People

Annika Bhananker

Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety

Annika Bhananker is a Research Coordinator at the VA Center for Quality, Effectiveness and Safety in Houston, Texas. She is an undergraduate student at Rice University majoring in Anthropology. She is interested in pursuing emergency medicine and serves as a volunteer EMT for Rice EMS.

M Riccardo Colella, DO, MPH, FACEP

Medical College of Wisconsin

Dr. Colella is appointed by the State of Wisconsin’s Department of Health as the Statewide EMS Medical Director. He serves as Chief for the Division of EMS Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and is the immediate-past medical director of the Milwaukee County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) System, a national leader in EMS serving a population of approximately one million citizens. For the past 15 years, Dr. Colella has been a continuously NIH-funded clinical trial investigator and is the founding program director for the ACGME-accredited EMS Fellowship Program.

He completed medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, emergency medicine residency at the Medical College of Georgia, EMS Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and his MPH: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

Melanie F. Molina, MD, MAS

University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Melanie Molina, MD, MAS is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Affiliate Faculty of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Prior to her faculty position, Dr. Molina completed a postdoctoral fellowship through the National Clinician Scholars Program at UCSF and a Masters in Advanced Studies through UCSF’s Training in Clinical Research program. During that time, she investigated and published work elucidating COVID-19-related health disparities and ways to leverage technology to integrate social needs screening/linkage to resources into clinical care. Dr. Molina’s own experiences overcoming childhood adversity sparked her desire to work toward reducing health disparities and continue to drive her advocacy work.

Dick Kuo, MD

Baylor College of Medicine

Dr Kuo currently serves as Professor and Chair of the Henry JN Taub Department of Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. He received his BA from Johns Hopkins University and his MD from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. After completing residency at the University of Maryland he continued on as faculty eventually serving as Medical Director and Director of Faculty Development. He was recruited in 2009 to join Baylor College of Medicine to help form a new EM program based at Ben Taub Hospital in his hometown of Houston, Texas. In 2017 the Henry JN Taub Deaprtment of Emergency Medicine was established and Dr Kuo was named inaugural chair.

Dalia Owda, MD

Yale University School of Medicine

Dalia Owda, MD is an emergency medicine physician and current postdoctoral fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) at Yale University School of Medicine / Yale-New Haven Health System. Prior to fellowship, Dr. Owda completed her emergency medicine residency at Beaumont Health System in Royal Oak, Michigan, where she also served as Chief Resident in her final year. During her time in residency, Dr. Owda became a leader within the DEI space, creating a DEI Committee and mentorship program for URM medical students, which led to her receiving a top award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Currently, Dr. Owda focuses her research on advancing workforce diversity within academic medicine, with specific focus on the expriences of URM trainees and faculty, as well as evaluating disparities of emergency service utilization.

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.