People

Sarah K. Knack, MD

Hennepin Healthcare

I am currently an emergency physician and a second-year research fellow at Hennepin Healthcare. During my time in medical school at Duke University School of Medicine I used my scholarly year to participate in multiple research projects through the Hennepin Healthcare Department of Emergency Medicine building my research skills and interest. After residency, I decided to further advance my research knowledge by accepting a fellowship position and enrolling in a Masters of Clinical Research program at the University of Minnesota. My current research interests are acute trauma care, traumatic brain injury and management of sedation and analgesia in shock states. I have active research support through the University of Minnesota Translational Center for Resuscitative Trauma Care using national databases to explore my research interests. I also furthered my grant writing skills through the NINDS Clinical Trials Methodology Course in 2023. I plan to continue building my knowledge base and research skills with the goal of helping to improve emergency care. I am actively involved in the SAEM research committee for the mentorship, networking, and opportunities to advance my career in academic emergency medicine.

Khiem Hoang, MD, MPH

Emory University School of Medicine

Khiem Hoang, MD, MPH (they/them) is a second-year Emergency Medicine resident at Emory School of Medicine. They are the resident representative for the Department of Emergency Medicine LGBTQ+ Initiatives Subcommittee and member of Graduate Medical Education Pride Education and Advocacy Committee.

Melissa Edwards, DO

Virginia Commonwealth University

Melissa Edwards, DO. Ultrasound & Resuscitation Fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System.

Eliot H. Blum, MD

Emory University School of Medicine

Eliot Blum is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Emory. He serves as the chair of the LGBTQ+ Subcommittee of ADIEM, the LGBTQIA+ Subcommittee Chair in his department’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and is also the faculty advisor for the Emory GME Pride Committee. Eliot works extensively in the community and serves as the medical director for Atlanta Pride and the AIDS Vaccine 200 bicycle race. Additionally, Eliot works on the Transgender Task Force for Healthcare Reform through the Medical Associate of Georgia. He currently works at Grady Memorial Hospital and lectures nationally and within the school of medicine on LGBTQIA+ health, mentoring and allyship. In 2023, Eliot helped start a GME-wide mentoring program for LGBTQIA+ medical students and residents and was awarded "Faculty Mentor of the Year" by his department. Lastly, Eliot prides himself on being a professional listener of music, an amateur cyclist, rock climber and runner, lover of the outdoors and, most importantly, his wife and three children.

Michelle Feeney, MD

University of Michigan

Michelle Feeney is a 4th year resident at Michigan Medicine. She attended The Ohio State University College of Medicine and will be working with Team Health in New Jersey after graduation.

Lizzie M. Hovis, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Maxwell Hovis is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She completed medical school at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and residency training in General Adult Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Following residency she completed a fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Her academic interests include perinatal substance use as well as identifying and mitigating bias and stigma to improve whole person care of psychiatric patients.

Shannon A. Markus, MD MPH

University of Texas, Austin

Shannon Markus, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Dell Medical School in Austin, Texas, where she recently served as Associate Medical Director. She received her Bachelor's degree from The University of Texas at Austin before attending medical school at Perelman Medical School at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her Master of Public Health degree at The University of Texas Health Science Center with a focus on leadership before moving to Nashville to complete a residency in Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt. At Vanderbilt, Dr. Markus served as the inaugural Fellow in Health Policy and Equity, during which time she co-created a GME-wide Resident Interdisciplinary Elective in Health Equity and performed postdoctoral research in health disparities in the COVID pandemic. Her academic interests include policies that affect our most vulnerable populations, including reducing barriers to care, care for the uninsured and underinsured, protection of safety-net institutions, and studying how sociodemographic factors affect health outcomes. She is passionate about mentoring URM students and residents. Dr. Markus enjoys international travel, caring for her 100+ houseplants, camping, and cooking. She is married to Reid and has four fur-babies at home.

