People

University of Michigan

“After the X-Waiver: Implementation of an Abbreviated Curriculum on Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) for Emergency Medicine Residents"

Brigham & Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School

“Tele-Ultrasound Instruction in the Performance of Sonography"

Director of Evaluation and Assessment

Stanford University

Dr. Holly Caretta-Weyer is associate residency program director and director of evaluation and assessment for the Stanford University emergency medicine residency program as well as EPA/CBME implementation lead at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Caretta-Weyer attended medical school at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where she graduated Alpha Omega Alpha with honors in research. She stayed at Wisconsin for her emergency medicine residency, where she was also chief resident. Dr. Caretta-Weyer then completed her medical education scholarship fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University and earned her master's in health professions education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is a PhD candidate at Maastricht University studying residency selection in a competency-based system.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

“Albuterol Use In Patients with Heart Failure and Obstructive Pulmonary Disease"

University of Pittsburgh

“Precision Methods of Bacterial Infection Recognition in the Acute Care Setting"

Massachusetts General Hospital

“Missed Opportunities + New Strategies: Addressing Adverse SDoH in the ED"

Dr. Samuels-Kalow is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS), an attending physician in emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and the Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at MGB. Her work focuses on developing interventions to reduce disparities in emergency care, and designing strategies to use the ED visit to address adverse social determinants of health. Current projects include work to examine the role of individual and hospital factors in quality and equity of care for children in general emergency departments and understanding how to best address unmet oral health and social needs in the ED.

Oregon Health & Science University

“Determining the Ideal Timing and Route for Antiarrhythmics during Cardiac Arrest"

Dr. Greg Adams is a chief resident at the Case Western Reserve University, MetroHealth and Cleveland Clinic program. He grew up in the Cleveland area and went to The Ohio State University for undergrad (Go Bucks). After that, he attended Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine for medical school. His main interests within emergency medicine include administration and he is planning on pursing a fellowship in the same area after residency.

Jasmyne Patel, MD is a PGY-3 and Chief Resident at the Emory University Emergency Medicine residency program. She currently serves as the Resident Chair of AWAEM. Her interests include administration, education, and the promotion of women in medicine.

Director of Emergency Ultrasound, Director of EM Clerkship, Associate Professor of EM

Columbia University Medical Center

Dr. Das obtained her medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine (2007), completed her Emergency Medicine residency, where she was Chief Resident (2010), and a fellowship in Emergency Ultrasound at New York-Presbyterian Queens (2011). She was then Associate Director of Emergency Ultrasound and the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Director at Northwell Health - Staten Island University Hospital from 2011-2018. She has been faculty with the Columbia University Department of Emergency Medicine since 2019, where she is currently an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at CUIMC (2020) and holds leadership roles as the Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Division and Director of the MCY Emergency Medicine Clerkship. She has held the positions of President, Secretary, and VP of Membership & Engagement for AWAEM. 

Yale University

I am currently a PGY4 resident at RIH/Brown Emergency Medicine and will be pursuing a simulation fellowship at Yale for the 2022-2023 year. My active involvement in simulation has led me to understand the important role simulation plays in emergency medicine training, improving our ability to provide care and respond appropriately in a crisis scenario. I have been a member of SAEM during my residency time and believe that I would be a valuable addition to the academy executive committee. As a resident, I have designed and implemented simulations for team leader roles in resuscitation, currently serve as a clinical instruction for Brown Medical School’s doctoring course, have collaborated on education projects with EM-RAP, and have been actively engaged in research. My particular goals are to increase resident and medical student involvement with Simulation through collaboration with the education and social media and membership committees. I also hope to improve access to mentorship and simulation research opportunities for learners at all training levels.

Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine

I am presently a simulation and medical education fellow at Weill Cornell Medical Center, where I also practice as an EM attending physician. I am a graduate of Harvard (BA in Philosophy), NYU (MA in Literature), and I spent close to a decade prior to medicine working as a tenured high school English teacher. I received my medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College in 2017, and I completed my residency training at NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia/Cornell, where I served as the educational chief resident. Since then, I have completed the ACEP Residency Teaching Fellowship, am presently enrolled in the 2022-2023 SAEM ARMED MedED Program, and was the SAEM Simulation Academy’s Scholarship recipient for the same. I have been a member of SAEM since 2014.

I am applying for the fellowship position on the Simulation Academy Executive Committee. As my prior career experience would suggest, I am an educator first and foremost, and I was drawn to Simulation because of its power as a pedagogical modality. Through my fellowship, however, I have further realized the critical importance of Simulation to all facets of healthcare. In joining the Committee, my hope is that I can advocate for (in particular) simulation trainees new to the field, at the same time as I learn from experienced Simulation leaders how to advance the discipline in the years ahead.

