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Dr. Greg Adams is a chief resident at the Case Western Reserve University, MetroHealth and Cleveland Clinic program. He grew up in the Cleveland area and went to The Ohio State University for undergrad (Go Bucks). After that, he attended Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine for medical school. His main interests within emergency medicine include administration and he is planning on pursing a fellowship in the same area after residency.

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.

Director of Emergency Ultrasound, Director of EM Clerkship, Associate Professor of EM

Columbia University Medical Center

Dr. Das obtained her medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine (2007), completed her Emergency Medicine residency, where she was Chief Resident (2010), and a fellowship in Emergency Ultrasound at New York-Presbyterian Queens (2011). She was then Associate Director of Emergency Ultrasound and the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Director at Northwell Health - Staten Island University Hospital from 2011-2018. She has been faculty with the Columbia University Department of Emergency Medicine since 2019, where she is currently an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at CUIMC (2020) and holds leadership roles as the Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Division and Director of the MCY Emergency Medicine Clerkship. She has held the positions of President, Secretary, and VP of Membership & Engagement for AWAEM. 

Yale University

I am currently a PGY4 resident at RIH/Brown Emergency Medicine and will be pursuing a simulation fellowship at Yale for the 2022-2023 year. My active involvement in simulation has led me to understand the important role simulation plays in emergency medicine training, improving our ability to provide care and respond appropriately in a crisis scenario. I have been a member of SAEM during my residency time and believe that I would be a valuable addition to the academy executive committee. As a resident, I have designed and implemented simulations for team leader roles in resuscitation, currently serve as a clinical instruction for Brown Medical School’s doctoring course, have collaborated on education projects with EM-RAP, and have been actively engaged in research. My particular goals are to increase resident and medical student involvement with Simulation through collaboration with the education and social media and membership committees. I also hope to improve access to mentorship and simulation research opportunities for learners at all training levels.

Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine

I am presently a simulation and medical education fellow at Weill Cornell Medical Center, where I also practice as an EM attending physician. I am a graduate of Harvard (BA in Philosophy), NYU (MA in Literature), and I spent close to a decade prior to medicine working as a tenured high school English teacher. I received my medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College in 2017, and I completed my residency training at NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia/Cornell, where I served as the educational chief resident. Since then, I have completed the ACEP Residency Teaching Fellowship, am presently enrolled in the 2022-2023 SAEM ARMED MedED Program, and was the SAEM Simulation Academy’s Scholarship recipient for the same. I have been a member of SAEM since 2014.

I am applying for the fellowship position on the Simulation Academy Executive Committee. As my prior career experience would suggest, I am an educator first and foremost, and I was drawn to Simulation because of its power as a pedagogical modality. Through my fellowship, however, I have further realized the critical importance of Simulation to all facets of healthcare. In joining the Committee, my hope is that I can advocate for (in particular) simulation trainees new to the field, at the same time as I learn from experienced Simulation leaders how to advance the discipline in the years ahead.

University of Mississippi Medical Center

I’m currently completing a fellowship in simulation at UMMC and have a particular interest in growing the footprint of medical simulation within the traditional classroom space. Dedicated simulation centers are tremendous drivers of the quality, immersive education that simulation offers. Along that vein, I’d like to find better ways to grow the use of simulation outside of the dedicated simulation space. I believe that the traditional classroom and lecture hall is a ripe space for simulation training under models such as flipped classroom learning. Virtual simulation is a useful tool for delivering simulation training into spaces beyond our dedicated simulation centers and remains an untapped resource as a PowerPoint alternative to the traditional lecture. I’d like to become involved in the leadership ranks of the SAEM Simulation Academy to promote the utilization of simulation in this and many other spheres within emergency medicine training. Participation as a Vice President of education offers a wonderful opportunity to achieve this goal.

Saint Louis University

I am emergency medicine faculty at Saint Louis University and the director for simulation for the EM residency, as well as the assistant dean of simulation for the School of Medicine. These roles have allowed me broad experience in designing and implementing high-yield simulation curriculum for clinicians at various stages of training, from the first day of medical school to seasoned staff.

