People

Jennifer Patton Muir, EdD, MBA

AAAEM President-Elect

East Carolina University

Jennifer Muir is the administrator for the department of emergency medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in hospitality management, Master of Business Administration, and a Doctor of Education in Higher Education Administration.

Dr. Muir has worked in higher education for more than 14 years in various administrative roles, including director of employment in human resources and executive director of business and administrative affairs in the College of Nursing. She has been in her current position in the department of emergency medicine for the past four years. In her administrative roles she has been heavily involved in strategic planning, program development, financial management, human resources management, and policy development.

Jennifer is the co-president of the North Carolina Chapter of the College and University Professional Association of Human Resources where she has served on the board for the past 10 years and is the vice chair of the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC) of the Carolinas Regional Advisory Board where she has served for the past year. In addition, she previously served as an at-large-member on the executive committee and has been serving for the past two years on the Benchmarking and Strategic Planning Committees within AAAEM.

Being involved and present in professional organizations which have a significant impact on the field that serve is extremely important. It keeps you engaged, informed, and inspired to contribute and to learn from others in your field. For the past two years, being involved in committees has allowed Dr. Muir to stay engaged and participate in moving the organization forward. Serving as the secretary on the AAAEM Executive Committee will allow her to make a broader impact by contributing to executive committee initiatives and continuing to participate in leadership and strategic initiatives within the academy.

Shannon Kay Hughen-Giger, MHA

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Shannon has been an SAEM/AAAEM member for three years and in emergency medicine for more than three years. She has a Master of Health Administration and is currently working on achieving the AAAEM Certificate in Academic Emergency Medicine Administration (CAEMA).  She has been in health care for more than 15 years. She hopes to serve the committee and its membership toward the goals set by the executive committee and strategic planning committee, enhancing listserv usage and engaging members in inventive new ways.

Joseph Adrian Tyndall, MD, MPH

President

Morehouse School of Medicine

 

Laura Wooster, MPH

American College of Emergency Physicians

Laura Wooster serves as ACEP’s Senior Vice President of Advocacy & Practice Affairs, overseeing the College’s federal and state legislative, regulatory, and practice advocacy. Prior to joining ACEP, Laura served as Senior Vice President, Public Policy, for the American Osteopathic Association (AOA). She also spent five years at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, first developing policy on delivery system reform and health IT, and then as a Congressional and Administration lobbyist. Laura holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of Michigan, and a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Illinois School of Public Health.

Brent R. King, MD

Professor

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Dr. Brent King is currently a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine where he also serves as the Vice-Chair for Safety, Quality, and Innovation. From 2013 until 2016 he served as the Chief Medical Officer of the Nemours Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware and also served on as a Vice-President of Nemours Children’s Health System. From 1999 to 2013 he served as the Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, now known as McGovern Medical School.

In addition to his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Dr. King also holds a Master of Medical Management (MMM) degree from Carnegie Mellon University. He has board certifications in Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, and Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

Dr. King is married to Rosemary A. Kozar MD, PhD, a professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Director of Translational Research at the University of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. They have two adult children.

Lauren Cameron-Comasco, MD

Lauren Cameron-Comasco, MD, FACEP, is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine. She is the Director of Geriatric Emergency Medicine and the Geriatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, MI. Dr. Cameron-Comasco received her medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine and completed her residency at Henry Ford Hospital, where she served as Chief Resident. After residency, she joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at Beaumont Royal Oak, where she completed her fellowship in Geriatric Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Cameron-Comasco’s interests lie in geriatric emergency medicine education and the enhancement of older adult care in the Emergency Department. Beaumont’s Emergency Department, one of the top 20 busiest emergency departments by volume in the country, achieved Level 2 Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation from the American College of Emergency Physicians under her leadership. She has studied the operational effects of implementing a Geriatric Emergency Department and her work has been presented nationally. She is the current President-elect of the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine and has served on the Executive Committee since 2018.

Anita Rohra, MD

Dr. Anita Rohra is the Director of Simulation and Assistant Program Director in charge of education for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). She obtained her medical degree from State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate in 2010 and completed her emergency medicine residency at New York Presbyterian Queens in 2013. She completed an Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship at BCM in 2014 and began her career as emergency ultrasound faculty, focusing on emergency ultrasound simulation. Dr. Rohra was lead faculty for diversity in her department from 2016 to 2019 and established a group promoting women in leadership within the department.  Her success in these roles led to promotion to her current position as the Director of Simulation for the Department of Emergency Medicine. Her interests include simulation debriefing, resuscitation communication, diversity in emergency medicine, and bias in clinical decision-making.

