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Lesley J. Walinchus-Foster, MD

Attending Physician Clinical Faculty, MedStar Emergency Physicians

Lesley Walinchus-Foster is an Attending Physician at MedStar Emergency Physicians in the Greater DC Area. She splits her time between MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center in Clinton, MD and MedStar Washington Hospital Center in DC. Lesley completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Cooper University Hospital in 2020 and served as Chief Resident for the 2019-2020 AY. She graduated from Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine in 2017 and has a Masters in Pharmacology from Jefferson University. Lesley graduated with a BS in Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics from the University of Maryland in 2009. Her clinical interests are FEMinEM, medical education, EM advising, and airway education. Her professional goals are to be an example of female leadership in academic medicine.

Jeremy Collado, MD

Chief Resident Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine, Chair, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee Co-founder, Past President, Minority and Ally Residency Council (MARC), U of Colorado, Vice-chair Diversity and Inclusion Committee, EMRA

Born in Queens, New York, Jeremy Collado, MD, grew up in South Florida and attended Duke University where he studied Psychology, Linguistics, and Music. He received his medical degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine and is a Chief Resident at the Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine, where he serves as the Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. He is the co-founder and Immediate Past President of the University of Colorado Minority and Ally Residency Council (MARC) as well as a Vice-chair of EMRA’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee. His three major academic interests are: 1) diversity, inclusion, cultural responsiveness, and health disparities and equity, especially as they relate to 2) education and 3) administration and operations.

Kathleen Wittels, MD

Director of Student Programs, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Dr. Kathleen Wittels is the Director of Student Programs for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. Dr. Wittels received her medical degree from Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School and completed residency in the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at BWH/MGH. In addition to her role as Director of Student Programs, she is also Assistant Medical Director for Emergency Medicine in the Neil and Elise Wallace STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation. Dr. Wittels is recognized as a leading educator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital through her work developing new curricula for Harvard medical students, innovative emergency medicine simulation curriculum for Harvard learners, and program assessment tools for educators.

Sreeja M. Natesan, MD

Duke University, Durham NC

I am an associate professor and associate program director at the Duke University Emergency Medicine Program, as well as the Duke EM Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion co-founder/co-chair. My primary area of interest and expertise is in diversity & inclusion, clinical teaching, and feedback. I am enthusiastic, with a passion for collaboration growing talent, and helping to contribute through my project management, organizational, and communication skills. I have served on several national committees for education & diversity including helping with the Educational Summit for SAEM, helping to create a DEI mini-track for CORD last year, being a speaker for the DEI webinar series for ADIEM in 2020, and serving as co-founder and facilitator for CORD DEI Stronger Together bookclub, among other contributions. I possess a broad clinical and research training experience centering around project management, collaboration, and educational skills training. Briefly, this includes Duke Teach Equity Now, Duke Moments to Movement Foundation Course, ACEP Teaching Fellowship, ALiEM Faculty Incubator Program (where I now serve as chief operation officer), AAMC Medical Education Research Certificate program, Duke Educational Skills Longitudinal Mentorship Program, and Duke Academy for Health Professions Education and Academic Development (AHEAD) Med Ed Certificate Program, among other development.

I would be honored to work with others to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion for our medical education community through education and research. I believe together collectively, we have the power to have a greater impact and am excited to be involved further to give back to our community. I desire to help disseminate knowledge by curating and providing resources to our community surrounding Diversity in Medical education, best practices/promising practices surrounding faculty/resident recruitment with the use of holistic review, and mitigating bias in the education/feedback we provide. I helped lead our CORD Best Practice team to focus on 3 papers regarding DEI in med ed (Holistic Review & Mitigating Bias; Physician Pipeline and Pathway Program; both under review by WestJem; Faculty Recruitment and Representation - accepted for publication). I believe through ADIEM we could do similar work to help serve our community.

I have been able to do some work surrounding this here at Duke by teaching holistic review to our program directors at our institutional GME meetings. I would love to have regular offerings to our community in the form of skills training and workshops to practice tools that can then be shared at the participant’s local institutions. By doing so, we can have a larger impact on our work and reach. I look forward to the opportunity to be involved, create networks and relationships, and to serve our ED community.

