People

Fran Riley, MD

Stanford University

Dr. Fran Riley is a physician engineer and Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford. She has previously lead multidisciplinary teams to develop multiple features for an electronic medical record dedicated to data analytics. Her clinical research focuses on leveraging artificial intelligence in image recognition and her current work focuses on the user experience of working with large language models.

Ross Ellison, MD, MBA

Geisinger Health System

Dr. Ellison is the Interim Regional Administrator for Geisinger NorthEast region and the Medical Director for Geisinger Placement Services.

Jin H. Han, MD, MSc

Vanderbilt University

Dr. Jin Han is a Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is also a core faculty member of the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Care (GRECC) in the Tennessee Valley Veterans Affairs Healthcare System and the Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center. He is a delirium and cognitive outcomes researcher who has received funding from the NIH, CDC, PCORI, and EMF.

Jonathan Elmer, MD, MS

University of Pittsburgh

I am an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. I am a multi-R01 funded physician investigator whose research aims to create better approaches to prediction of post-arrest outcomes and treatment responsiveness. I am the principal investigator of an R01 ancillary study to the ICECAP trial.

Dr. Elmer is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He graduated from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2008 and completed residency in emergency medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital combined training program. He completed critical care and neurocritical care training at University of Pittsburgh before joining the faculty. His research is focused on improving delivery of acute post-arrest care to improve patient outcomes. Specific domains of his work include elucidating the effect of neurocritical care and systems of care on patient outcomes; advancing the science of neurological prognostication and post-arrest risk stratification; and developing robust methods for analysis of continuous, correlated physiological and electroencephalographic data. His leads multiple federal grants to support these efforts. Clinically, he attends in the neurovascular and neurotrauma intensive care units and on the Post-Cardiac Arrest Service at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital and directs the Organ Donor Support Team. He has mentored numerous trainees ranging from undergraduates to early career faculty.

Ethan M. Clement, MD

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Ethan Clement, MD, Resident, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Suzanne (Suzi) Bentley, MD, MPH

NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst

Suzanne (Suzi) Bentley, MD, MPH, is the Chief Wellness Officer, Director of Simulation Innovation & Research, and an Emergency Medicine physician at NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst. She is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Education at the Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai. Dr. Bentley completed the Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine residency, Masters of Public Health at Mount Sinai, and a fellowship in Simulation Education at the Institute for Medical Simulation and Advanced Learning of Health + Hospitals. Dr. Bentley stayed on as faculty at Elmhurst after training and served as residency Site Director before transitioning to Medical Director of Simulation and collaborating on opening the hospital-wide Simulation Center. She credits her passion for and expertise in debriefing as the unifier in her professional roles. She led the initiation of Helping Healers Heal at Elmhurst and became the first Health + Hospitals site Chief Wellness Officer in 2021. Dr. Bentley is a clinician, educator, and researcher with focused interests in debriefing, psychological safety, Insitu simulation, simulation for systems testing, teamwork maximization, patient and workforce safety, Safety II principles, and overall workforce well-being and advocacy. She advocates for workforce well-being improvements through focus on the integral connection between quality, patient safety, and workforce well-being.

Pamela Dyne, MDc

Olive View-UCLA Medical Center

Dr. Pamela Dyne is Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, a former president of CORD, former Program Director at UCLA, and former DIO at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center. As a senior faculty member, she wanted to enhance her mentoring skills and sought certification to become a life and health coach. During the pandemic she identified a need at her institution for leadership in physician wellbeing, and subsequently became a certified chief wellness officer. With over 25 years of experience in GME, faculty development, and organized medicine leadership, her current position as Chief Physician Wellness Officer of Olive View-UCLA Medical Center allows her to integrate her leadership experience and knowledge of organizational and individual wellbeing with the human aspect of middle management that is required to create change at the organizational level, and support individuals through the process.

Emily Lynn Hirsh, MD

University of South Carolina SOM Greenville/Prisma Health

Dr. Hirsh is an Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. She also works clinically for Prisma Health in Greenville, South Carolina, where she serves as the Director for Well-Being and Resiliency for the Department of Emergency Medicine. She holds a Clinical Associate Professor title to the Clemson University School of Health Research at Clemson University. Dr. Hirsh is passionate about creating a culture of sustainable practice for emergency physicians. She has particular interests in sleep and fatigue, scheduling, human factors, and how these can be considered to create sustainable and enjoyable work environments for physicians and other health care team members over many years. 

Haley Egan, MD

University of Washington Emergency Medicine

Stephanie Balint, MSN

Quinnipiac University

Stephanie Balint is an M4 at Quinnipiac University who has served as RAMS Medical Student Representative, RAMS liaison to the Workforce Committee, and Wellness Committee member for the past three years.

