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Erica L. Olsen, MD

New York-Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center

Dr. Erica Olsen is the Director for Virtual Health Services for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC). Her role includes oversight of Telehealth endeavors throughout the Department of Emergency Medicine West Campus / New York Presbyterian Hospital System: CUIMC Emergency Department, The Allen Hospital, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York, and Lawrence Hospital. Dr. Olsen joined the full-time Faculty at Columbia University Department of Emergency Medicine with previous Telehealth experience from her time at both the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA Hospital) in Western New York and Erie County Medical Center where Telehealth was utilized for the New York State Department of Corrections. Dr. Olsen is a past Chair of the SAEM Telehealth Interest Group and serves on the Digital Health Executive Committee for the Faculty Practice Organization of Columbia University and the New York Presbyterian Hospital Telehealth Steering Committee. One of Dr. Olsen's current interests is in improving access to telehealth services for vulnerable populations.

Brendan R. Norwood, MD

New York–Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center

Dr. Norwood received his medical degree from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and went on to complete his residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham & Women's Hospital. Dr. Norwood is board certified in emergency medicine and has over 10 years experience practicing in both academic and community emergency departments.

Liliya Abrukin, MD, MPH

New York–Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center

Liliya Abrukin, MD MPH is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at New York Presbyterian, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and serves as the Vice Chair for Quality and Patient Safety for the four emergency departments comprising the Columbia Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Abrukin received her medical degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University and completed her emergency medicine residency at NYU Langone Medical Center/Bellevue Hospital Center, where she served as chief resident. After residency she remained at NYU/Bellevue to pursue the Wellner Fellowship in ED Patient Safety and Quality and earned an MPH in Health Management from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

As a faculty member at Columbia, Dr. Abrukin has served as the Director of Quality for the adult emergency medicine division and has led and participated in numerous departmental, cross-campus, and enterprise-wide quality initiatives. In her role as Vice Chair, Dr. Abrukin has prioritized building a culture of safety, with a focus on systems, peer support, and faculty engagement. She is also active in developing evidence-based care pathways for emergency departments throughout the hospital system. Recently, Dr. Abrukin was selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants to join the New York Presbyterian LEAD Academy, a 13 month training program with didactic and experiential components for developing physician-leaders. During this program, Dr. Abrukin developed an enterprise-wide care pathway for patients with sickle cell disease presenting with emergencies requiring transfusion. Dr. Abrukin also serves as the Associate Director of the Lorna Breen Emergency Medicine Fellowship in Healthcare Administration and the Chair of the MCIC Emergency Department Leadership Committee, where she oversees the development of cross-institutional projects aimed at improving patient safety and decreasing medicolegal exposure.

Craig Goolsby, MD, MEd, MHCDS, FACEP

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Craig Goolsby, MD, MEd, MHCDS, FACEP is Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles County and a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. An award-winning educator and lecturer, Dr. Goolsby is a member of national and international scientific organizations, including the American Red Cross’s Scientific Advisory Council and the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation’s First Aid Task Force, and he is a recognized expert in first aid and military-to-civilian knowledge transfer. His multi-million-dollar research portfolio has focused on bleeding control, tourniquet usage, public response to emergency, post-motor vehicle crash care, and mass casualty incidents. Dr. Goolsby is a distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, an AOA graduate of the Tulane University School of Medicine, earned his Master of Education in the Health Professions degree from Johns Hopkins University, and completed a Master of Healthcare Delivery Science degree at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business. He previously served as an active-duty Air Force officer, including two tours as the flight commander and medical director of the Air Force’s emergency department in Balad, Iraq. Dr. Goolsby is the author or co-author of more than 70 peer-reviewed articles, chapters, editorials, and other scholarly publications. He completed a transitional internship at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and his emergency medicine residency at UCLA.

Kristen Whitworth, DO

Corewell Health Lakeland

Kristen Whitworth is the Associate Program Director for Corewell Health Lakeland Emergency Medicine Residency in Saint Joseph, MI. She received her undergraduate degree in biology from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and her doctorate of osteopathy from LECOM Bradenton. She completed a longitudinal track in medical education during her emergency medicine residency at Corewell Health Lakeland with a focus on simulation. Following residency, she assumed the role of Simulation Director of Corewell Health South and joined their emergency medicine faculty. She completed additional simulation training through the Center for Medical Simulation and the MSU Learning and Assessment Center. Her professional interests include creativity, resident wellness, women in medicine, and curriculum development.

Leah M. Bralow, MD

St. Barnabas Hospital/CUNY

Dr. Bralow completed residency at NYP Cornell/Columbia in 2013. She later because the director of the emergency medicine sub-internship at Columbia University for several years before becoming an Assistant Program Director at St. Barnabas in the Bronx. As APD, she is primarily responsible for designing the residency core education curriculum and for coordinating resident and faculty feedback. Her interests are curriculum design, feedback structure, disaster medicine and undersea and hyperbaric medicine. An avid SCUBA diver, Dr. Bralow loves to explore the world's oceans any opportunity she gets.

