SAEM Education Summit — Stuck in the Middle: Professional Development for Mid-Career Faculty

This year’s Education Summit is geared towards providing guidance to faculty approaching the middle of their career about the variety of paths available to them, how to maximize their academic portfolio, how to manage their time and work with different individuals, and how to move forward after a professional setback. Course Description: While much of an early medical career is highly structured, as faculty progress, pathways become less linear and opportunities for advancement become more scarce. Mid-career educators often struggle with feelings of uncertainty regarding how to grow professionally. The summit covers topics related to career evolution and satisfaction, operationalizing a promotion package, building an academic brand and voice, and dealing with academic rejection. Faculty at any stage in their career are welcome as all may benefit from the topics discussed.

Presenters:

Laura Oh, MD
Guy Carmelli, MD, MSEd, FACEP
Al'ai Alvarez, MD
Michael Gottlieb, MD
Christine R. Stehman, MD
Jennifer Mitzman, MD
Andrew Golden, MD
Carl Preiksaitis, MD
Kerry McCabe, MD
John Bailitz, MD
Resa E. Lewiss, MD
Adaira Landry, MD, MEd
Christina L. Shenvi, MD, PhD, MBA, FACEP
Stephen J. Wolf, MD
Gillian Schmitz, MD
Susan B. Promes, MD, MBA
Kaushal H. Shah, MD
Brian Zink, MD
Sheryl Heron, MD, MPH
Romolo J. Gaspari, MD, PhD
Amal Mattu, MD

Authors

Laura Oh, MD

Emory University

Dr. Oh is an Associate Professor at Emory University. Her academic interests include emergency ultrasound education and research, and faculty development. She is the former ACEP Academic Affairs Committee Chair, Course Director of ACEP Virtual Grand Rounds, and Associate Course Director of SAEM/AACEM's eLEAD faculty development program. She is a member of the SAEM Program Committee and SAEM Education Committee, and has been a faculty mentor for the ACEP Teaching Fellowship and SAEM AEUS Grantwriting Program. She is the PI of a DoD funded clinical trial related to contrast enhanced ultrasound in blunt abdominal trauma.
Guy Carmelli, MD

University of Massachusetts

Dr. Carmelli is a graduate of the Emergency Medicine residency program at Kings County and SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, where he also completed his two-year Medical Education Fellowship. He furthered his medical education knowledge by completing a two-year Masters in Medical Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his medical degree at USC’s Keck School of Medicine in California, where he grew up. His interests are in medical education, where he has spent most of his time. He is an enthusiastic teacher both in the clinical setting and in the lecture hall. He was awarded “best resident”, the first-place award for the CPC National Competition at ACEP in 2016 and again as “best attending” in Sri Lanka at the World Academic Congress of Emergency Medicine (WACEM) conference in 2017. He has since lectured for numerous national conferences, all over the United States. Currently, he has a full-time academic faculty position at the University of Massachusetts, where he is pursuing his various interests in education.
Al'ai Alvarez, MD

Stanford Emergency Medicine

Al'ai Alvarez, MD (@alvarezzzy) is a national leader and educator on wellness, diversity, equity, and Inclusion. He is a clinical associate professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) and Well-Being Director at Stanford Emergency Medicine. He co-leads the Human Potential Team and serves as the Stanford EM Physician Wellness Fellowship Director. He is the Chair of the Stanford WellMD's Physician Wellness Forum and Director of the Physician Resource Network (PRN) Support Program. His work focuses on humanizing physician roles as individuals and teams by harnessing the individual human potential in the context of high-performance teams. This includes optimizing the interconnectedness between Process Improvement (Quality and Clinical Operations), Recruitment (Diversity and Representation), and Well-being (Inclusion and Belonging). He is one of the 2021-2022 Faculty Fellows at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign.
Michael Gottlieb, MD

Rush University Medical Center

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.
Christine R. Stehman, MD

Director of Wellness Education

University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria

Christine Stehman, MD is a visiting Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria where she serves as the Director of Wellness Education and Director of Faculty Development. She arrived in Peoria after following a circuitous route including two stops in Chicago separated by service in the US Navy including two combat deployments with the USMC, and fellowship training in Boston. Within the world of Emergency Medicine, outside of her clinical duties, she serves as a guest mentor for the ALiEM Faculty Incubator, a mentor for the CORD Mini-Fellowship in Wellness Leadership, as a member on a number of CORD and SAEM committees, and as a reviewer for a number of journals. In her non-emergency medicine life, she serves as a role model for what she teaches: taking time to travel, spend time with her friends, family and dogs, working out, and reading.
Jennifer Mitzman, MD

