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Joel L. Moll, MD

Robert R. Ehrman, MD, MS

Wayne State University

Dr. Ehrman is an Associate Professor (Clinician-Scholar) of Emergency Medicine at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. He received his medical degree from Northwestern University in 2007. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Yale-New Have Hospital and a Fellowship in Emergency Ultrasound at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, IL. He currently serves as the Assistant Director of Emergency Ultrasound at Detroit Medical Center/Sinai-Grace Hospital and Assistant Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship at Wayne State University. Dr. Ehrman’s primary research interest is the use of point-of-care ultrasound in critical illness, primarily heart failure and sepsis. He has published multiple peer-reviewed papers on the use of advanced echocardiographic techniques by Emergency Physicians.

Mariju Baluyot, MD

Danielle T. Miller, MD, MEd

Dr. Danielle Miller is currently a medical education researcher in the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus. She completed her Medical Education Scholarship Fellow at Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine and Masters of Medical Education at University of Cincinnati. Dr. Miller's research has been in competency-based medical education in GME and UME including creating multiple mastery learning curricula in Emergency Department (ED) thoracotomy, donning and doffing PPE, and US-guided serratus anterior plan nerve blocks for rib fractures. Within the context of competency research, Dr. Miller received the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Education Research Grant for her project entitled “Development of a Simulation Curriculum and Web-Based Modules to Teach Core EPA 10 to Medical Students. Additionally, Dr. Miller's research includes the integration of technology into assessment of learners and how the electronic the electronic health record (EHR) can track educational interventions and patient-centered outcomes.

Christian D. Pulcini, MD, MEd, MPH

Pediatric Emergency Physician

University of Vermont Medical Center

Dr. Pulcini is a pediatric emergency physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center and UVM Children's Hospital, as well as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) and Pediatrics at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. He attended Tufts University School of Medicine followed by pediatrics residency at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. He then completed pediatric EM fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He holds an M.Ed. in secondary education from Loyola Marymount University (former Teach for America corps member) and an M.P.H. in maternal and child health from Boston University school of Public Health.

Scott Levin, MD

Wendy W. Sun, MD

Yale University School of Medicine

Dr. Wendy W. Sun is an Administration Fellow and Instructor of Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. She is passionate about patient quality and safety, physician wellness, and health innovation. Having served as a past President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Residents and Medical Students (SAEM RAMS) and the Resident Member on the SAEM Board of Directors, she continues to be invested in the advancement of Emergency Medicine through research, mentorship, education, and advocacy.

Dr. Sun earned her undergraduate degree at Columbia University in Biomedical Engineering. She subsequently obtained her Doctor of Medicine from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine where she was inducted into the Gold Humanism and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Societies. Most recently, she completed Emergency Medicine residency at Yale - New Haven Health where she served as Chief Resident. She continues to further her education as a candidate of the MBA for Executives at the Yale School of Management. A Canadian from Toronto, she now resides in New Haven.

Brandon J. Sonn, PhD, MS

Amy S. Gottlieb, MD

Mark F. Olaf, DO, FACEP

Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

Mark F Olaf, DO, FACEP is Vice Chair of Education for Emergency Medicine and an Associate Regional Dean for the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (GCSOM) where he is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine. He is an Emergency Physician at Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA.

A Diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine, and a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians (FACEP), Dr. Olaf is also a distinguished fellow of the ACEP Teaching Fellowship. Dr. Olaf is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed emergency medicine residency training at the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania, where he served as Chief Resident.

Dr. Olaf has demonstrated expertise in advising and mentoring emergency medicine bound students. He has published and collaborated with colleagues from across the country to further knowledge and share information related to emergency medicine education and advising in medical school. Dr. Olaf has lectured extensively within his institution and in multiple venues across the United States. He has been awarded multiple institutional awards for mentoring and advising students. His ongoing academic and education research interests include evidence-based advising, medical student transitions to residency, and curriculum development for emergency medicine education.

Michael DeFilippo, DO, MICP

Chief Resident Emergency Medicine

New York-Presbyterian: Columbia & Cornell

Dr. Michael DeFilippo is a Chief Resident in emergency medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia & Cornell and incoming EMS fellow to the University of New Mexico. His interests include EMS, ultrasound, simulation, resuscitation, and research. Within the context of research, he is interested in resident engagement in research and recruitment of emergency medicine researchers. Dr. DeFilippo additionally serves on the SAEM Board of Directors and serves on committees focusing on research and engagement of emergency medicine residents.

Keme Carter, MD

University of Chicago

Dr. Keme Carter is a Professor at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine where she serves as Associate Dean for Admissions at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Associate Vice-Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Education for the Department of Medicine, and the Director of the Emergency Medicine Clerkship. Dr. Carter obtained her bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University, her medical degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine, and completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine.

Through Dr. Carter’s research, writing, public speaking engagements, and medical school admissions work, she continues to advocate for and work towards optimizing and ensuring an equitable pathway for students along the continuum of medical education. Additionally, Dr. Carter’s research interests are focused on exploring the nuance of communication within the emergency department and developing and studying curricular innovations to improve patient-centered physician communication.

Andrew Beck, MD

Nur-Ain Nadir, MD, MHEP

Clare Desmond, MD, CHSE

Ben S. Roth, MD

Ian Julie, MD, MAS

Krystin Miller, MD

The Ohio State University

Krystin Miller, MD is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Ohio State University, where she serves as an Assistant Residency Program Director. She is a graduate of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Ohio State and completed a Medical Education Fellowship and the MERC at CORD Scholars Program. She is the current Director of Resident Didactics, as well as the Director of Rotating Residents and Fellows at Ohio State. Krystin has a passion for curriculum design, bedside teaching and graduate medical education. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband Brady and their three children on the family farm.

Brian Yun, MD, MBA, MPH

Boston Medical Center

Brian J. Yun, MD, MBA, MPH serves as the Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center. In this role, he oversees the clinical operations and quality and patient safety programs of the emergency department, which cares for more than 130,000 patients each year. Prior to this role, he was the Director of Clinical Operations of the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Department of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Yun graduated with a MD and MBA from Tufts University School of Medicine, where he was also named to the AOA Honor Society. He has an MPH in Clinical Effectiveness from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. After finishing his residency in emergency medicine at the combined Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Dr. Yun completed an Emergency Department Administration Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Hillary R. Irons, MD, PhD

UMass Chan Medicial School

Hillary Irons, MD PhD FACEP, is an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at University of Massachusetts. She received her MD from Medical College of Georgia, PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Tech and Emory, and completed EM residency at Michigan State University/Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan. She completed a Wilderness Medicine Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital during which she spent a season working at the Himalayan Rescue Association in the Everest Region in Nepal, trip physician to the Siberian arctic, and doing multiple research projects on altitude illness. She has taught wilderness medicine for many years both with lectures, hands-on courses including AWLS, and simulation-based teaching. She is also the Expansion Race Coordinator for MedWAR (Medical Wilderness Adventure Races) which teaches and tests wilderness medicine through scenario-based adventure races since 2003. She has held national leadership positions in SAEM’s wilderness medicine interest group and ACEP wilderness medicine section. Her current research involves the cognitive deficits in hypoxic brain states specifically acute mountain illness and traumatic brain injury.