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Daniel J. Egan, MD

Mass General Brigham

Daniel Egan is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is currently the program director of the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Mass General Brigham and Vice Chair of Education for MGB Emergency Medicine.

Lexie L. Mannix, MD

Anna K. Weiss, MD, MSEd

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia/Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Anna Weiss is an attending physician in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her MD from PSOM and completed her residency in Pediatrics at CHOP, serving an additional year as Chief Resident. Dr. Weiss completed fellowship training in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at CHOP, earning her MSEd in Medical Education at Penn’s Graduate School of Education (GSE). She is the Director of Research in Education in the Division of Emergency Medicine at CHOP, and her research interests include procedural training and competency, assessment and feedback, and fostering psychological safety in the clinical learning environment.

Ryan Pedigo, MD, MHPE

Los Angeles County-Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Ryan Pedigo, MD, MHPE graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Riverside, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He then went on to receive his MD from the University of California, Los Angeles, receiving the award for Excellence in Emergency Medicine from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. After graduation, he began his postgraduate residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, specializing in Emergency Medicine, where he received a national award from the Emergency Medicine Resident's Association for clinical excellence in his field and was one of the program's chief residents. He was leader of the team that won the national resuscitation competition SimWars at ACEP in 2014. For the first five years as faculty, he was the Clerkship Director but has now transitioned to an Associate Program Director role as of 2020. He also serves as the course chair for a UCLA longitudinal 4th year medical student teaching fellowship and course faculty for the UCLA Faculty Development Medical Education Fellowship. He participated in the month-long Stanford Faculty Development Center for Medical Teachers Clinical Teacher Facilitator Training Program, completed a 2-year Medical Education Fellowship at UCLA, and completed the UCLA Simulation Instructor Training course. He is co-chair of a working group aimed at improving educational faculty development at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Pedigo is an avid educator and has authored or co-authored 9 books, 40 book chapters and articles, as well as being the editor of over 300 chapters.

He has been the recipient of multiple awards including the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Best Diagnostician Award (2019), Rising Star of the Year Finalist Award (2019), Outstanding Peer Reviewer for Academic Emergency Medicine: Education and Training Award (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), Faculty Teaching Excellence award from EMRA (2018), the National Emergency Medicine Junior Faculty Teaching Award from ACEP (2018), the Faculty Teaching Award from CORD (2018), the Faculty Teaching Award from his own department (2017), Young Educator of the Year Award from SAEM/CDEM (2017), and the Distinguished Faculty Clinical Teaching Award from the Department of Internal Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (2016). He is also the recipient of the $100,000 Education Research Grant from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and completed a Master of Health Professions Education degree.

Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH is the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the current president of the SAEM Global Emergency Medicine Academy. He is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and of Global Health and Population at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. He is also the director of the Lavine Family Humanitarian Studies Initiative at Harvard at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He completed the International Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the Brigham. He has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, was a New York City paramedic for ten years, and works to strengthen emergency care quality and access around the world through local and regional partnerships.

Michael A. Gisondi, MD

Professor and Vice Chair of Education, Department of Emergency Medicine

Stanford University

Dr. Michael A. Gisondi is professor and the inaugural Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Assistant Dean for Academic Advising at Stanford School of Medicine. He is the Principal and co-founder of The Precision Education and Assessment Research Lab (The PEARL). Dr. Gisondi is the recipient of numerous teaching awards including the Hal Jayne Excellence in Education Award from SAEM.

Nee-Kofi Mould-Millman, MD, MSCS

Stefan Wheat

MD

Alexandra K. Monroe, MD

Petra Duran-Gehring, MD

President

University of Florida-Jacksonville

Dr. Duran-Gehring is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida in Jacksonville, where she started the Emergency Ultrasound program in 2008 as the sole ultrasound faculty member after working in community practice where she saw firsthand how POCUS can improve patient care. Dr. Duran-Gehring has since expanded the program to house an accredited Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography (AEMUS) fellowship and to win management awards from the Clinical Ultrasound Accreditation Program. She has lectured nationally and has a passion for medical education, as evidenced by numerous teaching awards and course directorships. She was awarded the AEUS Scholarship to attend the SAEM ARMED MedEd program, which resulted in grant funding and national presentations on virtual ultrasound education. She has previously served the Academy of Emergency Ultrasound (AEUS) as Secretary and as a SonoGames Round 2 Station Design Lead, is a member of the Society of Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships (SCUF) Board of Directors, and has been a speaking coach for the SCUF national conference. She is on the leadership team for the ACEP/SAEM joint national journal club, Probing the Literature and the ACEP AEMUS Review Course. When not teaching ultrasound, she loves spending time outdoors and at the soccer field with her husband and three boys.

Stephanie C. Garbern, MD, MHPE

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.