Francisco

    Dr. Melanie Molina is an Assistant Professor of emergency medicine (EM) and Affiliate Faculty of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Prior to her faculty position, Dr. Molina completed a postdoctoral fellowship through the National Clinician Scholars Program at UCSF and a Masters in Advanced Studies through UCSF’s Training in Clinical Research program. During that time, she investigated and published work elucidating COVID-19-related health disparities and ways to leverage technology to integrate social needs screening/linkage to resources into clinical care. Dr. Molina’s own experiences overcoming childhood adversity sparked her desire to work toward reducing health disparities and continue to drive her advocacy work.