People

Andrew S. Nugent, MD

Andrew S. Nugent, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, and has been the Chair and Departmental Executive Officer of the Department of Emergency Medicine since 2009.

A native Iowan, he grew up in Northwest Iowa and graduated from both the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts in 1992 and the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1996. He completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, TX, before returning to the University of Iowa in 1999. His accomplishments at UIHC include the development of a residency-training program, a clinical department of Emergency Medicine, and medical directorship of a clinical operation that has grown from 20,000 patient visits per year to 60,000 patients per year. He has served on the AACEM Executive Committee since 2014 and is the current President of the organization.

Andy lives in Coralville with his wife Diana and their four children. When not busy with work or family, his interests include golf, Iowa Hawkeyes, Chicago Cubs, euchre with friends and playing catch in the backyard with the kids.

Amal Khalil, MBA

Amal Khalil has spent the last 20 years at UCI, all of which were spent at the Department of Emergency Medicine. She moved from Egypt, to the United States of America in the summer of 1995. Amal earned her Bachelor's Degree in 1987, and her MBA in 2010. She enjoys helping underprivileged, and children at her church, and above all, her highest achievement are her two kids.

Linda Davis-Moon, RN, MSN, APRN-BC, ALC

Linda Davis-Moon, RN, MSN, APRN-BC, ALC is a nationally recognized leader in Emergency Medicine. Following completion of her Master's degree, Linde went on to assume a leadership position as Executive Director for Strategic Initiatives in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. In this role, she collaborated with multiple agencies, including the Robert Wood Foundation, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Urgent Matters and Health Research & Education Trust of the American Hospital Association, to design and engineer operational patient flow toolkit, which served as a platform for improving ED flow. Linda completed a six-month certification program in Authentic Leadership focusing on the application of integrity and transparency in nonprofit leadership and program development. Linda is a Past President of the Academy of Academic Administrators in Emergency Medicine. She has been funded by the Methodist Foundation, Verizon Foundation, the William Penn Foundation, Merck In and the Aventis Inc. Together with a grateful patient, who survived a sudden death, Linda is the Chair of the Grace Humanitarian Award, which i given annually to a recipient who demonstrates extraordinary empathy in the care of communities both nationally and internationally. Linda was the inaugural recipient of this award, In 2017 Linde received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Academy of Academic Administrator in Emergency Medicine. Linda completed an Insights in Innovation program in 2015 through IDEOU, a Stanford based program rooted in emerging design models in health. At completion of this program, Linda advanced to co-advise on projects including Drexel University, Jefferson and Philadelphia University and M.I.T. These included testing of smart wearable textiles , community engagement and healing spaces of architecture. Linda brings seemingly disparate perspectives in the new emergence of human-centered heath with a strong focus on the dignity of wellness and resiliency. She refers to this new creative trajectory as. "Constellational Thinking."

Currently, Linda serves on the 2019 Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Planning Committee; Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Wellness Committee and is Chair of the inaugural AAAEM Wellness Committee. In 2018 Linda became a certificated Power Yoga Instructor and is teaching yoga here in Puerto Rico! Admitting to being an insatiable traveler, Linda recently returned from visiting the Galapagos Islands, and now has visited six of the world's continents. Married to Jefferson Moon an architect and artist, they share their passion for art, music, and time with their family in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.

Cynthia Kelley, DO

Since 2015, Dr. Kelley has served as the Vice President of Medical Education at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, overseeing 19 training programs and 250 residents and fellows. An Akron native, she grew up following her father on rounds at, then, Akron City Hospital and St. Thomas Hospital as he attended to his patients. Cindy completed her undergraduate education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and her medical school training at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens, Ohio where she also completed a primary care teaching fellowship. She formally joined the Summa family in 2001 as a family medicine resident and stayed as a faculty member upon her graduation before joining the executive team leading medical education in 2015.

In 2014, Cindy completed a Health Policy fellowship and authored the lead article in the June 2014 issue of the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, “Impact of the single accreditation agreement on GME governance and the physician workforce.”

Cindy is married to Mike Kelley, an Emergency Medicine physician and program director for the Northeast Ohio Osteopathic Emergency Medicine Residency based in Warrensville Heights, Ohio. They have four daughters. Cindy enjoys practicing yoga, writing, and walking on the trail in Hudson Springs Park with her family and their dog.

