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  • Shuford, Diwante
    Diwante Shuford

    Medical College of Wisconsin

  • Aaron John Lacy, MD, MHPE

    Washington University in St. Louis

    Dr. Aaron Lacy, MD, MHPE is an Assistant Professor and the Assistant Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis. Originally from Iowa, he completed medical school at the University of Iowa, followed by residency in Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt and a Master's degree in Health Professionals Education form the University of Missouri in Kansas City. His clinical interests include bedside teaching and airway management.

  • Ford, James
    James Ford, MD

    University of California Davis

  • Rigatti, Marc
    Marc Rigatti, MD, PhD

    UMass Chan Medical School

  • Rammy Assaf 2018
    Raymen Assaf, MD, MPH, MA

    Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

  • James Li UC
    James Li, MD

    University of Cincinnati

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    Mohamed Hamam, MD, MSc

    Henry Ford Health System

  • Tim Horeczko
    Timothy Horeczko, MD

    Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

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    Eugenia South, MD, MSPH

    University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

  • Hasegawa, Kohei
    Kohei Hasegawa, MD, MPH

    Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School

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    Italo Brown, MD, MPH

    Stanford University School of Medicine

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    Kathy LeSaint, MD

    University of California, San Francisco

  • Kain Robbins

    PSU

    Kain C. Robbins is the Operations Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (MSHMC) of Penn State Health. Kain received his bachelor’s degree in 1994 in Accounting for Penn State University. He has been in the healthcare industry for 19 years starting out as the Accounting Manager for a Health Management Associates hospital in Lancaster, PA. For the 14 years he has been working at the MSHMC with the first 6 years in the role of a Financial Liaison which support the Children’s Hospital and the Departments of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Neurosurgery, Neurology & PM&R and now the last 8 years with the Department of Emergency Medicine. In his role as Operations Director he not only manages the operations of Emergency Medicine but also directs the organization’s pre-hospital services, Life Lion, which operate air medical, ground critical care and EMS programs. Kain resides in Lancaster, PA and has been married to his wife, Kimberly, for 23 years. They are in the process of raising the next round of Nittany Lions with his daughter, Katelyn, currently a sophomore at University Park. His Son, Kyle, attends State College. In his free time, Kain is a passionate Dallas Cowboys fan. He also enjoys camping, traveling, and is always up for a good meal.

  • David Christiansen, MBA

    AAAEM Immediate Past President

    University of Florida, College of Medicine-Jacksonville, Department of Emergency Medicine

    David Christiansen is the Director of Healthcare Administration for the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville.   He has been a member of AAAEM since its inception in 2010.  He serves as a member of the Benchmark Survey Committee and is also the past Chair of the Communications Committee. 

    David Christiansen’s healthcare career spans over 25 years and has included responsibilities as Administrator in Psychiatry, Anesthesiology, Radiology, Urgent Care, hospitalist and primary care programs. For the past 19 years, he has focused on academic Emergency Medicine, first in Arizona and continuing now in Florida. David’s combination of experience both within and outside of Emergency Medicine makes him appreciate our specialty and its specific needs. 

  • Becky McGowan, MBA
    Becky McGowan, MBA

    AAAEM President

    Becky received her bachelor degree in biology and her MBA from the University of Colorado, Denver.  She has worked in higher education for more than 25 years in various administrative roles including Administrator for several basic science departments and a Division Administrator in the Department of Medicine.  She has served as the Vice Chair of Finance and Administration for the Department of Emergency Medicine for the past 10 years.  
     
    Becky has been a member of AAAEM since 2012.  Over the years, she has served on various AAAEM  committees including the benchmark, strategic, education, and nominating committees.  She also serves as a presenter for the CAEMA program. 
     
    Becky has served as AAAEM Treasurer for the past two years and has helped to streamline the budgeting process.  She has built relationships with SAEM staff and developed source documents to better define the categorization of expenses.

  • Vinay N. Kampalath, MD, DTM&H

    Senior Fellow in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Global Health

    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)

    Dr. Vinay Kampalath (moderator) is a senior fellow in PEM and Global Health at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and a research fellow at the Geneva Centre for Humanitarian Studies. He completed a pediatrics residency at CHOP, a medical degree at Brown University, and a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has clinically worked with displaced populations in Bangladesh, Greece, and Jordan.

  • David Beversluis
    David Beversluis, MD, MPH

    Emergency Medicine Physician

    Doctors Without Borders, Amsterdam

    Dr. David Beversluis is an emergency medicine physician, public health researcher, and a humanitarian worker. He is a health advisor at MSF in Amsterdam and has worked and lived overseas in a dozen countries over the past 15 years. He was recently faculty at University of Southern California, and is a graduate of the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency. He has a medical and master of public health from Case Western Reserve University.

  • Mahati Reddy
    Mahati Reddy, MD

    Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician

    New York University

    Dr. Mahati Reddy is a pediatric emergency medicine physician, and incoming faculty at New York University. She was a pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) fellow at Emory University and a pediatrics resident at Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed her medical degree at August University. She recently returned from working as a medical activity manager with MSF in Tonkolili, Sierra Leone.

  • Jennifer Luong, MD

    The Ohio State University

    Dr. Luong attended the University of Washington and obtained a degree in medical anthropology and global health. She attended medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, graduating in 2019. She is currenly a PGY-3 resident at Ohio State and next year will be pursuing an ultrasound fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.      

  • Anthony Spadaro, MD, MPH

    The Ohio State University

    Dr. Spadaro attended Carnegie Mellon University and obtained a bachelor’s degree  in biology. He attended medical school at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and took a gap year between MS-3 and M-S4 to obtain a master’s degree  in public health, with a focus on epidemiology and health policy, from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently pursuing a residency in emergency medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and is actively engaged in research in the fields of addiction medicine, medical toxicology, and health policy.

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