The Ohio State University
Dr. Mitzman is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Mitzman combined her love of education and medicine pursuing medical education research endeavors including publishing a number of curricular and educational innovations in pediatric emergency medicine.
She is actively involved in graduate medical education serving as the lead pediatric educator for The Ohio State Emergency Medicine residency program. As part of this role, she has completely revamped pediatric didactics and simulation for the residents and developed a longitudinal pediatric track within the residency.
Additionally, Dr. Mitzman is the Associate Fellowship Director for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Nationwide Children's Hospital. One of the largest in the country, she supports the EM/PEM, Peds/PEM and PEM/Child Abuse fellowship tracks. Leadership endesavors there include developing a fellow coaching program and implementing holistic application review across GME.
Andrew Golden, MD

University Hospitals/Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Andrew Golden is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. He currently serves as the Director of the Emergency Medicine Acting Internship and Third-Year Clerkship. He also is the Assistant Director of the Medical Education and Academic Leadership Fellowship at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. At the Case Western University School of Medicine, he serves as the Assistant Director of the Transition to Residency Curriculum and the Site Director for Acting Internships and Advanced Clinical Electives at University Hospitals. His scholarly interests focus on workplace-based assessment and competency based medical education.
Carl Preiksaitis, MD

Clinical Instructor

Stanford University

Dr. Carl Preiksaitis is a Medical Education Fellow and Clinical Instructor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Preiksaitis completed his medical training at New York University School of Medicine and a residency in emergency medicine at Stanford. His scholarly interests include digital technology and medical education, reproductive healthcare in the emergency department, and healthcare innovation. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in medical education at the University of Cincinnati.
Kerry McCabe, MD

Boston Medical Center
Dr. McCabe graduated from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Boston Medical Center emergency medicine residency. She has spent her career in resident education, including serving as Residency Program Director at Boston Medical Center. She has served on multiple committees within CORD-EM and SAEM, and on hospital committees dedicated to education, diversity and inclusion, and faculty development.

Currently Vice Chair of Education for the Department of Emergency Medicine at BMC and the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Dr. McCabe's interests include developing a culture that serves the objectives of education, equity, and resilience for residents, faculty, and the broader community. Current projects include the United Network for the Study of Human Affect in Medical Education (UNSHAME) collaborative and hospital-wide microaggression response training. Dr. McCabe is a mother of three.
John Bailitz, MD

Northwestern Memorial Hospital/McGaw Medical Center

After finishing residency at Cook County, Dr. John Bailitz served as a clerkship director, assistant program director, advising committee chair, cardiac arrest committee chair, and POCUS division director. John returned to his medical school alma mater, Northwestern University, as program director in 2017 and now serves as vice-chair for academic affairs and system POCUS director. John has been an educator and leader in the ACEP US Section, Society for Clinical US Fellowships, Emergency US Fellowship Accreditation Council, ACEP Education, and ABEM. John carefully integrates a busy family and work life while helping his colleagues create enjoyable and impactful medical careers.
Resa E. Lewiss, MD

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Resa E Lewiss MD is a Professor of Emergency Medicine. A TEDMED speaker and TimesUp Healthcare founder, she’s an internationally renowned point-of-care ultrasound educator and champion for diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces. She attended college at Brown University, medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, Emergency Medicine residency at the Harvard Emergency Medicine Residency, and fellowship at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Roosevelt. She led point-of-care ultrasound sections at St. Luke’s Roosevelt, the University of Colorado, and Thomas Jefferson. A physician healthcare designer at Perkins&Will, her design focus has been ultrasound hardware and workflows. She’s helped to redesign the built environment of a Harvard ICU and an infectious diseases unit in Malawi. As host and founder of the Visible Voices Podcast, she’s interviewed over many subject matter experts in healthcare, equity, and current trends. Her writings are published in the popular press and scientific journals, such as Harvard Business Review, Slate, Nature, and Fast Company. Her new book, MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact is forthcoming from HarperCollins in 2024.
Adaira Landry, MD, MEd