University of Mississippi Medical Center

I’m currently completing a fellowship in simulation at UMMC and have a particular interest in growing the footprint of medical simulation within the traditional classroom space. Dedicated simulation centers are tremendous drivers of the quality, immersive education that simulation offers. Along that vein, I’d like to find better ways to grow the use of simulation outside of the dedicated simulation space. I believe that the traditional classroom and lecture hall is a ripe space for simulation training under models such as flipped classroom learning. Virtual simulation is a useful tool for delivering simulation training into spaces beyond our dedicated simulation centers and remains an untapped resource as a PowerPoint alternative to the traditional lecture. I’d like to become involved in the leadership ranks of the SAEM Simulation Academy to promote the utilization of simulation in this and many other spheres within emergency medicine training. Participation as a Vice President of education offers a wonderful opportunity to achieve this goal.

Saint Louis University

I am emergency medicine faculty at Saint Louis University and the director for simulation for the EM residency, as well as the assistant dean of simulation for the School of Medicine. These roles have allowed me broad experience in designing and implementing high-yield simulation curriculum for clinicians at various stages of training, from the first day of medical school to seasoned staff.

I was elected member-at-large for the SAEM Simulation Academy for 2020 to 2022. During this term, I've served as Lead for the Education Subcommittee. I’m running for Vice President of Education to continue building a robust community of faculty who are passionate about simulation education and interested in pursuing collaborative projects with each other.

IT Chair

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Assistant Professor/Associate Director

Brown Univeristy

Dr. Adam R. Aluisio is an assistant professor in emergency medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is also serves as the associate director for the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship also at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Aluisio received his Medical Doctorate from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his Masters of Science in Public Health in Developing Countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine before completing specialty training in emergency medicine at the State University of New York Downstate in New York City. Dr. Aluisio also has completed focused sub-specialty training in Global Emergency Medicine and Clinical Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Dr. Aluisio has developed and carried emergency care research in multiple settings and locations in the United States and internationally. He has collaboratively received research funding from numerous foundations and federal bodies, including the National Institutes of Health, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wellcome Trust and The Gates Foundation. Dr. Aluisio’s has served on multiple domestic and international committees, NGOs board positions and has previously served on the GEMA Executive Committee.

Mayo Clinic

I am an emergency medicine resident PGY1 at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. I graduated with an MD from Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel. Prior to studying medicine, I graduated with a BA in Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science, and Film and Media Studies with a certificate in interdisciplinary human rights from the University of California, Berkeley. I have worked in and around the human rights sector in both the Middle East and the United States for the past decade while completing my education, working with such organizations as Physicians for Human Rights-Israel in the Palestinian West Bank and with African asylum seekers in Israel, the Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, the Center for International Migration and Integration (CIMI) where I served as a medical liason to connect Sudanese and Eritrean refugees throughout Southern Israel to healthcare, the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Turkey, Save a Child's Heart, and the Olive Tree Initiative. I served on the Physicians for Human Rights National Student Advisory Board last year where I lead the advocacy team and helped coordinate PHR chapters globally and our yearly national conference after founding the Israeli medical student chapter of Physicians for Human Rights which has over 80 students actively participating weekly from Tel Aviv University, Ben Gurion University, and the Technion. I also completed a research year with the Yale Emergency Medicine Global Health Section mentored by Christine Ngaruiya, MD, MSc, DTM&H to focus on the non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in humanitarian crises, refugee barriers to care, barriers to care for low English proficiency patients, and humanitarian intervention development for both children and adults, with a particular focus on East Africa. I was selected to participate in the EMRA/ACEP International Ambassador Mentorship Program - Global Emergency Medicine Student Leadership Program (GEMS LP) last year and upon completion joined the leadership team for this year's cohort. I recently moderated the Middle East Section of the ACEP Ambassador Conference regional breakout meeting. Currently, I am working on a project focusing on Pediatric Emergency Medicine education development in the Palestinian West Bank, as well as work with the World Bank on NCD care in the Republic of the Congo with Christine Ngaruiya, MD, MSc, DTM&H. I am also leading a group of Israeli medical students in participating in the Physicians for Human Rights-Israel / Zochrot Nakba and Health Research Group, preparing a report in differences in emergency care access for different populations in our region.

