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Kat Ogle, MD

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

George Washington University

Dr. Ogle is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University, where she completed medical school, residency, as well as her ultrasound fellowship. She is a former RN and first-generation college graduate and physician. She is engaged in medical education and professional development from the undergraduate to faculty level. Her roles include Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Director, leading the Medical Education and Leadership Scholarly Concentration as well as Clinician as a Medical Educator course. Dr. Ogle serves on local, regional, and national organizations including the GW Antiracism Guiding Coalition, is President of the SAEM Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM), and is active within the Society of Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships, is a reviewer for several academic journals, and is an award-winning educator. Her professional interests include medical education, point-of-care ultrasound, mentorship, diversity, equity, and inclusion, leadership, and promotion. She balances her academic and professional responsibilities with her role as a mother.

Kevin Biese

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH

Chief, Geriatric Emergency Medicine

Massachusetts General Hospital

Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH, is Chief of the division of Geriatric Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kennedy's clinical, education, and research endeavors focus on improving emergency care for older adults, with specific focus on those with cognitive impairment. She has conducted research into geriatric emergency departments, the detection and management of delirium in older ED patients, and care of persons with dementia in the ED setting. She currently serves as the Chair of the Geriatric Emergency Medicine section for the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), is on the board of governors for ACEP's Geriatric ED Accreditation program, and is a past-president of the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM).

Scott Dresden

Director

Geriatric Emergency Department Innovations (GEDI), Northwestern Medicine

Tony Rosen

New York Presbyterian Hospital

Christina Shenvi

Surriya Ahmad, MD

Attending Physician

New York

Surriya Ahmad, MD, completed a five year combined Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine residency at the State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University and Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY, and is double board certified in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine. She completed a Geriatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Weill Cornell/New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. She has been a member of SAEM and AGEM for five years, serving on the AGEM Executive Committee for three years, and is the current Secretary of AGEM. Between taking care of patients in public inner-city Level 1 Trauma Centers and Tertiary Care Centers in Brooklyn and New York over the last seven years, and through her experience spending time with her father and grandmother, she grew more interested in how to best optimize the care of older adults in the ED, including prioritizing communication with patients and families, comfort-mental and physical, and overall experience and wellness.

Shan Liu, MD, SD

Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Katie Davenport

Katie Buck, MD, MPH

Associate Professor with Tenure

The Ohio State University

Katie Buck, MD, MPH, is an associate professor with tenure at Ohio State University and Director of the Level 1 Geriatric Emergency Department. She received her medical degree from the University of Virginia and completed EM residency and a research fellowship at Ohio State University. She is a current NIA Beeson K76 award recipient. Her research focus is improving diagnostic accuracy in older adult ED patients with current work on pneumonia. She has been involved in geriatric EM and AGEM since she was an undergraduate student.

Marcee Wilder

Research Learning Series Moderator

George Washington University

Marcee Wilder is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University. She attended medical school at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington D.C. and residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. While at Mount Sinai, Marcee participated in and developed several clinical studies examining racial disparities in emergency department care. After residency she completed a 2-year clinical research fellowship at GWU, focusing on disparities and health outcomes. During her fellowship she was awarded funding from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to examine social determinants of health and their effect on outcomes including medication adherence and emergency department visits. She also completed a master’s degree in clinical and translational research during this time. As full-time faculty, Marcee splits her time between working clinically, research, teaching, and administration. She is a health services researcher who is passionate about health equity and disparities and hopes to contribute to the field through research and education. Marcee teaches public health at the medical school and teaches a clinical research course to the undergraduates at the University. She works clinically at George Washington University Hospital, as well as DC’s last public hospital, United Medical Center. She is also the medical director for the Medical Faculty Associates group in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Walter Reed National Military Center. In her spare time, she mentors at risk female youth in DC. 

Joshua Ellis, MD, MPH

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Dr. Joshua Ellis is a faculty physician in Emergency Medicine at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). He graduated from Howard University College of Medicine and completed his residency at the Mayo Clinic, where he was the recipient of the Golden Stethoscope Resident/Fellow Educator of the Year and also the Gold Humanism Award. He then went on to complete a Masters in public health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and his education fellowship at Harvard Medical School and BIDMC.

He now serves as the Clerkship Director for the EM Clerkship at UAMS and also as the Chair of the LGBTQ+ subcommittee of ADIEM at SAEM. His other work has focused on improving diversity within higher medical education, and he has published twice in New England Journal of Medicine as well as being awarded the Harvard Medical School Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award. He currently also is the clinical director of Project Heal, a Hospital Based Violence Intervention Program aimed at decreasing recidivism in. 

Minerva Romero Arenas

Dr. Minerva A. Romero Arenas is an Endocrine & General Surgeon at New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. She is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College.  Dr. Romero Arenas completed a fellowship in Oncologic Surgical Endocrinology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and General Surgery Residency at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. She earned her Medical Doctorate and Master of Public Health degrees from The University of Arizona. She studied Cell Biology and French at Arizona State University. Dr. Romero Arenas is passionate about recruiting the next generation of surgeons and is involved in mentoring through various organizations, such as the Association of Women Surgeons, Tour for Diversity in Medicine, Latino Medical Student Association, National Hispanic Medical Association, and Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians. She is a Founding Member of the Latino Surgical Society.