Nick Jouriles, MD

Nick is Professor & Chair, Emergency Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Case Western Reserve University. He trained at Dartmouth and Denver Health. He has served on and led many regional, national and international emergency medicine committees and boards, including current president of the ED Benchmarking Alliance. He has designed emergency medicine education programs and curricula for medical students, residents and post training learners nationally and internationally. His publications are in education, policy and operations. He has been an AACEM member since 2010.

Amy Jameson, MPhil, MA, MBA

Immediate Past President

Amy Jameson has worked in Emergency Medicine for 10 years. She oversees a Department that has almost doubled in size since 2008. She is responsible for the business activities and administration of an academic Department that includes two adult and one pediatric Emergency Departments. She has initiated processes that are key to supporting over 90 faculty and all missions within the Department. She has fostered a culture of teamwork and accountability among the staff. Measurements of her success include balanced budgets, increasing revenues and low staff turnover. She views her role as a partner to the Chair and, as such, investigates and develops creative solutions for the Department to be a leader in a complex organization.

Andy S. Jagoda, MD

Professor and Chair Emeritus

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Andy Jagoda, MD is Professor and Chair Emeritus of Emergency Medicine (EM) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He trained at Georgetown University and completed his emergency medicine residency in 1987. He spent 13 years in the Navy serving in Desert Shield / Desert Storm for which he received a Navy Commendation Medal for “meritorious service”. He came to Mount Sinai in 1995 and has been instrumental in building the Department into one of the leading programs in the country. Dr. Jagoda is nationally recognized for his involvement in EM education, and for his work in the area of neurologic emergencies and practice guideline development. He has co-edited or authored nine books including Rosen’s Textbook; has authored 83 peer reviewed publications and 56 book chapters. He is the Editor-in-chief of a NLM indexed, monthly publication, Emergency Medicine Practice. Dr. Jagoda is a member of the Executive Committee of the Brain Attack Coalition at the NINDS and on the advisory board of the Brain Trauma Foundation (BTF). He Chairs the Credentialing Committee for the NFL’s Airway Management Physician Program, and he co-coordinates the NFL’s Visiting Team Medical Liaison program. Internationally, Dr. Jagoda has been involved in the development of emergency medicine in Italy and Holland. He was inducted as a "Master Educator" into the Mount Sinai Institute for Medical Education in 2009; received the 2011 Mount Sinai Alumni Association "Achievement in Medical Education" award; in 2011 he was presented with the NYACEP “Physician of the Year Award”; in 2015 he received a Mount Sinai Alumni Jacobi Medallion; in 2017 he received the “Distinguished Service Award” from AACEM; and in 2018 he received the “Philanthrophy Award” from SAEMF.

Cathi A. Harbertson

Cathi A. Harbertson is a Business Services Analyst with the Johns Hopkins Department of Emergency Medicine. She received her bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and is currently pursuing an MBA through the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She has spent the past ten years as business/data analyst and has been an integral part of developing a robust data and reporting structure for the emergency departments of Johns Hopkins Medicine. She was responsible for creating operational, research, regulatory, and financial reports for both administrative and clinical staff and leadership at Hopkins. Aside from the significant time devoted to the AAAEM-AACEM benchmarking surveys each year, her current work focuses on helping operationalize clinical decision-making guidelines throughout Johns Hopkin Medical Institutions.

Cathi has been an integral part of the ED benchmarking and salary surveys since 2011. She, alongside the AAAEM-AACEM Benchmarking Committee and Roundtable Analytics, provides substantial support to the deployment and analysis of the survey each year. She has most recently been involved in smaller pilot studies to address current issues in ED operations and helped to publish papers related to the results of the survey.

Richard J. Hamilton, MD, MBA

Immediate Past President

Drexel University College of Medicine

 

Carlos G. Gubern, MD

Carlos Garcia Gubern completed all his studies in Puerto Rico. He earned his Bachelors degree in General Science at the University Of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. From 1999-2004, he served as Assistant Program Director for the UPR EM program, before moving on to be Assistant Program Director and Research Director at the Hospital San Lucas Ponce from 2004-2008. He is currently the Program Director there, as well as Chairman of the EM Department – a role he has held since 2005. He has also been published in multiple original research peer reviewed national and international journals.

Franklin Farmer, MBA, CSSBB, MT(ASCP)

Franklin has been with the UNC Health Care System and then the UNC School of Medicine since 2001 and is the Associate Chair for Administration for the Department of Emergency Medicine. He received a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Laboratory Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001 and a Master’s in Business Administration from Elon University in 2008. He began his career in UNC hospital labs and then held positions in the Quality Department as a Six Sigma Black Belt before managing five of the health care system’s hospital based clinics.

