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  • Stefanie Gopaul, MD

    Clinical Instructor, Emergency Medicine

    NYU Langone Health

    Dr. Stefanie Gopaul received her medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. At UCLA, she was a member of the Charles Drew University/UCLA Medical Education Program and the PRIME-LA program where she completed a five-year dual degree and obtained a Masters Degree in Public Health from Columbia University. Dr. Gopaul completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine at SUNY Downstate/ Kings County, where she served as a Chief Resident.

    Dr. Gopaul is currently completing an Administrative Fellowship in Healthcare Leadership and Operations (HCLO) at NYU Langone Health in the Department of Emergency Medicine and works as a Clinical Instructor in Emergency Medicine at NYU and Bellevue hospitals. She is completing a Masters of Public Administration at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. As an Administrative Fellow, Dr. Gopaul serves as the Acting Assistant Chief of Service for the NYU Cobble Hill Emergency Department. In this role, she provides direct assistance to the Chief of Service on daily ED operations as well as various quality and patient safety initiatives.

  • Monisha Dilip, MD

    Assistant Medical Director

    Yale School of Medicine

    Dr. Monisha Dilip is a second year administration fellow at the Yale School of Medicine. She is the Assistant Medical Director at the Yale New Haven Emergency Department. Her specific focuses are emergency department operations, patient safety and quality, and admin’s role in wellness. She is also completing her MBA at Yale School of Management. She completed her residency in emergency medicine at Kings County/SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, NY. In her fourth year, she served as a Chief Resident. 

    Dr. Dilip attended California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for undergrad. She completed medical school at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine where she was inducted into the Gold Humanism Society. In her spare time, she likes reading books, exploring new restaurants, and watching terrible TV shows.

  • Monica Dhand, MD, DTMH

    Co-director, Global Health Residency Track

    Tulane University

  • Bryan Balentine, MD

    Southeastern Regional Medical Director

    TeamHealth

  • Joseph Leanza, MD, MPH

    Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

    Boston University School of Medicine

    Dr. Joseph Leanza is an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center and is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Leanza main academic interest is in global health with a special focus on emergency medicine specialty development, policy, and humanitarian emergencies. He works mainly in Iraq, with additional projects in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Uganda, and Ecuador. Dr. Leanza is also quite interested in the intersection between climate change and health.

  • Farouk Dako, MD, MPH

    Assistant Professor

    Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

    Dr. Farouk Dako is an assistant professor of radiology in the cardiothoracic imaging division, a senior fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and a scholar in the Center for Global Health at the Perelman School of Medicine. His research focuses on population and global health, specifically the role radiology can play in advancing health equity. He is also the director for the RAD-AID International Nigeria program. He is interested in the utilization of big data to improve health outcomes of traditionally underserved populations. Dr. Dako obtained a master of public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He completed a surgical internship at the Mayo Clinic and diagnostic radiology residency at Temple University. He then completed fellowships in cardiothoracic radiology and imaging informatics at the University of Maryland. 

  • Uche Anigbogu, MD, MPH

    Assistant Professor

    George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

    Dr. Uche Anigbogu 

    works as an attending physician in the emergency department at George Washington University Hospital and is an assistant professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She completed a fellowship in global emergency medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard University. She was also a fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, working primarily with the health systems strengthening team. Her previous work focused on emergency care systems development, capacity building, and education in West Africa. She has done research in Nigeria, Togo, and Belize in infectious disease and medical anthropology. She aims to collaborate on the strengthening of emergency care, both locally and globally, with a focus on West Africa through clinical work, consulting, and education.

  • Emma Cortes, DO

    Clinical Faculty/Director

    Jefferson Northeast

    I am a dual-specialty physician in emergency medicine and family medicine. I work in emergency departments with Indian Health Services in Arizona and South Dakota, and I am currently clinical faculty with Jefferson Northeast in Philadelphia, PA. I am the founder and director of the nonprofit organization the Migrant Health Collaborative of South Jersey, which focuses on increasing access to health care for migrant workers, typically from Central America and Haiti. I've had clinical experiences in Uganda, Nigeria, and the Philippines.  I have a history Of being able to be a PI and Co-PI on multiple grant-funded projects. I'm going to be starting a fellowship in global emergency medicine at Brown this fall.

  • Megan Wolff, MD, MHPE

    Professor, Emergency Medicine

    University of Michigan

    Dr. Megan Wolff is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Pediatrics, the Associate Program Director for the Pediatrics Residency program, and the Curriculum Director of the RISE (Research, Innovation, Scholarship, Education) Unit at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. She joined the faculty of the Department of EM after completing pediatric emergency medicine fellowship training at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and pediatrics training at the Boston Combined Residency Program, where she served as a Chief Resident. She earned her Masters in Health Professions Education from the University of Michigan. Her academic interests are focused on medical education including interactive teaching techniques, coaching, and self-directed learning.

