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Chidren's Hospital Colorado/ Univeristy of Colorado

Dr. Lam is board certified in emergency medicine and fellowship trained in pediatric emergency medicine, emergency ultrasound, and research. He is currently the Emergency Ultrasound Co-Director at the Children’s Hospital Colorado Section of Emergency Medicine, and Professor of Pediatrics-Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Lam is actively involved in emergency ultrasound research, and has led and participated in several multi-institutional point-of care ultrasound (POCUS) studies that have been published in peer review journals. He is currently the chair of the Consensus Conference Subcommittee under the SAEM Research Committee.

Ohio State University

Greetings fellow ultrasound enthusiasts! I am seeking your vote for AEUS Treasurer. I am an ultrasound fellowship-trained emergency medicine physician working at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. I am a member of my department’s Core Education Faculty group and an Assistant Director of our Division of Ultrasound. I also served as a representative on my department’s Board of Managers for 4 years. Through these positions, I gained experience with budget planning, large group organization, and event planning. I would love to use these skills for the benefit of our Academy of Emergency Ultrasound. I am passionate about medical education, particularly that focused on point-of-care ultrasound. I firmly believe that the continued dissemination of ultrasound knowledge in medical education will improve the safety and outcomes of our patients. It can also be leveraged to help our medical student, resident, fellow, practicing physician, and other healthcare colleagues to garner a deeper understanding of concepts. AEUS pushes the boundaries of ultrasound-related medical education. I have experienced this through some of my favorite experiences with AEUS, including through my involvement in SonoGames as a Station Creator.

I am thrilled by the possibility of gaining a leadership position in this organization. If elected, I will use my administrative experiences described above to help make AEUS even more successful. I am excited to utilize the relationships I have built through my involvement in SAEM and various other national organizations to maintain our educational initiatives and expand them to become even more impactful. I hope you will grant me the honor of acting as your representative. Together we can make ultrasound in medical education even better.

Cleveland Clinic

I am excited to be running for the position of Treasurer of AEUS! I hope that, if elected, I will contribute to the executive team by furthering the development of current medical students, residents, fellows, and our current practice emergency medicine physicians in POCUS.

I currently am the director of emergency ultrasound at the Cleveland Clinic and oversee community and academic POCUS at multipel EDs in Cleveland, Ohio. I graduated from Denver Health Residency in emergency medicine in 2013 and completed my POCUS fellowship the following year. I have had the opportunity to work with amazing mentors along the way. Over the last 5 years as director of emergency ultrasound, I have helped build a comprehensive POCUS program across multiple emergency departments which trains medical students, residents, and staff physicians. Additionally, I have implemented standardization of ultrasound workflow across the system with credentialing practices. I believe this experience, combined with other leadership roles along the way, have allowed me to experience a wide range of experiences in POCUS that will benefit me in this leadership position as treasurer.

I am very organized and have experience with large budgets within our hospital system for POCUS. I hope to contribute to AEUS by helping innovate new programming, support and improve existing programming, and foster even more experience with research.

I hope you will consider me for the treasurer of AEUS!

Emory University

I am an assistant professor and the director of GME ultrasound education within the department of emergency medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. I received my medical degree from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. I then continued my training in Dallas, TX at Parkland Health & Hospital System for residency and fellowships in emergency disaster and global health (EDGH) and emergency ultrasound. In my role within the institution, I am actively involved in both graduate and undergraduate medical education. I am a member of SAEM's Education Committee and the AEUS SonoGames Executive Planning Committee.

As a member of AEUS, I have directly benefited from the resources provided by the Academy including the Narrated Lecture Series and the Asynchronous Ultrasound Curriculum. I have seen the organization’s active role in promoting educational and research initiatives that advance the field of ultrasound. As a member of the executive committee, I hope to further AEUS’s research and educational missions. I would like to expand the educational offerings on the AEUS website and make this more accessible to our international audience. I want to continue to push the envelope and explore novel ways of displaying educational content. I’d like to highlight the research and educational initiatives of our members and promote additional ultrasound-focused didactic submissions at national conferences. I have personally benefited from great mentorship within the AEUS community and wish to pay this forward by developing additional opportunities for involvement of members and recruitment of future members including residents and fellows.

Past President

University of Virginia

Dr. Thom is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia. He is the Director of Emergency Ultrasound, the Ultrasound Fellowship Director, and an Assistant Residency Director at UVA. He graduated medical school from University of Virginia in 2010, completed Emergency Medicine residency training at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013, and then completed his Emergency Ultrasound fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University in 2014. Dr. Thom is involved in ultrasound teaching at all levels of medical education and his interests include musculoskeletal ultrasound applications, early pregnancy ultrasound, and point of care ultrasound coding and billing. His work experience prior to medical school included time as a hang gliding instructor and the sport remains a hobby during the warmer months.

