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Lynne D. Richardson, MD, FACEP

Professor & System Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Lynne D. Richardson, MD, FACEP, is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Professor of Population Health Science & Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and System Vice Chair for the Department of Emergency Medicine of the Mount Sinai Health System. A native New Yorker, she holds Bachelor’s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Life Sciences and Management; and an MD degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed the Emergency Medicine Residency at Jacobi Hospital/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she served as Chief Resident. Dr. Richardson became a Diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine in 1985, launching a remarkable career as a clinician, an educator, a researcher and an advocate. Dr. Richardson is now one of the most accomplished investigators in emergency medicine and one of its most respected research mentors; her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. Dr. Richardson joined the faculty at Mount Sinai in 1995 to establish the Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Residency, which, under her leadership, emerged as one of the premiere training programs on the East Coast. In 2002, she left the Program Director position to become Director of the Research Division. She has recruited a cadre of talented clinician investigators and, through a strong emphasis on mentoring and multi-disciplinary collaborations, she has built a research program that currently ranks #2 in the country in NIH funding. She remains involved in physician education at both the undergraduate and post-graduate levels. In addition to teaching emergency medicine, she is a member of the Ethics faculty and teaches in the Masters of Public Health program. Her research interests include the use of clinical and administrative data to investigate issues of access, quality and equity; developing and assessing the effectiveness of strategies to eliminate health care disparities, particularly through the use of electronic health record (EHR)-embedded clinical decision support tools; and care redesign featuring innovative models of emergency care and emergency department-based care coordination and care transition interventions to support population health initiatives and improve patient outcomes. She is an expert on community engagement and a national thought leader in the ethics of conducting emergency research. Her mixed-methods "Community VOICES" studies have defined best practices for community consultation in exception from informed consent research. Dr. Richardson has made highly influential contributions to eliminating healthcare disparities in both the research and policy arenas. She is a member of the New York City Board of Health, the first emergency physician ever to serve in that Board's more than one hundred and fifty year history. She serves on the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) of the Centers for Disease Control and is the current Chair of the ACD Health Disparities Subcommittee. She has received numerous awards for distinguished service, exceptional leadership, and outstanding teaching from various academic institutions, professional organizations and community groups. In 2016, Dr. Richardson was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

M. Tyson Pillow, MD, MEd

Vice Chair of Education

Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. M. Tyson Pillow completed his undergraduate training at Rice University, and his medical school training at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. After three years of Emergency Medicine Residency training at the University of Chicago, he returned to Baylor as faculty in the Section of Emergency Medicine. He currently serves as the Residency Program Director and Vice Chair for Education for the Department of Emergency Medicine, and the Medical Director for Simulation and Standardized Patient Programs for Baylor College of Medicine. During this time, he also completed a Masters in Education program at the University of Houston. Dr. Pillow’s interests focus on education, including education technology, simulation, standardized patients, feedback and evaluation, and bedside teaching. He has received numerous teaching awards, including the John P. McGovern Teaching Award for the Clinical Sciences (2013, 2017), and the Council of Residency Directors National Faculty Teaching Award (2012). He has also delivered multiple workshops on Education Technology at ACGME annual meeting, AAMC annual meeting, and other national Emergency Medicine academic meetings.

Michael Gisondi, MD

Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Education, Mentor

Stanford School of Medicine - Department of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Michael Gisondi is the inaugural Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. He is the Principal and Founder of the Precision Education and Assessment Research Lab (The PEARL), Co-Director of the Scholarly Concentration in Medical Education, and the faculty advisor for LGBTQ+ Meds at Stanford School of Medicine. He is a Distinguished Member of the Stanford Medicine Teaching and Mentoring Academy. Dr. Gisondi is a medical education researcher and an expert in the application of social media in medical education. He is a member of the editorial boards of Academic Life in Emergency Medicine, International Clinician Educators Blog, and the Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine. He is an associate editor for the textbook, Emergency Medicine, and conference faculty with the national certification course, EPEC-EM: Education in Palliative and End-of-life Care in Emergency Medicine. Dr Gisondi previously served on the Board of Directors for the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine. Earlier in his career, he served as Residency Program Director, Medical Education Scholarship Fellowship Director (SAEM-approved), and Director of the Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators at Northwestern University. In 2014, Dr. Gisondi was awarded the National Faculty Teaching Award of the American College of Emergency Physicians and was named Alumnus of the Year by Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. He completed the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Chair Development Program and the Stanford Medicine Leadership Academy.

Jeffrey P. Druck, MD

Member-at-Large

University of Utah School of Medicine

Jeff Druck, MD, is the Vice Chair for Faculty Advancement, DEI and Wellbeing of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine, as well as being a Professor within the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Druck grew up in Houston, Texas, went to Rice University for his undergraduate degree, received his MD degree from Baylor College of Medicine, and he completed his residency at the Denver Health Residency Program in Emergency Medicine. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine and has served as an oral examiner for ABEM for the past 14 years.