I was elected member-at-large for the SAEM Simulation Academy for 2020 to 2022. During this term, I've served as Lead for the Education Subcommittee. I’m running for Vice President of Education to continue building a robust community of faculty who are passionate about simulation education and interested in pursuing collaborative projects with each other.

IT Chair

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Assistant Professor/Associate Director

Brown Univeristy

Dr. Adam R. Aluisio is an assistant professor in emergency medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is also serves as the associate director for the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship also at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Aluisio received his Medical Doctorate from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his Masters of Science in Public Health in Developing Countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine before completing specialty training in emergency medicine at the State University of New York Downstate in New York City. Dr. Aluisio also has completed focused sub-specialty training in Global Emergency Medicine and Clinical Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Dr. Aluisio has developed and carried emergency care research in multiple settings and locations in the United States and internationally. He has collaboratively received research funding from numerous foundations and federal bodies, including the National Institutes of Health, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wellcome Trust and The Gates Foundation. Dr. Aluisio’s has served on multiple domestic and international committees, NGOs board positions and has previously served on the GEMA Executive Committee.

Mayo Clinic

I am an emergency medicine resident PGY1 at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. I graduated with an MD from Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel. Prior to studying medicine, I graduated with a BA in Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science, and Film and Media Studies with a certificate in interdisciplinary human rights from the University of California, Berkeley. I have worked in and around the human rights sector in both the Middle East and the United States for the past decade while completing my education, working with such organizations as Physicians for Human Rights-Israel in the Palestinian West Bank and with African asylum seekers in Israel, the Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, the Center for International Migration and Integration (CIMI) where I served as a medical liason to connect Sudanese and Eritrean refugees throughout Southern Israel to healthcare, the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Turkey, Save a Child's Heart, and the Olive Tree Initiative. I served on the Physicians for Human Rights National Student Advisory Board last year where I lead the advocacy team and helped coordinate PHR chapters globally and our yearly national conference after founding the Israeli medical student chapter of Physicians for Human Rights which has over 80 students actively participating weekly from Tel Aviv University, Ben Gurion University, and the Technion. I also completed a research year with the Yale Emergency Medicine Global Health Section mentored by Christine Ngaruiya, MD, MSc, DTM&H to focus on the non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in humanitarian crises, refugee barriers to care, barriers to care for low English proficiency patients, and humanitarian intervention development for both children and adults, with a particular focus on East Africa. I was selected to participate in the EMRA/ACEP International Ambassador Mentorship Program - Global Emergency Medicine Student Leadership Program (GEMS LP) last year and upon completion joined the leadership team for this year's cohort. I recently moderated the Middle East Section of the ACEP Ambassador Conference regional breakout meeting. Currently, I am working on a project focusing on Pediatric Emergency Medicine education development in the Palestinian West Bank, as well as work with the World Bank on NCD care in the Republic of the Congo with Christine Ngaruiya, MD, MSc, DTM&H. I am also leading a group of Israeli medical students in participating in the Physicians for Human Rights-Israel / Zochrot Nakba and Health Research Group, preparing a report in differences in emergency care access for different populations in our region.

I would like to be the resident representative for GEMA, building off my recent experiences with ACEP, because I would like to be a bridge for residents and medical students to engage in global health through the wide array of mentorship that GEMA SAEM members have to offer. Working over the past years with mentors with significant experience in academic global health and engaging in global health research has shown me how significant mentorship and guidance can be in helping medical student and residents achieve their own goals in global health. I am currently mentoring a medical student in Uganda who founded the first emergency medicine interest group in his country, and helping him develop his first systematic review and research protocol for a cross sectional study has proven to me that while I may be only starting my own journey (and still have much to learn), I can still offer mentorship and guidance to others and be a bridge to connect residents and medical students interested in global health to those who have more experience. I would also like to foster a community for residents and medical students interested in academic global emergency medicine to share ideas, foster community, and use each other a resources to move forward with their own projects and ideas.

Virginia Commonwealth University

I obtained my undergraduate degree in Women's Studies from Old Dominion University. I later pursued a post baccalaureate from George Mason University in Biology. In 2021 I graduated from The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD with my MD I am now an emergency medicine resident at Virginia Commonwealth University.