Currently as Associate Chair, Franklin has a diverse range of responsibilities that ensure the Emergency Department continues to meet and expand their clinical, education and research goals. In addition to his Emergency Medicine responsibilities, Franklin has taught courses in Quality and Analytics in the Health Policy and Management program at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health since 2009.

Carl R. Chudnofsky, MD

Dr. Chudnofsky is Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Chief of Emergency Services at LAC+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles. He graduated from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in 1985 and did his emergency medicine training at the University of Cincinnati, where he was Chief Resident from 1988-1989. Dr. Chudnofsky is also on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Emergency Medicine where he serves as an Item Writer for the Qualifying Examination, Editor and Chief Examiner for the Oral Examination, and Vice Chair of the Test Administration Committee. Dr. Chudnofsky’s administrative passion lies in ED operations and his research interest has been focused on improving procedural sedation in the ED.

David F. M. Brown, MD

David F. M. Brown, MD is Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and the MGH Trustees Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Brown is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University and received his MD from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, where he was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha. He trained at Massachusetts General Hospital and is a diplomate of both the American Board of Emergency Medicine and the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. An accomplished clinician, scholar, teacher, mentor and administrator, Dr. Brown lectures nationally and internationally on topics related to cardiovascular emergencies, the role of EM in integrated health systems, and ED process redesign. His innovative work in the latter area has been extensively published, widely cited, and broadly emulated. He is the author of more than 230 peer-reviewed articles, reviews, and chapters, has written two popular textbooks related to cardiovascular emergencies, and served as the inaugural editor-in-chief of the textbook Scientific American: Emergency Medicine. He has been recognized by his residents with multiple teaching and mentorship awards and has been nationally honored as well, in 2002 with the ACEP National Faculty Teaching Award and in 2011 with the EMRA National Teaching Award.

Jane H. Brice, MD, MPH

President

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

 Jane Brice is the University of North Carolina Chair of Emergency Medicine. A tenured professor of Emergency Medicine, she took the helm of the department in 2015 after 20+ years of service as a faculty member. She holds adjunct appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and Social Medicine. She is a UNC graduate with degrees in education/physical education (1974), medicine (1994), and epidemiology (1998). She is an accomplished investigator having held multiple federal grants with a focus on the care of patients in the out-of-hospital environment provided by Emergency Medical Services personnel. As a well-published and recognized expert in the prehospital care, she is the Editor-In-Chief for Prehospital Emergency Care. She is a certified coach and invested in her own growth as a person and as a leader as well as the growth of her faculty. She is passionate about baseball, Star Wars, and dill pickles.

Gregory M. Archual, MBA, CLSSBB

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Greg Archual received his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management from the University of Akron in 1983 and received his MBA from Ashland University in 1987. Greg also received his Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt certification from Kent State University in 2006.

Greg’s work history includes both manufacturing and healthcare sectors, working for eleven years as an industrial/management engineer with a focus on process improvement and systems engineering. His work experience also includes thirteen years managing an emergency department of a level one trauma center and fifteen years of academic emergency medicine practice management. He is currently Chief Operating Officer and Administrator of the Department of Emergency Medicine at The Ohio State University where he is responsible for the strategic, financial, and operational success of the department’s three missions: clinical, education, and research. Greg is responsible for all operations of the Emergency Medicine department which include: two emergency departments, four advanced urgent cares, an immediate care center, hyperbaric medicine, two clinical decision units, and a Physician Advisor Program. He has served as President of AAAEM and is currently Co-Chair of the Benchmark Committee.

Azeemuddin Ahmed, MD, MBA

Azeemuddin Ahmed, MD, MBA is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Iowa. He practices and teaches Emergency Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Serving as Executive Vice Chair, he works closely with the department chair in all aspects of departmental administration with added focus on faculty recruitment, faculty development, faculty practice plan, faculty compensation, clinical innovation as well as strategic planning.

Dr. Ahmed is board certified in Emergency Medicine and sub-specialty board certified in Emergency Medical Services by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He is the founding Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Fellowship Program Director and serves as the Medical Director for Kinnick Stadium and Carver Hawkeye Arena.

He is an active researcher with projects involving health services, pre-hospital care, and continues to publish case reports, book chapters, research abstracts and manuscripts in a variety of academic media. He presents didactic lectures both locally and nationally and is a member of several professional organizations devoted to the advancement of Emergency Medicine care, education and research.

