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Bernard P. Chang, MD

Vice Chair of Research and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Columbia University

Elizabeth M. Goldberg, MD, ScM

University of Colorado, Denver

Dr. Liz Goldberg is a practicing emergency physician and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. After her residency, she completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in gerontology and epidemiology at Brown University. Dr. Goldberg is the recipient of the prestigious Paul B. Beeson Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging which funds a fall prevention trial using the Apple Watch to track cognition and fitness. Her research focus is creating effective interventions to improve emergency care for geriatric patients, and using digital tools to help older adults age in place. Dr. Goldberg is the past President of the Academy for Geriatric Emergency Medicine for the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. In this capacity she led the research and education efforts of over 300 academic clinicians to improve geriatric emergency care in the US.

Cherri Hobgood, MD

Member-at-Large

Indiana University

Cherri D. Hobgood, MD is the founder of the Center for Leadership Life, a research and data repository for leadership in academic medicine. Throughout her career as an academic leader, she attained the rank of tenured full professor and held a range of leadership roles, including Associate Dean and Department Chair. Her national organizational leadership includes tenures as the President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), Chair of the Board for the SAEM Foundation (SAEMF), and Chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Board of Directors. She currently serves as an executive board leader of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM). She has been honored for my contributions by SAEM with the John Marx Leadership award and IFEM with the Order of the IFEM.

Robert Silbergleit, MD

Professor with Tenure

University of Michigan

Robert Silbergleit MD is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of Michigan. He graduated from MIT and the University of Michigan Medical School, completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and trained as a research fellow at the George Washington University. Past research involved preclinical models of traumatic and ischemic injury, and clinical investigations in acute stroke care. His current research focuses on confirmatory phase clinical trials of acute interventions for neurological and cardiac emergencies. He is currently a Principal Investigator of the Clinical Coordinating Center for the NIH (NINDS. NHLBI, and NCATS) funded SIREN Emergency Clinical Trials network, as well as a PI for ICECAP, a national multicenter adaptive clinical trial of hypothermia duration in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest. He has also been a PI for RAMPART and ESETT, two national multicenter large randomized controlled clinical trials of treatments for acute status epilepticus. Dr. Silbergleit also currently contributes to the leadership of the ongoing BOOST, HOBIT, and C3PO clinical trials. He has served in the leadership of several other large trials including ProTECT and ATACH, and the Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials (NETT) network, the predecessor of SIREN. Dr. Silbergleit is dedicated to improving the structure and efficiency of the clinical trial enterprise. He has been a co-investigator on a regulatory science grant from the NIH and FDA to investigate adaptive clinical trial methods in confirmatory phase trials. He also has expertise in clinical and research ethics. He is vice-chair of the Michigan Medicine Research Ethics Committee, and a long-standing member of the Clinical Ethics Committee. He has written and presented extensively on the ethics and regulation of planned emergency research. He is the Principal Investigator on an NIH funded empirical ethics research project to study local context review by individual and centralized Institutional Review Boards, and an NIH funded supplement on paramedic, investigator, and patient family experiences in emergency research and clinical care. He has served as an editor or reviewer for numerous journals. He has served on several NIH study sections and special emphasis panels, and has served as a reviewer, advisor, or participant for numerous other FDA, NIH, and other Federal review panels, advisory groups, or workshops. He has authored over 100 peer reviewed articles and commentaries, and 17 book chapters.

Marie-Carmelle Elie, MD, FACEP, FCCM, FAAEM, RDMS

University of Alabama Birmingham

Dr. Elie is an Endowed Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Elie is triple board-certified in emergency medicine, critical care and hospice and palliative care medicine.

Deborah B. Diercks, MD, MSc

Immediate Past President

UT Southwestern Medical Center

 

Ian B. K. Martin, MD, MBA

President-Elect

Medical College of Wisconsin

Dr. Ian Martin is System Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) Medical School and Emergency Physician-in-Chief for Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin Health System. At MCW, he holds appointments as Eminent Scholar and Professor with Tenure of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine. Dr. Martin is also Professor in the Institute for Health and Equity. Before this, he served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at West Virginia University School of Medicine as well as Emergency Physician-in-Chief for West Virginia University Health System.

Before his election to the AACEM Board, Dr. Martin completed terms as Immediate Past-President, President, President-Elect, Secretary-Treasurer, and an At-Large Member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) – the premier association representing researchers and educators in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Martin is also the founder and a Past-President of SAEM’s Global Emergency Medicine Academy. In 2020, he was appointed by the Mayor of Milwaukee to the City of Milwaukee Board of Health for an indefinite term. The same year, he was also appointed to the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment External Board (the Consortium on Public and Community Health), also for an indefinite term. Finally, in 2021, Dr. Martin was appointed to the Milwaukee Tennis and Education Foundation Board of Directors.

Dr. Martin is the 2018 recipient of the Marcus L. Martin, M.D. Leadership in Diversity and Inclusion Award by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Dr. Martin was recently named recipient of the 2020 Drexel University College of Medicine Distinguished Alumnus Award as well as of the 2020 Georges Benjamin, M.D. Award for excellence in education, service, and research by the National Medical Association’s Emergency Medicine Section. Lastly, in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Martin was named recipient of a “Notable Heroes in Health Care” Award by BizTimes Milwaukee. Recently, members of the Class of 2023 Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) MCW-beta Chapter selected him to join them as an inductee into the prestigious AOA national honor society. In 2023, Milwaukee County honored Dr. Martin with a citation for launching Wisconsin’s first opt-out, universal, emergency department-based HIV testing program.