Dr. Druck is an expert in emergency medicine education and in DEI, having served as the chair of his department’s DEI committee, an associate residency director, President of the school’s faculty senate, Student Affairs Dean, and Co-Director of the Office of Professional Excellence at the University of Colorado prior to his move to Utah.

In addition to serving on the SAEM Board of Directors, Dr. Druck has served as President of the Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine (ADIEM) as well as Co-Chair of the SAEM Consensus conference on Racism in Emergency Medicine. He has served on SAEM’s Awards committee, Program Committee, Consultation Committee, the Faculty Development Committee, and previously directed the Chief Resident Forum. He can be found on LinkedIn at @JeffDruck

Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH

Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH is the Chairman of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. He is also the Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at Harvard University and the Lavine Family Professor of Humanitarian Studies at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. VanRooyen founded and directs the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), an interfaculty initiative at Harvard University. He has worked as an emergency physician with numerous relief organizations in over thirty countries affected by war and disaster, including Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Iraq, North Korea, Darfur-Sudan, Chad and the DRC. He has worked in the field as a relief expert with several non-governmental organizations, including CARE, Save the Children, Oxfam, and Physicians for Human Rights.

Dr. VanRooyen teaches courses at Harvard University and the Harvard School of Public Health on humanitarian operations in war and disaster. In 2012, he founded the Humanitarian Academy at Harvard. He has authored the textbook “Emergent Field Medicine” and his most recent book, “The World’s Emergency Room” describes the evolution of modern humanitarian aid and the threats to healthcare workers in conflict.

Thomas E. Terndrup, MD

Dr. Terndrup is an Emergency Medicine specialist with over 36 years of clinical, educational, administrative, and research experience in the provision of emergency medical care, with venues ranging from remote rural, to suburban community, and large urban and academic hospital facilities. Starting as an ED director fresh out of a rotating internship serving as a US Public Health Service officer at Lee County Community Hospital with one physician partner, he expanded the strictly after hours practice from a single room “ER” to a 6 bed ED with 24/7 coverage, prior to going back to EM residency training 3 years later. Following residency, he completed a fellowship in pediatric EM, and stayed on as the director of the SUNY Syracuse Children’s ER, prior to becoming interim chair and then leaving for the founding chair position in Birmingham, Alabama, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1999. During his time at UAB, he developed an interest in emergency preparedness and assisted in the development of a foundation course for multiple disciplines at the former Fort McClellan Hospital outside Anniston, Alabama. He founded a multidisciplinary research and service entity, the Center for Emerging Infections and Disaster Preparedness (CEIEP) in order to address issues associated with emerging infections and disaster preparedness. Subsequently, as Associate Dean for Clinical Research, he received support from the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and created a multi-county network of 17 hospitals in south central Pennsylvania while at Penn State. This PA network will serve as the basis for providing some answers to preparing your hospital/ED for a pandemic influenza outbreak.

Benjamin Sun, MD, MPP

Benjamin “Ben” Sun is Perelman Professor, Chair of Emergency Medicine, and Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, all at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a health services researcher and has served as the principal investigator on 15 grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and private foundations with total funding of $11 million. Dr. Sun leads a broad research portfolio on topics such as ED crowding, chest pain, syncope, and prescription opioids.

Dr. Sun earned his undergraduate degree, his master’s degree in Public Policy, and his medical degree from Harvard University. He completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, and he completed a fellowship in Health Services Research through the UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program. Prior to his current role, he served on faculty at UCLA and Oregon Health & Science University.

Tim Sullivan, MHA

Tim Sullivan, MHA, FACHE has served as the Administrator of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University & Jefferson Health since 2015. During Sullivan’s tenure, Emergency Medicine at Jefferson has experienced significant growth across its missions, including the development and expansion of new clinical service lines in urgent care, observation medicine and virtual on-demand telehealth as well as the development of diverse new academic programs, both educational and clinical.

Prior to joining Jefferson, Sullivan worked in progressive leadership roles in Pediatrics in Dallas, TX and Milwaukee, WI. Tim initially joined the Emergency Medicine family as Administrator of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin in 2011.

A proud veteran, Tim started his healthcare administrator career in the United States Navy. After completing Officer Indoctrination School, Sullivan commissioned as a Lieutenant (junior grade) and stationed at Naval Hospital, Pensacola (NHP). He deployed in support of Operational Enduring Freedom as the Deputy Brigade Surgeon of Combined Joint Task Force Phoenix in Kabul, Afghanistan from 2007 - 2008. Sullivan is the recipient of a Joint Services Commendation Medal and Navy Achievement Medal.

