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Miriam Kulkarni, Associate Professor

St. John’s Riverside Hospital

Dr Kulkarni is the Program Director at St John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, NY. She is a graduate of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the Jacobi/Montefiore Emergency Medicine Residency. She has been involved in residency education as an APD and PD since 2009. Dr. Kulkarni has been involved in the match process as an APD and PD for the last 15 years.

Brian Milman, MD

University of Texas Southwestern

Dr. Brian Milman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas. He completed his emergency medicine residency at University of Oklahoma and worked as faculty, Assistant Program Director, then Associate Program Director in Tulsa before moving to Dallas in 2023. Dr. Milman is passionate about teaching, advising, and mentoring.

Mike Kiemeney, MD

Loma Linda University School of Medicine

Dr. Kiemeney completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. His residency training was completed at East Carolina University/Vidant Medical Center. Dr. Kiemeney is now Program Director at Loma Linda University Health. Areas of interest include Medical Education, wellness, mentorship, and the Match. He currently serves as Co-Chair for the multi-organization CORD Match Task Force. Investigating the driving forces of recent applicant behavior and decision making as well as those of Program Directors has allowed the Task Force to develop potential strategies that may contribute to successful EM Matches in the future.

Lori Clements, BSN, RN, MA, SANE

Lifespan/Brown University

Lori Clements is a Registered Nurse with 22 years of nursing experience. She has worked as a supervising RN in the areas of pediatrics, child and adolescent behavioral health, and adult medicine. She is the Director of the RI Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) Program. With her team she has implemented the first coordinated response for sexual assault patients across the Lifespan hospital system's emergency departments. She holds a BA in Psychology, BSN in Nursing, and completed a post baccalaureate Forensic Nurse Certificate program through John’s Hopkins University. She is currently completing her MSN with a Forensic focus. She is a certified Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) with 9 years experience working as a SANE and 6 years as a TeleSANE through the Massachusetts Department of Health SANE/ TeleSANE program.

Amy Goldberg, MD

Brown University

Amy Goldberg, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and an attending physician at The Lawrence A. Aubin Sr. Child Protection Center at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. She attended medical achool at Boston University, completed pediatric residency training at University of Massachusetts Medical school and fellowship training in Child Abuse Pediatrics at Hasbro Children''s Hospital and The Alpert Medical School of BRown Uiversity. She is a recent past member on the sub- committee for Child Abuse Pediatrics for the American Board of Pediatrics. Dr. Goldberg serves on the advisory committee for the Rhode Island Children’s Advocacy Center, is a member of the RI Human Trafficking Task Force and is on the Rhode Island Children’s Fatality and Review Team. She is actively invovled in training medical trainees at all levels on subjects related to child maltreatment and trauma.

Dr. Goldberg’s clinical and research interests include Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking, Injury patterns in Children with developmental delays and differences and establishing normative data for patterns of physical injury She considers advocacy, patient care and medical education as her highest professional priorities.

Erica J. Hardy, MD, MMSc

Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Dr. Hardy is an Assistant professor of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Divisions of Obstetric Medicine and Infectious Disease. Her research interests include infectious diseases in women, especially the peripartum period, sexually transmitted infections, trauma informed care and acute follow up of the sexual assault survivor. She has ongoing research examining the vaginal mucosal immunology longitudinally aftyer sexual assault as well as collaborating to develop a novel model teaching trauma informed care of the sexual assault survivor.

Lauren T. Southerland, MD, MPH

The Ohio State University

Dr. Lauren Southerland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at The Ohio State University and the Director of Clinical and Implementation Science for the Department. She is a trained Implementation Scientist and her research focuses on clinical process improvement and implementation in the Emergency Department.

