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Caleb Dresser

Climate and Human Health Fellow

Department of Emergency Medicine at BIDMC in Boston

Caleb Dresser, MD is the Climate and Human Health Fellow at the Department of Emergency Medicine at BIDMC in Boston, Harvard C-Change and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, His work focuses on means to address health needs during and after climate-related disasters, with particular attention to heat waves, tropical cyclones, and wildfires, and is supported by the Climate and Health Foundation.

Hanna Lindstadt

University of Colorado Department of Emergency Medicine

Hanna Linstadt, MD is a practicing emergency medicine physician and the Climate and Health Foundation Fellow in Climate Change and Health Science Policy at the University of Colorado Department of Emergency Medicine. Her work includes projects investigating methods to make emergency departments more climate-smart by decreasing their carbon footprint and increasing their resiliency.

Jonathan E. Slutzman, MD

Instructor in Emergency Medicine

Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

 

 

Richard Rothman, MD, PhD

Johns Hopkins University, Department of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Richard Rothman, MD, PhD is the Executive Vice Chair and Vice Chair for Research for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. He is also a Professor of Emergency Medicine with a Joint Appointment in the Division of Infectious Diseases and is a practicing emergency physician at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Rothman has been conducting research on varied infectious disease conditions in emergency settings since 1996, with areas of focus including HIV, sepsis,  influenza, and now SARS CoV-2.  He has a particular interest and expertise in the development and translation of rapid molecular diagnostics and has published extensively on this topic. Dr. Rothman has served as the Principal Investigator for a number of federally funded studies including multi-center studies designed to advance methods for early infectious disease detection in emergency settings, and improve approaches to the conduct of therapeutic trials during a pandemic. Currently, he serves as the Principal Investigator and Co-Director for the NIH/NIAID Center of Excellence for Influenza Surveillance and Research which now includes studies on COVID-19. At SAEM, Dr. Rothman is one of the founding members of the EMTIDE group a network of academic emergency departments focused on research, practice, and policy on emerging and transmissible infectious diseases.

Anthony Fauci

Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force

Dr. Fauci was appointed Director of NIAID in 1984. He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis and malaria as well as emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika. NIAID also supports research on transplantation and immune-related illnesses, including autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies. The NIAID budget for fiscal year 2020 is an estimated $5.9 billion. Dr. Fauci has advised six Presidents on HIV/AIDS and many other domestic and global health issues. He was one of the principal architects of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that has saved millions of lives throughout the developing world.

Susan Promes, MD, MBA

AEM E&T Editor-in-Chief / Member-at-Large

Penn State Hershey Emergency Medicine

Dr. Promes is a tenured Professor at Penn State University Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and has served as Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine since 2014. Prior to 2014, she spent seven years at the University of California San Francisco where she served as Vice Chair for Education, the Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director and Director of Curricular Affairs in the GME office and prior to that was at Duke University as the inaugural Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director and Director of the medical school Capstone course. Her scholarly work has centered around topics germane to emergency medicine medical education and clinical guidelines for the practicing emergency physician.

In addition to many peer review publications, she has edited multiple McGraw Hill board review books to prepare physicians for the emergency medicine board exam. She is an internationally recognized leader in academic emergency medicine and was chosen by the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine to be the editor of their journal, Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training, which debuted in January 2017. She was the recipient of the 2020 Hal Jayne Excellence in Education Award from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine.

Senior Editors 

• Editor-in-Chief-Jeffrey A. Kline, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine
• Deputy Editor-Christopher R. Carpenter, MD, MSC, Washington University
• Senior Associate Editor for Electronic Publishing- James R. Miner, MD, Hennepin County Medical Center
• Senior Associate Editor for Health Communication- Zachary F. Meisel, MD, MD MPH MSHP, University of Pennsylvania
• Senior Associate Editor for Palliative Care- Tammie E. Quest, MD, Emory University
• Senior Statistical Editor- Craig D. Newgard, MD, MPH, Oregon Health & Science University
• Senior Associate Editor for Education & Correspondence Editor- John H. Burton, MD, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
• Senior Associate Editor for Social Media- Ken Milne, MD, MSC, South Huron Hospital Association 

Associate Editors

• Beau Abar, PhD, University of Rochester Medical Center
• Elizabeth Alpern, MD, MSCE, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• Harrison J. Alter, MD, MS, Highland Hospital - Alameda Health System
• Brigitte M. Baumann, MD, MSCE, Cooper University Hospital
• Steven B. Bird, MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School

• Anne Marie Chang, MD, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
• Bernard P. Chang MD, PhD, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• Robert Cloutier, MD, MCR, Oregon Health & Science University