Breena Taira, MD, MPH

Director, Section of International and Domestic Health Equity and Leadership (IDHEAL), UCLA

Olive View-UCLA Medical Center

Dr. Taira is an emergency physician and the Director of Research for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Olive View- UCLA Medical Center. In 2016, she became director of the Section of International and Domestic Health Equity and Leadership (IDHEAL) for the UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine whose mission is to define and promote the role that academic emergency medicine can play in the promotion of health equity and elimination of health disparities locally, nationally and globally. (www.idheal.org) Her research focuses on improving quality of care and health outcomes for patients with limited English proficiency. She speaks locally and nationally on language justice and communication in health care.

Phillip C. Moschella, MD, PhD

Prisma Health – Upstate (South Carolina)

Dr. Moschella is a board-certified Emergency Physician Scientist (MD/PhD) with an extensive background in cellular signaling. He is a full-time clinician, associate professor and the assistant research director for the Department of Emergency Medicine for Prisma Health-Upstate. He manages all the research projects within the department of over 70 physicians and 30 resident physicians. His primary research emphasis surrounds HIV and HCV recognition, and linkage to care from the emergency department (ED), with several publications in top-tier emergency medicine journals. He has expanded his research interests into substance use disorders and specifically opioids. He is the PI on a large ($1.5 million over 3 years) grant from SAMHSA to evaluate the use of Alternatives to Opioids in the ED. He has recently published an exciting systematic review on the effects of peer-recovery services in the ED and on his alternatives to opioids project. His mix of clinical experience and basic science allowed him to advance medical design to solve real-world clinical problems. His collaboration with engineers at Clemson University, have produced publications on a novel portable negative pressure environment for treatment of COVID-19 and a novel pH sensing peritoneal dialysis catheter to aid in early detection of infection in top-tier engineering journals.

Aasim Padela, MD, MSc

Associate Professor

Medical College of Wisconsin

Dr. Padela is a clinician-researcher with scholarship foci at the intersections of religious identity, healthcare, and bioethics.

His empirical work focuses on developing tailored community-based interventions tacking Muslim health disparities, and his normative scholarship focused on the ethics of cultural accommodations of provider and patient identities in the halls of medicine. He also studies the impact of discrimination on Muslim patient and providers.

Jason Rotoli, MD

Secretary-Treasurer

University of Rochester

I believe in the inclusive mission of ADIEM and want to serve as more than a committee chair and general member. In the treasurer/secretary position, I am immersed in the conversations, strategic planning, and decision-making that guides the future development of this amazing organization. I truly enjoy the collaborative creation that occurs during our monthly meetings. Additionally, I was the Treasurer/Secretary for the 2022-23 year and fulfilled my duties to the best of my abilities with honor and integrity. I would like to leverage this experience to further contribute to the group by serving in this position again.

Dara Kass, MD

Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

Columbia University Department of Emergency Medicine

Michael Gottlieb, MD

Rush University Medical Center

Michael Gottlieb, MD is the Vice Chair of Research and Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Division at Rush University Medical Center. He is Past-Chair of the ACEP Ultrasound Section and Past-Chair of the AAEM Ultrasound Section. He has authored over 500 peer-reviewed publications and is an Editor for Academic Medicine, The Annals of Emergency Medicine, The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, and Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training, as well as the Social Media Editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. He is Past-Chair of the CORD Academy for Scholarship, Past-Chair of the SAEM Education Summit, Past-Chair of the CORD Education Committee, Past-Chair of the CORD Best Practices Subcommittee, and a nationally-recognized speaker and educator. His academic interests include medical education, ultrasound, infectious diseases, heart failure, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Melissa Erin Parsons, MD

University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville

Dr. Melissa Parsons is a Program director and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville. She received a Bachelor's degree in Biology at the University of Florida in Gainesville and attended medical school at UF as well. Dr. Parsons completed her Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville and stayed on as faculty, serving as the Assistant Medical Director at their community hospital prior to transitioning into an educational role as Associate Residency Director and now Program Director for the Emergency Medicine residency program at UF-Jacksonville. She co-chairs the University of Florida-Jacksonville’s Women in Medicine and Science organization as well as organizing the residency program’s simulation and wellness efforts. Her professional interests include gender disparities in medical education, physician infertility and physician wellness.

Robert Tanouye

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Gerardo C. Chiricolo, MD

Vice Chairman and Director, Division of Emergency Ultrasound

New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital

Dr. Gerardo C. Chiricolo is an emergency medicine physician in Brooklyn, New York and is affiliated with New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. He received his medical degree from Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara and has been in practice between 11-20 years.

Penelope C. Lema, MD, FPD-AEMUS

Columbia University Department of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Penelope (Penny) Lema is the Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed her Emergency Medicine Residency and Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship at Northshore University Hospital at Manhasset (now Northwell), where she served as Chief Resident. Dr. Lema has been a nationally recognized leader in Emergency Medicine and within Emergency Ultrasound. She is the past Chair of the ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Section, past Treasurer and Board of Director of SCUF, and current Secretary-Treasurer and member of the Board of the NY Chapter of ACEP. She is an active member of SAEM AEUS and AWAEM. Dr. Lema is a passionate educator and advocate for Emergency Medicine, dedicated to inclusion and equity in medicine and faculty professional development.

Peter Steel