Eric S. Holmboe, MD

Chief Research, Milestones Development and Evaluation Officer

Dr. Holmboe is Chief Research, Milestones Development and Evaluation Officer at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). He is Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. He previously served as the Associate Program Director, Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program, Director of Student Clinical Assessment, Yale School of Medicine and Assistant Director of the Yale Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program. Before joining Yale in 2000, he served as Division Chief of General Internal Medicine at the National Naval Medical Center. Dr. Holmboe retired from the US Naval Reserves in 2005. His research interests include interventions to improve quality of care and methods in the assessment of clinical competence. His professional memberships include the American College of Physicians, where he is a Master of the College, Society of General Internal Medicine and Association of Medical Education in Europe. He is an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London, honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and honorary fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators. Dr. Holmboe is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He completed his residency and chief residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale University.

Nathan Kuppermann, MD, MPH

Bo Tomas Brofelt Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor Department of Emergency Medicine

UC Davis School of Medicine

Dr. Kuppermann is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, and the Bo Tomas Brofeldt Endowed Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis. He is a pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) physician and clinical epidemiologist, and a leader in emergency medical services for children, particularly in multicenter research. Research foci for which he is a leading national investigator include 1) infectious emergencies in children including the laboratory evaluation of young febrile children, 2) the evaluation of children at risk of diabetic ketoacidosis-related cerebral injury, and 3) the laboratory and radiographic evaluation of the pediatric trauma patient. His focus is on clinical trials and clinical prediction rules using large cohorts of acutely ill and injured children. He has published works in all three focus areas in high-impact journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, BMJ, and the Lancet. Dr. Kuppermann has received more than $30 million in federal grants and contracts as a PI over the past decade, and has published more than 230 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Kuppermann has been a leader in multicenter research in PEM, starting by chairing the first U.S. research network in PEM (the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee of the AAP) from 1996-2000, and leading several investigations there. He then became one of the founding investigators and founding Chair of the Steering Committee of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) since it’s inception in 2001 until late in 2008, and remains one of the 7 network PIs. He recently completed a 4-year term as Chair of the Executive Committee of the (global) Pediatric Emergency Research Network (PERN), an international consortium of PEM research networks.

Dr. Kuppermann has been recognized nationally for his research and mentorship. In 2009, Dr. Kuppermann received the Miller-Sarkin Mentoring Award from the Academic Pediatric Association, and in 2012 received the Jim Seidel Distinguished Service Award, from the Section on Emergency Medicine of the AAP for outstanding contributions to Pediatric Emergency Medicine. In 2010 and 2011, he received national research awards from the EMSC program of HRSA, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and the American College of Emergency Physicians. In 2015, he was recognized with the American College of American Physicians EBSCO/PEMSoft Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to pediatric emergency evidence based medicine. In 2017 a PEM Scientific Research Mentoring award was named after him by the SAEM. In 2010 he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Ava Pierce, MD

Member-at-Large

UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas

Ava E. Pierce, MD is a Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, the Associate Vice Chair of Outreach and Engagement for the Department of Emergency Medicine, the Director of the Emergency Medicine Research Associate Program, a Co-Director of the Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) at UT Southwestern and works clinically at Parkland Health and Hospital Systems. She obtained her medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine at Shreveport and completed an emergency medicine residency at Emory University School of Medicine.
Dr. Pierce completed the Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) Program and the AAMC Healthcare Executive Diversity and Inclusion Certificate Program and is committed to making innovative changes that will improve excellence in health care, thus strengthening a workforce that will provide quality medical care to all. She serves as a member of UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Medical School Admissions Committee and is a faculty liaison for Housestaff Emerging Academy of Leaders (HEAL), which focuses on professional development and mentoring for residents and fellows. Her research interests include medical education, health equity, and cardiac resuscitation.
Dr. Pierce has built a steadfast academic career with involvement in numerous capacities at SAEM. She has been actively involved in the Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine (ADIEM) since it was founded. She has served as the Development Officer for the Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine (ADIEM), President - Elect for ADIEM for 2017-2018, ADIEM’s President 2018 – 2019 and ADIEM’s Immediate Past President 2019 - 2020. She was awarded the 2016 Outstanding Academician Award by ADIEM in recognition of her impact on the academic success of students and residents underrepresented in medicine. She has also been a member of SAEM’s Membership Committee, SAEM’s Ethics Committee and SAEM’s Diversity and Inclusion Task Force. She is an elected 2020-2023 and 2023 - 2026 Member-at-Large of the Board of Directors of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). She is also a member of the National Medical Association, the AAMC Group on Diversity and Inclusion, and a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. In 2022, she was appointed as holder of the Michael P. Wainscott, M.D. Professorship in Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Melanie Camejo, MD