He earned an MHA from The Ohio State University following his BA in economics from Hiram College and obtained Fellow status in the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Susan A. Stern, MD

Susan A. Stern, MD is Professor and Inaugural Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, WA. Dr. Stern received her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1987. She completedan Emergency Medicine Residency in 1987 and a Research Fellowship focused in Resuscitation Science in 1991, both at the University of Cincinnati. Following completion of fellowship, she took a faculty position at the University of Michigan (1993-2009) in the Department of Emergency Medicine. At the University of Michigan, she continued her research efforts to develop and evaluate alternative novel resuscitation strategies in the very early period following traumatic hemorrhagic shock.Her laboratory was among the first to establish a large animal polytrauma model of combined TBI and uncontrolled hemorrhage, which several other laboratories have since adopted or used as a framework for investigation. Dr. Stern spent several months as a Visiting Professor at the Naval Medical Research Center in MD and during that time assisted the NMRC research team in the development of a novel model of combined TBI and blunt liver trauma, which they continue to use. While at the University of Michigan, she also served as the Associate Chair for Education (2004-2009) and completed theUniversity of Michigan Health Center / Ross School of Business - Healthcare Leadership Development Program.

Dr. Stern moved to the UW in 2009 where she has led the development of the Department of Emergency Medicine. Her laboratory team continues its research focus on resuscitation from hemorrhagic shock.

Dr. Stern has been active within SAEM since 1994, serving as Chair of the Program Committee from 1998 -2000 and as a member of the Board of Directors from 2000-2005.

David C. Seaberg, MD, CPE

Dr. David C. Seaberg is the Executive Vice President of Academic Emergency Departments at US Acute Care Solutions and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio. Prior to this, he served as the Inaugural Dean of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga Campus and also served as Senior Vice President of Physician Integration at the Erlanger Health System. He also was a tenured Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. Dr. Seaberg has served as President and Chairman of the Board of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the preeminent Emergency Medicine specialty society that represents over 37,000 emergency physicians.

Dr. Seaberg attended medical school at the University of Minnesota and did his Emergency Medicine residency training at the University of Pittsburgh. He is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine, the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Certifying Commission in Medical Management. He has over 175 publications, book chapters and abstracts and has received numerous teaching and research awards.

Travis Schmitz, PhD, MBA

Member-at-Large

Travis Schmitz is the administrator at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, IL.  He has a PhD from the University of Mississippi Medical Center and an MBA from Millsaps College. Travis has been on the executive committee as an at-large member for the past three years and previously served as chair of the education committee. he currently serves as co-director of the Certificate in Academic Emergency Medicine Administration (CAEMA) program, alongside Ashlee Melendez. Travis is running for another term as an at-large member to continue the exceptional work our executive committees have done over the past decade. Specifically, he has always had a concern for new member engagement and ensuring that we are doing everything we can to bring people into the fold. He has gained so much incredible insight from AAAEM and wants everyone else to have that same experience.

Jeremiah (Jay) Schuur, MD, MHS

Jeremiah (Jay) Schuur, MD, MHS, is Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University; Physician-in-Chief of Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island, Hasbro Children’s, The Miriam and Newport Hospitals; and President of Brown Emergency Medicine.

Previously, he served as the Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs and founding Chief of the Division of Health Policy Translation for the Department of Emergency Medicine of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Schuur received his MD from the New York University (NYU), and did his Emergency Medicine residency at Brown/Rhode Island Hospital, where he was a Chief Resident. He was then a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale.

Dr. Schuur’s scholarly interests focus on quality of care and patient safety in emergency medicine and the intersection of emergency care and health policy. He has been funded by governmental agencies and foundations including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is currently co-leading ACEP’s 4-year $4 million E-QUAL network, a national quality network funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.

James J. Scheulen, PA, MBA

Jim Scheulen is the Chief Administrative Officer for Emergency Medicine and Capacity Management for Johns Hopkins Medicine. He is responsible for the operations of the 5 Johns Hopkins Health System Emergency Departments which together manage nearly 300,000 patient visits per year. Mr. Scheulen is considered to be an expert in hospital and emergency department operations and is a leader in applying system engineering concepts to health care management.

Mr. Scheulen is active in the leadership of pre-hospital EMS and Emergency Preparedness for Hopkins and the State of Maryland and was appointed by the Governor of Maryland to the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Board, which oversees the operation of all EMS activity in the state

Mr. Scheulen has over 30 peer reviewed publications on topics including: care of the burn patient, Emergency Department operations and crowding, disaster preparedness and, most recently, the use of simulation modeling in designing emergency departments and in hospital and emergency department operations.

