People

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

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.

James Ford, MD

University of California Davis

Marc Rigatti, MD, PhD

UMass Chan Medical School

Raymen Assaf, MD, MPH, MA

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

James Li, MD

University of Cincinnati

Mohamed Hamam, MD, MSc

Henry Ford Health System

Timothy Horeczko, MD

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Eugenia South, MD, MSPH

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Kohei Hasegawa, MD, MPH

Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Italo Brown, MD, MPH

Stanford University School of Medicine

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.