Assistant Program Director for UMKC Residency Clerkship Director for Emergency Medicine Assistant Medical Education Fellowship Director Truman Medical Center/University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC) Emergency Medicine

I attended the 6 year BA/MD Program at UMKC. After graduation. I attended Temple in Philadelphia for my Emergency Medicine Residency Training. Kansas City has always had my heart so it was fate when my husband matched Retina in Kansas City. I am currently a nocturnist. I am also in my last semester of my Master’s in Health Professional Education at UMKC. In a little over 4 years, I have become Clerkship director, Assistant Program Director, and Assistant MedEd Fellowship Director at UMKC. This was only possible because of the amazing mentoring I have received. I continue to be heavily involved with advising students via CORD. I am passionate about mentorship, having open communication, giving meaningful feedback, flipped classroom teaching models, diversity and inclusion, and using social media for education. I have big plans for the future and I am excited to see what the future holds.

Christopher San Miguel, MD

Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director, Assistant Professor – Clinical Institution: The Ohio State University

Christopher San Miguel is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Director of UME at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He completed his undergraduate work as a Park Scholar at North Carolina State University and graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He served as Chief Resident during the final year of his Emergency Medicine residency at The Ohio State University. The following year he completed the Medical Education fellowship, and last year he finished the Master of Education in the Health Professions program through Johns Hopkins University. His professional interests include curriculum development, procedural competency, and simulation training.

William Alley, MD

Assistant Professor MSIII Clerkship Director Wake Forest School of Medicine

William Alley is the M3 Clerkship Director and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine. He graduated from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia, where he also completed residency and an ultrasound fellowship. His professional interests are medical education and medical student advising. When not seeing patients or thinking about ways to help students be the best physicians they can be, he can be found on the disc golf course, in his woodworking shop, or at his backyard calisthenics gym.

Blake Williams, MD

Associate Professor, EM Residency Program Director, UT-Southwestern Medical Center

I was born and raised on a family farm in the rural Texas town of Cleburne TX. I received my undergraduate degree in biomedical science from Texas A&M University. I then attended medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center - San Antonio before continuing on to complete my Emergency Medicine residency at Indiana University. I had always had a passion for education and my plan all along was to pursue an academic career in medical education. After completing residency in Indiana, I returned back home to Texas and have been on faculty at UT-Southwestern since. I currently serve as program director for the EM residency training program here at UT-Southwestern. My clinical interests include: emergency ophthalmology, medical education, community service/involvement, and diversity and inclusion.

Angela Jarman, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine, UC Davis

UC Davis

Angela Jarman is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine. She joined the faculty at UC Davis after completed a two-year fellowship in Sex & Gender in Emergency Medicine at Brown University, where she also earned a Master of Public Health degree. Angela is a North Carolina native and majored in Gender Studies at Duke University before attending medical school at the University of Kentucky. She trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Her professional interests include sex differences in acute care medicine, gender bias in medicine and leadership, and global emergency medicine. Personally, Angela enjoys long hikes in the mountains with her dog, her many nieces, and good books!

Nathan Lewis, MD

Clerkship Director Assistant Program Director Associate Professor Virginia Commonwealth University

Nate Lewis obtained his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia and his medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. Upon completion of emergency medicine residency at VCU, Dr. Lewis stayed on as faculty. He now serves as the director for M3 and M4 emergency medicine rotations in the medical school and as an assistant program director for the residency program. Additionally, Dr. Lewis is actively involved in undergraduate medical education and medical student advising through the Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine. He has served on several national committees and is a member of the CORD Advising Students Committee in EM. Dr. Lewis is also the creator and cohost of the EM Stud Podcast, a podcast for medical students interested in emergency medicine which covers a wide range of topics and includes guests from all over the country. His professional interests include undergraduate and graduate medical education, social media, and simulation.

Steven Nazario, MD

Program Director Emergency Medicine Residency

AdventHealth East Orlando

Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY he obtained his medical degree from Downstate Medical Center. Having completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Jacobi-Montefiore in 1997 he stayed on as faculty until 2003. Dr. Nazario then moved to Orlando, Florida and was as a founding member of the EM residency at AdventHealth (formerly Florida Hospital). In the fall of 2019 he became the Program Director after serving as its Associate PD for twelve years. Dr. Nazario serves as an Oral Board examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine and as a member of his hospital system’s ethics committee.

