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  • Susan B. Promes, MD, MBA

    Penn State University

    Currently, Dr. Promes serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine in the Penn State College of Medicine, a role she has held since 2014. She is the recipient of the 2020 Society of Academic Emergency Medicine's prestigious Hal Jayne Excellence in Education Award. She serves as the Editor in Chief of Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training. Her leadership in academic emergency medicine is significant—in 2019, the AAMC reported that only 18% of emergency medicine chairs in the United States were women and she is one of them.

  • Nicole Battaglioli, MD, MHPE

    Emory University

    Nicole Battaglioli MD is the CEO and Founder of Komorebi Health. She is a board certified Emergency Medicine and Obesity Medicine physician. Dr Battaglioli has prioritized physician wellness throughout her career. She was an inaugural honoree of EMRA's "45 under 45" Influencers in Emergency Medicine. In 2019, she received an honorable mention in the Medical Economics Physician Writing Contest for her piece on postpartum depression. She is a staunch advocate for changing the medical licensing culture to remove invasive questions that deter physician's from seeking out the mental healthcare they need and deserve.


  • Jazmyn Shaw, MD

    University of Cincinnati

    Jazmyn is a 3rd year resident and rising chief resident at the Unviersity of Cincinnati. Her interests include ultrasound, quality improvement, medical education, and increasing diversity within the field of Emergency Medicine.

  • Benjamin Fombonne

    Fellowship Director, Global EM

  • Shirley Jones

    Shirley completed her EM Residency at EVMS and her Global Health Fellowship at the University of Utah. Shirley is the EVMS Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director. Her past and current projects include Vietnam Emergency Medicine Diploma Project, WHO's and ICRC Humanitarian Emergencies in Large Population Course in Geneva, Himalayan Health Exchange, and Trinidad Mount Hope. 

  • Amye Farage

    Associate Professor

  • Amye Farag

    Assistant Professor

  • Amye Farag
  • Maddie Ross, MD MPH
  • Maddie Ross, MD MPH
  • Maddie Ross

    Assistant Fellowship Director

  • Madeline Ross

    Assistant Fellowship Director

  • Pinaki Mukherji, MD

    Site Director, Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center

    Northwell Health

    Dr. Mukherji is the Site Director at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center at the North Shore/LIJ Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Northwell Health. He has worked in undergraduate education, with emergency residency clerkship students, as a Teaching Fellowship Director and as a Program Director for both emergency medicine categorical and EM/IM/Critical Care residencies. He has a passion for education as a force multiplier and is interested in decision making, getting better, and being wrong. He has been active in the development of Simulation training, Critical Care pathways, and International EM. He has lectured nationally and internationally on many core EM topics, as well as on topics of his interest in bias and cognitive error.

  • Andrew Barbera, MD

    Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program

    Lakeland Regional Health

    Dr. Barbera is an emergency medicine (EM) physician and the inaugural Program Director for the Lakeland Regional Health EM Residency Program. Dr. Barbera has held faculty positions at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, CUNY School of Medicine, and is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor with Nova Southeastern University School of Medicine and Orlando College of Osteopathic Medicine. As the Program Director, Dr. Barbera supervises all departmental medical education and research in one of the busiest emergency departments in the country, averaging approximately 200,000 patient visits annually. In addition, Dr. Barbera has been an integral part of creating an academic culture at a large community medical center as they launched a graduate medical education program with the start of seven ACGME accredited programs.

  • Daniel Frank, MD

    Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

    Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

    Dr. Frank is an attending physician at South Shore University Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He completed both medical school and residency training in EM at Stony Brook University's Health Science Center. While there, he served as chief resident and conducted research on post-intubation care in the emergency department (ED). After finishing residency training, Dr. Frank went on to complete a two-year fellowship in critical care medicine at North Shore University Hospital of Northwell Health. He then joined the Core Faculty of the EM Residency at Hackensack University Medical Center, where he spent 3 years working closely with residents and developing his interest in graduate medical education. Since joining South Shore University Hospital, Dr. Frank has worked to build and establish the residency program, publish scholarly work, present at national conferences, and serve on various graduate medical education committees as well as the Student Advancement Commiteee at the Zucker School of Medicine.

