People

Christina L. Shenvi, MD, PhD, MBA, FACEP

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

Dr. Shenvi is an associate professor of Emergency Physician, keynote speaker, and academic leader. She currently directs the 18-month pre-clinical case-based learning medical student curriculum at UNC and as director of the year-long FLAGship faculty development program. She also has served in many roles, including as ACEP/CORD Teaching Fellowship director, residency associate program director, and director of the UNC Office of Academic Excellence. She also teaches and coaches on time management and career success, and writes at timeforyourlife.org.She is a passionate educator and always looking for new ways to make learning and teaching more engaging and effective.

Payal Modi, MD, MSc

Co-Chair-Social EM and Population Health Interest Group

Christine R. Stehman, MD

Director of Wellness Education

University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria

Christine Stehman, MD is a visiting Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria where she serves as the Director of Wellness Education and Director of Faculty Development. She arrived in Peoria after following a circuitous route including two stops in Chicago separated by service in the US Navy including two combat deployments with the USMC, and fellowship training in Boston. Within the world of Emergency Medicine, outside of her clinical duties, she serves as a guest mentor for the ALiEM Faculty Incubator, a mentor for the CORD Mini-Fellowship in Wellness Leadership, as a member on a number of CORD and SAEM committees, and as a reviewer for a number of journals. In her non-emergency medicine life, she serves as a role model for what she teaches: taking time to travel, spend time with her friends, family and dogs, working out, and reading.

Maegan Reynolds, MD, LSSBB

The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children's Hospital

Dr. Maegan Reynolds is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics. She completed a Emergency Medicine Residency at Denver Health in Denver, CO and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital prior to joining the faculty at The Ohio State University in 2016. Dr. Reynolds continues to split her clinical time between OSU and NCH. Dr. Reynolds was the Director for the NCH Emergency Department Resident rotation for several years, prior to transitioning to the Director of Quality Improvement Education for the OSU Emergency Medicine Residency. Dr. Reynolds serves as the OSU Emergency Department Lead for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety and as the Lead for the Oncology Pod. Dr. Reynolds completed her Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Training through The Ohio State University Fisher School of Business and ongoing research interests include QIPS initiatives in the Emergency Department with a current focus on sepsis care, Oncology care pathways, quality improvement graduate medical education, pediatric emergency medicine education, and emergency department management of febrile infants.

Laura Oh, MD

Emory University

Dr. Oh is an Associate Professor at Emory University. Her academic interests include emergency ultrasound education and research, and faculty development. She is the former ACEP Academic Affairs Committee Chair, Course Director of ACEP Virtual Grand Rounds, and Associate Course Director of SAEM/AACEM's eLEAD faculty development program. She is a member of the SAEM Program Committee and SAEM Education Committee, and has been a faculty mentor for the ACEP Teaching Fellowship and SAEM AEUS Grantwriting Program. She is the PI of a DoD funded clinical trial related to contrast enhanced ultrasound in blunt abdominal trauma.

Daniel L. Theodoro, MD

Jason T. Nomura, MD

Bonnie Kaplan, MD

Michael A. Cole, MD

Sree Natesan, MD, FACEP

Duke University School of Medicine

Dr. Sree Natesan is an Associate Professor and Associate Program Director in the Duke University Department of Emergency Medicine. She is committed to the advancement of education, clinical teaching/feedback, and diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI).

Regarding advancing medical education and fostering inclusive learning environments: She had had a broad clinical and research training including ACEP Teaching Fellowship, Academic Life in Emergency Medicine Faculty Incubator Program, AAMC Medical Education Research Certificate Program, Duke Educational Skills Longitudinal Mentorship Program, and Duke Academy for Health Professions Education and Academic Development (AHEAD) Certificate Program, among others. She has shown herself a leader in medical education, having been awarded the CORD Junior Faculty Award, ACEP Junior Faculty Teacher Award, CORD Academy Scholar Award for Teaching and Evaluation. She is a leader on various committees including Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Director (CORD) Education Committee, co-Chair of the CORD Best Practices Subcommittee, Chair of CORD Academy for Scholarship. Dr. Sree Natesan serves as Chief Academic Officer for Academic Life in EM (ALiEM) Faculty Incubator Program, an international faculty development program. She is co-founder and director of the Duke GME Medical Education Leadership Track (MELT), a longitudinal resident/fellow-as-teachers program across all GME specialties, which has graduated over 170 trainees and fellows since 2018 and the Duke GME Faculty Academy for Clinical Teaching Program that was started in 2023 due to the success of the MELT program.