• Wendy C. Coates, MD, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
• D. Mark Courtney, MD, MSCI, Northwestern University
• Nicole M. Deiorio, MD, 
Virginia Commonwealth University
• Deborah B. Diercks, MD, MSC, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Richard T. Griffey, MD, MPH, Washington University

• Kennon Heard, MD, PhD, University of Colorado School of Medicine

  
• Brian C. Hiestand, MD, MPH, Wake Forest University

• J. Stephen Huff, MD, University of Virginia
• Ula Hwang, MD, MPH, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Timothy B. Jang, MD, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
• Damon Kuehl, MD, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
• Michelle L. Macy, MD, MS, University of Michigan
• Alice Mitchell, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine
• Peter D. Panagos, MD, Washington University
• Jesse Pines, MD, MBA, MSCE, The George Washington University

• Michael A. Puskarich, MD, MSCR, Hennepin County Medical Center
• Robert F. Reardon, MD, Hennepin County Medical Center

• Michael S. Runyon, MD, MPH, Carolinas Medical Center
• Nathan I. Shapiro, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Jill Stoltzfus, PhD, St. Luke's University Health Network
• Stephen W. Smith, MD, Hennepin County Medical Center
• Michelle D. Stevenson, MD, MS, University of Louisville
• Jill Stoltzfus, PhD, St. Luke's University Health Network, Temple/St. Luke's School of Medicine
• Daniel L. Theodoro, MD, MSCI, Washington University

• Kabir Yadav, MDCM, MS, MSHS, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
• Lalena M. Yarris, MD, MCR, Oregon Health & Science University
• Shahriar Zehtabchi, MD, State University of 
New York

• Mark R. Zonfrillo, MD, MSCE, Alpert Medical School of Brown University

 

Resident Editors

• Alyssa Espinera, MD, Louisiana State University (LSU)
• Daniel Good, MD, MPH, UT-Southwestern.

Twitter Manager

• Matthew Klein, MD, MPH, Northwestern University

Department Editors

• Shellie L. Asher, MD, The Biros Section on Research Ethics, Albany Medical College Albany 
  
• Mark B. Mycyk, MD, Director, Resident Member of the Editorial Board Program, Cook County Hospital
• Corey R. Heitz, MD
, CME & PeRLs Editor, Lewis Gale Medical Center
• Peter E. Sokolove, MD, Media Reviews, Medicine University of California, San Francisco
• Brian Zink, MD, 
Reflections, Brown University

Editor of Infographics

• Kirsty Challen, BSc, MBChB, MRes, PhD, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals

Associate Social Media Editor

• Michael Gottlieb, MD, RDMS, Rush University Medical Center

Jay Lemery

Professor of Emergency Medicine

University of Colorado

Professor of Emergency Medicine

University of Colorado

Renee Salas, MD, MPH, MS

Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

 

Tracy Cushing

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Caitlin Rublee

Medical College of Wisconsin

Allan Kornberg

Associate Professor, Pediatrics & Emergency Medicine, Vice Chair, Clinical Affairs, Department of Pediatrics

University of Buffalo, The State University of New York

Associate Professor, Pediatrics & Emergency Medicine, Vice Chair, Clinical Affairs, Department of Pediatrics
University of Buffalo, The State University of New York
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Jeffrey Sakamoto, MD

Chief Resident, Stanford-Kaiser, Emergency Medicine Residency Program; RAMS Board Secretary-Treasurer; SAEM Wellness Committee Member

Dr. Jeffrey T. Sakamoto is a Chief Resident at Stanford Emergency Medicine Residency and a member of the SAEM Wellness Committee. He also serves as the RAMS Board Secretary-Treasurer.

Michelle Blanda, MD

Member-at-Large

Northeast Ohio Medical University

Steven B. Bird, MD

Vice Chair for Education and Residency Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine; Past President, SAEM

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Dr. Steve Bird grew up in Illinois and obtained his degree in biology with honors from Yale University in 1991. While at Yale he conducted research for 3 years with Prof Sidney Altman, Dean of Yale University and winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He then graduated AOA from Northwestern University Medical School under a Navy health professions scholarship program.

Initially interested in neurosurgery, Dr. Bird spent 2 years as a surgery resident at Naval Medical Center San Diego. His surgery training was then interrupted as he was selected for Naval Flight Surgeon training. After spending 6 months in Pensacola at flight school, he was deployed to Okinawa, Japan (along with his wife, AnneMarie, a Navy officer) for two years, serving as a flight surgeon with the United States Marine Corps.

Dr. Bird then elected to resign from the Navy (and from neurosurgery) and pursue emergency medicine residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he served as chief resident followed by a fellowship in medical toxicology, also at UMass. He has remained as faculty at Umass since 2004 and was residency program director from 2011-2019.