Mary E. McLean, MD, FACEP, FAAEM

AdventHealth East Orlando

Mary McLean is an Assistant Residency Director for the AdventHealth East Orlando EM Residency Program, and an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency and Internal Medicine for the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. She originally hails from Portland, Oregon, and completed her medical education at Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine and St. John’s Riverside Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program. Her professional interests include medical education, research, scholarly activity, public speaking, leadership and advocacy, bias, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has spoken nationally and internationally on the medical management of cardiac, neurologic, OB/GYN, neurologic, and traumatic emergencies, as well as on medical education and career development topics. Outside of work, she enjoys documentaries, animals, travel, and being a foodie.

Justin Holmes, MD

Texas Tech University HSC

I attended medical school at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center- Lubbock and completed my residency training at Baylor Scott and White- Temple, TX. I started at UMC/TTUHSC in July 2018 as an Emergency Medicine attending and Clerkship Director. I transitioned to Associate Program Director in 2021. In my spare time I enjoy going camping and spending time with my wife and 3 boys.

Faheem W. Guirgis, MD, FACEP

University of Florida

Faheem W. Guirgis, M.D., is an endowed professor of emergency medicine at the University of Florida. His research program’s goal is to define the pathophysiologic role of lipids and lipoproteins in mediating organ failure, inflammation, and recovery from sepsis and to discover precision medicine treatments. He has been the recipient of multiple NIH awards to fund his research. Dr. Guirgis has also been a proponent and leader of research education and is MPI and Co-director of the UF-FSU NCATS KL2 Program.

Kathryn Hawk, MD, MHS

Yale University

Kathryn Hawk, MD, MHS is an Associate Professor in the Yale Department of Emergency Medicine, the Program in Addiction Medicine, and the Yale School of Public Health. She was a NIDA K12 Drug use, Addiction and HIV Research (DAHRS) Scholar. Her research focuses on the design, testing and implementation of evidence-based care for ED patients with substance use disorders, with a focus on initiating treatment for alcohol and opioid use disorder in the ED and linking patients to ongoing treatment using innovative strategies.

Leland Perice, MD

Brown University

Leland Perice is a physician with a background in Emergency Ultrasound and Tech Innovation. He is passionate about creating well-designed digital innovations to solve problems that exist within medical education and healthcare. As a creator, he has helped bring innovative ideas to life both at the patient's bedside and within medical school curricula. He currently serves as Ultrasound Faculty at the Department of Emergency Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Andrew Herring, MD

Alameda Health System–Highland Hospital

Dr. Andrew A Herring graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed his residency in emergency medicine at Highland Hospital—Alameda Health System (AHS) in Oakland, CA where he is an emergency physician and Chief of Addiction Medicine including emergency, inpatient, outptient clinic, and telehealth services. Dr Herring has led national efforts to transform hospital-based care for substance use disorders and his work has been featured in local and national press including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio. Dr. Herring co-founded and is a PI at CA BRIDGE, one of largest state level efforts to promote access to medication for opioid use disorder in the hospital settings. Dr. Herring’s research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and has been published in numerous journals including JAMA Open and Annals of Emergency Medicine; his work focuses on treatment of substance use disorders and pain management. He is a co-investigator NIDA CTN 0099 (ED-INNOVATION), and principal investigator for the Public Health Institute CA Bridge Outcomes Study. He has conducted health policy research as a Fulbright Scholar in Central America. Dr. Herring is board-certified in Emergency Medicine, Addiction Medicine, and Pain Medicine, and is Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, at UCSF.

Moon Lee, MD, MPH, MS

Stanford University School of Medicine

Moon Lee, MD, MPH, MS is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. She was Associate Vice Chair for the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Quality Director for the Pediatric Emergency Department. She completed an emergency medicine residency at University of California, Davis Medical Center followed by a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Hasbro Children's Hospital/Brown University following Her academic interests include pediatric emergency medicine, quality improvement and safety, clinical informatics, and health equity.

Margaret Lin-Martore, MD

UCSF

Margaret Lin-Martore, MD, is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at UCSF in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM). She is the Director of Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals-San Francisco, co-Director of the Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship and is a Bridges Coach and Co-Director of the Physician Identity Weeks for the UCSF School of Medicine.

As an educator, Dr. Lin-Martore is interested in developing innovative curricula around Pediatric Emergency Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) applications and is the series editor of the PEM POCUS series at Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM). She is interested in examining and defining competency in POCUS and in procedural skills education, as well as motivation for life-long learning. Dr. Lin-Martore is a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators. Dr. Lin-Martore's other research and academic interests focus on the diagnostic accuracy of POCUS for various applications, as well as its effects on clinical care including length-of-stay and patient satisfaction. She has also examined health literacy and numeracy in the emergency department population.

Dr. Lin-Martore attends in the Pediatric Emergency Department at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Mission Bay and in the Emergency Department at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

Benjamin Lin, MD

Mass General Brigham, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Benjamin Lin is a resident at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency. His interests are in the fields of simulation, technology, and advocacy for vulnerable populations. In his free time he enjoys cooking and homebrewing.