Regarding advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within MedEd: She serves as co-founder and co-chair of Duke EM Justice Equity Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) as well as on national committees for advancing Medical Education and DEI. She is Chair for the CORD DEI committee and is the President Elect for 2024 for ADIEM. She is actively involved in community outreach, mentorship, and pipeline/pathline programs. She has helped lead institutional and national conferences on holistic review for resident recruitment, implicit bias, and upstander training against microaggression. She has helped to create the CORD DEI track for the CORD Academic Assembly and has served as the track chair since 2021, as well as the founder and chair for the CORD DEI virtual conference to help EM programs grow the diversity of their programs and create inclusive training spaces.

Her primary research interest and expertise is in clinical teaching and feedback by incorporating innovative novel strategies in the Emergency Department (ED) as well as advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Kamna S. Balhara, MD, MA, FACEP

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Kamna Balhara is an associate professor of emergency medicine (EM) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and holds a dual appointment as associate professor in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. After obtaining a master’s degree in French Cultural Studies from Columbia University, she completed medical school and residency at Johns Hopkins, serving as chief resident. She served in residency program leadership at the University of Texas San Antonio and subsequently at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Balhara is an innovator in the health humanities and has experience with implementing humanities curricula for medical students, residents, and faculty from across specialties. She is a founder and co-director of the Health Humanities at Hopkins EM initiative, which offers equity-focused and humanities-based programming to institution, community, and national audiences. She also directs a unique longitudinal interdisciplinary institution-wide health equity and humanities track for residents and fellows across Johns Hopkins, and directs the Health Humanities Fellowship. She has been invited to speak to international audiences on the humanities in medicine and was selected as a Harvard Macy Institute Art Museum-Based Health Professions Education Fellow.

Her scholarly interests revolve around equity and inclusion in clinical and learning environments. She has authored multiple publications on graduate medical education, humanities, social determinants of health, and disparities in health care access, and has developed tools and resources for other educators seeking to apply the humanities towards equity in health care and health professions education. Her work has been funded by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the Josiah Macy Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Emergency Medicine Foundation. She serves on the steering committee for the National Health Humanities Consortium, and is a member of the editorial board of the SAEM journal Academic Emergency Medicine.

 

Christopher R. Carpenter, MD, MSc, FACEP, AGSF

Stefanie S. Sebok-Syer, PhD

Joseph Pare, MD

Director of Ultrasound Research

Brown University & Lifespan Hospital System

Dr. Joseph R. Pare, MD, MHS, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and serves as the director of ultrasound research for his department. Dr. Pare received his medical degree in emergency medicine from the University of Vermont College of Medicine and a Master of Health Science degree from Yale University. Dr. Pare completed residency at Boston University Medical Center followed by a two-year combined research and ultrasound fellowship at Yale University. 

Dr. Pare has been awarded several institutional and foundation grants to conduct research on point-of-care ultrasound and has published numerous original research manuscripts in his field of expertise. He is a previous recipient of the Academy of Emergency Ultrasound (AEUS) Rising Star in Research Award and is the co-chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) EUS Research Subcommittee.

Hannah Janeway, MD, MSPH

University of California, Los Angeles

Dr. Hannah Janeway MD, MSPH is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California Los Angeles and the co-founder and co-director of Refugee Health Alliance. They are the Enhanced Care Management clinical lead for UCLA’s Homeless Healthcare Collaborative, a street medicine project. In addition to serving the unhoused throughout Los Angeles, they also work clinically at White Memorial Medical Center, the West Los Angeles VA and at RHA’s clinics. Their work focuses on reestablishing communities as guardians of their own health, border health and border abolition, and re-envisioning healthcare spaces to serve the people who visit them including freeing them from carceral forces and infra/structural barriers.

Christian Rose, MD

Assistant Professor Department of Emergency Medicine

Stanford University School of Medicine

Dr. Christian Rose is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. As a dual-boarded emergency physician and clinical informaticist, he operates at the intersection of clinical medicine, informatics, and innovation. He began to study the effect of technology on medicine during his undergraduate years, obtaining his degree in Physics as well as Science, Technology, and Society. He continued this pursuit in medical school at Columbia University and residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he engaged in various human-centered informatics projects like gene discovery, decision support, and alert fatigue. He completed his informatics fellowship training at Stanford University, where he began his research in deep learning and AI. Dr. Rose strives to improve both patient and physician experiences in medicine, focusing on how information technologies can enhance clinical practice and patient outcomes without losing sight of the essential human aspects of healthcare. 

Sarah Bezek, MD

Bernard Weigel, MD

Don Melady, MD

Leah Bright, DO