AACEM Executive Committee

Jane H. Brice, MD, MPH

President

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

 Jane Brice is the University of North Carolina Chair of Emergency Medicine. A tenured professor of Emergency Medicine, she took the helm of the department in 2015 after 20+ years of service as a faculty member. She holds adjunct appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and Social Medicine. She is a UNC graduate with degrees in education/physical education (1974), medicine (1994), and epidemiology (1998). She is an accomplished investigator having held multiple federal grants with a focus on the care of patients in the out-of-hospital environment provided by Emergency Medical Services personnel. As a well-published and recognized expert in the prehospital care, she is the Editor-In-Chief for Prehospital Emergency Care. She is a certified coach and invested in her own growth as a person and as a leader as well as the growth of her faculty. She is passionate about baseball, Star Wars, and dill pickles.

Ian B.K. Martin, MD, MBA

President-Elect

Medical College of Wisconsin

Dr. Ian Martin is System Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) Medical School and Emergency Physician-in-Chief for Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin Health System. At MCW, he holds appointments as Eminent Scholar and Professor with Tenure of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine. Dr. Martin is also Professor in the Institute for Health and Equity. Before this, he served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at West Virginia University School of Medicine as well as Emergency Physician-in-Chief for West Virginia University Health System.

Before his election to the AACEM Board, Dr. Martin completed terms as Immediate Past-President, President, President-Elect, Secretary-Treasurer, and an At-Large Member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) – the premier association representing researchers and educators in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Martin is also the founder and a Past-President of SAEM’s Global Emergency Medicine Academy. In 2020, he was appointed by the Mayor of Milwaukee to the City of Milwaukee Board of Health for an indefinite term. The same year, he was also appointed to the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment External Board (the Consortium on Public and Community Health), also for an indefinite term. Finally, in 2021, Dr. Martin was appointed to the Milwaukee Tennis and Education Foundation Board of Directors.

Dr. Martin is the 2018 recipient of the Marcus L. Martin, M.D. Leadership in Diversity and Inclusion Award by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Dr. Martin was recently named recipient of the 2020 Drexel University College of Medicine Distinguished Alumnus Award as well as of the 2020 Georges Benjamin, M.D. Award for excellence in education, service, and research by the National Medical Association’s Emergency Medicine Section. Lastly, in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Martin was named recipient of a “Notable Heroes in Health Care” Award by BizTimes Milwaukee. Recently, members of the Class of 2023 Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) MCW-beta Chapter selected him to join them as an inductee into the prestigious AOA national honor society. In 2023, Milwaukee County honored Dr. Martin with a citation for launching Wisconsin’s first opt-out, universal, emergency department-based HIV testing program.

Mary Tanski, MD, MBA

Associate Professor and Chair

Oregon Health & Science University

Dr. Mary E. Tanski is currently associate professor and chair in the department of emergency medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). She completed her undergraduate degree in business management and health and humanities at Michigan State University and earned her MD from Wayne State University. She completed her residency and was chief resident at George Washington University and then completed an emergency medicine administration fellowship and an MBA at OHSU. Dr. Tanski has been faculty in the department of emergency medicine management at OHSU and teaches the health care operations and quality course. She served as medical director of operations before becoming chair. Dr. Tanski has extensive experience in emergency department (ED) operations and quality improvement, including improving ED flow, instituting a no-divert trial, and addressing departmental boarding.

Lewis S. Nelson, MD, MBA

AACEM Immediate Past President / Chair Member

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Lewis S. Nelson, MD, MBA is Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and Chief of the Division of Medical Toxicology and Addiction Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, in Newark, NJ. He is board certified in emergency medicine, medical toxicology, and addiction medicine. Dr. Nelson serves as a long-standing consultant to CDC, DHS, and FDA and works closely with several professional organizations addressing the medical and social consequences of substance use. His areas of interest include non-opioid pain relief strategies, opioid overdose and management, addiction and withdrawal management, and health policy focused on issues related to medication safety and substance use.

Susan Promes, MD, MBA

AEM E&T Editor-in-Chief / Member-at-Large

Penn State Hershey Emergency Medicine

Dr. Promes is a tenured Professor at Penn State University Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and has served as Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine since 2014. Prior to 2014, she spent seven years at the University of California San Francisco where she served as Vice Chair for Education, the Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director and Director of Curricular Affairs in the GME office and prior to that was at Duke University as the inaugural Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director and Director of the medical school Capstone course. Her scholarly work has centered around topics germane to emergency medicine medical education and clinical guidelines for the practicing emergency physician.

In addition to many peer review publications, she has edited multiple McGraw Hill board review books to prepare physicians for the emergency medicine board exam. She is an internationally recognized leader in academic emergency medicine and was chosen by the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine to be the editor of their journal, Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training, which debuted in January 2017. She was the recipient of the 2020 Hal Jayne Excellence in Education Award from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine.

Andra Blomkalns, MD, MBA

Member-at-Large

Stanford University School of Medicine

Andra Blomkalns, MD, MBA serves as Chair of Emergency Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2018, Andra was at UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX as Vice Chair of Academic Affairs and Business Development. She trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati where she was Residency Program Director and Vice Chair of Education. Her research has spanned clinical cardiovascular research as well as basic science research on obesity and the gut microbiome. As a past-President of SAEM (2016), Andra continues as the SAEM Wellness Committee Chair. In her personal time, Andra enjoys spending time with her dog, Sansa, as a Neocaridina hobbyist, and attempting to garden.