Dr. Bird is currently the Chief Experience Officer (CXO), for UMassMemorial Healthcare and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In that role he is responsible for all physician engagement and wellness activities across the 5-hospital system.

Dr. Bird served as President of SAEM from 2018-2019.

Al’ai Alvarez, MD, FACEP, FAAEM

Director of Well-Being, Co-Lead, Human Potential Team, Fellowship Director, Stanford Emergency Medicine Wellness Fellowship

Stanford Emergency Medicine

Dr. Al'ai Alvarez MD, FACEP, FAAEM is a clinical assistant professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) and the Director of Well-Being at Stanford Emergency Medicine. He co-leads the Human Potential Team and serves as the Fellowship Director of the Stanford EM Physician Wellness. He co-chairs the Stanford WellMD Physician Wellness Forum. His work focuses on humanizing physician roles as individuals and teams through the harnessing of our individual human potential in the context of high-performance teams. This includes optimizing the interdependence between Process Improvement (Quality and Clinical Operations), Recruitment (Diversity), and Well-being (Inclusion).

Arlene Sujin Chung, MD, MACM

Program Director

Maimonides Medical Center

Dr. Chung is the Program Director for the Maimonides Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency Program in Brooklyn, NY. She is also the Immediate Past Chair of the ACEP Well-Being Committee and serves on the New York ACEP Board of Directors. As a nationally-recognized speaker and educator, Dr. Chung has made advocating for physician wellness a central focus of her career though lectures, teaching, policy development, and creating sustainable solutions for the future.

Jenny Castillo, MD

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine Department; Director of Wellness, EDWell

Columbia University Medical Center

Jenny Castillo, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine for Columbia University Medical Center, and an Attending Physician within the New York Presbyterian Columbia’s Emergency Medicine Department. Her passion is physician wellbeing and is currently the Director of Wellness for the Department of Emergency Medicine. She is working on projects involving wellness in the workplace environment, promoting wellness operational improvements and creating a cultural change within medicine. Regionally, Dr. Castillo is the co-founder of NYC EM Well-being Alliance, a collaboration of emergency medicine physicians working on wellbeing initiatives. Additionally, Dr. Castillo is pursuing wellbeing-based research projects and participates on the national level through several wellness committees.

Elissa M. Schechter-Perkins, MD, MPH, DTMH

Vice Chair of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine; Director of Emergency Medicine Infectious Disease Management; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Boston University School of Medicine

Elissa M Schechter-Perkins MD, MPH, DTMH, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Vice Chair of EM Research at Boston University School of Medicine/Boston University School of Medicine. She is also the Director of Emergency Medicine Infectious Disease Management. She is the immediate past co-Chair of the SAEM Interest Group Emergency Medicine Transmissible Infectious Diseases, a network of academic emergency departments focused on research, practice, and policy on emerging and transmissible infectious diseases.

Dr. Perkins earned a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University, and completed her Doctorate of Medicine at Columbia University. She did her EM residency training at Yale New Haven Hospital, and then completed an International EM fellowship at Los Angeles County, University of Southern California, during which time she earned an MPH from UCLA and a diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Gorgas Clinical Course in Tropical Medicine in Lima, Peru.

Dr. Perkins has spent her career working with vulnerable populations, primarily in inner city EDs. Her academic area of expertise focuses on the intersection of infectious diseases, public health, and the ED. She has developed programs and evaluated methods to enhance both ED and hospital-wide screening and treatment of infectious diseases that have public health consequences, including HIV, HCV, MRSA, sexually transmitted infections, influenza, COVID-19, and monkeypox.

Larissa May, MD, MSPH, MSHS

Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director of ED and Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship; Medical Director, Learning Health System Hub; Chair, Infection Prevention Committee

UC Davis Health

Larissa May, MD, MSPH, MSHS - Dr. Larissa May is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of Emergency Department and Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship at the University of California-Davis and the medical director of the UC Davis Health Learning Health System Hub. She is a national expert in antibiotic stewardship in the emergency department (ED). Dr. May received her M.D. (2002), her MSPH in Public Health Microbiology and Emerging Infectious Diseases (2008), and her MSHS in Clinical and Translational Research (2013) from The George Washington University. She completed her residency training at the George Washington University in 2006. Dr. May’s research interests center on the clinical management of infectious diseases, including the application of rapid molecular diagnostic assays, behavioral economics and clinical guidelines to improve antibiotic stewardship and other quality improvement efforts. During fall 2020 she served as Yolo County's Interim Health Officer, leading the COVID-19 response. She has served on numerous committees and task forces focused on antibiotic stewardship, emergency preparedness, and infectious diseases surveillance for the CDC, NIH, and professional organizations