World Health Organization: Basic Emergency Medicine Care Training of the Trainers (GEMA Sponsored)

This is a ticketed event. In partnership with the International Committee for the Red Cross, the World Health Organization presents the Basic Emergency Care Training of the Trainers (WHO BEC TOT) course. Developed to address the urgent need for emergency care education in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), this program equips facilitators to train frontline health care providers managing acute life-threatening conditions in resource-constrained settings. Participants will engage in case-based learning, small group discussions, lectures, and hands-on skills stations, enhancing their ability to educate healthcare professionals in LMICs.

Presenters:

  • Maham Munawar, DO
  • Naz Karim, MD
  • Sean M. Boaglio, DO, MAS, DTMH
  • Joy Mackey, MD
  • Amanda Irish, MD, MPH, MS, CEIDE
  • Nichole Michaeli, MD, MPH
  • Tim Depp, MD, MPH
  • Travis Wieland, MD, MA, MSc
  • Priya Arumuganathan, MD
  • Rmaah Memon, MD
  • Halley Alberts, MD
  • Emily A. Cloessner, MD
  • Sally Graglia, MD, MPH
  • Ramu Kharel, MD, MPH, DTM&H, CTropMed
  • Mary W. Gitau, MbCHB
Authors

  • Maham Munawar, DO

    Baylor College of Medicine

    Maham Munawar, DO was born and raised near Houston, TX. She went to the University of Texas at Austin for undergraduate studies. She completed medical school after receiving her Master's degree in Medical Sciences, both at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth, TX. She completed her Emergency Medicine residency training at Southern Illinois University in Springfield, IL. She joined the Penn Emergency Medicine community as a Global Medicine Fellow and Instructor in July 2023.

    Maham's academic and professional interests include global emergency systemic development,
    women's health, nutritional/preventative medicine, health policy, and medical education. She
    is also passionate about wellness and mentorship. Current global health projects are related to systems development and education in various countries, including Iraq, Pakistan, and Botswana.
  • Naz_Karim

    Naz Karim, MD, MHA, MPH

    Associate Professor

    Brown University

    Dr. Naz Karim is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Director of the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Brown University and adjunct professor at Bryant University. Dr. Karim is currently serving as the president of the SAEM Global Emergency Medicine Academy. She is a past member of the Brown Emergency Medicine Board of Directors. Naz completed her Global Emergency Medicine fellowship through the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and has received multiple Masters in Healthcare Administration, Biomedical Sciences, and Public Health. Globally, Dr. Karim has presented emergency medicine topics at international conferences in Nicaragua, Rwanda, Ecuador, Egypt, Ireland and South Africa. Additionally, she has contributed to both educational endeavors and global emergency medicine research in Rwanda. Her educational endeavors include the development of the first Emergency Medicine curriculum for residents in Rwanda.
  • Sean Boaglio

    Sean M. Boaglio, DO, MAS, DTMH

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Sean Boaglio, DO, MAS, DTMH, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Global Emergency Medicine Division, Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Dr. Boaglio grew up in the Pacific Northwest, in the small town of Longview, Washington. He graduated summa cum laude from Pacific Lutheran University. He received his medical degree from Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2017 and completed his Emergency Medicine Residency training at Stony Brook University Hospital, serving as Chief Resident in 2020. He completed a Global Emergency Medicine fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, working in resident education at Georgetown Public Hospital in Guyana, South America and earning a Master's of Applied Science in Humanitarian Health from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the Gorgas Institute in Lima, Peru. His areas of academic interest are Emergency Medicine development and education, simulation and procedural education, critical care, humanitarian health, and tropical medicine.
  • Joy Mackey

    Joy Mackey, MD

    Baylor College of Medicine

    Dr. Joy Mackey is the Director of the Global Health and International Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine, Deputy Ambassador to Belize for the American College of Emergency Physicians and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine for the Henry JN Taub Department of Emergency Medicine. She has worked to develop emergency medicine in Central America and the Pacific, particularly focusing on capacity building and educational initiatives in Belize. This has included the nationwide introduction of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) and Basic Emergency Care (BEC) train-the-trainer curriculum in Belize.

  • Amanda Irish, MD, MPH, MS, CEIDE

    University of Iowa

    Amanda Irish is an Emergency Medicine faculty physician at the University of Iowa. She completed her International Emergency Medicine Global Health Fellowship at Prisma Health (formerly Palmetto Health) Midlands/University of South Carolina School of Medicine-Columbia. She has demonstrated a lifelong interest in international medicine and has been involved in a variety of research and education projects in low-resource settings over the years. She enjoys working with and teaching others how to positively and sustainably impact health systems and is excited to be involved with WHO-ICRC Basic Emergency Care.

  • Nichole Michaeli, MD, MPH

    Brigham & Womens Hospital/Harvard Medical School

    Dr. Michaeli is an attending emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and a fellow in Global Emergnecy Medicine. She completed residency in emergency medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She completed medical school at the University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio and her Master of Public Health degree at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She has a strong interest in strengthening global emergency care systems through the design, adaptation, and implemention of emergency tools and training for local frontline providers in regions affected by conflict and humanitarian crises. She has recently worked with in Liberia, Kenya, Malawi, Somalia, and Ukraine.

