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Rowan Kelner, MD

University of Utah

Rowan Kelner is a first-year medical education fellow in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Utah. He did residency at the University of Utah and attended medical school at New York Medical College.

Allison Beaulieu, MD, MAEd

University of Utah Health

Allison Beaulieu, MD, MAEd is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at The University of Utah where she serves as an Assistant Residency Program Director and Medical Education Fellowship Director. She completed a Medical Education Fellowship and Master's of Biomedical Education at Ohio State University and Emergency Medicine Residency at the University of Massachusetts. Her professional interests include curriculum development, professional development, gamification, and mentorship.

Taylor Haston, DO, DiMM, MBS, MPH

Augusta University

Dr. Taylor Haston is from Charlotte, NC, completed medical school at Nova Southeastern University, Emergency Medicine residency training at the Medical College of Georgia, followed by a Wilderness Medicine Fellowship at MCG. She is now an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, as well as Director for the Wilderness Medicine Fellowship. Dr. Haston has earned her Diploma in Mountain Medicine (DiMM) and certifications in Level 1 Swiftwater Rescue, Advanced Open Water and Rescue Diving. She works as medical support for an international ultra-marathon race series as frequently as her schedule allows and has traveled internationally as faculty, not only with the Wilderness Medicine Section, but also with the International Medicine Section and the Ultrasound Section at MCG.

Katja Goldflam, MD

Yale University

Katja Goldflam, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. After graduating from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in 2006, Dr. Goldflam completed her residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency in 2010. She completed a fellowship in Emergency Ultrasound at St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City and joined the Yale faculty in 2011. She is the Associate Residency Director for the emergency medicine residency and has an interest in education, competency assessment, feedback and leadership development. She has taught various ultrasound and wilderness medicine courses regionally and nationally and was awarded the 2017 ACEP National Emergency Medicine Faculty Teaching Award.

Stuart Harris, MD MFA

Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Stuart is the founder and Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Wilderness Medicine, and the Director of the MGH Wilderness Medicine Fellowship. He is a full-time clinician (attending physician) in the MGH Emergency Department and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He an affiliated faculty member at the Arctic Initiative at the Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is the primary investigator of NO COV-ED, a clinical trial investigating use of inhaled nitric oxide to treat acute COVID in the emergency department.

Phillip Magidson, MD, MPH, FACEP, FACP

Johns Hopkins University

I'm an emergency medicine physician and geriatrician with a special interest in geriatric emergency medicine and acute care of older adults. I received my medical degree from George Washington University in Washington, DC and completed a combined emergency medicine/internal medicine residency at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD followed by a geriatric fellowship at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, also in Baltimore, MD. Currently, I'm on faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with dual appointments in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology. Although I spend the bulk of my clinical time in the emergency department, championing the care of older adults, I actively practice inpatient internal medicine and inpatient geriatric consultation.

Zhuqing “Charlie” Li, PhD

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services

Dr. Zhuqing "Charlie" Li (Ph.D, MBBS, MSc) is the Acting Deputy Director of the Office of Reseach Trainging and Special Programs (ORTSP), Division of Extramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH. ORTSP primarily manages and coordinates NIAID Research Training and Career Development portfolios (Fs/Ks/Ts), SBIR/STTR programs, and special programs including international program outreach and funding compliance, research administrative supplements progrms including diversity supplements, PCTAS, continuity supplements, as well as G11, R25, R38/K38, LRPs, and NIAID “at-risk” investigator R01 initiatives. Dr. Li was trained as a physician scientist focusing on infectious diseases and immunity, clincial immunology, autoimmunity, T cell immune response, genomic profiling, and clinical trial reserach studies.

