The Road Well Travelled: Crafting Fulfilling Faculty Development and Career Growth for the Long Haul (AACEM and Faculty Development Committee Sponsored)
Concerns for burn out and/or career stagnation abound amongst EM academicians. How does one sustain on-going faculty development in mid- to late career while keeping the flame burning in academic EM? How do you identify where is a career door may be opening to your future when you have reached a plateau in your career? What does it take to find fulfillment and maintain vitality in academic EM over the course of decades? What does the evidence tell us about best practices for healthy aging, longevity, and wellness in EM?
A panel of leaders and educators in academic EM, each having a career of 20 to 45 years, will explore answers to these questions and share highlights of their personal journeys that illuminate strategies for advancing academically while maintaining vitality and passion for one’s work. This course will be an interactive session. The real-life experiences of how faculty development strategies intentionally crafted to contribute to exciting careers spanning 20 to 45 years will be given by these leaders and educators in academic EM.
On completing this session participants will have gained valuable insights and strategies for maintaining vitality and preventing burn-out in one’s career across decades as well as identifying and embarking on mid- to late-career faculty development that arise from diversifying and building of one’s skill sets to take new and fulfilling career opportunities.
Presenters:
- Ramon W. Johnson, MD
- Marc Alan Borenstein, MD
- Mary Jo Wagner, MD
- Moira Davenport, MD
- Sanjey Gupta, MD, MBA
- Nancy Kwon, MD, MPA
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Ramon W. Johnson, MD
Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center/Children's Hospital at Mission
Ramon W. Johnson, MD, MBA is President of the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM). Dr. Johnson has been an oral examiner since 1993 and a member of the ABEM Board of Directors since 2015. He has additionally served ABEM as a Chief Examiner for the Oral Certification Examination, the liaison to the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Sub-Board, and question writer for MyEMCert.
Following graduation from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Dr. Johnson completed residency training in Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the UCLA, and received an Executive Health MBA from the École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique in Rennes, France. He has been a community physician and full-time partner in Mission Viejo Emergency Medicine Associates at Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center in Mission Viejo, California, for the past 27 years. -
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. -
Mary Jo Wagner, MD
Central Michigan University/CMU Medical Education Partners
Dr. Mary Jo Wagner is Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Central Michigan University College of Medicine and the Chief Academic Officer and Designated Institutional Official at CMU Medical Education Partners. She was previously the Program Director of the EM Residency Program in Saginaw, Michigan. In addition, she is currently the GME Cross-Continuum Consultant for the AAMC.
Dr. Wagner has educated thousands of emergency physicians as faculty of the ACEP Teaching Fellowship program, as an Academic leader speaking at more than 40 residency programs, and was the Editor of the ACEP “PEER” series of review question books for 20 years. As a leader in Graduate Medical Education (GME), Dr. Wagner has been active in the ACGME representing EM including her role as a member of the Review Committee, a representative at the Duty Hours Congress, and a member of the EM Milestones Workgroup. Her honors include the ACEP Outstanding Contributions in Education Award, the CORD Distinguished Educator Award, and the inaugural awardee of the CORD Gloria Kuhn Award for Outstanding Mentorship and Allyship in Emergency Medicine Education. -
Moira Davenport, MD
Allegheny Health Network/Allegheny General Hospital
Dr. Davenport is an emergency medicine and sports medicine trained physician. She is actively involved in resident education and serves as the associate residency director and medical education fellowship director. Dr. Davenport is a clinical professor of emergency medicine at Drexel University. Dr. Davenport has extensive experience caring for all levels of athletes, from elementary school children to Olympic and professional athletes.
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Sanjey Gupta, MD
Northwell Health
Sanjey Gupta, MD, is the Chairperson of Emergency Medicine at South Shore University Hospital/Northwell Health and professor of emergency medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He was named the 2016 ED Director of the Year by the Emergency Medicine Foundation/American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Gupta helped to establish new residencies at New York Presbyterian Queens and South Shore University Hospital, and assisted with the merger of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center/North Shore University Hospital residencies. He previously served as core faculty at New York Presbyterian Queens, Long Island Jewish Medical Center and South Shore University Hospital; assistant residency director at New York Presbyterian Queens (as well as clerkship director, research director, simulations, scheduler/payroll, and associate chairperson); and director of wilderness medicine at New York Presbyterian Queens, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, and South Shore University Hospital. -
Nancy Kwon, MD, MPA
Vice Chair, Emergency Medicine
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Dr. Nancy Kwon is the Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and a Professor at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Most recently, Dr. Kwon became the Central Region Medical Director of Health Equity for Northwell Health under Northwell's Center for Equity of Care.
She has been an active member of SAEM since residency, and is currently. the Chair of the SAEM Faculty Development Committee, and is an active member of the Equity and Inclusion, and Research Committees, and was elected in the past to be a member of the Nominating Committee.
Dr. Kwon has many years of experience in academics and has served in the past as the Associate Chair of Academics and Research in Emergency Medicine. She created and was the faculty advisor for new courses and rotations, including a for credit course: Hofstra Clinical Research Course in Emergency Medicine for Hofstra Undergraduate Students, which she developed and initiated in 2016. She has collaborated and taught at Hofstra Northwell’s School of Medicine in the area of SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment) for substance abuse disorders, for which she has performed research and was the Co-Principal Investigator of the NYSBIRT II Project, and is currently part of an NIH grant regarding the utilization of text messaging for patients with substance use disorders. She has served as a committee member on the Appointments and Promotions Committee at Hofstra Northwell’s School of Medicine. Dr. Kwon has been a recipient of Northwell's President’s Award for Teamwork in 2014., the Emergency Medicine Service Line Guttenberg Award in 2017 for her work in Emergency Medicine, and was one of five finalists for Northwell Health System's Truly Leadership award, and is currently a finalist for the Truly Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award. She has a focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Population Health, developing and implementing programs for vulnerable and underrepresented patient populations, faculty development, and mentorship.
Dr. Kwon received her Bachelor of Science from Brown University, and her Doctorate of Medicine from The University of Rochester. She completed her Residency in Emergency Medicine at NYU Langone School of Medicine/Bellevue Hospital Center, and stayed on as faculty until 2013. She received a Masters in Public Administration from The NYU Wagner School of Public Service. She became a part of The Northwell Health team in 2013.