Samantha Chao, MD, HEC-C

University of Michigan

Samantha is a PGY-4 in Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan and one of the current chief residents. She completed medical school at the University of Michigan in 2020 and earned her undergraduate degree at Carleton College with a double major in English and Chemistry. She is an active member of the ACEP Ethics Committee and one of the few residents to sit on the committee. Her current academic and research interests include applying clinical ethics in the emergency department, improving health care for patients who are incarcerated, palliative care, clinical ultrasound, and DEI efforts related to reducing the use of stigmatizing language.

David Haidar, MD

University of Michigan

Graduated residency in 2021 from the University of Michigan and completed an ultrasound fellowship in 2022 at the University of Arizona. Currently faculty at the University of Michigan with interests in clinical ultrasound, ultrasound education, and feedback through simulation. Currently serves as the Director of Resident Ultrasound Education and AEMUS Fellowship Director.

Will Kropf, MD MHPE

University of Michigan

I'm a clinical assistant professor at University of Michigan, where I completed residency and fellowship. I just finished a combined fellowship in clinical ultrasound and medical education. I currently serve as assistant program director for our residency program. My research interests are in trainee assessment, curriculum development and evaluation, and various elements of POCUS, including instruction, skill assessment, and diagnostic, therapeutic, and resuscitative techniques.

Rose B. Diaz, MD

UCLA

Rose Diaz is a former IDHEAL fellow in Social Emergency Medicine and current faculty at UCLA. She started her professional life as a kindergarten teacher where she taught young children for over 10 years. Driven by a desire to help underserved communities, Rose eventually transitioned to medicine to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a physician with a goal of serving as a community health advocate for vulnerable populations. Rose attended medical school at UC Davis and completed her residency training at University of Michigan. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Health Sciences in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UCLA, and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Charles Drew University. Her research interests include reducing health disparities in the Emergency Department, improving the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minorities in medicine, and strengthening ties between providers and their surrounding communities.

Natalie Strokes, DO, MS

UMass Chan-Baystate

Dr. Natalie Strokes is a current Health Equity Fellow and Instructor in Emergency Medicine at UMass Chan-Baystate in Western Massachusetts. She received her medical degree at A.T. Still University - School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona and is currently pursuing her Master of Public Health degree at the University of Massachusetts. She completed her Emergency Medicine Residency at UMass Chan-Baystate before becoming the inaugural Health Equity Fellow in the department at Baystate. She enjoys introducing the concept of health equity and how it can be incorporated into patient care through education of medical students and residents. Her interests include trauma informed care, harm reduction in substance use disorders, health equity dashboards, developing educational materials with an equity-focused lens and violence intervention. One of her many passions in medicine includes global health and she has been fortunate to participate in sustainable medical care around the world including southern India, Rwanda, Haiti and Tanzania. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians (MACEP) and is the chair of MACEP’s health equity committee.

Martin P. Wegman, MD, PhD

HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital

Martin Wegman, MD, PhD is a practicing emergency physician, population-health scientist, and research director at HCA FL Orange Park Hospital. He is also the inaugural Senior Research Fellow at the American College of Emergency Physicians where he provides strategic direction for the College's research portfolio, including the annual research conference, research training course and research networks. In these roles, he serves as principal investigator on multiple funded projects. 

He completed his MD-PhD training program at the University of Florida, with graduate work in epidemiology and healthcare policy. He then completed a post-graduate clinical research fellowship at Yale School of Medicine and his emergency medicine residency training at Yale and the University of North Carolina. He has been published in Lancet Global Health, JAMA, Health Affairs, and Medical Care, and funded by the NIH, FDA, Doris Duke Foundation, and the AMA - with awards totaling in excess of $1M. He has expertise in research methodology, including quasi-experimental design and experience in analyzing large healthcare datasets to inform healthcare practice and policy.

