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Timothy Koboldt

Sara M. Hock, MD

Rush University Medical Center

Dr. Hock is an Assistant Professor at Rush University Medical Center and the Director for Emergency Medicine Simulation. She completed residency at the University of Chicago and fellowship at the Rush/Cook County Simulation Fellowship program. She is currently the fellowship director of the Rush Emergency Medicine Simulation Fellowship and is a faculty lead for medical student simulation at Rush Medical College. She has a strong track record in her four years of service within the SAEM Simulation Academy Executive Board, including two years as a Member-at-Large followed by two terms as Treasurer. Dr. Hock has helped manage the simulation academy budget through the pandemic and co-organized multiple virtual and in-person mentor hours. She is an active member of the research, education, and faculty development subcommittees.

Rami Ahmed

Cullen Hegarty, MD

Program Director

HealthPartners Institute/Regions Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency

Cullen B. Hegarty, MD is the program director of the HealthPartners Institute/Regions Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program.  Regions Emergency Medicine Residency is a PGY1-3 program located in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dr. Hegarty is also the co-chair of the CORD SLOE committee and has a strong interest in EM SLOEs and the EM application process.  He is married, with 3 kids (ages 19, 17 and 15), and lives in Rosemount Minnesota.

Nicole Dubosh, MD

Director of Undergraduate Medical Education

Harvard Medical School

Dr. Dubosh is the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education at Harvard Medical School. She graduated from the Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) where she served as Chief Resident. She then completed a fellowship in medical education at BIDMC. She currently serves as the Medical Education Fellowship Director, Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, and Director of Education Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at BIDMC.  Dr. Dubosh has served as a member of the CDEM Executive Committee for three years and is the current CDEM President. Her research interests involve learner assessment and evaluation, teaching communications skills, mentorship, and neurological emergencies.

Hamza Ijaz, MD

Immediate Past President

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

I did my residency at the University of Cincinnati and received my medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. My interest in organized emergency medicine initially started as a Medical Student Ambassador during SAEM18 where I was given the opportunity to gain mentorship from our leaders within emergency medicine. Since then, I have volunteered my time serving on the RAMS Board as a member-at-large and most recently as the current secretary-treasurer. These opportunities have led me to partnering with the SAEM Program Committee, Faculty Development Committee, and Virtual Presence Committee to create resident and medical student focused content.

As we transition into the next phase of the pandemic, with growing concerns surrounding the future of the EM workforce, I will ensure that our members have a voice at the table so that our concerns are heard. It is crucial that the solutions being considered incorporate the views of the residents and students they will ultimately affect. In addition, with virtual interviews currently ongoing and uncertainty surrounding the next application cycle, I will make it a priority for RAMS to provide our members with high-yield resources to navigate the next cycle.

Andrew Golden, MD

University Hospitals/Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Andrew Golden is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. He currently serves as the Director of the Emergency Medicine Acting Internship and Third-Year Clerkship. He also is the Assistant Director of the Medical Education and Academic Leadership Fellowship at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. At the Case Western University School of Medicine, he serves as the Assistant Director of the Transition to Residency Curriculum and the Site Director for Acting Internships and Advanced Clinical Electives at University Hospitals. His scholarly interests focus on workplace-based assessment and competency based medical education.

Jessica Gold

Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry

Washington University in St. Louis

Dr. Gold has been interested in physician mental health and wellness since her masters work in anthropology focused on pre-medical education as a culture. This has only broadened and evolved for her throughout her training and through COVID-19, where healthcare worker mental health became a primary focus. She is also interested in issues of gender disparity, harassment, and trauma in the workplace. Her work also includes media literacy and advocacy. Dr. Gold has written for multiple popular press outlets, including TIME, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Self, and is a contributor to Forbes. Through those experiences, she has become interested in the role of the media (and social media) in mental health and mental health stigma. Dr. Gold believes that portrayals of mental illness in the press, in movies, and on television affect disease models, understanding of illness, and care-seeking.

Simiao Li-Sauerwine, MD

Assistant Residency Program Director, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

The Ohio State University Medical Center

Nicholas Hartman

Associate Professor, Associate Program Director

Wake Forest Department of Emergency Medicine

Nicholas Hartman, MD, MPH is Associate Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Associate Program Director for the EM residency there. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the Northwestern-McGaw Emergency Medicine residency program.  He previously served as director of the didactic curriculum for WF EM.  He is active in EM education research, with focus on learner assessment, wellness and inclusion.

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Thomas Morrissey, MD

Tom Morrissey is a PGY-21 resident at UFHealth-Jacksonville. He fell into EM quite by accident while pursuing an MD/PhD (U. Miami) focusing on the role of Schwann cells in supporting spinal cord regeneration. By chance, one day early in his 4th year, he got lost and took a shortcut through the ED. Never looked back. Residency in Jax led to faculty position, Clerkship director, APD, yadayada. It gets in your blood y’know…what’cha gonna do?  

His big interests include helping students prepare for the transition to residency, find the best-fit training program, and helping new interns get their clinical sea legs. 

Notable achievements include holding 67 admitted patients at the same time one day, not following the eSLOE rules very well, drinking more coffee than most of the rest of the department combined, and having the gumption to try to teach a Weimaraner to surf a stand up paddleboard. He hopes to someday get rich sponsoring a line of Hawaiian print scrubs…but he’s not holding his breath.

