GEMA Fellowship Committee Didactic Series 2023-2024

The Global EM Fellowship Committee hosts didactic sessions featuring Global Emergency Medicine experts from around the world to provide focused exposure to faculty and fellows on the breadth of opportunities in global emergency medicine. The videos for the 2023-2024 series can be accessed below:

Authors

Bhakti Hansoti, MPH, PhD

John Hopkins University
Amelia Pousson, MD

Johns Hopkins University
Patrick McCarthy, MD, MPH

St. Francis Regional Medical Center
Shada Rouhani, MD

Harvard University
Lee Wallis, MBChB, MD, FCEM
Stephanie Chow Garbern, MD, MPH, DTMH

Brown University
I am an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Research Coordinator of the Division of Global Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. For over 15 years, I have been committed to expanding emergency care globally, working clinically or on research studies in Honduras, Peru, China, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Ghana, Liberia, Tanzania, Rwanda and the US. After medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, I obtained my residency training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Afterwards, I completed an MPH in Global Health at Harvard, a Global EM fellowship at Brown, and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene at LSHTM. My research focuses on the use of mobile health tools, wearable devices, and machine learning for emergency care in LMICs and I have led studies developing these tools for sepsis in Rwanda, Ghana, and Uganda. After Hurricanes Irma/Maria, I was a volunteer responder in Caguas, Puerto Rico with International Medical Corps, for which was I was awarded the GEMA Humanitarian Service Award in 2019.

In the past year, I have served on the Executive Committee of GEMA as Secretary, during my tenure so far, we have doubled the number of submissions to SAEM Pulse compared to previous years. I have also served as Co-Chair of the GEMA Engagement Committee, DEI Task Force, and led the formation of the Decolonizing Global EM Working Group, focused on developing anti-racist, anti-colonialist strategies to achieve equity in global EM which has led to two national conference presentations, an SAEM Pulse article and two manuscripts in process. As a member of the executive committee I look forward to working on several focus areas: 1) Expanding GEMA’s presence in print, online and social media to foster greater collaboration between GEMA members and wider audience 2) Creating new opportunities to engage trainees and junior faculty, through increased mentorship networking and collaboration on grants/scholarly outputs 3) Increasing membership diversity, particularly supporting recruitment and election to leadership positions of members from LMICs and under-represented minorities
Catalina González Marqués, MD, MPH

Mass General Brigham/ Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

Dr. González Marqués works as an attending physician in the Emergency Department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in their Division of Global Emergency Medicine and Humanitarian Studies and is an Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She joined the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative as the Associate Director of the Emergency Care Systems program. In her global health work, Dr. González Marqués has worked as both a consultant and humanitarian response physician for International Medical Corps during various humanitarian emergencies including the Caribbean, Philippines and most recently in Ukraine. She also worked in Rwanda on emergency care residency development. Her academic interests focus on the continued development of locally appropriate emergency and injury care in resource denied settings and the reexamining and addressing of current academic power structures and colonial histories pervasive in global health and humanitarian aid in order to build equitable partnerships.
Adam R. Aluisio, MD, MSc, DTM&H

Assistant Professor/Associate Director

Brown Univeristy
Dr. Adam R. Aluisio is an assistant professor in emergency medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is also serves as the associate director for the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship also at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Aluisio received his Medical Doctorate from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his Masters of Science in Public Health in Developing Countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine before completing specialty training in emergency medicine at the State University of New York Downstate in New York City. Dr. Aluisio also has completed focused sub-specialty training in Global Emergency Medicine and Clinical Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Dr. Aluisio has developed and carried emergency care research in multiple settings and locations in the United States and internationally. He has collaboratively received research funding from numerous foundations and federal bodies, including the National Institutes of Health, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wellcome Trust and The Gates Foundation. Dr. Aluisio’s has served on multiple domestic and international committees, NGOs board positions and has previously served on the GEMA Executive Committee.
Adam Levine, MD, MPH
Adam D. Laytin, MD, MPH

Johns Hopkins University