People

Jack Springer

LLUMC Global Health fellow 1997-1998

Mike Shen

Lisa A. Wolf, PhD, RN, CEN, FAEN, FAAN

Director, Emergency Nursing Research, Emergency Nurses Association

Karen Lommel, DO, MHA

Professor, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry

Prisma Health

Leslie Zun, MD, MBA

Professor of Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry

Chicago Medical School

Junji Takeshita, MD

President, American Association for Emergency Psychiatry; Professor, Department of Psychiatry

John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii

Tony Thrasher, DO, DFAPA

Immediate Past President, American Association for Emergency Psychiatry

Stefanie Sebok-Syer, PhD

Course Director, ARMED MedEd

Stanford University Department of Emergency Medicine

Jonathan Warren, MD

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Jonathan Warren, MD is currently a Chief Resident at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in his fourth year of residency. His interests include clinician wellbeing, medical education, ultrasound, and EMS. In his focus on clinician wellbeing, he is the founder and Chief Editor for Art of Emergency Medicine, a FOAMed site dedicated to showcasing the creative side of emergency medicine providers and providing evidence-based wellness articles. He is currently completing a medical education fellowship through the David Geffen School of Medicine and has begun work on an asynchronous learning platform for ultrasound, SonoNavigator. In his free time, Jon can often be found taking astrophotography photos or hiking through the National Parks. He is looking forward to starting a combined US/EMS fellowship next year in Los Angeles.

Pryanka Relan, MD

Clinical Emergency Medicine Specialist

World Health Organization

Dr. Pryanka Relan is a clinical emergency medicine specialist and field epidemiologist currently based at the World Health Organization Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, where she focuses on the development of resilient emergency care systems that respond effectively to health crises such as outbreaks and disasters. At WHO she leads capacity building and operational research efforts for the Emergency Medical Teams Secretariat and supports the clinical COVID-19 team, where she is the focal point for online learning via OpenWHO.org and leads WHO O2CoV2, an observational research study evaluating oxygen requirements and approaches to respiratory support in patients with COVID-19 in LMICs. Prior to joining Health Emergencies Programme at WHO, Dr Relan led the WHO Global Emergency and Trauma Care Initiative, which focuses on coordinated implementation and concentrated monitoring and evaluation of impact of the WHO emergency care systems toolkit as part of the Organization’s target to reach 1 billion people with Universal Health Coverage. During the pandemic, she also supported guideline development, trainings, tools and research for COVID-19 and beyond among a diverse and multidisciplinary team of engineers, architects and clinicians.

Originally from India, Dr. Relan currently practices clinical emergency medicine in the United States. She previously worked as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where she served on the Global Rapid Response Team. Dr. Relan has been involved in several emergency responses including in conflict and refugee settings in the surveillance, epidemiology, laboratory, case management and WASH response areas. She completed her fellowship in global health with a special focus on tropical medicine and ultrasound from Mount Sinai Hospital System in New York City.

Nathaniel Raymond

Executive Director, Humanitarian Research Lab

Yale School of Public Health

Nathaniel Raymond is Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and a Lecturer in the Department of the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases (EMD) at YSPH. He was formerly a Lecturer of Global Affairs at the Jackson School for Global Affairs from 2018 - 2022. His research interests focus on the health implications of forced displacement; methodologies for the assessment of large-scale disasters, including pandemics; and the human rights and human security implications of information communication technologies (ICTs) for vulnerable populations, particularly in the context of armed conflict. Previously, he was the founding Director of the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from 2012 – 2018. From 2010 to 2012, he was Director of Operations for the George Clooney-founded Satellite Sentinel Project at HHI, which utilized high resolution satellite imagery to detect and document attacks on civilians in Sudan and South Sudan. Raymond was Director of the Campaign Against Torture at Physicians for Human Rights from 2008 – 2010, leading investigations into the role of US health professionals in the Bush Administration’s “enhanced” interrogation program.

Danielle Poole, ScD, MPH

Associate Research Scientist

Yale School of Public Health

Dr. Danielle (Dani) Poole is an epidemiologist and geospatial health researcher and Director of Health Research with the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab. She has lots of experience conducting humanitarian health research, with her work centered around measuring needs among populations affected by crises, with a focus on health during displacement, and developing novel research methods for complex settings. Dr. Poole completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Neukom Institute for Computational Science of Dartmouth College. She earned a ScD from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, an MPH from Brown University, and a BA from Seattle University.

Amanda Irish MD, MPH

Katie Koval

Logan Wolford

Jason Bowman

Instructor of Emergency and Palliative Medicine

Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

jkbowman@partners.org

Link to Bio

Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

Areas of Expertise:

1. Symptom management
2. Communication skills
3. Systems/pathways of care
4. Emergency-Palliative Care Research

Speaking Categories: See Expertise, above

Areas You’ve Received Funding: Education and Communication skills

Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

Karen Jubanyik, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine

Yale University School of Medicine

karen.jubanyik@yale.edu

Link to Bio

Palliative Medicine boarded?: No

Areas of Expertise:

1. Education, including use of simulation to teach primary palliative care skills to medical students and residents
2. Communication skills:  (VitalTalk-trained)
3. Disparities in access to hospice and palliative medicine services
4. Collaborations with EMS
5. Psychedelic medication for treatment of existential crisis at EOL
6. Ethics of the use of Triage/Resuscitation Protocols in a Global Pandemic

Speaking Categories: 

1. Education, including use of simulation to teach primary palliative care skills to medical students and residents
2. Communication skills - VitalTalk trained
3. Disparities in access to hospice and palliative medicine services
4. Collaborations with EMS
5. Symptom management
6. Psychedelic medication for treatment of existential crisis at EOL
7. Ethics of the use of Triage/Resuscitation Protocols in a Global Pandemic

Areas You’ve Received Funding: Education and Communication skills

Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

Leila Amini

Reid Haflich

Reid Haflich