People

Hanni Stoklosa, MD

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Susan B. Promes, MD, MBA

Chair, Emergency Medicine

Penn State University

My interest is serving as Member-at-Large for AACEM. I have served as Chair of Emergency Medicine at Penn State Hershey for the past 9 years. I served as the Chair of Penn State Health's Clinically Integrated Network. I served as Director of Curricular Affairs for USCF's GME office and Interim Assoc Dean and DIO at UCSF. I am on the Board of Trustees for Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute and SAEM Foundation.

I was the recipient of SAEM Hal Jayne Excellence in Education Award. I have received multiple teaching awards from the various institutions I have worked at over the years. I received the ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award. The Gold Humanism in Medicine Award. I received the CORD Distinguished Educator Award. Beta Sigma Gamma Honor Society Award for my accomplishments during my MBA program.

I believe that AACEM can best serve its members and the profession by being strategic vocal advocates for the advancement of our specialty. I believe the organization must be bold and outspoken to share our value and importance in the house of medicine and for our patients. We must be diligent and strategic in our approach sharing our voice and talents to move our specialty forward. It is my belief that personal connections matter and assuring that each of the Chairs in ACCEM feel they have a safe place to share challenges, make connections, and gain advice are important ways that AACEM can continue to serve members. I would like to see personal outreach to members that we rarely hear from on our list serve to engage them more in the wonderful community that is AACEM. I would work diligently to see our specialty again rise to one of the most desirable specialties for medical students entering residency programs across the county. Medical education is my passion and my love for emergency medicine is something I would bring to the board with my commitment to dedicate my time and talents to do everything I can to assure that our specialty thrives. If I am elected to this position, I promise that I will serve the organization to the best of my ability to advance our specialty and support my fellow chairs and those desiring to be chairs.

Manish Shah, MD, MPH

Azita G. Hamedani Distinguished Chair of Emergency Medicine

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Manish Shah, MD, MPH, is Professor and Chair of the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, where he holds the Azita G. Hamedani Distinguished Chair of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Shah is a national leader in prehospital and geriatric emergency medicine research. His efforts, with funding from NIH, AHRQ, CDC, and HRSA, have helped establish the field of geriatric emergency medicine and advanced the role of paramedics to support community health efforts. He is passionate about developing the next generation of emergency care researchers and research leaders. He led the NIH-funded KL2 Career Development Award program until 2022 and is a mentor on numerous NIH and AHRQ career development awards. Dr. Shah is the Immediate Past President of the SAEM Foundation (SAEMF).

Walter A. Schrading, MD

University of Alabama

Dr. Schrading is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the Director of the Office of Wilderness Medicine and directs the Wilderness Medicine Track in the UAB EM residency training program. He has extensive experience teaching WLS:MP and other wilderness medicine educational programs. His publications have focused on wilderness medicine core-content for residency education and the accuracy of devices for use by an austere medical provider. He is the faculty advisor to the Wilderness Medicine Interest Group at the Heersink University of Alabama Medical School and is the course director for student Wilderness Medicine Special Topics courses.

Katja Goldflam, MD

Yale University School of Medicine

I am excited to apply for the position of VP of membership after working as co-chair of the Membership Committee for the last two years. I have really enjoyed my work with AWAEM and feel this is a group with not only a great track record, but also further potential to make a significant difference in the professional and personal lives of women in academic EM. As such, I believe recruiting new members at the faculty, as well as resident level, is critical to further this mission: I initially heard about AWAEM through word of mouth from a colleague and while this is an important way to spread the word, I believe further promotion of our group through avenues including a greater presence on social media will help encourage new members to learn about all the resources and community we have to offer. Thank you for your consideration and I am looking forward to hopefully greater in-person opportunities for membership recruitment in the coming year.

Edouard Coupet, Jr., MD, MS

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

Yale University

Dr. Coupet is Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine and Core Faculty in the Program for Addiction Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. He is a physician-scientist, board-certified physician in both emergency and addiction medicine. His primary research interests include ED patient identification and management of substance misuse and substance use disorders, health equity within addiction treatment access, and epidemiology and prevention of assault injury. He has received funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Emergency Medicine Foundation to study health equity within access to evidence-based addiction medicine treatment. He joined faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale in 2018 as a Drug Use, Addiction, and HIV Research (DAHRS) K-12 Scholar. He is also a NIDA HEAL Initiative Diversity Supplement awardee.

Anika Backster, MD, MSCR