Bernard P. Chang, MD, PhD

Associate Dean, Faculty Health and Research Career Development

Columbia University

Dr. Bernard P. Chang is the Associate Dean of Faculty Health and Research Career Development at Columbia University. He also serves as Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine and is the Tushar Shah and Sarah Zion Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine. Trained as a psychologist and emergency physician, his research focuses on neuropsychiatric emergencies and clinician health. He received his PhD from Harvard in psychology, his MD from Stanford, and completed his Emergency Medicine residency training at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Samuel Malakhovsky, MD, EMT-P

University of Michigan

Originally from the East Coast, Sam began his healthcare career as a paramedic, spending over 6 years in pre-hospital medicine between Fire Department-based EMS and third service EMS agencies. During that time, he was heavily involved in EMS education and quality improvement, including both curriculum development and didactic instruction. He went on to receive his MD from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and is currently a PGY-2 Emergency Medicine Resident at the University of Michigan.

His primary research interest involves the intersection of law enforcement and healthcare, both in the pre-hospital and Emergency Department settings. This includes healthcare delivery to individuals in police custody, officer medical training, and critical incident medical support. Sam is one of the founding members of the SAEM Tactical and Law Enforcement Medicine (TaLEM) Interest Group and is also involved in University of Michigan's aeromedicine program, SurvivalFlight.

Esther Hwang, DO, MPH, FACEP

Emory University School of Medicine

Dr. Esther Hwang is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Emory University and works clinically with Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta’s only Level 1 trauma center. She is the Medical Director for AMR DeKalb County and associate Medical Director for the Emory-Grady EMS Biosafety Transport Team (BST), who safely transported the first patients to be treated for Ebola Virus infection in the United States to Emory University for care in 2014. She is also a Local Emergency Medical Advisor (LEMA) for the National Park Services for the Atlanta Region, serving three major National Park areas including the Chattahoochee River, the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic Site, and Kennesaw Mountain. Dr. Hwang completed a fellowship in EMS at Emory University in 2020. She is currently the NAEMSP Operational EMS Committee chair, serving the term for 2023 – 2025. She is also the current Vice President for the NAEMSP – Georgia Chapter. Her academic interests include emergency and disaster preparedness for CBRNE events and tactical EMS. Her primary focus is on CBRNE HazMat emergency preparedness resiliency. She has spoken regionally, nationally, and internationally on topics pertaining mass casualty disaster triage and tactical EMS.

Joan Chen, MD

Mount Sinai Hospital

Joan Chen is a third year resident physician in Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Previous to their career in medicine, they worked many years in street-based syringe distribution, HIV/STI testing and harm reduction counseling, and as an outreach worker and community paramedicine adjunct for high utilizers of emergency services in the San Francisco Bay Area.

William Weber, MD, MPH, FACEP

Rush University Medical Center

William Weber, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He helped found the Medical Justice Alliance, a national organization that trains volunteer physicians to provide medical reviews to advocate for the health of individuals in carceral settings. He serves on ACEP’s Medical-Legal Committee and Public Health Committee.

Kyle D. Martin, DO, MPH

Brown University

Dr. Kyle Denison Martin is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He received his Doctorate of Osteopathy from the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He also received a Masters of Arts in Bioethics and Masters of Public Health from Michigan State University. Dr. Martin completed his specialty training in Emergency Medicine at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan. He completed a Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and has a Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health from the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. Dr. Martin is an Affiliate Faculty of the Institute at Brown University for Environment and Society (IBES). He is also Affiliate Faculty at the Global Health Institute (GHI) of Brown University.

Gayle Kouklis, MD

University of California (San Francisco)/Fresno

Gayle Kouklis graduated from UCSF Fresno Emergency Medicine Residency where she spent her four years pursuing both wilderness and climate and health medicine outside of clinical practice. She continues to work closely with the Parkmedic program, having spent time teaching both national courses and local courses in Yosemite, Sequoia/Kings Canyon, and Rocky Mountain National Parks. She and several colleagues were awarded a grant from the California Resilience Challenge to design a climate vulnerability and adaptation assessment of Fresno County. She currently is working with FEMA and the Environmental Defense Fund as a fellow with University of Colorado Climate Change and Health Science Policy program. She remains on faculty at UCSF Fresno and works in the community in Southern Oregon.

