Surriya Colleen Ahmad, MD

I graduated from Emory University. I received my MD from University of Louisville. I completed my combined EM/IM residency at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University & Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn. I completed my GEM Fellowship at Weill Cornell/NYP Hospital in NYC. I am double board certified in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine.

I have been a member of SAEM and AGEM for six years. I served on the AGEM Executive Committee as Member At Large 2021-2022, Treasurer 2022-2023, Secretary 2023-2024, and 2024-2025.
While part of AGEM and the EC, I have carved a niche in webinar development and planning. I co-founded/hosted the Leaders in GEM webinar with the aim of generating early interest in GEM amongst medical students and residents and helping to connect them with mentors. I also created the Geriatric Mental Health and Wellness/Wellbeing Collaborative Webinar Series between AGEM and the Psychological & Behavioral Interest Group and the first webinar was on AMS/Delirium and Managing Geriatric Agitation in the ED, while the second one is in the works on Loneliness and Social Isolation.

Between taking care of patients in both public and private inner-city Level 1 Trauma Centers, tertiary care centers, and community hospitals over the last nine years, and having an octogenarian father and nonagenarian grandmother who I have watched navigate the sometimes treacherous walls of an ED from the lens of a patient their age, I remained interested in how we can best optimize the care of older adults in the ED.

I am running for Treasurer because I really enjoyed this position, and I have a passion for older adults and for AGEM and SAEM and I want to continue to serve its members and collaborate with other leaders with a similar passion of providing the best care possible to older adults via this organization.