Stephanie Kok, MD, FAAEM

Stephanie Kok, MD is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria (UICOMP) where she has served as the Assistant Program Director since 2021. She graduated from UICOMP Emergency Medicine Residency in 2014 and joined the Core Faculty in 2015. She served as Director of Rotator Residents and the Oral Boards Curriculum Director for 6 and 8 years respectively. She has also served as the Faculty Director for her residency’s FemInEM program since its inception in 2020. She has been chosen by her residents as Mentor of the Year in 2015 and 2022 and Teacher of the Year in 2020 and 2022. Through all of this, she has been a dedicated nocturnalist since graduating from residency and has no plans to change. In her personal life, she loves to take her nieces and nephews on cross-country train trips, go on dumpling tours with her parents, and play endless games of Dutch Blitz on beach vacations with her sisters. She also loves to read and, of course, hates missing her 8-hour naps during the day.