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Annie Sadosty, MD

Bachar Hamade, MD, MSc

Stacey Roseen

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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.

Makini Chisolm-Straker, MD, MPH

Melanie Camejo, MD, MHPE

Assistant Professor, Assistant Residency Program Director, Clerkship Director, Co-Director of Medical Education Fellowship

University Health/Truman Medical Center associated with University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine

Melanie Camejo is currently the assistant residency program director, co-medical education fellowship director and EM clerkship director at the the University Health/Truman Medical Centers associated with the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine (UMKC-SOM). She attended the combined six-year medical school program at UMKC and completed her residency in North Philadelphia at Temple University Hospital. After finishing residency, she was able to return home to Kansas City and works at Truman (now University Health) as a nocturnist. Since joining UH-TMC, she has been under great mentorship and steadily advancing in both student and residency leadership roles. She has completed her Master’s in Health Professions Education through UMKC-SOM. She is also very active in CORD - currently she is the Chair for the Application Process Improvement Committee (APIC) and active in the Advising Students Committee in EM (ASC-EM). Her work interests include physician wellness, diversity, medical student and resident education and social media to promote active learning.

Elizabeth Barrall Werley, MD

Residency Program Director & Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

PennState Health

Elizabeth Werley, MD, is core faculty and the former Program Director for the Emergency Medicine residency program at Penn State Health Hershey Medical Center, and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Penn State College of Medicine. She served as the Application Process Improvement Committee Chair from 2023-2024 and has remained an active leader in the committee since her term.

Ryan Pappal, MD

Alexis Pelletier-Bui, MD

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Associate Residency Program Director, and Emergency Medicine Subspecialty Advisor

Cooper University Hospital/Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

Dr. Alexis Pelletier-Bui is the Associate Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program, and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) where she also serves as the CMSRU EM subspecialty advisor. Dr. Pelletier-Bui is the Application Process Improvement Committee (APIC) liaison to the Council of Residency Directors in EM (CORD) Board of Directors, and is a prior APIC Chair.

Sara M. Krzyzaniak, MD

Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Clinical Associate Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

Sara Krzyzaniak MD is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University where she serves as an Associate Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine as well as the Residency Program Director. She completed medical school at Northwestern University followed by residency training at Denver Health Residency in EM. She has had several leadership roles in medical education for the past decade. Dr. Krzyzaniak is passionate about medical education and enjoys mentoring and working with medical students and residents. Her research interests are in strategies to address the remediation of struggling learners and issues related to gender and race representation in medicine and has authored several peer-reviewed articles on these topics. She is a peer reviewer for several journals and is a guest consulting editor for WestJEM's CORD/CDEM issue. She has lectured nationally on both clinical and education topics.

Tajhshea Walden

Saint Louis University School of Medicine