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Brigham & Womens Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Dr. Adaira Landry is an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. She is a Harvard Medical School Society advisor, where she advises a cohort of medical students, and a co-chair for the diversity and inclusion committee for the department of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is also a mother to three young children. She is a published author on many platform including Harvard Business Review, NY Times, Vogue, USA Today, NEJM among many others. She is the author of MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact.
Christina L. Shenvi, MD, PhD, MBA, FACEP

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

Dr. Shenvi is an associate professor of Emergency Physician, keynote speaker, and academic leader. She currently directs the 18-month pre-clinical case-based learning medical student curriculum at UNC and as director of the year-long FLAGship faculty development program. She also has served in many roles, including as ACEP/CORD Teaching Fellowship director, residency associate program director, and director of the UNC Office of Academic Excellence. She also teaches and coaches on time management and career success, and writes at timeforyourlife.org.She is a passionate educator and always looking for new ways to make learning and teaching more engaging and effective.
Stephen J. Wolf, MD

Denver Health Medical Center

Dr. Stephen J. Wolf, MD serves as Chair of Emergency Medicine at Denver Health Medical Center and Professor and Vice Chair for Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from the University of Virginia in 1998 and completed his residency in emergency medicine at Denver Health in 2002. In the past, he has worked in the Denver Health and University of Colorado School of Medicine system as Residency Program Director, Departmental Director of Education, and an Assistant then Associate Dean within the University of Colorado School of Medicine. From 2014-18, Dr. Wolf served as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, before returning to Colorado to take his current position. Nationally, Dr. Wolf is past-President for the Colorado Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), past-Director for the Academy of Scholarship for the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Program Directors (CORD-EM), and past-Chair for the ACEP Clinical Policies Committee, helping to define the standards of care for emergency medicine. Currently, he co-directs the SAEM/AACEM's Emerging Leader Development Program (eLEAD). To date in his career, Dr. Wolf has started multiple faculty coaching programs and leadership curriculums, all geared at advancing emergency medicine and our faculty. His areas of scholarship and research include leadership, mentorship, coaching and career development, medical education, clinical guidelines and thromboembolic disease. He has authored or co-authored over 50 scholarly publications, 60 national presentations, and 20 book chapters.
Gillian Schmitz, MD

Uniformed Services University
Dr Schmitz serves as the Immediate President of the American College of Emergency Physicians. She has had an extensive career in academics and has practiced across the country as her husband was serving his military commitment in the Air Force. She served as academic faculty at Wilford Hall Medical Center, Washington Hospital Center / Georgetown University, University of California at San Diego, University of Texas San Antonio and Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC). She is currently a practicing emergency physician and Vice Chair of Education at BAMC in San Antonio, TX and an Associate Professor at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD.

Dr. Schmitz brings many years of clinical experience in urban, suburban, government, academic and free-standing emergency practice settings. She has also been involved with emergency medicine research and is a former EMF grant recipient, published author, and reviewer for several medical journals. She has been an advocate for residency training and has served as a speaker at national meetings for ACEP, EMRA, CORD and SAEM. Dr. Schmitz has received several awards for her leadership roles including the National Early Career Faculty Award from the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM), EMRA’s 45 under 45 and Mentorship Award, and ACEP’s National Teaching Faculty award.
Susan B. Promes, MD, MBA

Penn State University

Dr. Promes is a tenured Professor at Penn State University Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and has served as Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine since 2014. Prior to 2014, she spent seven years at the University of California San Francisco where she served as Vice Chair for Education, the Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director and Director of Curricular Affairs in the GME office and prior to that was at Duke University as the inaugural Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director and Director of the medical school Capstone course. Her scholarly work has centered around topics germane to emergency medicine medical education and clinical guidelines for the practicing emergency physician. In addition to many peer review publications, she has edited multiple McGraw Hill board review books to prepare physicians for the emergency medicine board exam. She is an internationally recognized leader in academic emergency medicine and was chosen by the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine to be the editor of their new journal entitled Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training. The journal debuted in January 2017. She was the recipient of the 2020 Hal Jayne Excellence in Education award from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine and the 2024 Judith E. Tintinalli Outstanding Contribution in Education Award.
Kaushal H. Shah, MD