Peter Chuanyi Hou, MD

Harvard Medical School

I am dual-boarded in emergency medicine and critical care. My clinical interest is the care of the critically ill ED patients who require resuscitation and critical care. I am a clinical expert, innovator, educator, and researcher. I have contributed to sepsis, ARDS, and COVID-19 research which synergistically aligned with my clinical interest in sepsis and ARDS management. I have participated in many multi-centered trials and studies and co-authored 5 articles in New England Journal of Medicine and 2 articles in the Journal of American Medical Association. I led the formation of the Brigham Critical Care Research Collaborative and Consortium (BCCRCC). I was a Co-Lead Investigator for the Acute Lung Injury Group of New England Clinical Center (ALIGNE CC) and a Steering Committee member of the Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung injury (PETAL) Network.

I was a key member to the creation of the Division of Emergency Critical Care Medicine in 2016. With the establishment of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine fellowship, BCCRCC, and ED and ICU clinical and research operations portfolios, I have greatly contributed to elevating our division within our department, hospital, and Mass General Brigham.

Giles N. Cattermole, FRCEM

Kings College Hospital NHS Trust

Giles Cattermole FRCEM DTM&H is a Consultant Emergency Physician at King's College Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK. He holds honorary associate professorships at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Rwanda. His interests include global emergency care, research ethics in the global south, and has been part of emergency medicine education in several countries in Africa and SE Asia.

Al'ai Alvarez, MD

Stanford Emergency Medicine

Al'ai Alvarez, MD (@alvarezzzy) is a national leader and educator on wellness, diversity, equity, and Inclusion. He is a clinical associate professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) and Well-Being Director at Stanford Emergency Medicine. He co-leads the Human Potential Team and serves as the Stanford EM Physician Wellness Fellowship Director. He is the Chair of the Stanford WellMD's Physician Wellness Forum and Director of the Physician Resource Network (PRN) Support Program. His work focuses on humanizing physician roles as individuals and teams by harnessing the individual human potential in the context of high-performance teams. This includes optimizing the interconnectedness between Process Improvement (Quality and Clinical Operations), Recruitment (Diversity and Representation), and Well-being (Inclusion and Belonging). He is one of the 2021-2022 Faculty Fellows at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign.

Paul Kivela, MD, MBA

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Paul Kivela, MD, MBA, FACEP is a residency trained and board certified emergency physician and Clinical Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Kivela was elected and served as President of the American College of Emergency Physicians from 2017-2018. He represented the diverse membership and served as spokesperson for the over 38,000 members. As Past President of ACEP, he has served as an international representative for the College. He was named the 2018 Napa County Physician of the Year, received the 2018 DFW Airport Hero Award and the International Gold Medal at the 2018 Intercontinental Emergency Medicine Congress, and recognized for his leadership as the recipient of the 2023 ACEP Wiegenstein Award.

Besides being a practicing emergency physician, he is a recognized expert in the areas of risk and error reduction, strategy and the economics of medical practice. He is known for his innovative and collaborative approach to finding solutions, bringing together disparate parties, and fostering future leadership.

He is frequently invited nationally and internationally to speak on his research, leadership and the future of medicine. He works diligently to keep up on medical advances that affect his patients. He has designed software and has twice been acknowledged to have one of SAEM's annual innovations in academic emergency medicine.

Bory Kea, MD, MCR

Oregon Health Sciences University

Margaret E. Samuels-Kalow, MD, MPhil, MSHP

Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr. Samuels-Kalow is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS), an attending physician in emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and the Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at MGB. Her work focuses on developing interventions to reduce disparities in emergency care, and designing strategies to use the ED visit to address adverse social determinants of health. Current projects include work to examine the role of individual and hospital factors in quality and equity of care for children in general emergency departments and understanding how to best address unmet oral health and social needs in the ED.

Dowin H. Boatright, MD, MBA, MHS

New York University

Dr. Boatright is a graduate of Morehouse College, receiving his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, and a Master in Business Administration from Rice University. Dr. Boatright is the Vice Chair of Research for the department of Emergency Medicine at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine. His research interests include diversity in the health care workforce and bias and discrimination in medical education. Dr. Boatright’s work has been funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities and by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.