Managing Up: Strategies for Working With Your Difficult Boss (AAAEM and Faculty Development Committee Sponsored)

Authors

  • James R. Miner, MN FACEP

    Chair of Emergency Medicine

    Hennepin County Medical Center

    James Miner, MD, is the Chair of Emergency Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) and Professor and Department Head of EM at the University of Minnesota. He earned his medical degree in 1996 from Mayo Medical School in Rochester, MN and completed his residency in EM at HCMC in 1999, and then joined the HCMC Emergency Department faculty. He was the research director of the Department of Emergency Medicine from 2005-2013, the Associate Medical Director for Physician Development of HCMC from 2011-2013, and has been the Chair of Emergency Medicine there since 2014. He also became the Department Head of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota in 2019. Dr. Miner is the Senior Associate Editor for Electronic Publications of Academic Emergency Medicine.

    Dr. Miner conducts research in the areas of agitation management, airway management, pain management, and procedural sedation in the Emergency Department. He has edited a textbook on pain management and sedation (Emergency Pain and Sedation, Cambridge University Press, 2008) and has authored chapters about pain management and sedation in several other textbooks. He also conducts research in the effects of poverty on patients seen in the Emergency Department.

  • Marc Borenstein, MD

    Nuvance Health Vassar Brothers Medical Center

    I am the Founding Program Director for the Nuvance EM Residency Program based at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, NY. I have been an examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine since 1990 and a member of the Board’s Case Reviewer Panel, Case Development Panel, and Standard Setting Committee. I have been a member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD) since the inception of these two organizations and a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the American College of Physicians (ACP).

    Over the last 30 years I have been a member of numerous ACEP, SAEM, and CORD education and academic committees. In addition, I was appointed Chair of the SAEM Consultation Committee and served on the CORD Board of Directors. I have been a Curriculum Committee Co-Chair for Foundations in Emergency Medicine and serve on its Executive Committee. I have achieved the academic rank of Professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine, the University of Florida College of Medicine, the University of Missouri School of Medicine, and Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine.

    I have served on the GME Committees of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Medical Center, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, University of Florida College of Medicine, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Brookdale Medical Center, and Nuvance Health.

    As a Program Director, Division Chief, and Department Chair I have an unequaled track record in academic emergency medicine of establishing, restoring, or stabilizing ACGME accreditation for eight emergency medicine residency training programs: University of Connecticut, University of Missouri (Columbia), Nuvance Health, St. Luke’s Roosevelt Medical Center (Manhattan), Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Lincoln Medical Center (Bronx), Brookdale Medical Center (Brooklyn), and the University of Florida (Gainesville).

    I have built academic departments and academic divisions of emergency medicine all dedicated to clinical excellence, humanistic values, diversity, a patient and family centered experience, and the dignity of the human spirit. He has a life-long passion for and commitment to teaching, continuous learning, faculty renewal, the doctor-patient relationship, and the utilization of effective communication in medicine to create exceptional teamwork, reduce medical error, and enhance patient safety.

  • Anjeza (Anya) Cipi, MD

    Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

    Eastern Virginia Medical School

    Dr. Cipi was born and raised in Albania. She completed her medical education at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. She trained in Emergency Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) followed by a fellowship in Emergency Ultrasound at EVMS. Dr. Cipi is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at EVMS and serves as Associate Program Director for the EVMS Emergency Medicine residency program. She is the recipient of the 2020 EVMS Rising Star Award for her outstanding teaching performance and clinical supervision. Her professional interests include point of care ultrasound and medical education. She currently resides in Norfolk, Virginia and enjoys spending time at the beach with her husband and two children.

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