Development Officer

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

I've been an advocate for diversity for a long time, raising awareness of implicit bias and trying to promote programs for culturally-informed interactions with the community. I've interacted with Buddhist chaplains working in Catholic hospitals and Christian chaplains working in Asian neighborhoods. I also reported ethnically-biased screening practices, dealt with retaliation, and navigated a 10 year journey of hospital investigations, university inquiries, multiple meetings, and a series of deflections, gaslighting, and stonewalling that culminated in litigation and a lawsuit. I've learned a lot about the unique challenges that face academic physicians who are dually employed by hospitals and universities and I'd be honored to have the opportunity to serve the academy to advance the cause of a robust, healthy diversity in our specialty.

Member-at-Large

Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Moises Gallegos attended Harvard College where he studied neurobiology and topics in mind, brain, and behavior. He earned his MD from Stanford School of Medicine and concurrently earned a master's in Public Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his residency and was Chief Resident at Baylor College of Medicine while working at Ben Taub General Hospital. He began his academic career as an Assistant Professor in the Henry J.N. Taub Department of Emergency Medicine (EM) at Ben Taub and rejoined the Stanford Department of EM in 2019 as a Clinical Assistant Professor. He is the Clerkship Director for EMED301A, the required EM rotation. Dr. Gallegos is currently completing coursework to obtain his Master of Education in the Health Professions from Johns Hopkins University School of Education.

Member-at-Large

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Dr. Tiffany Mitchell is an emergency medicine (EM) physician in New York City. She obtained her Bachelor's of Science from Columbia University before attending the Keck School of Medicine at USC. Dr. Mitchell completed residency training at the Jacobi-Montefiore Emergency Medicine Program before joining the faculty at The Mount Sinai Hospital. She has served in several roles on a number of ADIEM and SAEM committees.

Development Officer

University of California, San Francisco

​Dr. Molina is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and affiliated faculty at the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies. She practices clinically at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and UCSF Medical Center. ​

Dr. Molina earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Hispanic Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed her residency in emergency medicine at Harvard-affiliated programs. She furthered her research training with a Master of Advanced Studies in Clinical Research and a fellowship through the National Clinician Scholars Program at UCSF. ​

Dr. Molina’s focuses on mitigating healthcare access disparities, improving emergency care for vulnerable populations, and fostering diversity within the emergency medicine workforce. Notably, she has investigated COVID-19-related health disparities and strategies to integrate social needs screening into clinical settings. ​

Dr. Molina's commitment to addressing health disparities is deeply personal, stemming from her own experiences overcoming childhood adversity. Her dedication has been recognized with several honors, including the National Hispanic Medical Association's "Top 40 Under 40" award in 2024 and the UCSF John A. Watson Faculty Scholar award in 2023.

Medical Student

Trinity School of Medicine

Cole Ettingoff is a medical student at Trinity School of Medicine. He serves on several SAEM committees, chairs the ACEP Social EM Section working group on program evaluation and implementation, and leads several projects within NAEMSP. Prior to medical school, Cole worked in public health; first for the city of San Francisco, where his focus was on social determinants of health and improving quality of care. Then, in Montgomery County, Maryland, Cole helped lead the county-wide COVID task force and helped build a mobile integrated health program. He has been active in several leadership roles in the American Public Health Association and the American Association of Public Health Physicians, including chair of APHA's 2024 Symposium on Responding to Behavioral Health Emergencies. He is passionate about improving the quality of care for acute conditions in the prehospital and ED settings. He has a special interest in integrating the principles of EM, EMS, and public health in embracing EM's role as the ultimate safety net to collaborate and offer improvements for health outcomes.

Member-at-Large

University of Texas Southwestern

Medical Student Representative

Quinnipiac University

University of Cincinnati

I am a PGY-2 in the University of Cincinnati emergency medicine residency program and a second-generation emergency medicine physician originally from central Wisconsin. Growing up in a physician household, I had the opportunity to observe the evolution of emergency medicine over the last 20 years. In 2015 I earned my Bachelor of Science in biochemistry from Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI. From there I went to medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) from which I received the MCW Excellence in Emergency Medicine award in 2020. During my time at MCW, I had the privilege of performing research under the direction of Dr. Tom Aufderheide in prehospital cardiac arrest which resulted in a publication in Prehospital Emergency Care.

In 2020, I started residency at the University of Cincinnati. As a resident, I seek out opportunities in education (medical student and EMS providers) and research whenever possible. I have a passion for EMS, ultrasound, and education. I plan to pursue fellowships in both EMS and ultrasound with the goal of advancing prehospital ultrasound.