Sheryl Heron, MD, MPH

Professor-Vice Chair, Associate Dean

Emory University School of Medicine

Sheryl L. Heron, MD, MPH, is a professor and vice-chair of faculty equity, engagement and empowerment in the department of emergency medicine, inaugural associate dean for community engagement, equity and inclusion and associate director of education and training for the injury prevention research center at Emory (IPRCE), Emory University School of Medicine. She is also a past chair of the emergency medicine section of the National Medical Association. Dr. Heron has received numerous awards including the Partnership Against Domestic Violence’s HOPE Award, the Women in Medicine Award from the Council of Concerned Women of the National Medical Association, the Gender Justice Award from the Commission on Family Violence, and was named a Hero of Emergency Medicine by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). She was named the inaugural president of the Academy for Diversity & Inclusion in Emergency Medicine (ADIEM) of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and is an editor of two textbooks on diversity and inclusion in quality patient care in emergency medicine. Dr. Heron has lectured extensively on topics such as diversity, equity & inclusion as well as wellness and well-being in health care.

Eric Blazar, MD

Inspira Medical Center Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Rowan University Clerkship Director

Completed residency at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA in 2015. Have been at Inspira Medical Center in Vineland, NJ since graduating where I am the clerkship director and assistant director of research. My academic interests in medical education, specifically teaching humanism at the bedside as well as utilizing technology for virtual learning.

Sharon Bord, MD

Assistant Professor Co-Director Medical Student Education, Clerkship Director

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Sharon Bord is an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She attended medical school at The George Washington University School of Medicine and then completed residency training at Boston Medical Center. She has a focus on both undergraduate and graduate medical education and is a member of the Teaching College, a group of faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine dedicated to educational endeavors for both residents and medical students. She serves as the Co‐Director for the required medical student clerkship and subinternship in Emergency Medicine and has been integral in developing new curriculum and exam material including an observed structured clinical exam(OSCE).

She also directs the capstone course, TRIPLE, for graduating fourth year medical students teaching critical skills to aid with the transition to internship and beyond. Her research is in the area of medical education with a focus on student assessment. On a national level she is member of CORD(Committee of Residency Directors) and member at large on the CDEM(Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine) board. She was co-chair for the SLOE committee with the goal of reworking the SLOE in the COVID era. She also has served as track chair for the CDEM track at the CORD conference. Additionally, she served on the editorial board for a nationally renowned board review question book. Internationally, she developed course material and produced online lecture materials on core Emergency Medicine topics for a company based in Germany. Her videos have been viewed by approximately 23,000 individuals.

George Willis, MD

Director of Undergraduate Medical Education Assistant Residency Program Director Department of Emergency Medicine University of Maryland School of Medicine

Dr. Willis is the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education and Assistant Residency Program Director for the University of Maryland Department of Emergency Medicine. He is fellowship trained in Faculty Development and graduate of ACEP's Teaching Fellowship. Dr. Willis is an outstanding educator and frequently lectures locally, nationally, and internationally on endocrine emergencies, aortic emergencies, procedural and simulation training. He has received numerous teaching awards including the UMEM Residency Program's Outstanding Teaching Award and ACEP's Junior Faculty Teaching Award.

Kene Chukwuanu, MD

Associate Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Director of Emergency Ultrasound; SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital Intensivist, Critical Care Medicine, SSM Health DePaul & St. Mary’s Hospitals - St. Louis, MO

Saint Louis University

Kene Chukwuanu, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, is an emergency medicine trained-intensivist from St. Louis, Missouri. He completed residency in emergency medicine at Saint Louis University (SLU), where he was also Chief Resident, followed by a Medical Education Fellowship at SLU. He then completed the Multidisciplinary Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida. He is board certified in both emergency medicine and critical care medicine.

Currently, Dr. Chukwuanu is the Associate Residency Program Director and Director of Emergency Ultrasound in the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Saint Louis University. He is also Co-Director of Student Ultrasound Education for the SLU School of Medicine. Dr. Chukwuanu also currently serves as Vice President of the Missouri College of Emergency Physicians (MOCEP) and Chair-Elect of the EM Section of the National Medical Association (NMA).

Harsh Sule, MD, MPP

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine & Residency Program Director Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ

Harsh Sule, MD, MPP is Residency Program Director, Associate Director for the Office of Global Health at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ. His areas of interest include global health and social EM, and he has been active in advising/mentorship at the undergraduate and graduate medical education levels for over 10 years.