I would like to be the resident representative for GEMA, building off my recent experiences with ACEP, because I would like to be a bridge for residents and medical students to engage in global health through the wide array of mentorship that GEMA SAEM members have to offer. Working over the past years with mentors with significant experience in academic global health and engaging in global health research has shown me how significant mentorship and guidance can be in helping medical student and residents achieve their own goals in global health. I am currently mentoring a medical student in Uganda who founded the first emergency medicine interest group in his country, and helping him develop his first systematic review and research protocol for a cross sectional study has proven to me that while I may be only starting my own journey (and still have much to learn), I can still offer mentorship and guidance to others and be a bridge to connect residents and medical students interested in global health to those who have more experience. I would also like to foster a community for residents and medical students interested in academic global emergency medicine to share ideas, foster community, and use each other a resources to move forward with their own projects and ideas.

Virginia Commonwealth University

I obtained my undergraduate degree in Women's Studies from Old Dominion University. I later pursued a post baccalaureate from George Mason University in Biology. In 2021 I graduated from The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD with my MD I am now an emergency medicine resident at Virginia Commonwealth University.

During my medical school training I was selected as the American Medical Association (AMA) Medical Student Section Chair for the Women in Medicine National Committee. I held the position for 1.5 years and during my time I formed the committee, wrote our committee goals and views, and helped produce programming for the national conferences. Our committee also reviewed and wrote several resolutions that went on to be voted on the bigger AMA floor. I was also a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and the committee leader for the Military Medical Specialty Night. I organized a nationwide event in which military medical students across the country were able to attend online. This event showcases the different residencies that the three main branches of the military offer. This was the first time the event was held via an online platform and the first time military members from across the nation were able to attend. Finally, while I do not have much SAEM experience, I hope to become more involved now that I have started my residency in emergency medicine.

I am running for the position of resident representative for GEMA for two reasons. The first is to pursue my interest of global emergency medicine and humanitarian response. The second is to help develop or enhance an avenue between military humanitarian/global missions and GEMA. I am currently an emergency medicine Intern but when I graduate I will become a flight physician for the Air Force. Our missions take us all over the world and we have a first hand view on the importance of emergency medicine. During my residency I hope to become better acquainted with global emergency medicine so that I may put to practice what I learn. I would also like to highlight global EM via SAEM Pulse by showcasing the experiences of physicians who currently serve.

Member-at-Large

University of Florida - Jacksonville

Dr. Shama Patel is an emergency medicine physician who has worked globally for over 10 years. She began her career in public health at the CDC with the Global AIDS Program as part of the PEPFAR program where she worked as a technical advisor in HIV prevention with high risk populations in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. She went on to receive her M.D. from the Medical College of Georgia in 2014 and completed an Emergency Medicine residency program at Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey in 2017. During her time at Morristown she completed an international elective in Nepal where she trained health workers on emergency care and point-of-care-ultrasound in remote villages devastated by the 2015 earthquake. Dr. Patel finished a 2-year Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship in 2019. During her fellowship she completed the ICRC Health Emergencies in Large Populations course as well as the University of Minnesota tropical medicine diploma course. Dr. Patel responded as a member of the Greater Hospital Association of NY to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico serving as a lead physician responding to both emergency care and inpatient needs. In Rwanda, she provided residency leadership to the masters in emergency medicine training program including developing didactics, exams and providing simulations. Currently, Dr. Patel works as technical advisor to the Emergency and Critical Care Directorate of the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia. In this position she has led the WHO Basic Emergency Care initial training the trainer courses and provides ongoing monitoring and evaluation for the rollout of BEC throughout the country. She services as co-PI for an implementation study to assess the effectiveness of the WHO emergency care toolkit. Now she works as Assistant Professor at University of Florida-Jacksonville. Dr. Patel has worked for the last several years with GEMA founding the GEMA engagement committee and working closely with the decolonizing GH group as well as the programming council. I hope this year to take more of an active role and recruit a diverse GEMA body through being your member at large.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

I am currently an assistant professor of emergency medicine in the dept. of emergency medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. I pursued a Global Health Fellowship at Brown University where she was also a candidate in the Master of Public Health degree program. I received my Medical Doctorate from University of Texas Southwestern Medical School before completing specialty training in emergency medicine from Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, Texas. While at BCM, I also received a diploma in tropical medicine from the National School of Tropical Medicine.

Being elected to the GEMA Executive Committee and serving as the Treasurer Development & Grants Committee Chair were incredible opportunities to hone my leadership skills and be mentored by the foremost leaders in global emergency medicine. I have been able to build on my foundational leadership experience from the years prior and gain a deeper understanding of the needs of our membership. I am currently running for the secretary position as I want to have a voice in shaping the field of global emergency medicine and in turn, serve as a mentor to rising emergency medicine residents and medical students with a passion for global engagement. If elected, I want to spearhead collaboration with other SAEM committees and the SAEM Executive board to create new avenues of financial funding to support academic research grants for residents and medical students. I would also like to deepen our relationships with other SAEM committees and especially work on prioritizing the voices of historically marginalized groups in global emergency medicine.