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Amy Zeidan, MD

Emory University School of Medicine

Dr. Amy Zeidan is an Assistant Professor at Emory University School of Medicine and works clinically at Grady Memorial Hospital. She received her medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, completed an Emergency Medicine residency at The Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania and an Emergency Ultrasound fellowship at the University of Kentucky. She is co-director of the Georgia Human Rights Clinic, Co-Founder of the Society of Asylum Medicine, and has conducted forensic medical evaluations for >60 asylum seekers including those who are detained. Her research efforts focus on barriers to acute care for refugees, immigrants, and asylum populations and she works closely with many local community organizations to advocate for improved access to medical care for immigrant populations and release of medically vulnerable individuals from detention facilities. She is also an active member of SAEM’s Academy for Women in Academic Medicine, serving on the executive board for over four years, and is interested in gender inequities in academic medicine.

Henderson D. McGinnis, MD

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Dr. Henderson D McGinnis is a Professor at Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Department of Emergency Medicine. He is the Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Director as well as the Medical Director for the hospital’s air and ground critical care transport service. He has extensive experience in the delivery of pre-hospital and wilderness medicine as well as educating medical providers at all levels of training.

Doug Franzen, MD, M.Ed

University of Washington

Dr. Franzen is the Director of Student Programs and an associate residency director at the University of Washington. He is a past-president of CDEM and has been an active member since it was founded. He is the chair of the NBME EM-ACE committee that writes and maintains the EM-ACE.

David Story, MD

Assistant Professor

Wake Forest University - Baptist Medical Center

Jody A. Vogel, MD, MSc, MSW

Secretary-Treasurer

Stanford University

Jody A. Vogel, MD, MSc, MSW, is an Associate Professor and the inaugural Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Vogel received a Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan and a Doctor of Medicine (MD) from Wayne State University School of Medicine. She completed emergency medicine residency training as well as a clinical research fellowship at Denver Health Medical Center, and obtained a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Colorado School of Public Health. 

Dr. Vogel has been a very active member of SAEM, with ten years of dedicated service on the SAEM Program Committee including serving as Program Committee Chair for the 2019 and 2020 Annual Meetings. She has also served as a member of the Graduate Medical Education Committee, Nominating Committee, Research Committee, inaugural chair of the Resident and Student Advisory Committee.  Dr. Vogel is a current Member-at-Large and past Resident Member of the SAEM Board of Directors. Dr. Vogel currently serves on the ACEP-SAEM Federal Research Funding Work Group and served as Co-Chair for the SAEM23 Consensus Conference on Precision Emergency Medicine. She has served on task forces to improve the consensus conference, Academic Emergency Medicine, and the Leadership Forum and has been a regular participant in the Annual SAEM Strategic Planning Sessions. Dr. Vogel has led initiatives aimed at increasing federally funded emergency care research including co-leading nominations of emergency medicine physicians to the National Institutes of Health Study Sections and developing and leading novel Program Officer Sessions at the SAEM Annual Meeting. 

Dr. Vogel has devoted herself to research to improve emergency care and has a dedicated interest in underserved, at-risk populations. She is an active health services researcher with numerous publications and grant support from the National Institutes of Health and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Vogel has received many academic awards for her leadership and contributions to emergency care research.

Sally Santen, MD, PhD

Sally Santen, MD, PhD, is professor of emergency medicine and medical education at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and vice-chair of education research in the department of medical education. She is the senior associate dean, assessment, evaluation, and scholarship and professor of emergency medicine at Virginia Commonwealth School of Medicine. Previously she was an assistant dean at the University of Michigan Medical School and Emory School of Medicine. 

Dr. Santen earned her MD from the George Washington University School of Medicine and completed a residency in emergency medicine at the George Washington/Georgetown hospitals. As a junior faculty at Vanderbilt University, she earned a PhD in education. 

Dr Santen is the recipient of several awards for her work in education, including the SAEM Hal Jayne Excellence in Education Award which recognizes outstanding contributions to emergency medicine through the teaching of others and the improvement of pedagogy.She is also a Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) Program fellow

Dr. Santen has published more than 200 papers, including over 30 papers in Academic Emergency Medicine, as well as perspectives inJAMA and New England Journal of Medicine. While at the University of Michigan, she was the co-principal investigator for the American Medical Association Accelerating Change in Medical Education grant. Dr. Santen was responsible for the evaluation of several NIH grants including, CTSA, T32, R25, and PREP. She is currently the evaluator for a Virginia Department of Health grant and a Health Resources and Services Administration well-being grant. She is an evaluation and scholarship consultant for the American Medical Association Accelerating Change in Medical Education consortium.

