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Tony Fabiano, MD

Jefferson Health

Dr. Tony Fabiano is a current Telehealth Fellow at Thomas Jefferson University / Jefferson Health. He is a distinguished graduate of the University of Cincinnati Emergency Medicine Residency Program. He earned his MD from The Ohio State University College of Medicine, where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honors society.

With a strong belief in the transformative potential of telehealth, Dr. Fabiano brings a unique perspective shaped by his background in emergency medicine and passion for patient care. His expertise lies in leveraging the flexibility, adaptability, and cross-specialty knowledge inherent to emergency physicians to lead advancements in the telehealth industry.

Dr. Fabiano has presented on telehealth leadership and education at multiple national conferences and has published research on telehealth clinical appropriateness and quality. He is currently working on two additional publications, and an additional national presentation. His passion lies in enhancing operational efficiencies and driving innovations in patient care through the strategic implementation of telehealth solutions across specialty lines.

Outside of work, Dr. Fabiano enjoys exercising, cooking, international travel, and getting outside with his wife and 13-year-old beagle mix.

Robert W. Turer, MD

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Robert Turer, MD, MSE, MSACI is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

After completing his undergraduate degree in computer engineering and a Masters degree in biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan, Dr. Turer attended the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He completed residency in emergency medicine at the University of Michigan, where he served as a chief resident. He pursued fellowship training and a Masters degree in clinical informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center before joining the faculty at UT Southwestern in 2021.

At UT Southwestern, Dr. Turer serves as a core faculty member within the Clinical Informatics Center, Program Director for the Clinical Informatics Fellowship, and Deputy Chief Medical Informatics Officer (DCMIO) for Analytics. As a researcher, he studies patient-facing technologies, including patient portals. Dr. Turer, along with Dr. Robin Higashi, was awarded a Texas Health Resources Clinical Scholars grant to study language-related disparities in patient portal enrollment and use among Spanish-speaking patients in Dallas.

Marla C. Doehring, MD

Associate Professor, Clinical Emergency Medicine

Indiana University School of Medicine

Marla Doehring, MD, is an associate professor of clinical emergency medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. She received her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in emergency medicine at Indiana University and works as a faculty physician and clinical educator in the emergency department at Eskenazi Hospital which is a Level 1 Trauma Center and the safety net hospital serving Indianapolis, Indiana. She has been honored with the statewide Indiana University Part-Time Faculty Teaching Award. Her interests include emergency medicine education, physician wellness and workplace violence.

Yvette Calderon, MD

Dr. Calderon is currently a tenured Emergency Medicine (EM) professor at the Icahn School of Medicine and Chair of the Department of EM at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. She will transition to her new role as the SKMC Department Chair of Emergency Medicine
and the Jefferson Health System Leader for Emergency Medicine in April. She is renowned for her lifelong commitment to providing care to the underserved, finding solutions to address disparate medical care in vulnerable communities, and promoting diversity in medicine to reflect the diversity of patients served. It must be stressed that her research has been nationally and internationally transformational in incorporating public health initiatives in EM. She designed and implemented screening programs to identify patients with undiagnosed and/or untreated HIV/HCV and successfully linked these patients to care. She was appointed to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022. Dr. Calderon received her medical degree and Master of Science in Clinical Research Methods from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and her undergraduate degree at Brown University. Dr. Calderon completed her medical internship at Beth Israel Medical Center and her residency at Jacobi Medical Center.

Marc Berenson, MD

Stanford Medicine

Dr. Berenson is a Clinical Instructor, interim APD, and Senior Med Ed Fellow at Stanford University Department of Emergency Medicine. Hwas born in the heart of New York City and grew up in the NYC metropolitan area with the notable exception of a three-year stint living in the UK. He has also lived in Washington DC and Roanoke VA. Prior to medical school, Dr. Berenson worked as a Mobile Intensive Care Paramedic for well over a decade, spending a significant portion of his time creating and providing EMS-related education. After completing his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, he went on to attend Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, graduating with a Distinction in Medical Education. He remained at Rutgers NJMS for residency training, serving as Chief Resident in his final year. His interests include AI in education, assessment, and program evaluation.

Pamela L. Dyne, MD

Olive View-UCLA Medical Center/UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Dr. Pamela Dyne is Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, a former president of CORD, Program Director and DIO, a certified life and health coach, as well as a certified chief wellness officer and director of coaching for the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. With over 25 years of experience in GME, faculty development, and organized medicine leadership, her current position as Chief Physician Wellness Officer of Olive View-UCLA Medical Center allows her to integrate her leadership experience and knowledge of organizational and individual wellbeing with the human aspect of middle management that is required to create institutional change.

Suzana Tsao, DO

University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Suzana Tsao, DO, is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Vice-Chair of Education for the Department of Emergency Medicine, and the Co-Director of the Perelman School of Medicine Virtual Health System (PSOM VHS) program at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. She earned her undergraduate degree in Biology from The Evergreen State College and obtained her medical degree from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Tsao completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, where she served as chief resident.Dr. Tsao began her academic career in 2009 at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, initially serving as the Clerkship Director for the Emergency Medicine core clerkship. In 2020, she became the inaugural Vice-Chair of Education for Emergency Medicine.

