People

Ivan Joseph, PhD

Keynote Speaker

Emily Walton

GEM Fellowships, Resident Representative

Sean Kivlehan

Gem Fellowships Past Chair

Eric Cioe Pena

Gem Fellowships Past Chair

Maninder Singh, MD

Jacobi Medical Center

Maninder Singh is an Associate Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is currently Director of Healthcare Simulation at Jacobi Medical Center and North Central Bronx. He completed a simulation fellowship at the Institute for Medical Simulation and Learning at the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation. He is a graduate of the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education and SUNY Downstate. He completed his Emergency Medicine residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine//Jacobi + Montefiore Medical Center, where he joined as faculty after completing his chief resident year. He is also the Simulation and Education Fellowship Director at Jacobi Medical Center. His professional interests include resident education, resuscitation, simulation, and trauma. He is a part of the AllNYCEM SIMWars Committee and helps organize a yearly simulation competition amongst various emergency medicine residencies in NY.

Tiffany Moadel, MD

President

Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Scott Goldberg, MD, MPH

Director of EMS, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Medical Director of Emergency Preparedness, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Medical Director of Mobile Integrated Health, Mass General Brigham
    Population Health Management
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Emily Spilseth Binstadt, MD, MPH

Regions/Health Partners

Dr Binstadt is passionate about exploring the best ways to teach residents and faculty and provide high-quality emergency care to patients. She is interested in issues of justice, equity, inclusion, and belonging, medical education using simulation, procedural skills training, experiences of women in medicine, wilderness medicine, and ethics. She also enjoys maximizing her time spent outside in natural environments, traveling, and with her family.

Alexandra Nordberg, MD

University of Massachusetts

Dr. Alexandra Nordberg is currently the Assistant Program Director for the University of Massachusetts Chan Emergency Medicine Residency Program in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of New York Medical College and completed her EM residency and ultrasound fellowship at UMass prior to joining as faculty. She is dedicated to improving resident education and addresses areas of curriculum design as education needs evolve over time. Dr. Nordberg has been active in the SAEM community and enjoys collaborating with colleagues from around the country in education research pursuits and topics. She is currently enrolled in the SAEM ARMED Med ED program. 

Albert Kim, MD

Assistant Residency Director

Washington University in St. Louis

Dr. Albert Kim is an Assistant Residency Director and the Residency Recruitment Director at the Washington University in Saint Louis (WUSTL) Emergency Medicine Residency. Following his Chief Residency at WUSTL, he pursued a 2-year joint Ultrasound and Medical Education Fellowship and obtained his Master’s Degree in Academic Medicine from the University of Southern California. He started the WUSTL EM Education Scholarship Fellowship and serves as the Fellowship Director. As a medical educator, he is interested in bedside teaching, Resident-as-Teachers programs, Diversity Equity & Inclusion, and career development. Outside of the hospital, you will find him outdoors traveling with his wife (who is an Ultrasound Fellowship trained EM Physician), climbing, running, or lost in the wilderness.

Ryan Pedigo, MD

UCLA Harbor

Ryan A. Pedigo, MD, MHPE completed emergency medicine residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, receiving the Clinical Excellence Award from EMRA, was one of the program's chief residents, and was the team leader for the winning SimWars team at ACEP in 2014. He currently is full-time faculty and an associate residency program director at Harbor and also chairs or co-chairs multiple courses at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He completed a two-year faculty development medical education fellowship at UCLA and the intensive one-month Stanford Faculty Development Center for Medical Teachers instructor course. He received a career development grant from SAEM and received a Master of Health Professions Education degree in 2021 from the University of Michigan.

He has been nationally recognized for excellence in education with the Outstanding Peer Reviewer Award for Academic Emergency Medicine E&T (2018, 2019, 2020), Faculty Teaching Excellence award from EMRA (2018), the National Emergency Medicine Junior Faculty Teaching Award from ACEP (2018), the Faculty Teaching Award from CORD (2018), Young Educator of the Year Award from SAEM/CDEM (2017). He has helped write multiple medical review books and edited or authored over 300 textbook chapters.

