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Jin H. Han, MD, MSc

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

• Specialties: Emergency Medicine
• Research Interests: Delirium, post-hospitalization long-term cognitive impairment, diagnostic testing, and heart failure
• Current or Prior Funding: National Institute on Aging K23, Emergency Medicine Foundation Grant, Vanderbilt Physician Scientist Development Grant

Dr. Han is an associate professor with the Department of Emergency Medicine and Associated Research Director for the Center for Quality Aging at  Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He completed his emergency medicine residency at the University of Cincinnati and also served as chief resident. He completed a research fellowship and obtained a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology. In addition to his clinical responsibilities in the emergency department, Dr. Han has been very active in patient oriented research. He has over 60 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and reviews in the areas of geriatric medicine, cardiology, and emergency department overcrowding. He is the recipient of the Vanderbilt Physician Scientist Development Grant and Emergency Medicine Foundation Career Development Award and has served as co-investigator on several NIH grants. Dr. Han was most recently funded by a National Institute on Aging K23 award which validated several brief delirium assessments for the emergency department setting and investigated how delirium in the ED affects long-term outcomes.

Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

• Specialties: Emergency Medicine
• Research Interests: Delirium, Geriatric Falls and Trauma
• Current or Prior Funding: GEMSSTAR/Dennis W. Jahnigen Career Development 2011

Maura is the 2016-2017 past-president of the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She has lectured nationally on geriatric trauma and falls and currently serves as one of the SAEM representatives for GeriTraC, an interdisciplinary group developing guidelines on the care of older injured patients. She has also served as an associate editor for the "Geriatric Emergencies: A discussion-based review" textbook and participated in the development of the AGS Clinical Practice Guideline for Postoperative Delirium in Older Adults.

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Lawrence Lewis, MD, FACEP

Professor of Emergency Medicine

Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

• Specialties: Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine
• Research Interests: Asthma, anaphylaxis, traumatic brain injury
• Current or Prior Funding: John A. Hartford, 1995  ADRC 2001, DOD 2009-2014  

Dr. Lewis has served as Chair of the SAEM Research Committee (1998-2000), Chair of the ACEP Continuing Education Committee (1993-95), and was an American Geriatric Society grant and Jahnigen Career Development Award reviewer from 2001-2003. He also served as a senior oral board examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine until 2010, and was Chief of the Division of Emergency Medicine at Washington University from 1994-2004. He currently is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Washington University with primary clinical duties at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, and primary research interests in TBI, and asthma, anaphylaxis, and angioedema.

Scott M. Dresden, MD, MS, FACEP

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

• Specialties: Emergency Medicine
• Research Interests: Transitions of Care, Unique Models of ED care, Health Related Quality of Life, 
• Current or Prior Funding: Emergency Medicine Foundation Health Policy Grant 2015, GEMSSTAR/Jahnigen 2016

Scott is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine Northwestern University in Chicago.  He is a GEMSSTAR/Jahnigen scholar with funded research interests including ED use, ED transitions of care and Health Related Quality of Life.  He is director of Geriatric Emergency Department Innovations (GEDI) at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

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Mary R. Mulcare, MD, FACEP

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Weill Cornell Medicine

• Specialties: Emergency Medicine
• Research Interests: Protocol development, resident education

Mary Mulcare, MD, FACEP, completed her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Upon graduation from EM residency at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, she did a fellowship in Geriatric Emergency Medicine (GEM) at Weill Cornell Medical Center. Her research focused on designing a multi-phased approach to protocol development and implementation in the ED, focusing specifically on indwelling urinary catheters in older adults as the pilot process. Since fellowship, she has remained active in the GEM community and is currently the Assistant GEM Fellowship Director at Weill Cornell. In addition to caring for our older adult population, her other passion is resident education. She is the Assistant Program Director for the EM residency at NYPH, with an academic focus on feedback and developing their Business of Medicine curriculum. 

Shan W. Liu, MD, SD, FACEP

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

• Specialties: Emergency Medicine
• Research Interest: Geriatric fall, Quality of Care, Boarding
• Current or Prior Funding: Hartford 2012, Milton Foundation 2013

Shan Liu is a Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.  She has had funding to assess fall outcomes. Her research focus is on how to prevent recurrent falls.  She is currently AGEM's executive board secretary.