As part of the RAMS Board, I would like to advance the RAMS mission of supporting and enriching academically minded EM residents and medical students in their pursuit of academic careers.

University of California, Davis

Hello! I am David A Leon, MD MS, assistant clinical professor at University of Caifornia Davis Health.
I am the first graduate from the combined EM-Anesthesia residency at Johns Hopkins University, the only combined EM-Anesthesia residency in the country. I moved to the West coast and I am now dual appointment at University of California Davis, where I am a assistant clinical professor in both departments of Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology, splitting my time between the OR and the ED. I have interest in trauma and resuscitation, with particular interest in blood product utilization including whole blood and adjuncts to hemorrhage control, as well as the application of regional anesthesia in the ED with particular focus on thoracic nerve blocks. In and out of the ORs and ED, I am engaged with trauma and critical care, in the hopes of advancing resuscitation from the moment of injury throughout a patient's course in the hospital. I am an ATLS instructor and certified in REBOA placement. I am Hispanic and am interested in increasing Latino representation in medicine. I hope to pursue a critical care fellowship to furher expand my critical care knowledge. It is my pleasure and honor to learn together with providers from all fields, in the pursuit of improving patient outcomes.

Toxicology Fellow

Washington University-St. Louis

Dr. Carleigh Hebbard is a current Toxicology Fellow at Washington University in St Louis. She is a member of the SAEM Workforce Committee and was a 2022-2023 SAEM RAMS Board member-at-large liaison to the Workforce Committee. Her interests are toxicology and basic science research. She earned her PhD in Biochemistry and MD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed residency at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

Member-at-Large

UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

"I am a fourth-year medical student at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. I am excited to become an emergency medicine (EM) resident and contribute to the larger EM community as a member-at-large on the RAMS Board.

Emergency medicine has critical roles at the front lines of health care and treating the neediest in our communities. These significant responsibilities are why we need to protect our specialty’s future and advocate for our residents’ training. Several new challenges have presented themselves in recent years: projected workforce demand-supply changes, widespread accreditation of residencies, changing common program requirements, and mid-level encroachment. All these issues directly impact EM residents graduating into the workforce, and the key to addressing them is education. We can better advocate for our interests as physicians if we are more informed about the social, financial, and political forces that are defining our practice. As a premiere academic organization, SAEM RAMS can be a generator and curator of the research and evidence of the evolving landscape of our profession. I would love to launch the production of these materials to build baseline knowledge surrounding these concerns to propel current and future generations of EM physicians."

RAMS Immediate Past President / Resident Member

Henry Ford Hospital - Detroit

Daniel N. Jourdan, MD, NRP, is a fourth-year resident in the combined Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine Program at Henry Ford. He attained a Bachelor of Science from the University of North Carolina and a Doctor of Medicine from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, where he was also honored as a Gold Humanism Fellow. Prior to his medical schooling, Dr. Jourdan served four years as an enlisted special operations soldier, completing two tours in Afghanistan. Throughout his undergraduate and medical studies, he concurrently worked as a paramedic for various emergency medical services (EMS) agencies.

Dr. Jourdan currently holds the position of SAEM-RAMS Immediate Past President. He is in his fifth year of service to the RAMS Board. He has also worked on various SAEM Committee's including Education, Membership, Faculty Development, Program and RAMS Nominating. He also served as chair of the RAMS Nominating Committee. Dr. Jourdan's contributions to SAEM-RAMS have yielded numerous nationally published articles, podcasts, and educational materials available on SAEM.org, as well as presentations at the SAEM Annual Meeting. In addition to his commitment to SAEM-RAMS, Dr. Jourdan has been an integral part of various national task forces, including the SAEM Workforce Task Force, SAEM Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Task Force, and SAEM Onboarding Task Force.

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center

"Shifting Tides: Changing the Paradigm of Treating Opioid Use Disorder by Updating Resident Education"

Member-at-Large

New York-Presbyterian - Columbia & Cornell

"I'm a PGY-2 resident in emergency medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medicine. in Manhattan, NY. I obtained my medical degree from Rowan University, where I served as class president and was also on the board for the diversity, equity, and inclusion council.

Prior to residency, I was a paramedic for ten years in New Jersey, where I was involved with education and training of paramedics and EMTs. I still stay involved with EMS education, including producing and editing an EMS-focused evidence-based medicine podcast for EMS professionals."

Member-at-Large

University of Kansas

Taylor Diederich, MD is a PGY-1 Emergency Medicine resident at the University of Kansas, recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She currently serves as a Member-at-Large on the RAMS Board, and as the RAMS Board Liaison to the SAEM Education Committee.