Robert Tennill, MD

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Dr. Robert Tennill serves as Assistant Professor and Clerkship Director at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.  He is originally from central Illinois and earned his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis, MO where he majored in Psychology, and his medical degree from Southern Illinois University.  He completed residency training at The University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. After gaining 2 years of experience in community practice, Dr. Tennill joined the academic Emergency Medicine group and residency program at Southern Illinois University, and, since joining the faculty there, has been awarded multiple excellence awards for teaching and mentoring residents and medical students. His academic interests include medical education and Emergency Medicine simulation.

Julie Tondt, MD

Eastern Virginia Medical School

Originally from Northeastern Pennsylvania, Dr. Julie Tondt graduated in 2018 from the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. She couple-matched to Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) with her husband (Family Medicine) and graduated from Emergency Medicine residency this past June. She is currently the Academic Emergency Medicine Fellow at EVMS, and expects to complete her SAEM approved fellowship in June, 2022.

Courtney Brown, MD

Arthur Pope, MD, PhD

Dr. Arthur Pope graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he received his B.S. in Chemistry. He then went on to complete his PhD in Biomedical Sciences with a focus in Physiology studying nitric oxide biology and its role in the development of atherosclerosis.  While in graduate school he was awarded a NIH Pre Doctoral Fellowship for his work. He then completed postdoctoral fellowships at the National Institutes of Health and The Ohio State University.  He had a pivot in his career in 2012 where he began his journey to medical school and completed a post-bac program at Georgetown University.  He went on to complete his medical degree at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine.  He went on to complete his residency training at University of Chicago where he served as Chief Resident. Additionally, during his time in residency he served as the Vice Chair Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Emergency Medicine Residents Association.  He also was a part of the first cohort of Community Champions at the University of Chicago.  A program designed to get residents and fellows more involved in health equity work on the southside of Chicago. Dr. Pope joined the faculty University of Pennsylvania Department of Emergency in 2021.  During his time at UPenn he has created a URiM resident mentorship program. It was created to help support URiM residents and through faculty mentorship, career development, and social unity. 

Robert Kaplan, CFP

Kaplan Financial

Kaplan Financial was established in 1990 by Robert Kaplan, CFP®. Prior to starting Kaplan Financial, Mr. Kaplan earned his CPA licensure at the international accounting firm of Ernst & Young. Mr. Kaplan is a sought-after speaker, with expertise in the tax, financial planning, and disability insurance needs of physicians. He has spoken at medical schools and training hospitals throughout California including UCLA, LAC+USC, Cedars-Sinai, Kaiser Permanente, Huntington Memorial, UC Irvine, Harbor-UCLA, and Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.

Jasmyne Patel, MD

Resident Chair of AWAEM

Emory University

Dr. 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.

Abbey Smiley, MD

Emergency Medicine Resident

The Ohio State University

Abbey Smiley, MD is a current Emergency Medicine Resident at The Ohio State University. Born in Dalton, OH, she spent her early childhood on a dairy farm in Amish Country Ohio before moving to Lexington, KY where she received her Bachelors Degree from the University of Kentucky, and later went on to receive her Medical Degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Her professional interests include physician advocacy, health equity, critical care, resident education, resident wellness, and administration. In her spare time she enjoys CrossFit and weightlifting, hanging out with her dog, Theo, and spending time with family and friends.

Amanda J. Deutsch, MD

Thomas Jefferson University

Dr. Amanda J. Deutsch, MD is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Well-Being for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Deutsch earned her undergraduate degree at Harvard University. She subsequently completed her post-baccalaureate and did quality improvement research at Boston Children’s Hospital before starting her career as a medical student at the University of Iowa, where she is from. She completed an Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed a track in Healthcare Leadership and Quality Improvement. She most recently completed a fellowship in Physician Wellness at Stanford Emergency Medicine. In her inaugural role as Director of Well-Being at the Department of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University she combines her interests in clinical operations, process improvements and well-being.

Dr. Deutsch chairs the #StopTheStigmaEM subcommittee and hopes to normalize conversations around mental health for emergency medicine physicians, address barriers, and foster better mental health care for emergency medicine. Her interests include focusing on gratitude and appreciation to develop a sense of community and a team that can excel for their patients without the cost of their interests, self, and career. Dr. Deutsch loves to tweak process improvements to help foster well-being.