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Timothy F. Platts-Mills, MD, MSc

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director, Clinical Research; Co-Director of Geriatric Emergency Medicine

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine

• Specialties: Emergency Medicine
• Research Interests: Emergency care interventions for older adults, post-traumatic pain, elder abuse, malnutrition
• Current or Prior Funding: National Institute of Justice, 2016; NIH K23 Career Development, 2013; Hartford Collaborative Pilot Project, 2014

Timothy F. Platts-Mills, MD, MSc received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and his medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed a four-year residency in emergency medicine at the University of California San Francisco-Fresno. After working full time clinically for three years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Platts-Mills completed a Masters of Science in Clinical Research from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the UNC with joint appointments with the Department of Anesthesiology and the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics. Dr. Platts-Mills' career goal is to improve the quality of emergency care for older adults through research, research mentorship, and support of the larger community of geriatric emergency medicine researchers. Dr. Platts-Mills' K23 research examines the determinants of persistent pain and functional decline after motor vehicle collision among older adults. The long-term goal of this work is to develop emergency department-initiated interventions to reduce morbidity due to persistent pain after motor vehicle collision in the elderly. A related area of research interest is improving patient education and physician decision making regarding pharmacologic agents for the outpatient treatment of acute musculoskeletal pain in older adults. Dr. Platts-Mills' research group is also developing a protocol to screen for elder abuse in the emergency department, a study funded by the National Institute of Justice. Dr. Platts-Mills serves as a decision editor in geriatrics for Annals of Emergency Medicine.

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Jeffrey M. Caterino, MD, MPH, FACEP

Vice Chair of Research; Associate Professor of Emergency and Internal Medicine

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

• Specialties:  Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine
• Research Interests:  Geriatric infectious disease, biomarkers, diagnostics, clinical decision rules, geriatric trauma triage
• Current or Prior Funding: Jahnigen 2007, Beeson K23 2010, R01 2016

Jeff is dual boarded in emergency and internal medicine and serves as OSU's Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Emergency Medicine. His primary research interest is in geriatric emergency medicine with a specific focus in diagnosis and treatment of geriatric infectious diseases.

Lowell W. Gerson, PhD

Professor Emeritus of Family and Community Medicine, Senior Scientist

Northeast Ohio Medical University, Summa Health System-Akron

• Specialties: Epidemiology
• Research Interests: Injury Prevention,  Health Services
• Current or Prior Funding: Includes U.S. VRA, NHRDP (Canada), NIMD (Canada), NIH, United Way, GAR Foundation, RWJ Foundation, HUD, Lowe's Home Safety Council

Lowell became interested in aging research in the early 70s as a young faculty member in the Division of Community Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland. In 1978 he moved to Ohio and became involved with the City Of Akron EMS. He observed and published the disproportionate use of EMS by seniors. This lead to RWJ funded research on Paramedic Case Finding for Frail Elders demonstrating the value of paramedic screening.  He increased his geriatric knowledge during sabbaticals with the South Australia Health Commission (services) and the CDC (injury and fall prevention). He has been very active in fostering the increasing interest in geriatric emergency medicine. He Chaired the SAEM Geriatric Task Force and was SAEM representation to the AGS. He currently is Senior Associate Editor of Academic Emergency Medicine and on the Editorial Board of MEDICC.

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.

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.

Guadalupe Jiménez, MD, MS

New York Presbyterian Columbia & Cornell

Dr. Guadalupe Jimenez is a resident physician at New York Presbyterian Columbia & Cornell Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She first-generation Mexican American who served in the U.S. Navy as a Hospital Corpsman (medic). She subsequently obtained her Bachelor’s of Science in biology at Stony Book University. She went on to complete her Master’s of Science and her medical education at Indiana University School of Medicine. Today, Dr. Jimenez is a member of SAEM’s Equity & Inclusion Education Subcommittee. Additionally, she is a part of the Core team for MAPP to CU pipeline program at Columbia University Department of Emergency Medicine. This program mentors high school students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in medicine with the goal of supporting the students in their academic and personal development. On her free time, Dr. Jimenez volunteers at NYC’s Migrant center providing immigration assistance to asylum seekers. Dr. Jimenez is committed to creating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive field of emergency medicine.

Theodore Corbin, MD

Rush University Medical Center

Dr. Corbin is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Rush University Medical Center. His research has focused on the urgent issues and intersection of trauma and intentional injury that contribute to recurrent injury, mental illness, chronic disease, health disparities and ultimately death. He designed and implemented a trauma-informed intervention program called Healing Hurt People-Philadelphia that recognizes the disparities in health outcomes in the population that suffer the most from intentional injury, African American and Latino men between the ages of 8 and 30 years old. The intervention has been replicated in other cities across the country. The intervention provides a resource to patients in need of deeper understanding. He has worked in the field of emergency medicine and trauma-informed intervention with a focus on African American men for more than 15 years and he strives to build a foundation for young researchers interested in the field.

Jason Morris, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital

Jason is a third year resident at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency. His background and research interest in in advocacy for vulnerable populations and treatment of patients with substance use disorders including creating and delivering comprehensive health education curriculum for high school students, developing cultural competency curriculum during medical school, and researching ways to improve ED based SUD care. He is also a chief resident and part of the leadership team of a resident-based initiative at MGH exploring ways to address food insecurity in the ED. In his free time, he also enjoys singing, dancing, and playing rugby.

Katherine D. Mayes, MD, PhD

Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital

Katie Mayes is a chief resident at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program. Her research interests include how social determinants of health interact with ED usage and best practices for addressing social determinants in the ED.

