Crash Course in the Journal Landscape: Where Should You Submit Your Next Medical Education Project? (Education Committee and Educational Research Interest Group Sponsored)

Dr. Carmelli is a graduate of the Emergency Medicine residency program at Kings County and SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, where he also completed his two-year Medical Education Fellowship. He furthered his medical education knowledge by completing a two-year Masters in Medical Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his medical degree at USC’s Keck School of Medicine in California, where he grew up. His interests are in medical education, where he has spent most of his time. He is an enthusiastic teacher both in the clinical setting and in the lecture hall. He was awarded “best resident”, the first-place award for the CPC National Competition at ACEP in 2016 and again as “best attending” in Sri Lanka at the World Academic Congress of Emergency Medicine (WACEM) conference in 2017. He has since lectured for numerous national conferences, all over the United States. Currently, he has a full-time academic faculty position at the University of Massachusetts, where he is pursuing his various interests in education.

Wendy C. Coates, MD is Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine at UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Senior Faculty/Education Specialist at Harbor-UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine. She served as Dean of the UCLA Acute Care College and Director of Education at Harbor-UCLA where she founded the Fellowship in Medical Education Scholarship in 1999. She enjoys continued active mentorship of her fellowship graduates. Coates graduated with honors from Allegheny College, earned her MD from Case Western Reserve University, and completed the EM residency at Allegheny General/Medical College of PA. 

Dr. Coates’ research focus is medical education with an emphasis on faculty and learner development, mentorship, curricular innovation and evaluation, creativity in medicine, and qualitative methods. She is a founding member of the Editorial Board for AEM Education & Training, member of the AEM Editorial Board, and was an ABEM Item Writer for 9 years. 

Dr. Coates began her service to SAEM as the Resident Representative to the Education Committee which she subsequently chaired for several years. She was the inaugural chair of the Undergraduate Education Committee where she led the creation and implementation of the SAEM Virtual Advisor Program and, most recently, led the initial Fellowship Approval Committee that developed metrics for non-ACGME approved fellowships in EM. She has also served on the Nominating Committee, Research Committee, and was the SAEM representative to the national committee on medical student education reform. She currently serves as a member-at-large on the SAEM Board of Directors. Follow on her Twitter at: @CoatesMedEd

Michael Gottlieb, MD is the Vice Chair of Research and Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Division at Rush University Medical Center. He is Past-Chair of the ACEP Ultrasound Section and Past-Chair of the AAEM Ultrasound Section. He has authored over 500 peer-reviewed publications and is an Editor for Academic Medicine, The Annals of Emergency Medicine, The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, and Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training, as well as the Social Media Editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. He is Past-Chair of the CORD Academy for Scholarship, Past-Chair of the SAEM Education Summit, Past-Chair of the CORD Education Committee, Past-Chair of the CORD Best Practices Subcommittee, and a nationally-recognized speaker and educator. His academic interests include medical education, ultrasound, infectious diseases, heart failure, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Dr. Rebekah Cole holds a Ph.D. in Counseling from Old Dominion University and M.Ed. from the College of William and Mary. Dr. Cole serves as an Associate Professor at the Uniformed Services University in the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine as a curriculum researcher. She conducts quantitative and qualitative field research during high-fidelity military medical simulations- Operation Bushmaster, Operation Gunpowder, and the Advanced Combat Medical Experience (ACME)- to determine their impact on military medical student readiness. With her clinical background in mental health counseling, Dr. Cole also studies the impact of mental health and wellness on performance in the operational environment. She recently recieved a Department of Defense grant to develop and evaluate a mindfulness curriculum for the prehospital environment. Throughout her career, Dr. Cole has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and has presented at more than 25 international, national, and regional conferences. She is currently chair of the Society for Academic and Emergency Medicine's (SAEM) Educational Research Interest Group.

Dr. Danielle Miller is currently a medical education researcher in the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus. She completed her Medical Education Scholarship Fellow at Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine and Masters of Medical Education at University of Cincinnati. Dr. Miller's research has been in competency-based medical education in GME and UME including creating multiple mastery learning curricula in Emergency Department (ED) thoracotomy, donning and doffing PPE, and US-guided serratus anterior plan nerve blocks for rib fractures. Within the context of competency research, Dr. Miller received the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Education Research Grant for her project entitled “Development of a Simulation Curriculum and Web-Based Modules to Teach Core EPA 10 to Medical Students. Additionally, Dr. Miller's research includes the integration of technology into assessment of learners and how the electronic the electronic health record (EHR) can track educational interventions and patient-centered outcomes.

Demian Szyld (pronounced “shield”), is an Attending Physician at Boston Medical Center where he cares for acutely ill and injured and enjoys being on high-performance teams and teaching at the bedside. He is the Director of Innovation in Education and Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs.

Demian trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and was the first Simulation and Education Fellow at the STRATUS Simulation Center at BWH. During that time he completed a Master’s in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

His academic and scholarly focuses on evidence based approaches to teaching and assessing clinical skills and more recently on bringing the techniques of reflection and debriefing to the clinical setting. His current focus is Debriefing in the Clinical Environment and Faculty Development.

Demian grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina until the age of 14. His mother, grandmother and other extended family still live there. Demian currently lives in Cambridge, MA with his family who speak Spanish, English and Bengali.