Caring for aging ill parents How to navigate this chapter of life
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Shan Liu, MD, SD
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Shan W. Liu, MD, SD, is an associate professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the Geriatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director and attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. She co-leads the Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines project, is a past-President of AGEM, and has served on the executive boards of the IFEM and ACEP geriatric sections. She is the author of the award-winning illustrated children's book Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-teh Invented the Mask and Ended an Epidemic, a story about how her great-grandfather invented the first respirator mask.
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Surriya Ahmad, MD
Attending Physician
New York
Surriya Ahmad, MD, completed a five year combined Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine residency at the State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University and Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY, and is double board certified in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine. She completed a Geriatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Weill Cornell/New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. She has been a member of SAEM and AGEM for five years, serving on the AGEM Executive Committee for three years, and is the current Secretary of AGEM. Between taking care of patients in public inner-city Level 1 Trauma Centers and Tertiary Care Centers in Brooklyn and New York over the last seven years, and through her experience spending time with her father and grandmother, she grew more interested in how to best optimize the care of older adults in the ED, including prioritizing communication with patients and families, comfort-mental and physical, and overall experience and wellness.
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Elizabeth M. Goldberg, MD, ScM
University of Colorado, Denver
Dr. Liz Goldberg is a practicing emergency physician and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. After her residency, she completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in gerontology and epidemiology at Brown University. Dr. Goldberg is the recipient of the prestigious Paul B. Beeson Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging which funds a fall prevention trial using the Apple Watch to track cognition and fitness. Her research focus is creating effective interventions to improve emergency care for geriatric patients, and using digital tools to help older adults age in place. Dr. Goldberg is the past President of the Academy for Geriatric Emergency Medicine for the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. In this capacity she led the research and education efforts of over 300 academic clinicians to improve geriatric emergency care in the US.
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Amy H. Kaji, MD, PhD
SAEM Immediate Past President / SAEMF Member-at-Large
Los Angeles County-Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Amy H. Kaji, MD PhD is vice-chair of academic affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. After graduating from Harvard University, Dr. Kaji attended Thomas Jefferson Medical School. Prior to "seeing the light," Dr. Kaji performed two years of a categorical general surgery residency at the University of Chicago. She then performed her emergency medicine internship, residency, and research/disaster medicine fellowship at Harbor-UCLA. Under the mentorship of Dr. Roger Lewis, Dr. Kaji completed a doctorate in epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health during her fellowship.
Since her fellowship, Dr. Kaji has been active in SAEM. She has previously served as Membership Committee chair, a Research sub-committee chair, as well as on the Nominating committee, and the steering committee of the Science of Surge and Simulation consensus conferences, prior to joining the SAEM Board of Directors. Dr. Kaji enjoys combining her interest in statistical methodology, emergency medicine, and writing through editorial activities – she is a methodological/statistical editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine and JAMA Surgery, as well as an editor for the 9th edition of the Rosen's Emergency Medicine textbook.