Diana M. Bongiorno, MD, MPH

Chief Resident

Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women's Hospital

Diana Bongiorno, MD, MPH is a Chief Resident in the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR) program at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a graduate of the Vagelos Life Sciences and Management dual-degree program between the College and Wharton schools. She graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and earned her MPH at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she was a TL1 Trainee in the Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program. She is passionate about health equity, work to address social determinants of health in the emergency department. In July, she will begin fellowship in the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Lindsay V. Walsh, MD

Mass General Brigham

I am a current PGY2 resident at the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program in Boston, Massachusetts. I earned my medical degree at the University of Massachusetts Chan School of Medicine in Worcester, Massachusetts. Prior to my career in medicine, I was a competitive distance runner at Dartmouth College, where I completed my undergraduate degree in psychology. I then worked for a digital healthcare startup company that focused on electronic prescriptions, and eventually completed my post-baccalaureate premedical coursework at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. My research interests during residency include musculoskeletal POCUS, event medicine, and orthopedic trauma.

Michelle D. Lall, MD, MHS

Emory University School of Medicine

Dr. Michelle D. Lall, a board-certified emergency medicine physician, is a Professor at Emory University. She has been on faculty at Emory since 2013. She was an Associate Residency Director for 7 years. She is currently the inaugural Director of Well-being, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for Emory Emergency Medicine and the Senior Medical Education Fellowship Director for Emergency Medicine. Prior to coming to Emory, Dr. Lall was an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University beginning in 2008. She was an Assistant Residency Director at the Sinai-Grace/Wayne State University Emergency Medicine Residency Program and the medical student clerkship site director at Sinai-Grace/Wayne State University beginning in 2009. Dr. Lall is a graduate of Wayne State University School of Medicine. She completed her residency and chief residency at Emory University.

Dr. Lall is actively involved in the teaching and supervision of medical students and residents. Dr. Lall’s primary interests are physician well-being and the negative impact of gender bias on equity and inclusion in medicine. She is interested in gender differences in burnout among physicians. She has previously presented didactics on physician well-being and gender bias in medicine at multiple signature regional and national annual meetings of medical educators. Dr. Lall is part of a national emergency medicine work group focused on exploring and addressing gender and racial bias and disparities in academic emergency medicine. Additionally, she is the lead author on two scoping reviews of assessment tools available to evaluate physician well-being and co-author on several papers addressing gender bias in Emergency Medicine.

Her professional memberships include: American College of Emergency Physicians – where she is a fellow, Society for Academic Emergency Physicians - where she is secretary/treasurer on the Board of Directors, Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine - where she is a Past President, American Association of Women Emergency Physicians, and Georgia College of Emergency Physicians. She is also a member of the Delta Omega Honor Society. Dr. Lall is a recipient of the Momentum Award from the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM), which recognizes extraordinary efforts that further the mission and values of AWAEM. While at Sinai-Grace/Wayne State University, Dr. Lall was a two time "Faculty Teacher of the Year" award winner. At Emory, she has been a two time recipient of the “Faculty Advocate of the Year” award. In 2020, Dr. Lall was named one of the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association 25 Under 45 Influencers in Emergency Medicine whose contributions embody the spirit of the specialty. Dr. Lall is a recipient of the AWAEM Mid-Career Award, which honors mid-career female faculty who have shown promise for significant career achievements in emergency medicine through research, education, service, advocacy, or administration, and/or who have worked to promote the role of women in academic emergency medicine.

Danielle L. Cullen, MD, MPH, MSHP

CHOP and University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Danielle Cullen is the Co-Associate Director for Implementation Science at Clinical Futures, a faculty member at PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and assistant professor of pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine at CHOP and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a senior fellow of the University of Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and co-course director for Master Level Introduction to Implementation Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Cullen’s research focuses on socio-economic health disparities, in particular childhood food insecurity. Her long-term goal is to improve health equity among socially disadvantaged children through the development of effective, acceptable, and feasible strategies to identify social risk and improve family engagement with resources. She is dedicated to community involvement in research and programmatic design, and leveraging methods from Community-Based Participatory Research and Implementation Science to enhance reach and sustainability of developed programs. Her current interdisciplinary research portfolio includes: mixed-methods evaluations of social determinant screening modalities, locations and referral processes; a hybrid implementation-effectiveness study of the USDA’s summer food service program across five CHOP clinical settings; and a qualitative evaluation of low-income families’ experiences with a clinically-based subsidized organic produce box program.

N. Jia Ahmad, MD, MPH

MGH

N. Jia Ahmad is a third year resident at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency program at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital. She completed her undergraduate studies at Columbia University, MD at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and earned her MPH at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she was a TL1 Trainee in the Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program. She has an interest in the impact of structural vulnerabilities on patient care, and is leading a resident-based initiative at MGH exploring ways to address food insecurity in the ED. Previously, she has worked on criminal justice reform and research and policy efforts related to the opioid epidemic.