People

Justin Holmes, MD

Texas Tech University HSC

I attended medical school at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center- Lubbock and completed my residency training at Baylor Scott and White- Temple, TX. I started at UMC/TTUHSC in July 2018 as an Emergency Medicine attending and Clerkship Director. I transitioned to Associate Program Director in 2021. In my spare time I enjoy going camping and spending time with my wife and 3 boys.

Faheem W. Guirgis, MD, FACEP

University of Florida

Faheem W. Guirgis, M.D., is an endowed professor of emergency medicine at the University of Florida. His research program’s goal is to define the pathophysiologic role of lipids and lipoproteins in mediating organ failure, inflammation, and recovery from sepsis and to discover precision medicine treatments. He has been the recipient of multiple NIH awards to fund his research. Dr. Guirgis has also been a proponent and leader of research education and is MPI and Co-director of the UF-FSU NCATS KL2 Program.

Kathryn Hawk, MD, MHS

Yale University

Kathryn Hawk, MD, MHS is an Associate Professor in the Yale Department of Emergency Medicine, the Program in Addiction Medicine, and the Yale School of Public Health. She was a NIDA K12 Drug use, Addiction and HIV Research (DAHRS) Scholar. Her research focuses on the design, testing and implementation of evidence-based care for ED patients with substance use disorders, with a focus on initiating treatment for alcohol and opioid use disorder in the ED and linking patients to ongoing treatment using innovative strategies.

Leland Perice, MD

Brown University

Leland Perice is a physician with a background in Emergency Ultrasound and Tech Innovation. He is passionate about creating well-designed digital innovations to solve problems that exist within medical education and healthcare. As a creator, he has helped bring innovative ideas to life both at the patient's bedside and within medical school curricula. He currently serves as Ultrasound Faculty at the Department of Emergency Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Andrew Herring, MD

Alameda Health System–Highland Hospital

Dr. Andrew A Herring graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed his residency in emergency medicine at Highland Hospital—Alameda Health System (AHS) in Oakland, CA where he is an emergency physician and Chief of Addiction Medicine including emergency, inpatient, outptient clinic, and telehealth services. Dr Herring has led national efforts to transform hospital-based care for substance use disorders and his work has been featured in local and national press including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio. Dr. Herring co-founded and is a PI at CA BRIDGE, one of largest state level efforts to promote access to medication for opioid use disorder in the hospital settings. Dr. Herring’s research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and has been published in numerous journals including JAMA Open and Annals of Emergency Medicine; his work focuses on treatment of substance use disorders and pain management. He is a co-investigator NIDA CTN 0099 (ED-INNOVATION), and principal investigator for the Public Health Institute CA Bridge Outcomes Study. He has conducted health policy research as a Fulbright Scholar in Central America. Dr. Herring is board-certified in Emergency Medicine, Addiction Medicine, and Pain Medicine, and is Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, at UCSF.

Moon Lee, MD, MPH, MS

Stanford University School of Medicine

Moon Lee, MD, MPH, MS is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. She was Associate Vice Chair for the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Quality Director for the Pediatric Emergency Department. She completed an emergency medicine residency at University of California, Davis Medical Center followed by a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Hasbro Children's Hospital/Brown University following Her academic interests include pediatric emergency medicine, quality improvement and safety, clinical informatics, and health equity.

Margaret Lin-Martore, MD

UCSF

Margaret Lin-Martore, MD, is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at UCSF in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM). She is the Director of Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals-San Francisco, co-Director of the Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship and is a Bridges Coach and Co-Director of the Physician Identity Weeks for the UCSF School of Medicine.

As an educator, Dr. Lin-Martore is interested in developing innovative curricula around Pediatric Emergency Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) applications and is the series editor of the PEM POCUS series at Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM). She is interested in examining and defining competency in POCUS and in procedural skills education, as well as motivation for life-long learning. Dr. Lin-Martore is a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators. Dr. Lin-Martore's other research and academic interests focus on the diagnostic accuracy of POCUS for various applications, as well as its effects on clinical care including length-of-stay and patient satisfaction. She has also examined health literacy and numeracy in the emergency department population.

Dr. Lin-Martore attends in the Pediatric Emergency Department at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Mission Bay and in the Emergency Department at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

Benjamin Lin, MD

Mass General Brigham, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Benjamin Lin is a resident at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency. His interests are in the fields of simulation, technology, and advocacy for vulnerable populations. In his free time he enjoys cooking and homebrewing.

Monica Germain, BSN, RN, CCRN

Boston Medical Center

Monica Germain BSN, RN, CCRN is a registered nurse who is currently serving in the two year Ravin Davidoff Health Equity fellowship to advance Boston Medical Center’s health equity priorities. Monica holds an Associate Degree in Science from Bunker Hill Community College, a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Southern New Hampshire University, and is currently enrolled at Boston University School of Public Health to obtain a Master’s in Public Health. After graduation from Bunker Hill Community College, Monica began working in Boston as a community health nurse to deliver patient-centered care to vulnerable populations. Her nursing background includes community health, correctional nursing, and critical care. Over the last two years, Monica has garnered the respect of her peers and colleagues for her progressive nursing leadership roles. Monica’s passion is creating an inclusive environment in nursing units and finding ways to mentor and create advancement opportunities for BIPOC nurses. She was the founder & chair of the Critical Care Diversity & Inclusion council and served as a ‘Recruitment, Retention, and Recognition’ representative during the 2021 Magnet survey for Boston Medical Center. Monica has been awarded the 2021 ‘Excellence in Nursing Practice” by the New England Black Nurses Association.

