Geriatric ED Guidelines: Updates on the Latest Evidence
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Sangil Lee, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Dr. Lee is a clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. He is a clinician scientist with a focus on emergency medicine research. His work involves delirium screening and intervention programs in the emergency department. -
Satheesh Gunaga, DO
Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital & Envision Healthcare
Satheesh Gunaga, DO, is a board-certified emergency medicine physician, educator, administrator, and clinical research scientist. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his Osteopathic medical degree from Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his emergency medicine residency at Henry Ford Health - Wyandotte Hospital.
With over 15 years of experience, Dr. Gunaga has practiced and taught Emergency Medicine within the Henry Ford Health System and Michigan State University. He served ten years as the associate EM residency director before taking on his current roles in 2019 as the Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, EM Research Director, and EMS physician medical director at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital. He also holds the position of ED Medical Director at Henry Ford Health Center Brownstown.
Dr. Gunaga’s clinical research focuses on the safe transition of care for older adults and the integration of primary and specialized palliative care into the emergency department and prehospital settings. He is currently the chair of the Palliative Medicine Interest Group for the Society for Emergency Medicine, a member of AGEM's Geriatric ED Guidelines 2.0 Working Group, and serves on the board of directors at Compassion and Choices, the nation’s largest nonprofit organization advocating for end-of-life rights and resources. -
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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Danya Khoujah, MBBS, MEHP
Emergency Physician
Danya Khoujah, MBBS, MEHP, is an emergency physician and medical educator with an academic focus on geriatric emergency care and emergency neurology. She splits her clinical time between Florida and the Middle East, and is part of the writing group of the Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines 2.0, namely the Delirium and Medication Safety sections. She also serves as teaching faculty and webinar host at the Geriatric ED Collaborative.