Fiona Gallahue

Dr. Fiona Gallahue is the president of the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD-EM).  She is the program director of the emergency medicine residency at the University of Washington (UW) and associate professor at the UW in the Department of Emergency Medicine.  Dr. Gallahue established the emergency medicine residency program at the UW in 2011. She was awarded the Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in 2020.

Dr. Gallahue is a graduate of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She completed her residency and chief residency in emergency medicine at New York University/Bellevue Medical Center in 2001.

Dr. Gallahue’s research interests include and opportunities to improve graduate medical education, gender bias in resident evaluations, and engagement of residents in the clinical learning environment. Her work has been published in Academic Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training, Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, Journal of Emergency Medicine, American Journal of Cardiology, and American Journal of Medical Quality.  She has one book, “Emergency Care of the Abused” published by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Gallahue has been featured on-air as an emergency physician for Martha Stewart’s “Blueprint” and “Living Today” call-in radio shows.

When not working, Dr. Gallahue’s favorite pursuits are gardening, baking sourdough bread, and spending time with her husband and two daughters, a teenager and near-teen.

Andrew Starnes

Dr Starnes graduated from the University of Oklahoma, receiving an MD and MPH. His area of focus in public health was health administration and policy, and he has been active in research regarding resource utilization and outcomes in the emergency department and prehospital setting. He was a member of the inaugural RAMS Board of Directors as a Member-at-Large, and was Secretary-Treasurer before serving as RAMS President for 2020-2021. He is currently a PGY-2 a Wake Forest School of Medicine, and when not working he enjoys gardening, cooking, and camping as much as possible with his wife and three children.

David Wright, MD

Dr. Wright, is a tenured Professor and the Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. He is a board certified emergency medicine physician practicing at Emory affiliated hospitals and Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta’s premier Level 1 Trauma Center. He is actively involved in both the preclinical and clinical assessments of traumatic brain injury, stroke and other acute neurological conditions. He was the PI of the ProTECT III multicenter clinical trial of progesterone for acute traumatic brain injury and serves as the southeastern Hub PI of the Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials network, Co-PI of the Georgia StrokeNet network, and Hub PI for the newly funded Strategies To Innovate Emergency Care Clinical Trials Network (SIREN). He has extensive clinical trial leadership and operational experience. He holds Adjunct appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Rollins School of Public Health, and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing.

Chadwick Miller

Professor and Chair Department of Emergency Medicine

Wake Forest School of Medicine

Dr. Chadwick (Chad) Miller is the Chair of Emergency Medicine, and Executive Director of Emergency Services at Wake Forest Baptist Health. In this role, he oversees the academic, clinical, and administrative missions of the department, which includes the care delivered to over 700,000 annual emergency visits across 16 emergency departments in the piedmont triad. Dr. Miller’s research focuses on the mission to advance care for patients with cardiovascular emergencies by simultaneously improving clinical outcomes while reducing resource utilization. At Wake Forest, he directs the Critical Illness, Injury, and Recovery Research Center (CIIRRC), the Southeastern Clinical Center for the NIH funded PETAL Network, and currently serves as the lead investigator on a clinical trial supported by the NIH evaluating new methods to evaluate patients with chest pain presenting to the Emergency Department. Dr. Miller graduated from Youngstown State University and Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine through a combined BS/MD program. He completed residency training in emergency medicine at The Ohio State University and served as a chief resident, which he completed in 2003. Since 2003, Dr. Miller has worked for the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine. He received his Master of Science degree with a major in Clinical and Population Translational Sciences at Wake Forest University in 2009, and has served in several leadership roles in the Department prior to being named Chair, including Assistant Residency Director, Director of Clinical Research, Executive Vice Chair, and Interim Chair.

Lisa Moreno-Walton, MD, MS, MSCR

Louisiana State University- New Orleans

Dr. Lisa Moreno is Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director of Research, Diversity, and the Latino Scholars Program at Louisiana State University- New Orleans. She is President-elect of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and an NIH Research Scholar. Her multiple awards include the SAEM Martin Leadership Award, Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Professionalism Award, CORD Distinguished Educator Award, ADIEM Outstanding Academician Award, AAMC Healthcare Executive Diversity & Inclusion Certificate, and the Order of the IFEM. The recipient of many research grants, Prof. Moreno has over 500 academic presentations, 45 publications, 6 book chapters, and 2 textbooks. Her research interests include diversity and healthcare disparities, violence prevention and treatment, and viral diseases. She has mentored over 350 students, residents and junior faculty around the world. A global health consultant and educator, she has served in over 25 countries, focusing on the development of research and elimination of healthcare disparities for women, underrepresented minorities, and the under-resourced

Marianne Haughey, MD

Professor, Emergency Medicine

Northwell/ LIJ Medical Center

Marianne Haughey, MD, is a professor of emergency medicine (EM) at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, as well as the Director of Faculty Development. She practices clinically at LIJ/Northwell. Dr. Haughey is an American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) oral examiner and a Fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM). She has taught extensively both nationally and internationally on various topics in EM education and has multiple articles pertinent to education and the clinical practice of EM, published in various journals.

Leslie Bilello

Dr. Bilello is currently the Associate Program Director of the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (HAEMR-BIDMC​). Prior to this role, she served as Assistant Program Director​ and was Chief Resident during her residency at HAEMR-BIDMC. She also completed the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education through Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.