Anthony J. Mell, MD, MBA

Boston Medical Center

Anthony was born in the rural community of Oley Valley, PA. His father was a crane operator, and his mother was a lunch lady. He worked as a janitor and landscaper during middle and high school, before going to college at Fairleigh Dickinson University where he got both a BS and subsequently an MBA. While completing his undergraduate education Anthony also worked closely with several disinvested communities including adults with autism, youth in the foster care system, and youth in the criminal legal system. Anthony then completed his medical education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan where he worked closely with the immigrant community in East Harlem. Anthony completed his residency training at the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Childrens’ Hospital and Boston Medical Center in the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy Track. Now Anthony is the inaugural Ravin Davidoff Health Equity Fellow at Boston Medical Center. In this fellowship he studies health equity, implementation sciences, and health system management. He applies those skills to intervention-based projects by working with BMC’s Health Equity Accelerator, a health system wide collaboration to improve the healthcare of Boston Medical Center’s patients, specifically focused on health inequities. Anthony also delivers primary care to the children of Boston through his role as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center. Finally, Anthony routinely teaches health equity content to residents and medical students through his roles as the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy Course Director and as a Health Equity Rounds Faculty Mentor. In those roles, Anthony created an operationalized 18-month long health equity curriculum consisting of monthly in person discussion-based sessions and professional development modules with accompanying asynchronous content. He also mentors residents to create specific case-based health equity conferences that are presented to the pediatric department in a grand rounds format. Finally, he has led teaching sessions on racism across multiple departments in his institution and to all levels of learners, medical students, residents, and faculty. His areas of interest include quality improvement and implementation science, racial socialization, the care of criminal legal system involved youth and youth in the foster care system, the deconstruction of the school to prison pipeline, economic mobility, population health management, and disability justice.

Cody H. Brevik, MD

University of Colorado School of Medicine

I am a Medical Education Science Fellow at the University of Colorado and I work as an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine. I trained at CU SOM and Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine. I will completing my MA in education at UCDenver in July with the conclusion of my fellowship and will be staying on as academic faculty at CU. I have a particular interest and focus in human factors of performance and non-technical skills in emergency medicine training with associated research. My skills also include curriculum development, instruction, simulation, mentorship and coaching, evaluation, and assessment.

Emily Jameyfield, MD

University of Chicago

Originally from the East Coast, Emily completed her EM residency at the University of Chicago where she is currently also completing her Medical Education fellowship. Her MHPE thesis work involves best practices for teaching verbal de-escalation skills within health professions education. She looks forward to joining the education faculty at Yale this summer!

Sharon Chekijian, MD, MPH

Yale School of Medicine

Dr. Chekijian joined the Yale School of Medicine faculty in 2007 where she works full time as an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. She is faculty member in the Section of Global Health and International Emergency Medicine as well as in the Section of Administration. She has served as the inaugural Medical Director of patient experience since 2011. She is also the Medical Director of the Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner group in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Chekijian is a seasoned educator and is the founding Medical Director of the APP residency program which admitted its 1st cohort in 2015. She completed the Yale Medical Education Fellowship in 2014.

Her research interests lie in global emergency medicine and include emergency care systems' development in low and middle-income countries, unintentional injury prevention in low and middle-income countries, as well as stroke and cardiac care in low and middle-income countries. Dr. Chekijian has led and participated in projects in the Republic of Armenia, Uganda, and Iraq. She has consulted for the World Bank and the US Department of State. She is an active member of the Stroke Initiative Advisory Task-Force for Armenia (SIATA). Dr. Chekijian was awarded a Fulbright in 2020 for her work to improve emergency care in Armenia by the establishment of a new emergency medicine residency program in cooperation with the National Institutes of Health of Armenia and supported from a research standpoint by the School of Public Health at the American University of Armenia.

She is deeply committed to patient experience, communication and humanism in medicine. Dr. Chekijian co-produced a film that addresses human rights as it relates to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 under the working title “The Hidden Map” that premiered at the Toronto Pomegranate Film Festival in 2019.

Jenna M. Thomas, MB, BCh, BAO, MHPE

Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

Dr. Jenna Thomas is an Assistant Program Director for the residency program at Washington University in St. Louis. Her broad experiences from medical school in Ireland through Medical Education fellowship in the Midwest piqued a passion for supporting people of diverse personal and professional backgrounds in their own competency based education. She is always looking for ways to collaborate on scholarly projects and share experiences with peers across a variety of institutions and training settings, and is an active member of SAEM's Education Committee.