  • Jon Soske, PhD

    Research Associate

    Lifespan Division of Addiction Medicine

    Jon Soske, PhD is a person in long-term recovery from drug and alcohol addiction and a researcher who uses ethnographic and community-engaged strategies to understand the ongoing crisis in substance use and mental health treatment. He is currently a Research Associate at the Lifespan Division of Addiction Medicine, where he is a member of the team opening Rhode Island's first bridge clinic, and Systems of Care Fellow at the Center for Complexity at the Rhode Island School of Design.

  • Patricia Hernandez, MD

    PGY2

    Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Program

    Patricia Hernandez is a PGY2 at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine program. She is a University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine alumna, and a member of the class of 2018 at Princeton University, where she studied molecular biology and global health policy. In addition to her interests in medicine, she also enjoys advocacy, health equity, teaching, mentorship, ultrasound, and research.

  • Prakriti Gill, MD
  • Junaid A. Razzak, MBBS, PhD
  • Rachel M. Skains, MD, MSPH

    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    "Risk Factors and Time Course of Incident Delirium Among Older Adults in the Emergency Department (ED)"

    Dr. Skains is an assistant professor in the department of emergency medicine (EM) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) with a joint faculty position at the Birmingham VA Medical Center (BVAMC). Dr. Skains is an early-stage investigator focused on improving medication safety and cognitive impairment management in the acute care of older adults through patient-centered outcomes research. Dr. Skains’ interest in cognition and aging stems from her undergraduate training in neuroscience, working as a clinical research coordinator at Carolinas Neuromuscular/MDA-ALS Center, and serving as a NC Albert Schweitzer Fellow. After graduating from Wake Forest School of Medicine (2016), she completed her EM residency at UAB (2019) followed by a clinical research fellowship focused on geriatric EM while pursuing a master's degree in public health in clinical and translational science from the UAB School of Public Health (2021). 

    Dr. Skains was awarded the AHRQ NRSA T32 Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship in the UAB Health Services Research Training Program (2020-2022), in addition to funding through the UAB Integrative Center for Aging Research (ICAR) and Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) 1.0 pilot grant programs. She has recently been awarded two NIA awards: Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists' Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR) R03 (2023-2025) to evaluate the risk factors and time course of incident delirium among older adults in the ED and Exploratory/Developmental Grant R21 (2023-2025) for comprehensive assessment of delirium risk due to medications, in addition to the GEMSSTAR for EM Supplemental Funding Program through SAEMF/EMF. Furthermore, Dr. Skains is an ED physician champion for the UAB – Highlands and BVAMC Geriatric ED committees, which received Level 1 (2021) and Level 3 (2023) accreditations respectively, completed the UAB Geriatric Scholar Interprofessional Program (2019-2021), served as fellow board member for the GEM Section of ACEP (2021-2023), and currently chair of the AGEM Grants & Awards subcommittee (2023-Present). Dr. Skains is also leader of the medication safety committee to update the national Geriatric ED Guidelines, leader of the ACEP quality measure group to develop a geriatric high-risk ED prescription list, Level 3 Geriatric ED accreditation reviewer, and committee member for UAB’s Department of Inter-professional Practice and Training (DIPT), What Matters Advisory Group, and AGEM Grant and Awards Subcommittee. Finally, she was recently the recipient of the 2023 Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine Early Career Achievement Award and the UAB Department of EM Outstanding Researcher of the Year 2023.

  • Denise N. Fraga, MD

    Atrium Health - Carolinas Medical Center - Wake Forest Baptist

    "Pediatric Cranial Ultrasound for Point-of-Care Intracranial Pathology Detection"

    Dr. Fraga is a clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine and the ultrasound fellowship director with the Carolinas Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Atrium Health - CMC - Wake Forest University School of Medicine (Charlotte Campus). She completed her residency at the University of Maryland (UMEM) in Baltimore and an ultrasound fellowship at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Dr. Fraga works at a Level 1 adult and pediatric trauma center. Her scholarly interests include teaching point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in Guatemala with the pediatric and EM residency programs, ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia, and musculoskeletal ultrasound. Her grant project, Cranial Ultrasound for Point of Care Intracranial Pathology Detection in Pediatrics (CUPID-Peds), is an exploratory pilot project using B-mode cranial POCUS (cPOCUS) through the temporal bone window in children to detect intracranial pathology due to blunt head trauma. The results of this innovative protocol could be used in resource-limited emergency departments in the U.S. and/or abroad.

