Global Emergency Medicine Travel Awardee Presentations 2024 (AWAEM and GEMA Sponsored)

In this lecture, winners of the Global Emergency Medicine Travel Award, which is co-sponsored by the Global Emergency Medicine Academy and the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine, will present on their selected topic of interest.

Emergency Medicine continues to grow as a speciality worldwide and these women are playing a pivotal role to the development of EM within their respective countries.

Presenter:

  • Tigist Tesfaye Bedane, MD Emergency and Critical Care Physician
  • Grace M. Chatsika, MD
  • Amy Zeidan, MD
  • Rmaah Memon, MD
Authors

  • Tigist T. Bedane, MD Emergency and Critical Care Physician

    St Peter Specialized Hospital

    Dr.Tigist Tesfaye is an Emergency and Critical Care Physician specialist from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is currently working as the Clinical Service Director at the Addis Ababa COVID 19 Field Hospital.
    Dr. Tigist was born and raised in capital of Ethiopia, she received her undergraduate medical education at Jimma University College of Public Health and Medical Sciences on 2015 and proceded to do her residency in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine at Addis Ababa University, Tikur Anbessa Hospital in 2017. Dr. Tigist have 8+ years’ experience as a Clinician in emergency response, 5+ years’ experience working in a senior managerial role at St.Peter Specialized Hospital. Dr. Tigist is certified in Leadership in Public Management from Virginia Tech University School of Public and International Affairs, She also have certificate in Project Managment from Addis Ababa University. Dr. Tigist has been an advocate for Emergency Care both nationally and internationally. She has worked as a consultant in different international organizations for over 3 years . She has also led multiple Disaster Medical Assistant Teams (DMAT) for the Federal Ministry of Health in Ethiopia and is the first Master trainer for the WHO-ICRC Basic Emergency Care course for the country. Dr. Tigist is involved in the curriculum preparation for Ethiopia’s Emergency Medicine training with the Federal Ministry of Health and Addis Ababa University and is certified in BLS, ALS, ILS, ETB as well as PHTLS.

  • Grace M. Chatsika, MD

    Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital

    Grace Chatsika is a wife, mother of two, and an Emergency Medicine physician.
    She holds a Masters degree in Emergency Medicine from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
    Currently, she is the Head of Department at the Adult Emergency Department at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Malawi, the first emergency department in the country.
    She is involved in several hospital management roles including research and drug procurement committees.
    She serves as a part-time faculty member at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, where she is in-charge of Emergency medicine postgraduate training. She is also involved in undergraduate training and curriculum development.
    Her personal interests include to improve emergency care access in Malawi, and she holds special interest in global health, antimicrobial stewardship, trauma and sepsis.

  • Amy Zeidan, MD

    Emory University School of Medicine

    Dr. Amy Zeidan is an Assistant Professor at Emory University School of Medicine and works clinically at Grady Memorial Hospital. She received her medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, completed an Emergency Medicine residency at The Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania and an Emergency Ultrasound fellowship at the University of Kentucky. She is co-director of the Georgia Human Rights Clinic, Co-Founder of the Society of Asylum Medicine, and has conducted forensic medical evaluations for >60 asylum seekers including those who are detained. Her research efforts focus on barriers to acute care for refugees, immigrants, and asylum populations and she works closely with many local community organizations to advocate for improved access to medical care for immigrant populations and release of medically vulnerable individuals from detention facilities. She is also an active member of SAEM’s Academy for Women in Academic Medicine, serving on the executive board for over four years, and is interested in gender inequities in academic medicine.

  • Rmaah Memon, MD

    Fellow 2024-2026

    University of Pennsylvania Health System

    Rmaah Memon obtained both her undergraduate and medical degree through the Six-Year BA/MD Program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and is a PGY-4 at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program at MGH/BWH. Her interests include emergency medicine capacity building and curriculum development in low- and middle-income countries, and she has worked on capacity building projects in Pakistan and Iraq during residency. Her prior work has also focused on improving access to refugee care through the implementation of health screening fairs. She has an interest in digital education and telehealth, and is currently leading a telemedicine initiative in Pakistan, primarily aiming to connect physicians in larger urban areas in Pakistan to patients who live in more rural areas. 

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