Research Learning Series (RLS) - Perspectives on EM Research Fellowship Opportunities

Watch a panel of experts representing different programs discuss various types of research fellowships available in emergency medicine and explain why individuals should consider pursuing them. This conversation was timed perfectly for fellowship program applications and for residents in the pre-contemplative research phase.
Authors
  • Raphael Sherak, MD, MPH

    Instructor, Emergency Medicine

    Yale University

    Raphael Sherak is an Instructor of Emergency Medicine and Research Fellow as part of the Yale Emergency Scholars (YES) Program. As an emergency medicine physician and researcher, his work focuses on how to make the best decisions with imperfect and incomplete information. Prior to starting fellowship, he completed his EM residency at Yale University. He received an MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and has an MPH in Quantitative Methods from the Harvard School of Public Health in addition to a BA from Hampshire College. Prior to medical school he worked as an EMT for 5 years. Dr. Sherak's research centers on leveraging decision analytic methods, including cost-effectiveness analysis and risk prediction modeling, as well as secondary analysis of large EHR datasets to improve patient and population health through data-driven decision making. His current areas of interest are antimicrobial stewardship including the treatment of urogenital infections, improving care for vulnerable populations, and using mathematical modeling techniques to guide both care processes and inform patient care guidelines.
  • Edouard Coupet, Jr., MD, MS

    Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

    Yale University

    Dr. Coupet is Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine and Core Faculty in the Program for Addiction Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. He is a physician-scientist, board-certified physician in both emergency and addiction medicine. His primary research interests include ED patient identification and management of substance misuse and substance use disorders, health equity within addiction treatment access, and epidemiology and prevention of assault injury. He has received funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Emergency Medicine Foundation to study health equity within access to evidence-based addiction medicine treatment. He joined faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale in 2018 as a Drug Use, Addiction, and HIV Research (DAHRS) K-12 Scholar. He is also a NIDA HEAL Initiative Diversity Supplement awardee.

  • Aleksandra (Sasha) Degtyar, MD

    T32 EM Research Fellow

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Dr. Aleksandra (Sasha) Degtyar is a T32 Emergency Medicine Research Fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and is currently completing a Master of Science in clinical research. She attended the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and earned a Master of Science in Global Health at UCSF. She completed her emergency medicine residency at Wellstar Kennestone in Marietta, GA (2023). Dr. Degtyar's primary research interests include health services, methodology, and asymptomatic hypertension.
  • Jennifer Love, MD, MSCR

    Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Dr. Love is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. After residency at the University of Pennsylvania, she completed a medical toxicology fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University. She then completed a clinical research fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine under Dr. Lynne Richardson's T32 training program in emergency care research. Her current work focuses on opioid use disorder and novel substances of misuse, specifically xylazine. She also serves as the SAEM AWAEM research committee co-chair and the VP of Education.


  • Utsha G. Khatri, MD, MSHP

    Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Dr. Utsha Khatri, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She has a secondary appointment at the Institute for Health Equity Research, Department of Population Health Science and Policy. As a health services researcher, Dr. Khatri is interested in improving access, outcomes, and equity with regard to the health and health care of structurally marginalized populations. Her ongoing projects focus on the health care of individuals and communities affected by mass incarceration and those affected by substance use disorders. Dr. Khatri practices clinically as an attending emergency physician at Mount Sinai Hospital and at Elmhurst Hospital. Her current work is supported by a career development award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.