Erin L. Simon, DO

Cleveland Clinic Akron General/NEOMED

Dr. Erin Simon is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University. She is Research Director for the Cleveland Clinic Akron General Emergency Medicine Program and has published over 160 peer-reviewed manuscripts and abstracts. She is Director for the Cleveland Clinic Akron General's substance use disorder program. Dr. Simon is active in leadership roles on national and international committees for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the International Federation for Emergency Medicine. She is a national oral board examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine and a peer reviewer for The Journal of Emergency Medicine and the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Simon has been dedicated to resident and medical student education for over a decade. 

Roz King, MSN, RN, CNL

University of Vermont

Roz King has greater than fifteen years of experience in Emergency Medicine. She currently works at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, where she holds various roles. As the Director of the Emergency Medicine Research Associate Program, she serves as faculty, teaching four courses in Emergency Medicine Research. As Director of Research in Emergency Medicine and the Chief of the Division of Research, Ms. King is responsible for providing mentorship and guidance to over forty EM faculty members. Under her leadership, research efforts have increased by greater than forty percent. In addition to providing research guidance and mentorship to others, Ms. King is engaged in her own research endeavors, obtaining greater than $4 million dollars in funding over the last three years from various sources, including federal and foundation funding, Her research interests include healthcare disparities, workplace violence, and low barrier access to care.

Kiran A. Faryar, MD, MPH

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Dr. Kiran Faryar, MD, MPH, is a practicing board-certified emergency physician and clinician researcher with a focus on integrating public health and public health services into emergency department settings. Her primary research work is in the field of implementation science, investigating screening and intervention best practices in the ED. She has initiated, managed, and disseminated on community health projects in both academic and community EDs including HIV, HCV, and latent TB infection screening and linkage to care; take-home naloxone distribution; initiation of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) for ED patients with opioid use disorder with next-day linkage to care; county-wide COVID-19 testing through an $18 million COVID program funded by the CARES Act. To date, she has >20 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier emergency medicine and public health journals and has been awarded numerous industry, local, state, and federal grants for public health and health services.

In 2021, she was appointed Research Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, where she oversees departmental research infrastructure, capacity building, and faculty research development. On a national level, she is the Chair of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Research Director’s Interest Group and an active member of the SAEM Research Committee and EMTIDE (Emergency Medicine Transmissible Infectious Diseases and Epidemics) Interest Group.

Sara W. Heinert, PhD, MPH

Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Sara Heinert, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ. She holds a PhD in Health Policy and Administration from University of Illinois at Chicago and a MPH in Epidemiology from University of Michigan- Ann Arbor. Dr. Heinert has led research endeavors in emergency medicine for the past 11 years. Her research interests lie at the intersection of public health and the emergency department, and specifically focus on social emergency medicine research that is patient-centered and addresses access to care and health disparities. For many patients, the emergency department is their only “touch point” with the health care system and Dr. Heinert is interested in developing innovative methods to screen and educate ED patients on their health conditions and connect them to primary care. Additionally, she is engaged in collaborative work with colleagues and community partners to develop novel health advocacy opportunities for youth in underserved neighborhoods. This work involves youth as teachers of health information as a catalyst for adult healthy behavior change. Her work has resulted in first-author publications in such journals as the American Journal of Public Health, Academic Emergency Medicine, Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, and Health Promotion Practice (HPP).

Nathan J. White, MD, MS, FACEP, DRTM

Harborview Medical Center/University of Washington

Nathan White M.D., M.S., is Associate Professor and Associate Chair Research, Department of Emergency Medicine and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. WA USA. Dr. White also holds adjunct appointments with the Departments of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering and is the inaugural director of the Resuscitation Engineering Science Unit (RESCU), an interdisciplinary research center focused on translating new technology for resuscitation of critical illness and injury. In addition, Dr. White is an attending physician at Harborview Medical Center, a busy level I trauma center admitting almost 6,000 trauma patients every year from the Pacific Northwest and a flight doctor with Airlift Northwest.

Dr. White focuses his research on the blood coagulation response to acute hemorrhage and resuscitation with an emphasis on fibrinogen biochemistry. Dr. White works within cross-disciplinary teams of clinicians, basic scientists, and engineers to focus on problems germane to bleeding emergencies including; Identifying novel post-translational oxidative modifications of fibrinogen and their contribution to traumatic coagulopathy; Identifying the role of platelet mechanobiology in bleeding and outcomes after trauma; Developing new hemostatic agents, including fibrinogen concentrates, and bioengineered synthetic hemostats; and the effect of immunomodulation on trauma-induced inflammation and coagulopathy. Dr. White has received the Young Investigator Award from the American Heart Association Resuscitation Science Symposium twice along with the best basic science award and young investigator award from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine.

Kalev Freeman, MD PhD FACEP

University of Vermont

Kalev Freeman M.D., Ph.D. is a physician-scientist and associate professor at the University of Vermont with expertise in emergency medicine and trauma. His lab studies the endothelial cell responses to injury that lead to thrombo-inflammation, seeking novel targets for endothelial restoration that may ultimately improve recovery in trauma patients.