Susan J. Duffy, MD, MPH

Alpert Medical School, Brown University

Susan Duffy, MD, MPH, Vice Chair Academic Affairs Deprtment of Emergency Medicine, Professor Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, Brown University. Medical Director RI SAFE Program I am a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Hasbro Children's Hospital, in Providence ,RI and my career has focused on alleviating disparities in emergency care and improving care for children, youth. As current Vice Chair for Academic Development, and former Medical Director, I have over 28 years of experience developing and implementing quality programs and as an educator and researcher. I have significant experience in assessing and developing systems for emergency care and community ED outreach, particularly working with multidisciplinary experts formulating best practices and guidelines for patients with complex medical and social issues including victims of sexual trauma and domestic violence, care of children with mental health crises. I am the Medical Director of the RI SAFE program and PI on a Department of Justice Grant (RI-SAFE) to develop a sexual assault forensic examiner program in Rhode Island EDs I was also awarded a Brown Physicians, Inc. grant to investigate the Implementation of the RI-SAFE program. I am the recipient of a Brown Grant to develop and investigate a virtual education program for clinicians to Improve Care for Victims of Acute Sexual Assault that is now a CME program offered to medical providers throughout the region. Icollaborate in national efforts through the American Academy of Pediatrics, HRSA-Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMS-C), and other medical organizations in the US and Canada to improve equitable care for children with mental health issues presenting to EDs.This has resulted in the collaborative development of best practices for ED patients with acute mental health crises, most recently involvement with HRSA supported EMSC initiatives to develop tools for ED providers to respond to the children’s mental health crisis, facilitate emergency departments in an EMSC/EII quality collaborative to improve care at risk for suicide, developing virtual training for ED pediatric providers on agitation management through an AAP educational platform, through collaborative effort sponsored by HRSA to develop a toolkit to assist EDs to improve preparedness to care for children with mental health crises, through a NIMH Grant to develop an ED screening tool for Adolescent Suicide (ED STARS) and a NIMH Grant to assess the impact of acute trauma on the development of PTSD using social media (ED EAR) and an AAP Healthy Tomorrows Grant to Incorporate Adolescent Substance Abuse Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment into pediatric practice (Adolescent SBIRT).

Morgan Broccoli, MD, MPH, MSc

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Morgan Broccoli, MD, MPH, MSc, is an attending emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her academic focus is on emergency care systems strengthening through development, dissemination, and implementation of locally appropriate guidance. She has worked and lived in many countries including South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, Haiti, India, and Ukraine. She is a member of the Emergency Health Systems Program at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and works as a consultant for the World Health Organization in both humanitarian and health systems contexts, focusing on the Humanitarian-Development Nexus. She has also worked clinically in humanitarian settings as a member of Emergency Medical Teams.

Nick Ashenburg, MD

Stanford University

Nick Ashenburg, MD is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. He is fellowship trained in Point-of-care Ultrasound and Bio-Design.

Bradley Chappell, DO, MHA, FACOEP

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Bradley, Chappell, DO, MHA, FACOEP is the Vice Chair of Clinical Operations at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. In this role, he excels at innovative approaches to complex issues, focusing on throughput, operational efficiency, transitions of care, patient communication, and patient satisfaction. Additionally, he serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine, also chairing multiple sub-committees including Written Exam Construction, Primary Certification, and Continuous Certification. As a reviewer for the American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma Verification Review Committee, he surveys level 1 and 2 trauma centers across the county to ensure compliance with expected practice and makes operational recommendations for best practices. He is currently participating in the California Healthcare Foundation Leadership Fellowship, previously completed a Master’s in Health Administration, engaged in the USACS Physician Scholars Program, and participated in the ACEP ED Director’s Academy. He spearheaded the transformative changes that resulted in receiving the LA County Quality and Productivity Commissions Mega Million Dollar and coveted Golden Eagle awards. He has been awarded multiple patient care improvement grants and has authored numerous articles, chapters, and books. He is also actively involved in year-round youth sports, coaching (and reffing) soccer, basketball, and baseball.

Laura G. Iavicoli, MD, MBA, FACEP, CHEP

NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst

Laura Iavicoli offers two decades of extraordinary service at New York City Health+Hospitals, Elmhurst, as a Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
With a forte for successfully building strong teams and holding a key role leading all facets of healthcare and strategy, Dr. Iavicoli has successfully positioned New York City Health+Hospitals as a leading expert in its field with respect to the application of best business and finance practices contributing to the following successes:

● Navigated the Health System through the COVID-19 pandemic response, leveraging expertise in disaster management to innovate and implement new procedures and treatment protocols.
● Led the organization to reduce health disparities while directing safety event reporting, root cause analysis, national patient safety goals, and the evolution of a culture of safety.
● New York Academic Emergency Medicine Award 2022 - Awarded to a member who has made a significant contribution to advancing emergency care in New York State. Presented at the New York Academic Emergency Medicine Scientific Assembly July 7, 2022.