  • Joe-Ann Moser, MD, MS

    The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

    "Non-Promotable Task Completion by Emergency Medicine Chief Residents"

    Dr. Moser is a graduate medical education scholarship fellow and clinical instructor at the University of Wisconsin. She earned a BA in biochemistry and an MS in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Moser went on to receive an MD with distinction in medical education and global health from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she also completed her emergency medicine residency. She is currently pursuing a master's of health professions education at the University of Illinois - Chicago. Dr. Moser’s research interests include curriculum design and minimizing trainee and faculty burden to improve wellness.

  • Lynn P. Roppolo, MD

    Integrative Emergency Services at Tarrant County Hospital District, JPS Health Network

    "A Multi-center Trial to Determine eFAST Longitudinal Curves Using CUSUM Analysis"

    Dr. Roppolo is a retired professor of emergency medicine from the University of Texas Southwestern, where she was employed for 21 years, worked clinically primarily at Parkland Hospital, was part of the residency leadership for 15 years and completed the emergency ultrasound fellowship in 2019. She has participated in almost 50 research studies primarily as the principal investigator or senior author and has mentored countless number of students, residents and junior faculty in research. She is currently working clinically at John Peter Smith Hospital as core faculty and the assistant ultrasound director. She is employed by Integrative Emergency Services (IES) and created an ultrasound research collaborative with other IES ultrasound faculty at two nearby hospitals with EM residency programs and mandatory ultrasound rotations. Their AEUS grant study is a multi-institutional study involving these three programs to determine longitudinal learning curves of their rotating EM interns for the eFAST examination using cumulative sum (CUSUM), an analysis widely used in the medical field in recent years.

  • Ryan E. Tsuchida, MD

    University of Wisconsin, Department of Emergency Medicine

    "A Qualitative Case Study Analysis of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leaders in Emergency Medicine"

    Dr. Tsuchida (he/him) is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the assistant dean for multicultural affairs for health professions learners at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. He has a long-standing commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Dr. Tsuchida has served in a variety of leadership positions for the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). In collaboration with the Equity and Inclusion Committee and the Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine (ADIEM), he has given presentations at national SAEM annual meetings on resident-driven recruitment and retention strategies for underrepresented in medicine medical students. He has also facilitated an unconscious bias workshop for the SAEM committee and academy chairs. As assistant dean, Dr. Tsuchida is a faculty mentor to underrepresented and historically marginalized medical students through the Building Equitable Access to Mentorship initiative, a program he now oversees. The impact of his work has been recognized by the University of Michigan Medical School’s Award for Excellence in Institutional Change To Promote Health Equity, SAEM’s ADIEM Future Outstanding Academician Award, and the University of Wisconsin, Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Award for Excellence in Leadership and Service.

  • Michael Makutonin

    The George Washington University

    "Effects of Prolonged ED Length of Stay in Pediatric Psychiatric Crisis Patients"

    Mr. Makutonin is a fourth-year medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He has been involved in dataset and data science research throughout his medical school career, starting multi-institution collaborations by drawing on skills he learned as a software engineer and a data science bootcamp instructor. Mr. Makutonin's nascent research career has earned him recognition in the field, including research awards and plenaries at national conferences. Mr. Makutonin is passionate about the potential of data science research to inform and solve impactful problems and continues to mentor others in the field as a vice chair in the EMRA research committee and a principal investigator at the George Washington University Healing Clinic, among other roles.

  • Elizabeth A. Abrams, MSPH

    The Ohio State University

    "Comparing Health Records and Self-Report Data to Target ED HIV Screening"

    Ms. Abrams is a second-year student at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Her experience and professional interests drive her desire to develop expertise at the intersection of clinical medicine and public health. After undergraduate training, Ms. Abrams completed a master’s degree in public health that focused on health behavior change and community-based participatory research methods, often implemented in collaboration with and support of populations receiving suboptimal care or who are under-engaged by the health care system. She researched care systems for people who use drugs and those living with HIV, including the implementation and evaluation of programs aiming to reduce HIV viral load among youth locally and globally. She then served as project coordinator leading substance misuse intervention programs for the Washington, DC Hospital Association, where involvement with physicians, scientists, community partners, and patients ultimately led her to medical school. Ms. Abrams has co-authored 10 publications, including one as lead author focused on health care provider experiences helping implement an HIV youth peer mentoring program. She is working towards a career as a physician-scientist through which she can specialize in clinical and public health interventions.

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