  • Tim Depp, MD, MPH

    Prisma Health Upstate, University of South Carolina School of Medicine

    Tim Depp works as an Emergency Physician at Prisma Health Upstate. When not working he enjoys time with his family and working on conservation ecology projects.

  • Travis Wieland, MD, MA, MSc

    Emergency Physicians Professional Association (EPPA)

    Travis Wieland, MD is an emergency physician at Emergency Physicians Professional Association (EPPA) based in Minneapolis, MN. He went to medical school at Southern Illinois University before completing residency at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a fellowship in global health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Priya Arumuganathan, MD

    Priya Arumuganathan, MD

    Fellow Representative

    University of Pennsylvania

    Dr. Priya Arumuganathan is a Penn Global Emergency Medicine Fellow and an Instructor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at Penn Medicine. She is from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and completed her medical school and residency training at West Virginia University. While there, she completed the Global Health Track, served as a Chief Resident, and conducted telestroke research within rural critical access hospitals. Her rural background and training have helped her to build a foundation for working in low-resource environments. Currently, her work in Global Emergency Medicine involves creating emergency medicine curriculum and helping to build emergency care capacity.

  • 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. 

  • Halley Alberts, MD

    University of South Carolina Prisma Health - Midlands

    Halley is a Global Emergency Medicine Fellow at the University of South Carolina Prisma Health - Midlands and MPH candidate at Johns Hopkins University.

  • Emily A. Cloessner, MD, MSPH

    Washington University in St Louis

    Dr. Ly Cloessner is a current PGY-3 at Washington University in Saint Louis. Dr. Cloessner's path to emergency medicine (EM) began with a career in public health and public service, driven by a deep-seated commitment to giving back to the community. This ethos naturally led her to the field of EM, where practitioners care for anyone, regardless of condition or time of day. Her dedication to serving others has also guided her involvement with the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), where she seeks to make a positive impact within the EM community.

    Dr. Cloessner attended her first SAEM meeting as a first-year resident (PGY-1), where she discovered a wealth of mentorship, networking opportunities, education, and career guidance. These resources have been instrumental in her residency journey and as she prepares for fellowship. She earned her medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina and completed her undergraduate studies at the College of Charleston. Her academic interests include POCUS, development of emergency medicine systems in resource-limited settings, and public health, particulary infectious disease management.

  • Sally Graglia, MD, MPH

    University of California, San Francisco

    Dr. Sally Graglia is an Assistant Clinical Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (UCSF-ZSFG) with fellowship training in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). After completing Emergency Medicine residency at UCSF, Dr. Graglia pursued fellowship training in Ultrasound at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). During her fellowship, she worked with PURE (Point-of-care Ultrasound in Resource-limited Environments) in Uganda which led her to take an appointment in Liberia with the Liberia College of Physicians and Surgeons (LCPS) as Ultrasound Education Director in Monrovia, Liberia. Dr. Graglia has experience in various capacities and environments including Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Africa, India, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru, and rural California. Her passions include teaching, point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), and global health. She serves as the Director of Medical Student Ultrasound Education and a Bridges Coach at the UCSF School of Medicine.

  • Ramu Kharel, MD, MPH, DTM&H, CTropMed

    Dr. Ramu Kharel is an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine with an appointment in the Division of Global Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He received his Medical Doctorate from UT Southwestern in Dallas and his Masters of Public Health from the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University. He completed specialty training in Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Kharel also has completed focused sub-specialty training in Global Emergency Medicine research and Clinical Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Dr. Kharel works clinically in the United States as a practicing emergency care physician and also undertakes global health research focused in Nepal.. His research focuses predominantly on improving emergency care systems. His work equips community health workers to respond to emergencies in pre-hospital settings. Dr. Kharel is the founder of a grassroots NGO in Nepal called HAPSA Nepal and has worked extensively in earthquake response, COVID-19 response and other disasters. He is on board of non-governmental organizations working in health care delivery in Nepal as well. Dr. Kharel is very active in social media, mostly teaching public health measures in the face of population disasters. Dr. Kharel loves basketball and Urdu poetry.

  • Mary W. Gitau, MbCHB

    Kenyatta National Hospital

    Dr Mary Gitau is a medical doctor working at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya interested in emergency medicine training and research. She holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from the University of Nairobi, Kenya and is also a qualified Basic Emergency Care (BEC) trainer.

    Her interest in emergency medicine started during her clinical years in medical school. She undertook the WHO/ICRC Basic Emergency Care (BEC) training of trainers course in 2020 and successfully trained medical final-year students in the basic emergency care course in 2021 and 2022. This allowed her to be involved as a co-investigator in the research on emergency training in Kenya and in this conference, she will be presenting on the Longitudinal Analysis of the World Health Organization/International Committee of the Red Cross Basic Emergency Care Course on Kenyan Physician Knowledge and Confidence.

    Out of the hospital, Dr Gitau volunteers with a local organisation to promote talent in underprivileged youth, specifically working with children with an interest in fashion and modelling. She is also a devoted Christian who enjoys spending time with family and friends, nature walks, hiking and swimming in her leisure time.

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