Dr. Iavicoli’s contributions to public health are immeasurable and anchored by leadership experiences with Elmhurst Hospital, NYC Health + Hospitals, and through initiatives that have had broad-ranging local, regional, and national impacts.

As the Chief Medical Officer at Elmhurst Hospital, Dr. Iavicoli plans and executes strategies to position the facility as a High Reliability Organization through hospital wide assessments, visioning workshops, and action plan development. In this position, she has led Elmhurst Hospital through 17 successful regulatory surveys, including a Joint Commission Triennial survey that produced the best survey results in the history of the organization.

In the role of Senior Vice President of Emergency Management for NYC Health + Hospitals, Dr. Iavicoli established the Central Office Incident Management team encompassing section chiefs, unit leaders, a safety officer, a liaison officer, a public information officer, and an incident commander. She has been credited with building a formal crisis communication system that leverages mass email communications, live webinars, an alert blog, Intranet hub, and software applications to coordinate information distribution throughout the organization.

Michael Redlener, MD, FAEMS

Icahn School of Medicine

Michael Redlener, M.D. FAEMS, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and currently serves as the Medical Director of the Mount Sinai West Emergency Department, the Division Director for EMS and Disaster Preparedness and the Deputy Director for the Center for Healthcare Readiness. Additionally, he serves as the President for the National EMS Quality Alliance (NEMSQA), an organization dedicated to the development of evidence-based quality measures in EMS as well as numerous regional and state committees dedicated to disaster preparedness and EMS systems of care. He has an operational and academic focus on systems of care, health system readiness, clinical emergency management and quality improvement and measurement in EMS. He is double Board-Certified in Emergency Medicine and EMS Medicine.

Samuel Sondheim, MD MBA

Mount Sinai Morningside

Samuel Sondheim, MD MBA, is the Assistant Medical Director at Mount Sinai Morningside. He is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine. He works clinically as an attending physician at Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West hospitals. Dr. Sondheim completed a dual degree MD/MBA at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut followed by residency training at Mount Sinai Morningside/West where he served as Chief Resident, after which he completed Mount Sinai's Disaster Preparedness and Healthcare Leadership fellowship. With over a decade of experience in the prehospital space, his academic interests lie at the intersection of disaster preparedness and healthcare leadership/administration and operations.

Jimmy Truong, DO, MS

New York–Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center

Jimmy Truong, DO is an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, with extensive experience in the spectrum of medical education. Since joining Columbia in 2017, he co-leads the Emergency Medicine Clerkship for 1st year medical students, mentoring 1st and 2nd year medical students transitioning to clinical experience He co-leads the Emergency Medicine Interest Group, design and execution of the faculty development programming, and lead the continuing education of the physicians’ assistant group. He works alongside our emergency medicine residents, and fellows, providing bedside teaching, mentorship support and guidance. As part of the faculty onboarding team, he interfaces with our new attendings in heralding their transition to our department and for recent graduates, into emergency medicine. His ongoing development and growth includes the ACEP Teaching fellowship reinforcing medical education concepts and developing an asynchronous point-of-care ultrasound curriculum for physician assistants in the department.
Nationally, he serves as an oral boards examiner for the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine, certifying new emergency medicine physicians since 2019. As an editorial board member, he is a peer reviewer for the Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine for 2 years, reviewing over 80 submissions. He is a member of the SAEM medical education committee providing support to creating a roadmap for residents to navigate the academia. He continues to grow his network with completion of the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine Faculty Incubator staying on as a faculty mentor. He works collaboratively with other medical education educators across the world and has afforded a rich experience in learning other views and perspectives.

Christopher Eric McCoy, MD, MPH

UC Irvine Health; University of California Irvine School of Medicine

Dr. C. Eric McCoy is the designer and founder of southern California's first emergency medicine simulation fellowship program. He is also the Base Hospital Medical Director and Director of Emergency Medical Services at UC Irvine Medical Center. He graduated from UC Irvine Emergency Medicine residency program and subsequently completed a fellowship in Emergency Medical Services/Disaster Medical Sciences at UC Irvine while simultaneously completing a master of public health at UCLA.

Dr. McCoy has a passion for education and has more than 20 years of experience in designing educational curriculum and programs. He has leveraged his expertise in education and training to create both a domestic and international medical simulation fellowships where his fellows have the opportunity to educate/train and form cooperative collaborative relationships with medical students, residents, nurses, allied health professionals, EMTs, paramedics, and physicians while developing innovative simulation curriculum. Curriculum from his simulation program has been implemented at local, regional, and international levels. He completed a project where he and an EMS colleague designed and created a fully immersive prehospital medicine course overseas that was simulation based and included the army, navy, nurses, physicians, paramedics and allied health care professionals. He has utilized his expertise in EMS, public health, and education to develop novel simulation curriculum that is delivered both in and outside of the simulation center environment.

Dr. McCoy is also the course director and instructor for the school of medicine's course on the fundamentals of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics. He also teaches courses in Evidence-Based Medicine at national and international programs. Education and insight on the fundamentals of evidenced based medicine, epidemiology, and biostatistics provide a unique learning opportunity for fellows of this program and serve as the foundation for designing and implementing simulation research projects with sound methodology.

Dr. McCoy has a true passion for education and appreciates the opportunity to provide service to the community through educational offerings.

University of Iowa

Daniel Runde, MD, MME is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics where he serves as Vice Chair of Education for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program and as Director of the Emergency Medicine Medical Education Fellowship Program. Within the Carver College of Medicine he has spent the past 8 years serving as Course Director for the second semester of the Clinical and Professional Skills Strand. He was also elected to the Medical Education Council which oversees curricular development and analysis for all phases of the medical curriculum.

Dr. Runde completed a Fellowship in Medical Education at Harbor-UCLA and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and subsequently University of Iowa Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education. He has received multiple “Teacher of The Year” awards within his department as well as recognition for “Best Lecture” and “Best Speaker” from the Council of Emergency Medicine Directors Academic Assembly.

He serves as a founding member and decision editor for the journal Academic Emergency Medicine: Education and Training and spent 4-years as a member of the Education Committee for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

Stephanie Cohen, DO

University of Central Florida

Dr. Stephanie Cohen was born in Buffalo, New York and is a graduate of the University of Central Florida where she studied Psychology in addition to her pre-med studies. She obtained her medical degree at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Bradenton, Florida and served as a chief resident at the University at Buffalo where she graduated in 2021. Dr. Cohen finished her simulation fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida in 2022 and is currently serving as core faculty and director of simulation at the University of Central Florida/HCA Emergency medicine residency program in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Cohen has become involved in simulation on the national level and is currently serving on the executive board of the SAEM Simulation Academy as the VP of membership.

Di F. Coneybeare, MD, MHPE

Di Coneybeare completed her residency as well as an emergency ultrasound fellowship at Bellevue Hospital/NYU. She earned her Masters of Health Professions from Maastricht University. She currently practices in the Adult Emergency Department at Columbia Irving Medical Center. She became the emergency ultrasound fellowship director in 2021 and has served as the co-chair of the faculty development committee since 2020. She founded the Department of Emergency Medicine peer support program in 2022.

Nicholas Pokrajac, MD

Stanford University Department of Emergency Medicine

Nicholas Pokrajac, MD is a Clinical Assistant Professor within the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Pokrajac completed his medical school education at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, followed by residency training in Emergency Medicine at the UC San Diego Health System. After residency, he completed a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego. His professional interests include medical education and procedure training in emergency medicine. He currently serves as the Director of Faculty Clinical Skills Training at Stanford, where he developed and implemented a simulation-based mastery learning curriculum for faculty clinical skills maintenance.