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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

Ai Xin Chen, MD & Elizabeth Scott, MD

UCLA-Harbor Medical Center

Jessica Bod, MD

Yale University School of Medicine

Jessica Bod is an assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine department of emergency medicine. She grew up in a family of teachers; her grandfather taught chemistry, her mother is a high school biology teacher and her sister teaches second grade. During her medical training, Jessica naturally gravitated toward a career in medical education. As a resident in emergency medicine, Jessica was the inaugural “resident liaison to medical students” for the Yale emergency department, and helped to shape the curriculum for this required rotation. When she graduated, she became the assistant clerkship director and shortly thereafter became the director of medical student education. In this role, she oversees all programming related to medical students in the department of EM including the required clinical clerkship, the two types of sub-internship and the virtual elective. She is also responsible for mentoring medical students interested in pursuing careers in EM and for leading other faculty involved in medical student education, such as the associate clerkship director.
Jessica’s interests include the creation of programs promoting residents as leaders in medical education, curriculum development and inclusive excellence in medical curricula. She has spoken about her curricular innovations locally at Medical Education Day and nationally at CORD and SAEM. Currently, Jessica is focusing on inclusive excellence content in EM curricula. She received a grant from SAEM to develop a bystander intervention training for EM residents, and is in the process of assessing the curriculum for its impact on resident behavior. This work is significant in its potential to impact the education of medical trainees for generations to come.

Aaron E. Robinson, MD, MPH

Emergency Medical Services Fellow

Hennepin County Medical Center

 

EMS Fellow Award Recipient

Nicole Klekowski, MD

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow

University of Michigan Dept. of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Klekowski is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan where she also serves as the Director of the Gender Equity Professional Development Group, Children's Emergency Services Ultrasound Director, Pediatric Advanced Emergency Ultrasonography Fellowship Director, and Advanced Emergency Ultrasonography Fellowship Assistant Program Director. She completed residency in Emergency Medicine followed by fellowships in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Advanced Emergency Ultrasonography at the University of Michigan. She has academic interests in Pediatric Emergency Medicine point-of-care Ultrasound (PEMPOCUS) and gender equity in medicine. She has a clinical interest in ultrasound, caring for patients with critical care needs across the age spectrum, and bringing breastfeeding support to the bedside. Dr. Klekowski is honored to care for patients in Children's Emergency Services and Adult Emergency Services.

Julie Gesch, MD

The Andrew Levitt Center for Social Emergency Medicine

Julian T. Hertz, MD, MSc

Duke University

Julian Hertz, MD, MSc, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine & Global Health. He completed his undergraduate studies at Princeton University, medical school at Duke University, residency training in emergency medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and his fellowship in Global Health at Duke.

Dr. Hertz's primary interests include global health, implementation science, and undergraduate and graduate medical education. Dr. Hertz's research focuses on using implementation science methods to improve cardiovascular care both locally and globally. His current projects involve developing interventions to improve acute myocardial infarction care in Tanzania, to improve management of hypertension among Tanzanians with HIV, and to improve post-hospital care among patients with multimorbidity in East Africa.

Howard S. Kim, MD MS

Assistant Professor

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Howard S. Kim, MD MS is an emergency medicine physician and health services researcher at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at Denver Health Medical Center in 2015 and received formal training in health services and outcomes research and patient-reported outcomes measurement. Dr. Kim’s research agenda is dedicated to improving the safety and effectiveness of acute pain management and reducing harms associated with opioid use disorder. Dr. Kim has been continuously funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for the last six years, including early career research training through AHRQ T32 and K12 awards. Currently, he is the PI of an AHRQ R01 award evaluating ED physical therapy for acute low back pain (R01HS027426), the Site PI for a multisite NIDA clinical trial evaluating ED-initiated buprenorphine for opioid withdrawal (UG1DA015831, PI: D’Onofrio), the Site PI for an early phase pain investigation clinical network (U24NS115679, PI: Aufderheide). Over the last few years, Dr. Kim has published extensively on the topics of opioid prescribing, marijuana legalization, ED physical therapy, and opioid harm reduction in journals such as Academic Emergency Medicine, Annals of Emergency Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Network Open, and Physical Therapy.