During my medical school training I was selected as the American Medical Association (AMA) Medical Student Section Chair for the Women in Medicine National Committee. I held the position for 1.5 years and during my time I formed the committee, wrote our committee goals and views, and helped produce programming for the national conferences. Our committee also reviewed and wrote several resolutions that went on to be voted on the bigger AMA floor. I was also a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and the committee leader for the Military Medical Specialty Night. I organized a nationwide event in which military medical students across the country were able to attend online. This event showcases the different residencies that the three main branches of the military offer. This was the first time the event was held via an online platform and the first time military members from across the nation were able to attend. Finally, while I do not have much SAEM experience, I hope to become more involved now that I have started my residency in emergency medicine.

I am running for the position of resident representative for GEMA for two reasons. The first is to pursue my interest of global emergency medicine and humanitarian response. The second is to help develop or enhance an avenue between military humanitarian/global missions and GEMA. I am currently an emergency medicine Intern but when I graduate I will become a flight physician for the Air Force. Our missions take us all over the world and we have a first hand view on the importance of emergency medicine. During my residency I hope to become better acquainted with global emergency medicine so that I may put to practice what I learn. I would also like to highlight global EM via SAEM Pulse by showcasing the experiences of physicians who currently serve.

Member-at-Large

University of Florida - Jacksonville

Dr. Shama Patel is an emergency medicine physician who has worked globally for over 10 years. She began her career in public health at the CDC with the Global AIDS Program as part of the PEPFAR program where she worked as a technical advisor in HIV prevention with high risk populations in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. She went on to receive her M.D. from the Medical College of Georgia in 2014 and completed an Emergency Medicine residency program at Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey in 2017. During her time at Morristown she completed an international elective in Nepal where she trained health workers on emergency care and point-of-care-ultrasound in remote villages devastated by the 2015 earthquake. Dr. Patel finished a 2-year Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship in 2019. During her fellowship she completed the ICRC Health Emergencies in Large Populations course as well as the University of Minnesota tropical medicine diploma course. Dr. Patel responded as a member of the Greater Hospital Association of NY to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico serving as a lead physician responding to both emergency care and inpatient needs. In Rwanda, she provided residency leadership to the masters in emergency medicine training program including developing didactics, exams and providing simulations. Currently, Dr. Patel works as technical advisor to the Emergency and Critical Care Directorate of the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia. In this position she has led the WHO Basic Emergency Care initial training the trainer courses and provides ongoing monitoring and evaluation for the rollout of BEC throughout the country. She services as co-PI for an implementation study to assess the effectiveness of the WHO emergency care toolkit. Now she works as Assistant Professor at University of Florida-Jacksonville. Dr. Patel has worked for the last several years with GEMA founding the GEMA engagement committee and working closely with the decolonizing GH group as well as the programming council. I hope this year to take more of an active role and recruit a diverse GEMA body through being your member at large.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

I am currently an assistant professor of emergency medicine in the dept. of emergency medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. I pursued a Global Health Fellowship at Brown University where she was also a candidate in the Master of Public Health degree program. I received my Medical Doctorate from University of Texas Southwestern Medical School before completing specialty training in emergency medicine from Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, Texas. While at BCM, I also received a diploma in tropical medicine from the National School of Tropical Medicine.

Being elected to the GEMA Executive Committee and serving as the Treasurer Development & Grants Committee Chair were incredible opportunities to hone my leadership skills and be mentored by the foremost leaders in global emergency medicine. I have been able to build on my foundational leadership experience from the years prior and gain a deeper understanding of the needs of our membership. I am currently running for the secretary position as I want to have a voice in shaping the field of global emergency medicine and in turn, serve as a mentor to rising emergency medicine residents and medical students with a passion for global engagement. If elected, I want to spearhead collaboration with other SAEM committees and the SAEM Executive board to create new avenues of financial funding to support academic research grants for residents and medical students. I would also like to deepen our relationships with other SAEM committees and especially work on prioritizing the voices of historically marginalized groups in global emergency medicine.

