Ramping Up Resident Research: Strategies for Engaging Residents in Scholarship (Education Research Interest Group-Sponsored)

Dr. Gue was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia, where he earned his medical degree from the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University in 2015. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at AdventHealth East Orlando where he led as Chief Resident, was named Resident of the Year, and served as President of the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association of Florida.

Dr. Gue currently serves on the Executive Committee for the Florida College of Emergency Physicians and serves as Co-Chair of the Membership and Professional Development Committee and the Symposium by the Sea Planning Committee. He is also actively involved in national committees within ACEP and SAEM. Dr. Gue is a national speaker, having presented for ACEP, SAEM, CORD, IMSH, and ACOEP.

He is a proud graduate of the American College of Emergency Physicians Teaching Fellowship and completed a Master’s in Medical Education from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is the recipient of the AdventHealth GME Faculty of the Year Award for 2020, the ACEP Microteaching Award for 2021, the UCF Innovative Teaching Award for 2022, and was selected to the 2022 Class of the ACEP Young Physicians Leadership Society. More recently, he was awarded the UCF Educational Excellence Award and the ACEP National Junior Faculty Teaching Award for 2023.

His educational interests are focused on developing novel approaches to graduate medical education through the use of interactive curriculum design, gamification, faculty development, and educational scholarship in innovative teaching strategies.

Joshua Davis, MD, is an emergency physician in Wichita, KS, who teaches as a faculty member instructor at the Simulation Center University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita and a Course Director and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is the Assistant Medical Director for Ultrasound, Quality, and Research with Vituity in Wichita, KS. His research interests are broad and include emergency medicine clinical topics along with patient safety, interprofessional communication, handoff communication, procedural competency, and medical education. He has published over 75 peer reviewed articles, given multiple national presentations, and written several book chapters. He is involved in developing several national guidelines and curricula.

Alina Tsyrulnik, MD, attended Barnard College majoring in biology and minoring in psychology, graduating Suma Cum Laude in 2004. Thereafter, she pursued a medical degree at New York University School of Medicine and completed her residency at Yale University School of Medicine. She served as Chief Resident 2011-2012. Upon the completion of her residency, Dr. Tsyrulnik accepted a faculty position in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. In 2013 she became the Assistant Residency Director for the department, and in 2017 she became the Associate Residency Director. Dr. Tsyrulnik is primarily in charge of the Emergency Department’s PGY2 class, taking a central role in mentorship, remediation, and clinical as well as academic development of 19 residents per year. In 2022, Dr. Tsyrulnik became the MD Director for the Interprofessional Longitudinal Clinical Experience (ILCE) course for Yale School of Medicine. The course centers on developing clinical skills in an interprofessional setting of MD, PA, and MSN students. In 2025 she became an Associate Professor at Yale University School of Medicine in the Clinical-Educator-Scholar Track. Her academic interests are in resident education and assessment as well as interprofessional education.

Michael Gottlieb, MD is the Vice Chair of Research and Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Division at Rush University Medical Center. He is Past-Chair of the ACEP Ultrasound Section and Past-Chair of the AAEM Ultrasound Section. He has authored over 500 peer-reviewed publications and is an Editor for Academic Medicine, The Annals of Emergency Medicine, The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, and Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training, as well as the Social Media Editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. He is Past-Chair of the CORD Academy for Scholarship, Past-Chair of the SAEM Education Summit, Past-Chair of the CORD Education Committee, Past-Chair of the CORD Best Practices Subcommittee, and a nationally-recognized speaker and educator. His academic interests include medical education, ultrasound, infectious diseases, heart failure, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Dr. Ganti is Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Orlando College of Osteopathic Medicine and Associate Medical Director for Polk County Fire Rescue. Dr. Ganti has published extensively in neurologic emergencies, with high impact. Her Google scholar citations reveal an H index of 29, with more than 2,600 citations to her work just in the last few years and over 380 published manuscripts and abstracts.

Dr. Ganti’s expertise is in harnessing the power of data to solve clinical problems such as hospital re-admissions, practice inconsistencies, delays in hospital discharges, suboptimal emergency department throughput, low patient satisfaction scores, and lack of community awareness of medical emergencies. By approaching the operational issue from a scholarly perspective, her work is published, and thus affords better buy in from stakeholders. Throughout her career, Dr. Ganti continually paired her boots on the ground work experience with formal training. A few years after teaching herself how to data mine clinical information, she obtained a Masters in Clinical and Translational Research from the Mayo Graduate School. As her research became central to improving operational inefficiencies in the healthcare systems where she worked, she was sponsored to undertake the executive MBA at the Kellogg School of Management.

Dr. Ganti has a track record of leadership. She was the first Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, a charter member of the Mayo Clinic Center for Translational Science, and the inaugural Chair for the Division of Emergency Medicine Research, which she founded. Under her leadership, research productivity soared by 420%, and at one time, her research group showcased the maximum number of research presentations (3 out of only 8 oral and 17 out of 400 posters) at the ACEP Scientific Assembly. Her contributions to developing research enterprises have been recognized by the Mayo Clinic Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions in EM Research, and the Toral Family Foundation Endowed Professorship in Traumatic Brain injury.

Dr. Ganti is also a gifted teacher, as evidenced by her many teaching awards. She is the author of numerous books, including the First Aid Clerkship series, which are the num
ber one best sellers amongst medical students. Indeed, one of the talks she frequently is invited to give is titled: “Get Published Now!”
Dr. Ganti has won over 18 national awards, including the EMRA Academic Excellence award, ACEP National Faculty Teaching award, AMA William Beaumont Award, the first EMRA Mentorship Award and was celebrated as one of ACEP's “Heroes in Emergency Medicine”. She won the AMA YPS Award for Community Service, for her work on stroke research, education, and outreach- a program she titled BEST for “Better Early Stroke Treatment.” Dr. Ganti was also honored as a Fulbright Scholar for her project “Strategy & Innovation in Clinical Research for the Global Health Era.” Most recently, she was bestowed the AMA Excellence in Leadership Award and the Women Physicians’ Section “Inspirational Physician Award,” for her work mentoring women physicians.