Weill Cornell Medical Center

Kaushal H. Shah received his undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1996 and his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School in 2000. He completed his residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2003. Dr. Shah is currently a Professor and Vice Chair of Education for the New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine in New York. He was previously the Emergency Medicine Residency Director and an Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Shah has a strong interest in education and trauma.
Brian Zink, MD

University of Michgan

Brian J. Zink, MD is Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. His career in academic medicine spans over three and half decades in variety of leadership and service roles. He started his career as a researcher in alcohol effects in trauma. He wrote the first comprehensive history of US emergency medicine – Anyone, Anything, Anytime – (2nd edition, 2018). He served as Associate Dean for Student Programs at the University of Michigan Medical School, and then became the inaugural Chair of Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University (2006-2018). He returned to Michigan Medicine in 2018 to serve as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Faculty Development and was the interim Executive Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in 2020-21.
Dr. Zink is Past-President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine (AACEM). He founded and has served as Co-Director of the AACEM Chair Development Program since 2014. Dr. Zink completed the University of Michigan Executive Coach Training program. He has coached deans, department chairs, and other healthcare professionals and administrators. He provides consultation services to medical schools and academic departments across the US. He formed a coaching and consulting business in 2024.
Sheryl Heron, MD, MPH

Emory University School of Medicine
Sheryl L. Heron MD, MPH is a Professor and Vice Chair of Faculty Equity, Engagement, and Empowerment in Emergency Medicine, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, the Associate Dean for Community Engagement, Equity and Inclusion, and Associate Director of Education and Training for the Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory (IPRCE) at Emory University School of Medicine (SOM).

She is an HBCU graduate of Howard University College of Medicine and the Martin Luther King Jr/Drew Residency program in Emergency Medicine. She was recruited as the first fellow at the Emory Center for Injury Control in 1996. She was a Vice Chair for the Georgia Commission on Family Violence, a Board member for the Women’s Resource Center to End Domestic Violence, a member of the Domestic Violence Task Force in Dekalb County, the Public Health Committee, and an inaugural member of the Diversity Inclusion Health Equity section the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).  She has received several awards including the Partnership against Domestic Violence’s HOPE Award, the Woman in Medicine Award from the Council of Concerned Women of the National Medical Association, the  Gender Justice Award from the Commission on Family Violence, and was named a hero of Emergency Medicine by ACEP. In 2012, she was named the inaugural President of the Academy for Diversity & Inclusion in Emergency Medicine (ADIEM) of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. She is an editor of two textbooks in Emergency Medicine on Diversity and Inclusion in Quality Patient Care (2016 &2019).

She was awarded the SOM’s inaugural Excellence in Diversity Award. Dr. Heron has lectured extensively on Wellness and Well-being in medicine and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in healthcare. She served for two years as the American Association of Medical Colleges, Group on Diversity, and Inclusion (AAMC- GDI) Southern Regional Representative and is currently the Chair-elect for AAMC-GDI. She is anchored by her faith, and family, and is proud of her Jamaican heritage.
Romolo J. Gaspari, MD, PhD

UMass Chan Medical School

Romolo Gaspari is the Executive Vice Chairman, Academic Affairs of the Department of Emergency Medicine at UMASS Chan Medical Schoool in Worcester MA. Dr. Gaspari was the Co-Founder and Past President of the Society of Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships and serves as the Founding Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Accreditation Council (EUFAC) and Society of Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships (SCUF). Dr. Gaspari started as the Ultrasound Director at UMASS in 2000 and has been working nationally in SAEM, ACEP, SCUF, ABEM, and AIUM on ultrasound related projects for over two decades. He is the Principle Investigator of the REASON research network focusing on multi-center studies in echocardiography in cardiac arrest.
Amal Mattu, MD

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Dr. Amal Mattu is a tenured professor, Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, and Director of the Faculty Development Fellowship in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He has received more than 20 teaching awards including national awards from the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, and the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine, and he received two national Residency Director of the Year awards during his 9 years as a Program Director. He has provided over 3000 hours of CME lecturing at conferences in the US and in more than 20 other countries, and he frequently lectures on topics pertaining to education and faculty development.