Regions Hospital/Healthpartners IME

I am interested in getting more involved with SAEM/CDEM. I am a proud graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1994) and the University of Iowa College of Medicine (1998). I completed my residency at Regions Hospital/Healthpartners Institute (2001). My current position, which I have held since 2013, is as APD/CD at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. Together with HCMC, Regions is one of the 2 University of Minnesota Medical School affiliated programs that comprise the department of emergency medicine at the university. I currently hold the title of assistant professor of emergency medicine and am working towards a clinical instructor appointment.

At Regions, I have been an APD/CD for 8 years. During that time my experience has focused on recruitment and the residency match. I personally write all of the SLOEs each year (usually around 50), review all of our the ERAS applications (usually around 700) and formulate the rank list for the program (with input from many). As clerkship director I have worked collaboratively with the University of Minnesota to make EM a required rotation, helped develop innovative educational conferences and provided advising to hundreds of EM applicants.

My work with CDEM has involved writing a chapter for the CDEM M4 curriculum (child abuse) and participating in the NCAT development workgroup (led by Matt Tews). Regions Hospital was involved in the NCAT validation study and one of the first institutions to adopt the NCAT, which is now used by the University of Minnesota for all students rotating in EM at any of our sites. In 2019, I co-hosted a CORD connects titled, "Session 19: The interview season (screening applications, SLOEs, interviews, creating a rank list." I presented at the CORD Academic Assembly in 2013-15. I also spent 5 years (2005-9) as the medical director at Hudson Hospital, a HealthPartners owned, critical access hospital.

Indiana University

I have served IUSM as the statewide clerkship director since 2016. Annually my clerkship team is responsible for educating approximately 365 senior medical students spread across 9 campuses and 24 clinical sites. Additionally we are responsible for a robust visiting student program (24-32) students, an under-represented minority scholarship (4-6 recipients), the physician assistant rotation in emergency medicine (42 students), a career exploration elective for 3rd year medical students, a leadership and scholars track for 1st year medical students interested in EM as a career, and the mentor-ship of the EM student interest group.

I completed a medical education fellowship in 2017 along with a master's degree in medical education from the University of Pennsylvania. I have served on the CDEM Grants and Awards Committee from 2018-2020 and recently joined the CDEM Curriculum and Assessment Committee.

I hold the CDEM community in high regard. I have made numerous connections through the national committees and it is wonderful to work among such a talented group of educators across the country. In the executive leadership capacity I would hope to serve the community at large, provide clear and concise communication, bring innovation to the board, and assist the president with their goals and visions so they can have a productive tenure.

Georgetown University School of Medicine

Thank you for considering me for a secretary position on CDEM’s executive committee! I graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and completed my EM residency training at the University of Maryland. I have served as Georgetown’s EM clerkship director since 2016. I have been a member of CDEM’s Visiting Students Task Force, and chaired that group in 2019-2020.

If elected to the CDEM Executive Committee, I will advocate continuing the exceptional progress CDEM has made to build us all up to succeed as clerkship directors. I credit CDEM for building the relationships and resources that I leverage to position and inspire our students to thrive. I firmly believe in cultivating equity and inclusion in our various clerkships, celebrating the diversity of our students, patients, and our faculty. As a member of the Executive Committee, I will champion the sharing of best practices related to equity initiatives within CDEM. This includes developing a toolkit to reduce bias in the assessment and evaluation of our students. I will also work with CDEM leadership to improve how our specialty handles away rotation applications, making for a fairer and more transparent process for both our students and clerkship directors. COVID has also highlighted pressing challenges surrounding medical student advising. Too many students struggled this year applying to our speciality. I will give voice for greater consensus in an approach to mentoring students that allows all our learners to succeed.

Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital

Giovanni Rodriguez, MD was most recently the chief resident in the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Mass General Brigham in Boston, MA. She is now a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School and faculty in Emergency Medicine at Mass General Hospital. She is also a current Commonwealth Fund Fellow in Minority Health Policy, Dr. Rodriguez has pursued innovative initiatives to address systemic health care disparities particularly for patients with limited English proficiency. Within the field of Emergency Medicine, she aspires to expand access to patients by strengthening programs that enhance the discharge processes, facilitate effective communication, and improve medical training health equity education. Dr. Rodriguez serves as chair of Residents and Fellows Committee for Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Massachusetts General Hospital. She received the 2023 DEI Resident Education/Innovation Award from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. She was a prior RAMS Board Member-at-Large and RAMS Board liaison to the ED Administration and Clinical Operations Committee, and currently serves as the AWAEM Didactic Committee Co-Chair.

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

I am a second year emergency medicine resident at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. I did my medical training at the University of Kansas School of Medicine where I was heavily involved in the student run free clinics. I spent a year in a surgical pre-lim position before moving on to my current emergency medicine training program at Dartmouth. During my medical school and residency training, I developed a particular interest and passion in medical education and have become involved in the education of medical students who rotate through our department. With the assistance of our EM clerkship director, Dr. Kathy Clem, I developed a medical education track and a teaching elective within the residency. While many of the medical students I have had the pleasure of working with over the past year are female and females now make up more than half of medical students nationwide, there is still a dearth of female leadership, and as a result we're leaving a lot of talent on the table. Personally, I remember all the women role models in my life and career and how they have helped shape me and get to where I am in my young career and I aim to do the same for other young female physicians.

Stanford University School of Medicine

I am excited for the opportunity to continue to serve as Treasurer of AWAEM’s Executive Committee, a position I currently hold and enjoy immensely. Using my finance skills from my prior life as an investment banker, I have worked to make our financials robust and developed a user-friendly budget model that I hope to pass down to my successors. I also have longstanding record of service to the AWAEM community and SAEM-at-large. I have served on multiple AWAEM & SAEM committees, starting while a trainee at Harbor-UCLA and continuing as a faculty member at Stanford University. During my tenure as chair of the AWAEM Awards Committee we saw the number of nominations more than triple and expanded the number of scholarships and awards available to women in academic emergency medicine. I have also chaired the AWAEM microsite committee and am currently chair of the pediatric emergency medicine sub-committee on the SAEM Membership committee. My experience shows that I can be an effective leader and team member who generates results. It has been an honor to be part AWAEM and I hope to continue our mission to elevate women in academic in emergency medicine as Treasurer on the AWAEM Executive Committee. Thank you for your consideration.

Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. Ynhi Thomas serves as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, the Assistant Medical Director for the Ben Taub Emergency Center, and the Assistant Director for Health Equity and Community Engagement for the Henry J.N. Taub Department of Emergency Medicine. Her multidisciplinary work is at the intersection of behavioral health, sex and gender medicine, and health equity. Her clinical training extended beyond the traditional scope, including fellowship training in Emergency Department (ED) leadership, operations, quality improvement, and health system development.

She has pioneered initiatives aimed at enhancing patient care and safety, specifically targeting our hospital’s behavioral health population. Among these are the development of a Behavioral Health Sorting Tool, influenced by trauma activation codes, that categorizes patient acuity based on presenting signs and symptoms. Recognizing the need for specialized care for patients with acute agitation, she also instituted a multidisciplinary Crisis Intervention Team, consisting of Emergency Medicine providers, psychiatry specialists, nursing staff, and security personnel. Further, she has formulated guidelines for a structured, team-based approach to the use of physical restraints, delineating clear roles and responsibilities to minimize risks to patients and staff. These endeavors have fortified her capabilities in team management and operational planning within the high-stakes, fast-paced environment of the ED.

As a physician-scientist, Dr. Thomas' contributions have been multifaceted, encompassing sex and gender medicine, healthcare inequities, interprofessional communication, team dynamics, and educational material development. Most recently, her focus has been directed towards behavioral health-centric studies, including investigations into sex and racial disparities in the use of physical restraints, as well as gender-specific variations in mental health screenings and post-injury trauma outcomes.

Dr. Thomas completed her Emergency Medicine residency and fellowship training in Leadership, Quality, and Administration at Baylor College of Medicine. She obtained MD at the University of Alabama School of Medicine and her MPH at the University of Alabama School of Public Health. She also has a Master of Science in Medical Anthropology from Oxford University. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two sons.