Rosny Daniel

Dr. Rosny Daniel was born and raised in Southern California, but has called San Francisco his home for the last ten years. He completed his medical school, emergency medicine residency, chief residency and medical education fellowship at University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Daniel is currently a faculty member and Assistant Professor in the department of emergency medicine at UCSF. He is the director of DEI in residency curriculum. He also serves on the executive board of EM Foundations as Director of EDI. His interests include mentorship, advocacy, medical education, social emergency medicine, justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. Rosny educates medical students, residents and faculty on topics ranging from generational differences in the workplace to creating equitable educational content to anti-racism in medicine to treating common emergency department complaints. His goal is to model longitudinal incorporation of equity/inclusion training in emergency medicine residency training across the nation and beyond. In his spare time he enjoys making and drinking fancy cocktails, going to concerts, listening to emo gen z rap, exercising, watching the Lakers, cooking, playing tug-o-war with his dog or traveling when he can.

Suzanne (Suzi) Bentley, MD, MPH

President-Elect

NYC Health+Hospitals/Elmhurst, Mount Sinai

I love simulation and I love the Simulation Academy, I will be the first to openly admit it. I’m running for President-elect because it would be an honor to lead the Simulation Academy Executive Committee and continue the many important initiatives underway from the Academy plus initiate so many new ones. I love simulation and collaborating and the Simulation Academy is such an important hub for our EM Simulation community. I have been a member of the Simulation Academy throughout my time as a simulation educator and served on the Executive Committee 2019-2021 as member at large and secretary and I am the current (2021-2022) Sim Academy Secretary. I am running for President-Elect at this time because I feel ready to continue and expand the amazing work being done by the Academy. With my previous experience on the Exec Committee and multiple subcommittees, I believe I have a solid understanding of the Simulation Academy goals, vision, and structure. I firmly believe I can continue to grow and develop the Sim Academy and that I am well suited to the role with my organizational and collaboration skills. Additionally, I am the co-chair of the Sim Academy Faculty Development Committee and have helped spearhead the virtual simulation mentoring and faculty development series of panels held over the last 2 years (thank you again to all of our excellent panelists). I am also an active member and collaborator in the Sim Academy Research Committee, directing multiple initiatives aimed at helping to quantify our needs as simulation educators and propose a call to action and way forward towards increased resource for our members (e.g. simulation research barriers, novel task trainer models). It has been an honor to serve on the Sim Academy Executive Committee and network and collaborate to support so many of our members, loop in members, and encourage new members to become more active. I believe together through collaboration and innovation that we all grow, and importantly, the Sim Academy grows. I hope to continue to accomplish all of what I’ve started and endeavor to expand and start new initiatives within the Academy. I look forward to working to understand and help meet the evolving needs of our members and vow to work with the Exec Committee and our membership to continue to do more for our members and the Academy.

Haru Okuda

Executive Director, USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation
Assistant Vice President, Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice, USF Health
Professor, Morsani College of Medicine

Alise Frallicciardi

Medical Director, Emergency Medicine at UConn Health
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Linda L. Brown, MD, MSCE

Brown University

Linda L. Brown, MD, MSCE is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics. She is the Chair & Physician-in-Chief for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School, Brown University and Rhode Island, Hasbro Children's, The Miriam & Newport Hospitals. She is the President of Brown Emergency Medicine. She is the Vice Chair of Pediatric EM for Brown EM.

Dr. Brown is a practicing Pediatric EM attending physician. She received her MD from Pennsylvania State College of Medicine. She received her Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology (MSCE) from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her Pediatric Residency as a Chief Resident here at the Hasbro Children's Hospital/ Brown University program. Dr. Brown completed her Pediatric EM fellowship at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Dr. Brown is active on various local, regional & national committees. She is a national leader in pediatric EM and medical simulation. Her professional interests include medical simulation & education; pediatric EM quality improvement; difficult airway; resuscitation; and research.

Dr. Brown has been recognized for her hard work and leadership both regionally and nationally. She received several departmental awards including: the Brian J. Zink, MD Outstanding Leadership in EM; the Brown EM Foundation Award; the Libby Nestor, MD Outstanding Mentor, the Jacek Franaszek Exemplary Educator; and Outstanding Contribution in Education, just to name a few. Nationally, Dr. Brown was recognized with various awards including the Dr. Marianne Gausche-Hill Award for Teaching Mentorship and the SAEM Simulation Academy Distinguished Educator Award. Dr. Brown is a well-respected, researcher on a national level having contributed to over 45 publications.

William Bond, MD

Director of Research for Jump Simulation, Professor - Emergency Medicine

University of Illinois - College of Medicine, OSF HealthCare

Peter Sokolove, MD

Professor and Chair

University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine