AGEM Leadership

President

Yale School of Medicine

Cameron Gettel, MD, MHS, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Yale School of Medicine, a clinical investigator at the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), and co-director of the Yale Emergency Scholars Fellowship.

Dr. Gettel earned his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Elizabethtown College and his medical degree from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. He completed his emergency medicine residency at Brown University, where he served as chief resident, and the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale.

His research focuses on improving emergency department care transitions for older adults through the development of patient- and caregiver-reported outcome measures and interventions to enhance clinical outcomes. At the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, he leads projects funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to develop performance measures across care settings.

President-Elect

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Rachel Michelle Skains, MD, MSPH, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, with a joint appointment at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Dr. Skains earned her medical degree from Wake Forest School of Medicine and completed her emergency medicine residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She received her Master of Science in Public Health in clinical and translational science from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in health services, outcomes, and effectiveness research.

She is an early-stage investigator in geriatric emergency medicine, with research focused on medication safety, delirium, and cognitive outcomes among older adults in the emergency department.

Dr. Skains is active in the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), where she serves on the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine Executive Committee and leads the Grants and Awards Subcommittee. She has received multiple honors recognizing her research and early career contributions.

Treasurer

New York City

Surriya Ahmad, MD, is an attending physician in emergency medicine in New York and Kentucky and serves as secretary.

Dr. Ahmad earned her Bachelor of Science in biology and Spanish from Emory University and her medical degree from the University of Louisville. She completed a combined emergency medicine and internal medicine residency at the State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University and Kings County Hospital Center, followed by a fellowship in geriatric emergency medicine at Weill Cornell/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She is board certified in both emergency medicine and internal medicine.

Her interests include improving the mental and physical experiences of older adults in the emergency department, addressing depression and social isolation, and advancing diversity in geriatric emergency medicine. She is also engaged in educational initiatives, including webinar development focused on geriatric emergency medicine and wellness.

Dr. Ahmad co-founded and hosted the Leaders in Geriatric Emergency Medicine webinar and developed the Geriatric Mental Health and Wellness Webinar Series.

Secretary

The Ohio State University

Angel Li, MD, MBA, is an assistant professor and attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at The Ohio State University.

Dr. Li’s work focuses on geriatric emergency care, medical education, and health care innovation. She leads the Hospital Care at Home initiative and serves as medical director of the emergency department–based observation unit.

Nationally, Dr. Li has held leadership roles with the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and the American College of Emergency Physicians. She has contributed to geriatric curriculum development and policy initiatives and helped develop a free open-access medical education curriculum in geriatric emergency medicine for SAEM.

Immediate Past President

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Kei Ouchi, MD, MPH, is an emergency physician and home hospital physician engaged in clinically oriented research.

Dr. Ouchi earned his medical degree from Georgetown University and a Master of Public Health from Harvard University. He is board certified in both emergency medicine and internal medicine.

His work focuses on improving care for seriously ill older adults, with particular emphasis on aligning emergency care with patients’ goals at the end of life. His research leverages the emergency department as a critical point to facilitate advance care planning and integrate principles of geriatrics and palliative care into acute care settings.

Dr. Ouchi has received multiple national honors, including the Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging, the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award, and the Sojourns Scholars Leadership Award. He is active in the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), where he previously served as member-at-large and secretary for the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine.

Member-at-Large

University of Pennsylvania

Ari Friedman, MD, PhD, is an emergency physician and health economist at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is a tenure-track faculty member in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Medical Ethics and Health Policy and a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute.

Dr. Friedman earned his medical and doctoral degrees and applies advanced statistical methods to study how health care delivery and outcomes change in response to policy and market forces. His work examines emergency department crowding and access to alternative sites of unscheduled care, including urgent care clinics.

His research focuses on improving care for older adults in emergency settings. He collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to study goals-of-care alignment and has completed additional training in palliative emergency medicine. His National Institute on Aging–funded K23 research examines the management, diagnoses, and outcomes of abdominal pain in older patients using novel cohort and electronic health record data.

Dr. Friedman’s work also explores risk factors for delirium in the emergency department and strategies to improve identification and care pathways for vulnerable older adults.

Member-at-Large

Weill Cornell Medicine

David W. Hancock, PhD, is an instructor of gerontology in emergency medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a National Institutes of Health–funded investigator.

Dr. Hancock earned his doctorate in experimental social psychology and received a K01 career development award from the National Institute on Aging. His work focuses on aging and emergency medicine, with emphasis on geriatric injury prevention, elder mistreatment, suicide, and prehospital emergency medical services outcomes.

At Weill Cornell Medicine, his research integrates advanced analytics, longitudinal study design, and measure development to improve emergency care for older adults. His work includes development of a tool to assess elder mistreatment among dementia caregivers.

Dr. Hancock is active in the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), where he has served on the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine Grants and Awards Committee and contributed to the SAEM Research Committee and the Informatics, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence Interest Group.

Member-at-Large

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Adrian Haimovich, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he serves as director of geriatric emergency medicine.

Dr. Haimovich earned his medical and doctoral degrees from Yale University and completed postdoctoral training in the Harvard Translational Research in Aging Program.

His work focuses on improving care for older adults in the emergency department through the development of automated screening tools and clinical decision support systems. His research includes the creation of tools to identify older patients at high risk for short- and longer-term adverse outcomes and the development of interventions to support goals-of-care discussions.

Dr. Haimovich’s scholarship centers on predictive analytics and risk stratification for geriatric syndromes in emergency medicine. His work has been supported by a Harvard Catalyst K12 training award and a Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research Pilot Grant.

Member-at-Large

The Ohio State University

Sara Hurley, MD, is an emergency medicine resident at The Ohio State University, where she is expected to complete her training in 2026.

Dr. Hurley earned her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University. She has been actively involved in geriatric emergency medicine research and scholarship throughout her residency.

Her work focuses on improving care for older adults, including research supported by a Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Foundation grant to identify radiographic biomarkers of elder abuse. She has also served as resident representative for the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine within SAEM.

Dr. Hurley plans to pursue a fellowship in geriatric emergency medicine and continue advancing care for older adult populations.

Resident Representative

Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Mattie Harris is a fourth-year medical student at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and an applicant to emergency medicine residency.

She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in biology from the honors program at Georgia Southern University. During medical school, she contributed to the SPRINT clinical trial and presented her work at her home institution.

Her interests include geriatric emergency medicine, with a focus on memory care. She also serves as a caregiver for an individual with Lewy body dementia, supporting both the patient and family.

Medical Student Representative

The Ohio State University

Erin Hunt is a third-year medical student at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

She earned her Bachelor of Science in biology from East Stroudsburg University. She has served as a medical student representative for the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine within the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) since her first year of medical school.

Her interests include emergency medicine and improving care for vulnerable populations, particularly older adults. She is committed to expanding engagement among medical students and residents in geriatric emergency medicine.