Her scholarly work focuses on integrating extended reality (XR) into medical education to develop immersive and interactive learning experiences and the use of artificial intelligence-generated assessment modalities. Dr. Tsao’s research emphasizes XR’s role in enhancing self-directed learning and serving as an innovative tool for assessment and coaching. This work earned her and her team a grant from the Benjamin and Mary Siddons Measey Foundation to advance the development of XR in medical education. As Co-Director of the Perelman School of Medicine Virtual Health System (PSOM VHS), Dr. Tsao explores how XR technology can transform medical training, particularly through virtual reality (VR) applications.

Asit Misra, MD

University of Miami Gordon Center

Dr. Misra is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine/Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Assistant Director of the Prehospital & Emergency Training Division of the Gordon Center for Simulation and Innovation in Medical Education.
He has a Master’s in Medical Education from LECOM, Erie, PA. He has completed an ACS -AEI accredited surgical simulation fellowship at the Riverside Methodist Hospital - Columbus-Ohio (2019) and a Teaching Fellowship from the American College of Emergency Physicians, Dallas-TX (2018).
Dr. Misra serves as an editorial board member, associate editor, section editor, and peer reviewer for numerous academic journals. He is also an advisory board member of the Core Curriculum & Education Committee for the International Federation of Emergency Medicine and a consultant/member of the international committee of the American College of Surgeons Accredited Education Institutes program.
His areas of interest are healthcare simulation, disaster medicine, resuscitation, faculty development, and medical education research. His research focuses on demonstrating the outcomes and the impact of experiential learning, assessment, and program evaluation in simulation-based medical education.

Neelou Tabatabai, DO

UC Davis

Dr. Neelou Tabatabai is currently the Medical Education and Simulation Fellow at the University of California, Davis. She completed her medical school at Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences and residency at UNC Health Southeastern. Dr. Tabatabai is also the current Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training Fellow Editor-In-Training. Her interests include curriculum design, simulation, and mentorship.

Iltifat Husain, MD

Wake Forest University

Iltifat is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine Atrium Health. He completed his residency at Wake Forest Baptist Health, his undergraduate studies at North Carolina State University, and his Medical Degree from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He is the Medical Director of Virtual Health at Atrium Health. He is the co-founder of EM Board Bombs, a nationally recognized board review podcast for Emergency Medicine.

Katherine Leaming-Van Zandt, MD, MBS

Penn State Health/Milton S Hershey Medical Center

Dr. Kay Leaming-Van Zandt is Division Chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Penn State Health/Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at Penn State College of Medicine. After graduating from The Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, she received her Masters of Biological Science at MCP Hahnemann University (now known as Drexel University College of Medicine). She graduated with her Medical Degree from New York Medical College, and then completed her residency training in Pediatrics, followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, TX.

In recognizing the importance of and the necessity for interpersonal and interprofessional delivery systems in healthcare, she has presented numerous local and national lectures and workshops on patient experience, service quality/culture, and relationship-centered communication. She has, also, published several peer-reviewed articles on patient communication assessment tool development/validation, physician communication skills, and pediatric-focused communication training. In collaboration with the Academy of Communication in Healthcare, she has developed a pediatric-specific, relationship-centered communication curriculum and trained over 2,000 healthcare professionals and medical trainees. She continues to facilitate relationship-centered communication skills workshops, including giving and receiving feedback and navigating difficult conversations/conflict, nationally as a faculty member of the Academy of Communication in Healthcare.

Jason J. Bischof, MD

Ohio State University Medical Center

Dr. Jason Bischof, MD is an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. He serves as the assistant director of clinical trials with an academic interest on acute oncology research.

Jonathan Rowland, MD

UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Dr. Jonathan Rowland is an oncologic emergency medicine assistant professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. He completed medical school at UT SOM San Antonio, residency at WSU/DMC Sinai Grace Hospital, an emergency ultrasound fellowship at UC Irvine, and has been exclusively working at MD Anderson's Acute Cancer Care Center since 2021, one of the nation's only dedicated oncologic ERs. He, unfortunately, every shift, still sees at least a dozen new words he's never seen before, usually new cancer therapeutics, and has concluded that that will actually never end, and accepts his fate as an okay ER doctor who must now find ways to avoid cancer-care-related mistakes in an institution that does not take kindly to them. In addition to setting up a point-of-care ultrasound program presence at MD Anderson, his other professional interest is learning more about cancer treatment so he gets fewer angry emails from other oncologists. He particularly enjoys simplifying MD Anderson's library of convoluted algorithms so that they can actually be remembered by mere mortal ER docs. In his spare time, he enjoys woodworking, fixing things around the house, climbing, and trying to be a good dad to his 6-year-old girl and 4-year-old boy.

