People

Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH is the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the current president of the SAEM Global Emergency Medicine Academy. He is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and of Global Health and Population at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. He is also the director of the Lavine Family Humanitarian Studies Initiative at Harvard at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He completed the International Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the Brigham. He has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, was a New York City paramedic for ten years, and works to strengthen emergency care quality and access around the world through local and regional partnerships.

Michael A. Gisondi, MD

Professor and Vice Chair of Education, Department of Emergency Medicine

Stanford University

Dr. Michael A. Gisondi is professor and the inaugural Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Assistant Dean for Academic Advising at Stanford School of Medicine. He is the Principal and co-founder of The Precision Education and Assessment Research Lab (The PEARL). Dr. Gisondi is the recipient of numerous teaching awards including the Hal Jayne Excellence in Education Award from SAEM.

Nee-Kofi Mould-Millman, MD, MSCS

Stefan Wheat

MD

Alexandra K. Monroe, MD

Petra Duran-Gehring, MD

President

University of Florida-Jacksonville

Dr. Duran-Gehring is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida in Jacksonville, where she started the Emergency Ultrasound program in 2008 as the sole ultrasound faculty member after working in community practice where she saw firsthand how POCUS can improve patient care. Dr. Duran-Gehring has since expanded the program to house an accredited Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography (AEMUS) fellowship and to win management awards from the Clinical Ultrasound Accreditation Program. She has lectured nationally and has a passion for medical education, as evidenced by numerous teaching awards and course directorships. She was awarded the AEUS Scholarship to attend the SAEM ARMED MedEd program, which resulted in grant funding and national presentations on virtual ultrasound education. She has previously served the Academy of Emergency Ultrasound (AEUS) as Secretary and as a SonoGames Round 2 Station Design Lead, is a member of the Society of Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships (SCUF) Board of Directors, and has been a speaking coach for the SCUF national conference. She is on the leadership team for the ACEP/SAEM joint national journal club, Probing the Literature and the ACEP AEMUS Review Course. When not teaching ultrasound, she loves spending time outdoors and at the soccer field with her husband and three boys.

Stephanie C. Garbern, MD, MHPE

Annie Sadosty, MD

Bachar Hamade, MD, MSc

Stacey Roseen

Senior Manager, Communications and Publications

David Teng, MD

Marie-Carmelle Elie-Turenne, MD

Adedoyin Adesina, MD,MEd, FACEP

Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. Adedoyin is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Baylor Color of Medicine and an Associate Clerkship Director. She is committed to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, and addressing health disparities and social determinants of health. She currently serves as a Diversity Inclusion and Equity Ambassador, Chair of education committee for Academy for Diversity in Emergency Medicine(ADIEM) well as several Undergraduate Medical Education committees. She’s been recognized for her outstanding contribution to academia which earned her accolades as the recipient of Norton Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching and Evaluation and the ADIEMs Visionary Educator Award

Her primary research interests revolve around the intersection of health disparities and medical education with a particular focus on tackling linguistic barriers, enhancing cross-cultural communication, and advancing recruitment and engagement strategies for the EM work. She has received several seed grants for research in these areas.

M. Meredith Masters, MD

Stanford University School of Medicine

M. Meredith Masters is currently the Marc and Laura Andreessen Medical Director for Disaster Relief for the Stanford University School of Medicine and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Masters attended medical school at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and trained with the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the University of Wisconsin. Following residency, she completed the Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine Fellowship with the Fire Department of New York.
Prior to joining the Emergency Medicine Faculty at Stanford, Dr. Masters served as the Medical Director for University Hospital EMS in Newark, NJ, and was part of the Emergency Medicine Faculty at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
Dr. Masters’ clinical and research interests are focused on disaster preparedness and mitigation, improving education in disaster medicine, and the ethical delivery of care during crises.

James R. Miner, MN FACEP

Chair of Emergency Medicine

Hennepin County Medical Center

James Miner, MD, is the Chair of Emergency Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) and Professor and Department Head of EM at the University of Minnesota. He earned his medical degree in 1996 from Mayo Medical School in Rochester, MN and completed his residency in EM at HCMC in 1999, and then joined the HCMC Emergency Department faculty. He was the research director of the Department of Emergency Medicine from 2005-2013, the Associate Medical Director for Physician Development of HCMC from 2011-2013, and has been the Chair of Emergency Medicine there since 2014. He also became the Department Head of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota in 2019. Dr. Miner is the Senior Associate Editor for Electronic Publications of Academic Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Miner conducts research in the areas of agitation management, airway management, pain management, and procedural sedation in the Emergency Department. He has edited a textbook on pain management and sedation (Emergency Pain and Sedation, Cambridge University Press, 2008) and has authored chapters about pain management and sedation in several other textbooks. He also conducts research in the effects of poverty on patients seen in the Emergency Department.

Carly Eastin, MD

University of Arkansas

Carly Eastin, MD, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, AR, where she works clinically and is core faculty at the Level 1 Trauma and tertiary care facility and long-standing emergency medicine residency. She also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Pediatrics as she works clinically at Arkansas Children's Hospital. She serves SAEM in several capacities: as chair of the Evidence Based Healthcare and Implementation Interest Group, as a member of the Research Committee, and has presented several didactics at the SAEM Annual Meeting.

Kaushal H. Shah, MD

Weill Cornell Medical Center

Kaushal H. Shah received his undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1996 and his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School in 2000. He completed his residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2003. Dr. Shah is currently a Professor and Vice Chair of Education for the New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine in New York. He was previously the Emergency Medicine Residency Director and an Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Shah has a strong interest in education and trauma.

Alice Y. Chen, MD

James H. Jones, MD

Aaryn K. Hammond, MD

Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Dr. Aaryn Hammond is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center where she also serves as the assistant medical director for the Adult Emergency Department.

Dr. Aaryn Hammond completed medical school at Morehouse School of Medicine and went on to complete emergency medicine residency at Johns Hopkins were she obtained focused advanced specialty training in the science of health care delivery. She is passionate about reducing health care disparities and improving health equity through the optimization of clinical operations with particular interest in the impact of substance use disorders, housing instability and racial and cultural inequity.