People

Leah Bralow, MD

St. Barnabas Health/CUNY

Leah Bralow MD is an Assistant Program Director at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, NY. She is a graduate of the NYP Cornell/Columbia EM residency and has served in roles in both UME and GME. In addition to her APD responsibilities. Dr. Bralow is active nationally in both CORD as a member of the APD Community of Practice and SAEM. Her academic interests include curriculum development, use of team-based learning in GME, evaluation systems and disaster preparedness.

Daniel J. Schumacher, MD, PhD, MEd

Dr Schumacher is a tenured Professor and Research Scientist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Kalpana Narayan Shankar, MD, MSc, MS

Treasurer

Brigham and Women's Hospital

I have been had a particular interest in the care of older adults since my time in residency. I have been conducting geriatrics research since I was a resident at Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospital through a variety of quality of care projects and continued during my time as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania with a focus on caregivers. Most recently, I have been focusing on older adult falls and social determinants of health as it pertains to the older adult with a number of grant funded initiatives through the Health Policy Commission and through consulting work for the MA Department of Public Health during my time at Boston Medical Center. I am currently working at Brigham and Women’s as the Director for Geriatric Emergency Care and Fellowship Director for the Health Policy and Translation Fellowship.

I have been an SAEM member since 2006 and an AGEM member since 2010. I served as an at-large board member for AGEM and have helped to coordinate and facilitate SAEM’s didactic submissions for the 2019 conference. I have also helped to maintain the AGEM website and content from 2019-2020. I enjoyed my time as an at-large member and have tried to be as available as possible for any initiatives that the board seeks to push forward and currently serve as secretary from 2022-2023. I seek to run for Treasurer to further my voice in this capacity and hone in on ways we can be creative with our budget. I hope that serving in this role will allow AGEM to innovatively reach out to current and potential new members and get them excited about AGEM research and initiatives. I believe that SAEM and AGEM strive to push forward evidence based practices and as someone who strongly believes in data driven initiatives, I know that I can stand behind the work and agenda that AGEM tries to lead. Conversely, I also hope to reach out to our members to voice their opinions on what our societies can do for them to help them implement best practices. My career has been focused on keeping older adults safe and healthy in the community and I hope to continue that by continuing to serve that on the AGEM board.