Building New Residency Programs: A Panel Discussion

Daniel Frank, MD

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Dr. Frank is an attending physician at South Shore University Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He completed both medical school and residency training in EM at Stony Brook University's Health Science Center. While there, he served as chief resident and conducted research on post-intubation care in the emergency department (ED). After finishing residency training, Dr. Frank went on to complete a two-year fellowship in critical care medicine at North Shore University Hospital of Northwell Health. He then joined the Core Faculty of the EM Residency at Hackensack University Medical Center, where he spent 3 years working closely with residents and developing his interest in graduate medical education. Since joining South Shore University Hospital, Dr. Frank has worked to build and establish the residency program, publish scholarly work, present at national conferences, and serve on various graduate medical education committees as well as the Student Advancement Commiteee at the Zucker School of Medicine.

Andrew Barbera, MD

Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program

Lakeland Regional Health

Dr. Barbera is an emergency medicine (EM) physician and the inaugural Program Director for the Lakeland Regional Health EM Residency Program. Dr. Barbera has held faculty positions at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, CUNY School of Medicine, and is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor with Nova Southeastern University School of Medicine and Orlando College of Osteopathic Medicine. As the Program Director, Dr. Barbera supervises all departmental medical education and research in one of the busiest emergency departments in the country, averaging approximately 200,000 patient visits annually. In addition, Dr. Barbera has been an integral part of creating an academic culture at a large community medical center as they launched a graduate medical education program with the start of seven ACGME accredited programs.

Pinaki Mukherji, MD

Site Director, Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center

Northwell Health

Dr. Mukherji is the Site Director at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center at the North Shore/LIJ Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Northwell Health. He has worked in undergraduate education, with emergency residency clerkship students, as a Teaching Fellowship Director and as a Program Director for both emergency medicine categorical and EM/IM/Critical Care residencies. He has a passion for education as a force multiplier and is interested in decision making, getting better, and being wrong. He has been active in the development of Simulation training, Critical Care pathways, and International EM. He has lectured nationally and internationally on many core EM topics, as well as on topics of his interest in bias and cognitive error.