Linda Regan, MD, MEd

Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Education, Emergency Medicine

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Linda Regan, MD, MEd, is an associate professor in the department of emergency medicine (EM) at Johns Hopkins, where she serves as the Vice Chair for Education and the director of the medical education fellowship. She served for four years as a member of the Board of Directors of CORD and is a well-known national speaker. She is the current Chair of the ACGME's Residency Review Committee in EM. Dr. Regan is well known at Johns Hopkins for her work as an educational program builder and 13 years spent as the program director for the EM residency. She obtained her masters in education for the health professions from the Johns Hopkins School of Education, with a focus on educational research. Dr. Regan's educational research interests lay mainly in the applications of adult learning theories and conceptual models to postgraduate education, in particular as they pertain to the development of adaptive expertise for learners, as well as how to best teach and represent yourself as an educator.

 

Maria Ramos-Fernandez, MD, MSc

Maria Ramos-Fernandez is a Board Certified Emergency Physician who is currently Program Director of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR)residency program. She completed a Masters in Clinical Research from UPR and the Hospice and Palliative Medicine subspecialty from Emory University. Currently she combines clinical research with academia.

Scott Poland, MD

Scott Poland is a graduate of the Northeast Ohio Medical University. He completed his first two years of residency at Summa Health Systems and graduated from Akron General's emergency medicine residency program. He currently serves as Core Faculty and Emergency Ultrasound Director at Summa Health Systems. His outside interests include walking his dog, exploring parks, spending time with his wife, Cross-fit, scuba diving, and preparing for his soon-to-be-born first child.

Steven T. Petrovic, MBA

Steve Petrovic has spent his whole working career in healthcare at UC Health. He began working for an Internal Medicine practice, working as an analyst in corporate revenue cycle and worked with Nursing Administration at University of Cincinnati Medical Center as there financial lead. Steve started his association with Emergency Medicine in 2014 replacing Bill Fussinger as the second ever Department Administrator for Cincinnati.

Steve has been active with Academy of Administrators in Academic Emergency Medicine (AAAEM) since accepting his current position and serves on the membership committee and communications committee.

Steve received both his undergraduate degree and MBA from Xavier University.

Steve’s outside interests are golf, hiking, and boating. He is an avid supporter of the Xavier Musketeers and the Cleveland Browns. Steve and his wife Claire have three children, 13, 3, & 1.

David T. Overton MD, MBA

David Overton, MD is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. He additionally serves as the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education.

Dr. Overton attended Wayne State University School of Medicine, and completed his emergency medicine residency at the University of Cincinnati. He is board-certified in both Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, and holds an MBA from Michigan State University.

Dr. Overton has received numerous research and service awards, has been published in a wide variety of professional journals and textbooks, and has served as a peer reviewer for a number of scientific journals.

He is active in a number of professional societies, including ACEP, SAEM, the ACGME and the Michigan College of Emergency Physicians, which he has served as President.

Katy Oksuita, MS

Katy Oksuita, MS is the Administrator of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health. She has worked in Emergency Medicine for almost a decade and has been in healthcare administration for over 15 years. She received her Bachelor of Science in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and Masters in Education in Counseling from the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh. She began her career on the education side of medicine and quickly moved into administration. Her current interests include change management, emotional intelligence training, as well as health care finance.

Robert E. O'Connor, MD, MPH

Robert E. O'Connor, MD, MPH is Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. Dr. O’Connor was born in Pittsburgh, PA, attended secondary school in Philadelphia, and received his baccalaureate degree from Haverford College. He earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and completed emergency medicine residency training at the Medical Center of Delaware. He has worked as a Clinician for over 30 years, and has served as a State EMS Medical Director, Department Research Director, Medical Student Clerkship Director, EMS Fellowship Director and Residency Program Director. Dr. O’Connor has served as principal or co-investigator on over 50 extramural and multi-center funded projects, and has presented more than 400 research papers and lectures at local, national, and international meetings. He has over 150 published manuscripts, has co-authored six books and served as editor-in-chief of three textbooks. He has served as a peer-reviewer for over 20 journals, and is a past President of the National Association of EMS Physicians and Advocates for EMS. He is a past Chair of their Emergency Cardiac Care (ECC) Committee and served on both the Scientific Advisory Council and the Manuscript Oversight Committee for the American Heart Association. He served on the Board of Directors of the American College of Emergency Physicians from 2010 through 2016. He also serves on the 3CPR Council for the American Heart Association. His primary research and professional interests are in resuscitation, pre-hospital care and EMS systems. He is a member of a number of academic societies and is the recipient of numerous honors and awards. He enjoys active clinical practice and is a member of the medical staff at the University of Virginia Medical Center (Charlottesville, VA. Dr. O’Connor, of Charlottesville, Va., is professor, chair and physician-in-chief of the department of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville. He is currently the Marcus L. Martin Distinguished Professor of Emergency Medicine at UVA.