Bryan Bryan G. Kane, Professor of Medicine, USF MCOM

Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network

Bryan Kane, MD is a Professor of Medicine with the University of South Florida. His teaching and research abilities were recognized with induction to the University's Academy of Distinguished Educators and to the Robert A. Good Honor Society. At Lehigh Valley Health Network, he is the Associate Program Director (Research) for the Emergency Medicine Residency. Currently the President of the Medical Staff, he has previously served on the Institutional Review Board as the Vice-Chair. A past Chair of SAEM's Evidence Based Healthcare Improvement IG, he led a consensus effort to evaluate the resident Scholarly Requirement. He currently serves on SAEM's Workforce Taskforce. He is active in CORD, having served as the Research Track Chair and on the COVID Taskforce. Within ACEP, he has authored textbook chapters, is on the PACEP Research Committee, and was named "PACEP Physician of the Year". He received his undergraduate degree at Yale, completed medical school at UPenn, and trained in Emergency Medicine at Yale. His educational passions are around Evidence Based Medicine, where he has designed a Journal Club tied to a validated EBM metric.

Arvin R. Akhavan, MD, MPA

Harborview Medical Center/University of Washington

Dr. Akhavan is an emergency medicine faculty physician at Harborview Medical Center/University of Washington in Seattle, WA. He serves as the ED Medical Director at Harborview as well as on several hospital-wide leadership committees. Academically, he is interested in operations, the ED workforce, and wellness issues. Initially from Texas, he obtained his medical degree from Northwestern University, completed his emergency medicine residency at Harborview/UW, and pursued additional fellowship training in healthcare leadership and operations at New York University.

Dave W. Lu, MD, MS, MBE

University of Washington

Dave Lu MD, MSCI, MBE is Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA), Director of Faculty Wellness and Professional Fulfillment, and Associate Medical Director of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the UW Medical Center – Northwest Emergency Department. Dr. Lu studies issues related to the healthcare workforce, including clinician burnout, well-being, attrition, and diversity. His research focuses on understanding how clinicians' work experiences may impact patient safety and quality of care. He completed residency training at Northwestern University and also has advanced training in clinical investigation (MSCI, Northwestern) and bioethics (MBE, University of Pennsylvania).

Nick M. Mohr, MD, MS

University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

Dr. Nicholas Mohr is Professor of Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia Critical Care, and Epidemiology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. He is also the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Director of the Rural Telehealth Research Center, which is a collaborative center funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration. Dr. Mohr is interested in novel care delivery models such as telehealth, rural emergency care, and management of critical illness, and his work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Veterans Health Administration, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). 

Teresita M. Hogan, MD

University of Chicago

Dr. Hogan is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago. She is a national leader in Geriatric Emergency Medicine (GEM), with expertise in emergency pain management, quality improvement implementation, and graduate medical education. Dr. Hogan has recieved extensive funding from private philanthropy in addition to funding from the National Insitutes of Heath. She will discuss the different approaches to private funding, how to seek support through shared mission and goals. She will discuss how to build a successful career building relationship with private funders. Dr. Hogan is a founding member of the Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative and is implementing Geriatric Emergency Department (GED) Guideline based initiatives in the Emergency Departments of hospitals across the United States. Dr. Hogan is a founding member of the American College of Emergency Medicine, GED Accreditation Board of Governors, determining which departments meet standards of excellence in the care of older adults. She is a member of the SAEM Academy of GEM. Dr. Hogan is the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Geriatric Emergency Medicine, which provides an open- access, peer reviewed, quality education platform enabling providers in all disciplines the evidence needed to improve emergency care of older adults.

Ryan N. Barnicle, MD

Lifespan/Brown University

I am the current Director of Emergency Critical Care and Director of Resuscitation Education for Brown Emergency Medicine. I completed residency in emergency medicine and stayed at Stony Brook University to complete a fellowship in Advanced Resuscitation (Resuscitation and Emergency Critical Care).

Luke J. Duncan, MD, FAAEM

Albany Medical Center

Dr. Duncan is the chief of the division of Critical Care at Albany Medical Center. He currently is the director of the CVICU, and ECLS program as well as associate program director of the Albany Med Resuscitation and Emergency Critcal Care (RECC) fellowship. His research interests include ICU liberation in the emergency department, and ED-based ICU care.

Courtney W. Mangus, MD

University of Michigan

Dr. Courtney Mangus is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Michigan. She joined the faculty in 2019 after completing both her pediatric residency and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Her academic interests include research related to diagnostic quality and safety, community pediatric emergency care, and patient communication including shared decision-making. She received a K08 Award through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for her proposal entitled "Development and Testing of an Intervention to Facilitate Shared Decision-Making in Pediatric Patients with Abdominal Pain Presenting to the Community Emergency Department Setting."

Cameron R. Waldman, MD

Albany Medical Center

Cameron is faculty at Albany Medical Center's Department of Emergency medicine and a member of the department's Division of Emergency Critical Care. He completed emergency medicine residency and fellowship in Resuscitation and Emergency Critical Care at Albany Med as well. His professional interests include critical care echocardiography, bioethics and systems ethics, and critical care education for emergency medicine residents.

June Gordon, MD

Stanford University

Dr. Alexandra “June” Gordon is an emergency medicine and critical care physician. She works in both the Emergency Department and the Medical ICU at Stanford University Hospital where she also completed her Emergency Medicine Residency and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. She is the Associate Program Director for the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and also serves as the Immediate Past Chair of the AAEM Critical Care Medicine Section.