  • Rupa Kapoor, MD

    Associate Professor, Pediatrics

    Eastern Virginia Medical School

    Dr. Kapoor is an Associate Professor in Pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS). She is an Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Residency Program and the Founder of the Global Health Scholars Program in Pediatrics. She also serves as the Assistant Program Director for Resident Scholarly Work. Her passions include medical education research, curriculum design, leadership and resilience training, and global health and disparity work.

  • Heather Newton, EdD, MEd

    Executive Director of GME, Educational Programs

    Eastern Virginia Medical School

    Dr. Newton obtained both her doctorate degree in Educational Psychology and a master’s degree in Teacher Education and Curriculum Instruction from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She also completed a three-year research fellowship. Dr. Newton’s passion is education and she has over 27 years of professional experience in the educational field from preschool through postgraduate. Currently, Dr. Newton works with Graduate Medical Education as the Executive Director of GME, Educational Programs at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS). In this role, she helps to create and implement faculty development curricula and deliver training in multiple modalities to residents, faculty, and staff. Dr. Newton has a passion for teaching, mentoring, scholarship, accreditation, and leadership. Her research interests are in program evaluations, conducting needs assessments, leadership, and interprofessional relationships for producing scholarship. Additionally, Dr. Newton is an associate professor with the EVMS Department of Pediatrics and the EVMS School of Health Professions.

  • Sara Schulwolf

    Medical Student Representative

    University of Connecticut

    Sara Schulwolf is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Connecticut and completing her Master's in Public Health. Ms. Schulwolf has participated in the Urban Service Track, an interdisciplinary auxiliary curriculum designed to build skills for effectively and empathetically working with underserved groups. Additionally, during her first year at UConn, Ms. Schulwolf co-founded a student group aimed at addressing vaccine hesitancy in her community and through this, was able to contribute projects ranging from door-to-door vaccination campaigns in Hartford, to supporting legislation restricting religious exemptions for public school immunization requirements. These efforts earned Ms. Schulwolf recognition as a recipient of the 2022 National Excellence in Public Health award.

    Ms. Schulwolf's greatest research and academic interest within EM is point-of-care ultrasound. She has been involved in leadership for UConn’s ultrasound interest group and has taught POCUS for a variety of audiences ranging from preclinical students to non-medical participants. Further, She has presented ultrasound research at a variety of regional and national conferences, including SAEM.

  • Genevieve Pentecost, MD

    Member-at-Large

    Washington University in St. Louis/Barnes-Jewish Hospital

    Dr. Genevieve Pentecost is a PGY-3 at Washington University in St. Louis and attended the University of Missouri-Columbia for her undergraduate and medical school education. For 3 years, Dr. Pentecost has served as a resident representative among several local institutional committee programs that advocate for the resident voice in assuring a safe and fair learning environment, residency recruitment and retention, and prioritizing resident and fellow wellness. For her final year in residency, she turned her focus to broader issues facing trainees on the national scale.

  • Mit Patel, MD

    Member-at-Large

    Henry Ford Hospital

    Dr. Mit Patel is a current PGY-2 at Henry Ford Hospital. Dr. Patel graduated with a BBA in Information Systems from the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago. He went on to earn his MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, where he developed his interest in medical education and research. In Residency, his research interests are in increasing POCUS utilization by trainees, examining causes for ED boarding and overcrowding, and expanding ED-initiated Buprenorphine.

    He's in the first generation of his family to attend medical school, and he mentors middle-schoolers in Detroit on becoming physicians. He believes strongly in connecting experts with enthusiastic learners and is eager to facilitate these relationships. He looks forward to involving curious residents and medical students in all aspects of academic emergency medicine.

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