Tsuyoshi Mitarai, MD, FACEP, FAAEM

Stanford University

Dr. Tsuyoshi Mitarai was born and grew up in Japan until he was 17. He graduated from University of Rochester School of Medicine in 2002 and completed his combined internal medicine/emergency medicine residency at University of Maryland in 2007. He finished his critical care fellowship at Stanford University in 2009, and stayed on as a faculty to attend in emergency department as well as medical ICU. He created an Emergency Critical Care Program (ECCP) in 2017 to improve the quality of care for critically ill patients in emergency department (https://www.acep.org/how-we-serve/sections/critical-care-medicine/news/july-2018/stanford-emergency-critical-care-program-eccp/). He was the first author of the manuscript that demonstrated 6 % decrease in inhospital mortality associated with the ECCP (Crit Care Med. 2023 PMID: 37010317). He earned multiple teaching awards including Outstanding Educator Award (2019, Stanford University, CA), The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching, (2015, 2019, Stanford University, CA), and National Emergency Medicine Excellence in Bedside Teaching Award (2024, ACEP). The ECCP received 2024 Society of Critical Care Medicine Patient Safety First! Award (2025, SCCM)

Catherine Weaver, MD

University of California

Dr. Catherine Weaver, MD, is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is the Medical Director of the UCLA Health Homeless Healthcare Collaborative (HHC). She is a founding leader of this innovative program that launched in January 2022 to bring the high-quality healthcare available at UCLA Health to our unhoused neighbors, meeting them where they are in the community on the streets, in encampments, and in shelters. The team has expanded from two mobile units to six full-time teams bringing primary care, urgent care, behavioral health and addiction services, and social support to patients throughout Los Angeles County. In addition to overseeing HHC clinical operations and quality and supporting the growth and innovation of this program, she collaborates closely with other street medicine teams and academic, government, and community partners to promote equitable access to healthcare and social support services throughout Los Angeles County and beyond. She is a member of the inaugural Advisory Committee for the California Street Medicine Collaborative, an organization consisting of street medicine providers, managed care groups, and other stakeholders throughout the state of California brought together to influence policy, advocate for financial support, and collaborate on program design.

Dr. Weaver also continues to practice Emergency Medicine. In her professional career, she has always been driven by one of the central principles of the Emergency Department (ED) as an entry point to healthcare: providing care to all regardless of their backgrounds. Prior to her role with HHC, she served as Assistant Medical Director of the UCLA Ronald Reagan ED. She has obtained multiple grants to establish and maintain a Substance Use Navigator program in both UCLA EDs and is currently collaborating on efforts to expand this into an ED-based Community Health Worker program. She continues to participate in numerous activities in the ED, hospital, and UCLA Health system to develop pathways to compassionate, equitable care for all. In addition to homeless healthcare, she has an interest in addiction medicine. She is a fierce advocate for fighting stigma not only in healthcare, but in society in general.

Dr. Weaver earned a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Classics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and received her medical training at Creighton University. She completed residency in Emergency Medicine at UCLA-Ronald Reagan/Olive View, followed by a fellowship in Emergency Medicine Administration with UCLA/VEP Healthcare. She is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Chase Palisch

Hanin Ali, BS

I am a graduate from University of Minnesota- Twin Cities. I am currently a third-year medical student at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine. My hobbies include reading, hammocking, hanging out with friend's pets, and any water activity. I've recently got into crafts with air dry clay.

Erin F. Shufflebarger, MD, MSPH

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Dr. Shufflebarger is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She completed EM residency, a combined fellowship in Social Emergency Medicine & Population Health (SEMPH) and Global Emergency Medicine, and a Masters of Science in Public Health with concentration in health outcomes research at UAB. Dr. Shufflebarger is the fellowship director for the SEMPH fellowship and the co-director of the Equal Access Birmingham Street Medicine Clinic. Dr. Shufflebarger is also the Assistant Clerkship Director for the EM clerkship and Core Educational Faculty for the EM residency. Her academic interests include medical education and local/global health disparities.

Rachel Elkin, MD

Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Rachel Elkin is a pediatric emergency physician and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (in Emergency Medicine) at Columbia (New York Presbyterian-Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital), where she also serves as simulation division faculty within the Department of Emergency Medicine. After medical school – where she also obtained a master’s degree in clinical research – she went on to complete her pediatric residency and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Columbia, followed by a simulation fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her academic interests center around measures of cognitive load and workload, as well as how novel technologies and instructional designs, particularly within simulation, impact educational, psychometric, and clinical outcomes.

Amelia Breyre, MD

City & County of San Francisco

Amelia M. Breyre is an Emergency Medicine and EMS physician. She completed medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, residency at Highland Hospital, and fellows in EMS/Disaster Medicine at UCSF-ZSFGH. She recently started working as the EMS Medical Director for the City & County of San Francisco. She has a research and operational interest in improving end of life care in the out of hospital setting and has published extensively on the topic.