Tracy G. Sanson, MD

TracySansonMD

Dr. Sanson is a Board-Certified Emergency Physician who practices clinically as an independent contractor. Dr. Sanson heads her own consulting firm. She was recently awarded the American College of Emergency Physicians Judith E. Tintinalli Award for Outstanding Contribution in Education. Dr. Sanson completed her medical degree and EM residency training at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has held director positions in the US Air Force and the University of South Florida and is a career educator in Emergency Medicine and leadership in healthcare.

Amal Mattu, MD

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Dr. Amal Mattu is a tenured professor, Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, and Director of the Faculty Development Fellowship in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He has received more than 20 teaching awards including national awards from the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, and the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine, and he received two national Residency Director of the Year awards during his 9 years as a Program Director. He has provided over 3000 hours of CME lecturing at conferences in the US and in more than 20 other countries, and he frequently lectures on topics pertaining to education and faculty development.

Sara P. Dimeo, MD, MEHP

Dignity Health East Valley Emergency Medicine

Dr. Dimeo is a practicing emergency physician and the inaugural residency program director at the Dignity Health East Valley Emergency Medicine Residency Program in Chandler, Arizona. She attended the University of Arizona-Tucson for her residency after which time she completed a two year fellowship in Multimedia Design and Educational Technology through UC Irvine. She obtained her Masters in Health Professions' Education through Johns Hopkins. Her primary areas of expertise relate to curriculum design, active learning techniques and gamification, the use of technology in education, as well as enhancing slide design.

Mary W. Gitau, MbCHB

Kenyatta National Hospital

Dr Mary Gitau is a medical doctor working at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya interested in emergency medicine training and research. She holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from the University of Nairobi, Kenya and is also a qualified Basic Emergency Care (BEC) trainer.

Her interest in emergency medicine started during her clinical years in medical school. She undertook the WHO/ICRC Basic Emergency Care (BEC) training of trainers course in 2020 and successfully trained medical final-year students in the basic emergency care course in 2021 and 2022. This allowed her to be involved as a co-investigator in the research on emergency training in Kenya and in this conference, she will be presenting on the Longitudinal Analysis of the World Health Organization/International Committee of the Red Cross Basic Emergency Care Course on Kenyan Physician Knowledge and Confidence.

Out of the hospital, Dr Gitau volunteers with a local organisation to promote talent in underprivileged youth, specifically working with children with an interest in fashion and modelling. She is also a devoted Christian who enjoys spending time with family and friends, nature walks, hiking and swimming in her leisure time.

Ramu Kharel, MD, MPH, DTM&H, CTropMed

Dr. Ramu Kharel is an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine with an appointment in the Division of Global Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He received his Medical Doctorate from UT Southwestern in Dallas and his Masters of Public Health from the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University. He completed specialty training in Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Kharel also has completed focused sub-specialty training in Global Emergency Medicine research and Clinical Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Dr. Kharel works clinically in the United States as a practicing emergency care physician and also undertakes global health research focused in Nepal.. His research focuses predominantly on improving emergency care systems. His work equips community health workers to respond to emergencies in pre-hospital settings. Dr. Kharel is the founder of a grassroots NGO in Nepal called HAPSA Nepal and has worked extensively in earthquake response, COVID-19 response and other disasters. He is on board of non-governmental organizations working in health care delivery in Nepal as well. Dr. Kharel is very active in social media, mostly teaching public health measures in the face of population disasters. Dr. Kharel loves basketball and Urdu poetry.

Sally Graglia, MD, MPH

University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Sally Graglia is an Assistant Clinical Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (UCSF-ZSFG) with fellowship training in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). After completing Emergency Medicine residency at UCSF, Dr. Graglia pursued fellowship training in Ultrasound at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). During her fellowship, she worked with PURE (Point-of-care Ultrasound in Resource-limited Environments) in Uganda which led her to take an appointment in Liberia with the Liberia College of Physicians and Surgeons (LCPS) as Ultrasound Education Director in Monrovia, Liberia. Dr. Graglia has experience in various capacities and environments including Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Africa, India, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru, and rural California. Her passions include teaching, point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), and global health. She serves as the Director of Medical Student Ultrasound Education and a Bridges Coach at the UCSF School of Medicine.