James W. Hoekstra, MD

President

High Point Medical Center

 Dr. James Hoekstra is the President of High Point Medical Center, a 350-bed hospital system that joined Wake Forest Baptist Health September 1, 2018. His role reports to the CEO and Dean of Wake Forest Baptist Health and to the President of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

Dr. Hoekstra serves on Wake Forest Baptist’s strategy leadership team and is a key physician leader in the health system. Helping drive growth of clinical programs and service lines including acquisition and integration of network health systems, physician practices and network clinical programs, he is also responsible for growing academic relationships for Wake Forest School of Medicine, including the expansion of teaching sites for MD and Physician Assistant students, especially at the VA Medical Centers and  High Point Medical Center.
Dr. Hoekstra graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1984 and completed his Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Cincinnati. Following fourteen years on faculty of The Ohio State University College of Medicine, he was recruited in 2003 to Wake Forest School of Medicine. As Professor and Chair of Wake’s Department of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Hoekstra built a network of more than a dozen Wake Forest Baptist-managed emergency departments across North Carolina. Instrumental in the integration of Cornerstone Healthcare with Wake Forest Baptist Health, he was named Vice President for Business Development in 2015 and Senior Vice President and Associate Dean, Clinical and Academic Network Development in 2017. His work reflects a deep commitment to creating strong community, academic and provider relationships that advance Wake Forest Baptist’s mission to improve health.  

Ivan Joseph, PhD

Keynote Speaker

Emily Walton

GEM Fellowships, Resident Representative

Sean Kivlehan

Gem Fellowships Past Chair

Eric Cioe Pena

Gem Fellowships Past Chair

Maninder Singh, MD

Jacobi Medical Center

Maninder Singh is an Associate Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is currently Director of Healthcare Simulation at Jacobi Medical Center and North Central Bronx. He completed a simulation fellowship at the Institute for Medical Simulation and Learning at the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation. He is a graduate of the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education and SUNY Downstate. He completed his Emergency Medicine residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine//Jacobi + Montefiore Medical Center, where he joined as faculty after completing his chief resident year. He is also the Simulation and Education Fellowship Director at Jacobi Medical Center. His professional interests include resident education, resuscitation, simulation, and trauma. He is a part of the AllNYCEM SIMWars Committee and helps organize a yearly simulation competition amongst various emergency medicine residencies in NY.

Tiffany Moadel, MD

President

Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Scott Goldberg, MD, MPH

Director of EMS, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Medical Director of Emergency Preparedness, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Medical Director of Mobile Integrated Health, Mass General Brigham
    Population Health Management
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Emily Spilseth Binstadt, MD, MPH

Regions/Health Partners

Dr Binstadt is passionate about exploring the best ways to teach residents and faculty and provide high-quality emergency care to patients. She is interested in issues of justice, equity, inclusion, and belonging, medical education using simulation, procedural skills training, experiences of women in medicine, wilderness medicine, and ethics. She also enjoys maximizing her time spent outside in natural environments, traveling, and with her family.

Alexandra Nordberg, MD

University of Massachusetts

Dr. Alexandra Nordberg is currently the Assistant Program Director for the University of Massachusetts Chan Emergency Medicine Residency Program in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of New York Medical College and completed her EM residency and ultrasound fellowship at UMass prior to joining as faculty. She is dedicated to improving resident education and addresses areas of curriculum design as education needs evolve over time. Dr. Nordberg has been active in the SAEM community and enjoys collaborating with colleagues from around the country in education research pursuits and topics. She is currently enrolled in the SAEM ARMED Med ED program. 

Albert Kim, MD

Assistant Residency Director

Washington University in St. Louis

Dr. Albert Kim is an Assistant Residency Director and the Residency Recruitment Director at the Washington University in Saint Louis (WUSTL) Emergency Medicine Residency. Following his Chief Residency at WUSTL, he pursued a 2-year joint Ultrasound and Medical Education Fellowship and obtained his Master’s Degree in Academic Medicine from the University of Southern California. He started the WUSTL EM Education Scholarship Fellowship and serves as the Fellowship Director. As a medical educator, he is interested in bedside teaching, Resident-as-Teachers programs, Diversity Equity & Inclusion, and career development. Outside of the hospital, you will find him outdoors traveling with his wife (who is an Ultrasound Fellowship trained EM Physician), climbing, running, or lost in the wilderness.

Ryan Pedigo, MD

UCLA Harbor

Ryan A. Pedigo, MD, MHPE completed emergency medicine residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, receiving the Clinical Excellence Award from EMRA, was one of the program's chief residents, and was the team leader for the winning SimWars team at ACEP in 2014. He currently is full-time faculty and an associate residency program director at Harbor and also chairs or co-chairs multiple courses at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He completed a two-year faculty development medical education fellowship at UCLA and the intensive one-month Stanford Faculty Development Center for Medical Teachers instructor course. He received a career development grant from SAEM and received a Master of Health Professions Education degree in 2021 from the University of Michigan.

He has been nationally recognized for excellence in education with the Outstanding Peer Reviewer Award for Academic Emergency Medicine E&T (2018, 2019, 2020), 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), Young Educator of the Year Award from SAEM/CDEM (2017). He has helped write multiple medical review books and edited or authored over 300 textbook chapters.