Joan Noelker, MD, MACM

Washington University in St. Louis

Dr. Joan Noelker is an Associate Professor and Associate Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine (EM) at Washington University (Wash U) in St Louis. She has an MD from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and in 2017 she earned a Masters of Academic Medicine through the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Dr. Noelker completed her residency training, including a chief resident year, as well as a medical education fellowship at Wash U. She served as Assistant Program Director for the EM Residency at Wash U for four years before transitioning primarily to undergraduate medical education. Dr. Noelker was part of the design team for the development of the Wash U Gateway Curriculum and currently serves as a Clinical Immersions Team co-lead and on the Competency Attainment Committee for the medical school. She has won numerous local and national awards for teaching and presenting, including the Rising Star Award for the New Speakers Forum at the ACEP Scientific Assembly, The Wash U Academy of Educators Rising Star Award, and the ACEP National Emergency Medicine Junior Faculty Teaching Award.

Kimberly Schertzer, MD

Standford University

I am the director of EM simulation and simulation fellowship director at Stanford, and I am excited to be considered for the role of Sim Academy Secretary. I have been a Sim Academy board member before, and I appreciated the opportunity to collaborate with others to bring value to Academy members through educational offerings and other initiatives. I remained active in the Academy when my elected term ended. Over this past year, as an SAEM Fellowship Approval Committee member, I worked closely with Simulation Academy members to move Simulation Fellowships toward SAEM approval.

If elected to the executive committee, I hope to help further develop the feeling of the Academy as a community of practice. I love the active discussion we’ve had about meeting simulation challenges during the pandemic, and I look forward to expanding this great membership engagement. I know many of you, but as a strong introvert, I am not great at the networking required for widespread name recognition. Please know that I am a hardworking and dependable team member. I could be counted on to help achieve the Sim Academy priorities as secretary. I look forward to communicating with you all in the future!

Ambrose H. Wong, MD, MSEd, MHS

SAEM Nominating Committee member

Yale School of Medicine

My name is Ambrose Wong, MD, MSEd, MHS, and I am an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and an academic physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine. My research focuses on teamwork, patient safety, behavioral health, and healthcare disparities. As the Research Director at Yale Center for Medical Simulation, I use healthcare simulation technology to improve teamwork and patient safety. I am the recipient of a career development (K23) award from the National Institute of Mental Health to use informatics for preventing symptoms of psychomotor agitation in patients with behavioral crises. I also received an R21 exploratory research award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to address disproportionate use of physical restraints on historically marginalized populations in the emergency department.

I attended Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. I obtained my Emergency Medicine residency training at NYU & Bellevue Hospitals Center in New York City, serving as chief resident physician in my final year. I subsequently completed a medical simulation fellowship at NYU School of Medicine & New York Simulation Center for the Health Sciences. I received a Master of Science in Health Professions Education at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions and a Master of Health Sciences from Yale School of Medicine.

I have been active with SAEM since senior year of residency. I was on the executive board for the SAEM’s Simulation Academy for the past five years and currently serve as its President for 2022-23. My focus has been to support national simulation-based research collaborations, which has led to multiple academy-based publications on topics ranging from virtual mentoring to assessment of models for procedural competency training. I was the recipient of the inaugural Simulation Academy Change Agent Award in 2021, which recognizes transformational leadership in the service of SAEM and the Simulation Academy. I also serve on the SAEM Research Committee, focusing on increasing the pipeline for career development awards in academic emergency medicine and creating high-quality research didactics during the Annual Meeting.

I am honored to be considered for a position on the SAEM Nominating Committee. As an elected member of the Nominating Committee, I hope to help ensure that a wide spectrum of expertise and interests across the society are represented in candidates running for leadership positions. This is especially important when advocating for working groups with smaller numbers of members or are otherwise underrepresented within SAEM. In addition, I will objectively represent the broad interests of general membership when assisting in selecting nominees for the Board and elected positions of standing committees.