Monica Germain, BSN, RN, CCRN

Boston Medical Center

Monica Germain BSN, RN, CCRN is a registered nurse who is currently serving in the two year Ravin Davidoff Health Equity fellowship to advance Boston Medical Center’s health equity priorities. Monica holds an Associate Degree in Science from Bunker Hill Community College, a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Southern New Hampshire University, and is currently enrolled at Boston University School of Public Health to obtain a Master’s in Public Health. After graduation from Bunker Hill Community College, Monica began working in Boston as a community health nurse to deliver patient-centered care to vulnerable populations. Her nursing background includes community health, correctional nursing, and critical care. Over the last two years, Monica has garnered the respect of her peers and colleagues for her progressive nursing leadership roles. Monica’s passion is creating an inclusive environment in nursing units and finding ways to mentor and create advancement opportunities for BIPOC nurses. She was the founder & chair of the Critical Care Diversity & Inclusion council and served as a ‘Recruitment, Retention, and Recognition’ representative during the 2021 Magnet survey for Boston Medical Center. Monica has been awarded the 2021 ‘Excellence in Nursing Practice” by the New England Black Nurses Association.

Anthony J. Mell, MD, MBA

Boston Medical Center

Anthony was born in the rural community of Oley Valley, PA. His father was a crane operator, and his mother was a lunch lady. He worked as a janitor and landscaper during middle and high school, before going to college at Fairleigh Dickinson University where he got both a BS and subsequently an MBA. While completing his undergraduate education Anthony also worked closely with several disinvested communities including adults with autism, youth in the foster care system, and youth in the criminal legal system. Anthony then completed his medical education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan where he worked closely with the immigrant community in East Harlem. Anthony completed his residency training at the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Childrens’ Hospital and Boston Medical Center in the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy Track. Now Anthony is the inaugural Ravin Davidoff Health Equity Fellow at Boston Medical Center. In this fellowship he studies health equity, implementation sciences, and health system management. He applies those skills to intervention-based projects by working with BMC’s Health Equity Accelerator, a health system wide collaboration to improve the healthcare of Boston Medical Center’s patients, specifically focused on health inequities. Anthony also delivers primary care to the children of Boston through his role as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center. Finally, Anthony routinely teaches health equity content to residents and medical students through his roles as the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy Course Director and as a Health Equity Rounds Faculty Mentor. In those roles, Anthony created an operationalized 18-month long health equity curriculum consisting of monthly in person discussion-based sessions and professional development modules with accompanying asynchronous content. He also mentors residents to create specific case-based health equity conferences that are presented to the pediatric department in a grand rounds format. Finally, he has led teaching sessions on racism across multiple departments in his institution and to all levels of learners, medical students, residents, and faculty. His areas of interest include quality improvement and implementation science, racial socialization, the care of criminal legal system involved youth and youth in the foster care system, the deconstruction of the school to prison pipeline, economic mobility, population health management, and disability justice.

Cody H. Brevik, MD

University of Colorado School of Medicine

I am a Medical Education Science Fellow at the University of Colorado and I work as an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine. I trained at CU SOM and Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine. I will completing my MA in education at UCDenver in July with the conclusion of my fellowship and will be staying on as academic faculty at CU. I have a particular interest and focus in human factors of performance and non-technical skills in emergency medicine training with associated research. My skills also include curriculum development, instruction, simulation, mentorship and coaching, evaluation, and assessment.

Emily Jameyfield, MD

University of Chicago

Originally from the East Coast, Emily completed her EM residency at the University of Chicago where she is currently also completing her Medical Education fellowship. Her MHPE thesis work involves best practices for teaching verbal de-escalation skills within health professions education. She looks forward to joining the education faculty at Yale this summer!

Sharon Chekijian, MD, MPH

Yale School of Medicine

Dr. Chekijian joined the Yale School of Medicine faculty in 2007 where she works full time as an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. She is faculty member in the Section of Global Health and International Emergency Medicine as well as in the Section of Administration. She has served as the inaugural Medical Director of patient experience since 2011. She is also the Medical Director of the Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner group in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Chekijian is a seasoned educator and is the founding Medical Director of the APP residency program which admitted its 1st cohort in 2015. She completed the Yale Medical Education Fellowship in 2014.

Her research interests lie in global emergency medicine and include emergency care systems' development in low and middle-income countries, unintentional injury prevention in low and middle-income countries, as well as stroke and cardiac care in low and middle-income countries. Dr. Chekijian has led and participated in projects in the Republic of Armenia, Uganda, and Iraq. She has consulted for the World Bank and the US Department of State. She is an active member of the Stroke Initiative Advisory Task-Force for Armenia (SIATA). Dr. Chekijian was awarded a Fulbright in 2020 for her work to improve emergency care in Armenia by the establishment of a new emergency medicine residency program in cooperation with the National Institutes of Health of Armenia and supported from a research standpoint by the School of Public Health at the American University of Armenia.

She is deeply committed to patient experience, communication and humanism in medicine. Dr. Chekijian co-produced a film that addresses human rights as it relates to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 under the working title “The Hidden Map” that premiered at the Toronto Pomegranate Film Festival in 2019.