Dr. Ahmed brings his education, enthusiasm, and real-world experience in conducting negotiations to the “Dynamics of Negotiations” class at the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business. He has proficiency in negotiating in a variety of situations within the health care system, between organizational units, human resources and business development. He was recognized by the Tippie Executive MBA – Iowa City Classes of 2015 and 2018 as a GREAT Instructor of the Year. In 2017, Dr. Ahmed was selected by the Tippie Executive MBA – Des Moines cohort as a GREAT Instructor of the Year and they also nominated him for the President and Provost Teaching Award. He is a member of the Academy of Management professional organization

Dr. Ahmed is originally from Bettendorf, IA and he completed his Bachelor of Arts at Augustana College (Rock Island, IL), his Doctor of Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, his Emergency Medicine residency training program at Michigan State University (Grand Rapids, MI) and his Executive MBA at the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business.

Linelle F. Campbell, MD, MS

PGY-4, Chief Resident; Jacobi/ Montefiore Emergency Medicine; Fellow, NYC H+H Health Administration Scholars Program; Chair, SAEM ADIEM Resident Committee; Delegate, Committee of Interns and Residents

Dr. Campbell is a Chief resident in Emergency Medicine at Jacobi/ Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York. Dr. Campbell received her medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine. She is the former Chair for the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Emergency Medicine Resident Association and the Chair of the Resident Committee for the Academy of Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. She currently serves as a union delegate at her hospital for the Committee of Interns and Residents as well as a Patient Care Trust Fund Trustee. She is currently a fellow for New York City Health and Hospitals’ Healthcare Administrative Scholars Program. She is involved in research regarding medical overuse in the Emergency Department. She also serves as the Resident Lead of the Jacobi/ Montefiore Social Emergency Medicine Committee. Dr. Campbell’s interests include mentoring and improvement of the recruitment practices of underrepresented minorities into the medical field, resident advocacy, writing social emergency medicine focused curriculum, and security and workplace violence.

Ateev Mehrotra, M.D., M.P.H.

Ateev Mehrotra, M.D., M.P.H. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Mehrotra’s research focuses on the impact of delivery innovations on costs, quality, and access. Dr. Mehrotra received his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco and completed his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Boston.

Lynne Holden, MD

Professor, Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Chair, Emergency Medicine Section, National Medical Association; President, Mentoring in Medicine, Inc.

Dr. Lynne Holden was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. She attended Howard University and Temple University School of Medicine. She served as a chief resident and graduated from the Jacobi-Montefiore Residency Program in 1995. In 2018, Dr. Lynne Holden became a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (the 5th Black female in the country). Her career is dedicated to patient care, teaching, educational research and diversifying the biomedical workforce. In 2007, she co-founded Mentoring in Medicine, Inc. which is a science and health youth development nonprofit that inspires, educates and empowers low income students from elementary school through medical career to pursue a biomedical career. In July 2020, she helped co-launch the Social Emergency Medicine Program for the Jacobi-Montefiore Emergency Medicine residency. Dr. Holden was elected Chair of the Emergency Medicine Section of the National Medical Association where she oversees academic enrichment, assists with faculty promotion and leads a mentoring program for six hundred EM physicians. Additionally, she was named Chair of the K-Grad Action Group of the Roundtable on Black Men and Women at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Dr. Holden has been the recipient of twenty national and local awards and fifty-four press features for her work in helping to build the next generation of diverse biomedical professionals.

Jacqueline A. Ward-Gaines, MD

Member-at-Large

University of Colorado School of Medicine

I am currently an assistant professor in the department of emergency medicine and departmental DEI educational lead and director at Denver Health EM residency. I joined university faculty in 2006 after completing my training in emergency medicine at the Brooklyn Hospital Center. Prior to getting my board certification, I served in the United States Army as a General Medical Officer and Flight Surgeon. After graduating from Florida A&M University I matriculated to the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine for a medical degree and initial training. Early on, I was an instrumental member of the hospital’s Emergency Management Committee, responsible for the Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) program. I developed a disaster tabletop series to train the hospital administration on command structure and incident management. I was the Co-PI for NIH funded research in development of disaster integrated computer technology. I presented such research at the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine Conference. As with most faculty, I enjoy teaching, including all aspects such as guest lecturer in the community outreach program P.A.R.T.Y. (Prevent Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth). My past leadership includes Assistant Course Director of Third-Year Medical Students Emergency Medicine Clerkship and my appointment as Medical Director of the emergency department medics. I now hold an important leadership role on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in the CU department of emergency medicine. I work to improve equitable education and am currently spearheading a DEI curriculum for emergency medicine residents with a focused health equity simulation day. I have worked within the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine to bring DEI resources to the forefront of medicine.