People

Patrick Meloy, MD

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Emory University School of Medicine

 Dr. Patrick Meloy joined the Emory University School of Medicine faculty in 2013. He serves as Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, and is currently practicing at Emory University and Grady Memorial Hospitals. He earned his bachelor’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and his MD from St. George’s University School of Medicine. He successfully graduated from the Sinai-Grace Hospital/Wayne State University Emergency Medicine residency after serving as chief resident. He is currently a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physician and was named “Teacher of the Year” twice of the Emergency Medicine program at Emory. He has authored several book chapters, and has published multiple clinical and research papers. He currently is the Site Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency at Emory University Hospital Midtown, and is coordinator of the Mock Oral Boards for the residency program. His interests include trauma care, infectious disease preparedness, pediatric emergency care and EKG instruction. He currently lives in Atlanta, GA, with his wife and two daughters.

Robert A. Lowe, MD, MPH

Emeritus Professor

Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Health services researcher in Emergency Medicine, focus on access to care for the underserved and social determinants of health.

Kelly Klein, MD

Associate Professor

University of Texas Southwestern

Dr. Klein originally hails from NYC and has lived everywhere from New York to Maine, and Michigan to Texas with brief stints in the UK and the Caribbean. Her career paths have taken her in many directions from sailing on traditional sailboats, teaching environmental and experiential education; to prehospital work in wilderness medicine, search and rescue, flight paramedic and finally after a dare to going to medical school and becoming an emergency medicine physician. She completed her residency at Detroit Receiving Hospital in Michigan, which was followed by a two year CDC funded fellowship in WMD-Disaster Medicine and EMS where she engaged in hands on disaster courses in radiation, chemical, biological, and decontamination. Aside from academia, she is part of a DMAT, which has allowed her to be deployed to multiple real world disaster events. At present, she is an associate professor at the University of Texas Southwestern medical center at Dallas where she is part of the division of Emergency and Disaster Global Health and clinically works at Parkland Hospital. She is an active instructor both nationally and internationally for the National Disaster Life Support Foundation series of courses and has the privilege of being an associate editor for the “purple journal”. She continues to lecture on disaster and EM topics nationally and internationally and is about to embark on an MPH.

Wendy Sun, MD

Instructor, Emergency Medicine

Yale University

Dr. Wendy Sun is an Administration Fellow and Instructor of Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. She is passionate about patient quality and safety, physician wellness, and health innovation. Having served as a past President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Residents and Medical Students (SAEM RAMS) and the Resident Member on the SAEM Board of Directors, she continues to be invested in the advancement of emergency medicine through research, mentorship, education, and advocacy.

Dr. Sun earned her undergraduate degree at Columbia University in Biomedical Engineering. She subsequently obtained her Doctor of Medicine from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine where she was inducted into the Gold Humanism and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Societies. Most recently, she completed Emergency Medicine residency at Yale - New Haven Health where she served as Chief Resident. She continues to further her education as a candidate of the MBA for Executives at the Yale School of Management. A Canadian from Toronto, she now resides in New Haven.

RJ Sontag, MD

EMRA President

Azita Hamedani, MD, MPH, MBA

University of Wisconsin

Opeolu Adeoye, MD, MS

Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine

Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Adeoye is the BJC HealthCare Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency
Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Adeoye is also the Emergency Physician-in-Chief at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Our Level 1 Trauma Center is the largest in Missouri, seeing approximately 80,000 patients per year. WUSM ranks among the top academic medical centers in the world. Dr. Adeoye is an accomplished researcher with over 200 indexed publications in PubMed and he currently serves as Lead PI of an NIH-funded Phase 3 acute stroke clinical trial. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of Stroke Journal, and is an American Heart Association Stroke Section Co-Editor. His research accomplishments have garnered a national and international reputation. Outside of his faculty duties, he founded a medical device company using innovative technology from his very first research grant award and serves as the Chief Medical Officer for Sense Diagnostics, Inc. On a personal note, Dr. Adeoye very much enjoys reading, walking, and traveling with his family.

Lori Stolz, MD

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Dr. Lori Stolz, MD is the Director of Emergency Ultrasound at the University of Cincinnati.

Rob Huang

Dr. Rob Huang is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Department of Emergency Medicine. He founded the Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship at Michigan in 2015 and currently serves as the Fellowship Director and Associate Director of Clinical Ultrasound. He also serves as the Residency Program Director for the University of Michigan/St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency. His research interests are ultrasound education across learner levels.

Dana Sacco, MD

Columbia University

Jane Xiao, MD, MSE

Oregon Health & Science University

Danielle Miller, MD

Stanford University

Paul I. Musey, Jr., MD, MSc

Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine

Indiana University School of Medicine

I am an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and currently the Division Chief for Research and Vice-Chair for Innovation for Emergency Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. I attended medical school at Emory University in 2009 before completing an Emergency Medicine residency at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC in 2012. I had the opportunity to stay on as faculty for the next 1.5 years before moving to Indiana University School of Medicine where I completed an Emergency Medicine Research Fellowship and obtained a Masters in clinical research. My research interest revolves around the evaluation and management of psychological contributors to ED presentations and is currently focused on low-risk chest pain. I am currently PI or site PI for a number of ED clinical studies in this area and have received funding from the Emergency Medicine Foundation, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation, and most recently a $3 million award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) for a randomized comparative effectiveness trial of stepped intensity psychological treatment options for ED patients with low-risk chest pain associated with anxiety. In 2023 I took over as Medical Director for Enterprise Clinical Research Operations for IU Health charged with implementing and supporting high-impact clinical trials for the health system.

Taylor McCormick, MD, MSc

Denver Health

Evan Bradley, MD, PhD

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Ryan A. Coute, DO

Resident Physician

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Dr. Ryan Coute is an Emergency Medicine Resident at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His primary interest is resuscitation science research with a focus on cardiac arrest treatment and outcome disparities, burden of disease estimation, and healthcare policy. His research training includes the prestigious Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Fellowship, completed under the direction of Robert W. Neumar MD PhD at the University of Michigan. Dr. Coute has published more than 20 peer-reviewed manuscripts, including seven as primary author in high impact journals such as Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Resuscitation, Journal of the American Heart Association, and the American Heart Journal. His research has received multiple high-profile awards including two American Heart Association (AHA) Young Investigator Awards, an AHA Best Abstract Award for Resuscitation Science, and the 2020 Resident Academic Achievement Award from the Council of Residency Directors of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Coute is the recipient of two resident research grants funded by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the Emergency Medicine Foundation, and his long-term goal is to become an independent NIH-funded academic clinical scientist.

Leonardo Aliaga, MD

Chief Resident Physician

UC Davis Health

Leonardo Aliaga, MD, is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. He graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and began neurosurgery residency at the University of California Los Angeles. During that time, he discovered emergency medicine and switched specialties after four years of neurosurgery training. He completed his emergency medicine training at the University of California Davis and served as chief resident. Dr. Aliaga completed a medical education research fellowship at Stanford and is pursuing a Master of Health Professions Education degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Aliaga's education research interests include understanding how we learn from failure and how we can use errors to develop adaptive expertise. He has spoken both nationally and internationally on the topics of learning from failure and developing adaptive expertise.

Samita M. Heslin, MD, MBA, MPH, MA

Associate Medical Director

Stony Brook University Department of Emergency Medicine

 Samita Heslin, MD, MBA, MPH, MA, is the Associate Medial Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stony Brook University.

Shashank Somasundaram, BS

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Andrew Joseph Branting, MD

Emergency Medicine/Critical Care Medicine Fellow

UC Davis Health System

Critical Care Fellow Award Recipient