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Phillip Mudd, MD, PhD

Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

Philip Mudd is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Washington University in Saint Louis Medical School. He maintains a laboratory studying human immune responses to viral respiratory diseases, including influenza and SARS-CoV-2. He studies human biospecimens collected from subjects with viral respiratory diseases that are recruited to his ongoing studies in the Barnes Jewish Hospital emergency department, where he also practices clinically. Dr. Mudd was recently awarded a grant to lead a campus-wide biospecimen collection and repository study for patients presenting to Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, or other affiliated sites with symptoms of COVID-19.

Peter Greenwald, MD, MS

Doctor Peter Greenwald is the Director of telemedicine for the Department of Emergency Medicine at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine. He did his graduate medical training at Albert Einstein in the Bronx, and is board certified in emergency medicine. He attended medical school at State University of New York Health Science Center Brooklyn, and graduated magna cum laude from Williams College. As a clinician and administrator involved in the creation of telemedicine practice at a large enterprise, Dr. Greenwald has an in depth understanding of the creation of new medical systems and the educational needs of medical providers. He has been deeply involved in flexing telemedicine capabilities at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork Presbyterian to meet the demands of the COVID-19 crisis. Recent work in this area of telemedicine education is reflected by abstracts presented at the annual meetings for the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, The American College of Emergency Medicine, and The American Telemedicine Association, as well as publications in peer reviewed literature.

Paul Auwaerter, MD, MBA, FIDSA

Paul G Auwaerter is the Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine serving as the Clinical Director for the Division of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases.

He serves as the Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Point of Care-Information Technology (POC-IT) Center producing the Johns Hopkins ABX (Antibiotic), JH HIV, JH Osler, JH Psychiatry and JH Diabetes Guides. Dr. Auwaerter serves as Editor-in-Chief of the ABX Guide that over the last 20 years has grown to be a standard reference for ID-related clinical decision support and rationale antimicrobial management. Dr. Auwaerter’s research and clinical interests include improving the diagnosis and care for patients with Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections as well as work in surgical infections, Epstein-Barr virus, respiratory diseases and antibiotic resistance. He is a Past President of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the largest professional society worldwide related to infectious diseases.

Patrick Maher, MD

I obtained my undergraduate degree at the University of Georgia and my medical degree from Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C. For residency, I was selected as part of the inaugural class in Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington, in Seattle, where I also completed my fellowship in Critical Care Medicine in 2017. After fellowship, I relocated to New York, where I have been part of the Research and Critical Care divisions of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In this time, I have also completed a Master of Science degree in Biostatistics from Columbia University. I was funded by the NIH as a T32-researcher investigating hemorrhage and coagulopathy in the ED and ICU settings. In addition to clinical work as an attending at the Mount Sinai Hospital Emergency Department, I also am the first faculty member hired with an EM background to work in our Medical ICU at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Nicholas M. Mohr, MD, MS

Member-at-Large

University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

Nicholas Mohr, MD, MS is a Professor of Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia Critical Care, and Epidemiology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. He is also the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine, the Director of the Emergency Medicine-Anesthesia Critical Care Fellowship Program, the Director of the Emergency Medicine Physician Scientist Training Pathway (PSTP) in the Emergency Medicine Residency Program, and the Director of the Rural Telehealth Research Center. Dr. Mohr completed residency in emergency medicine and was a Chief Resident at Indiana University, then he completed fellowship in critical care medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Mohr has been active in SAEM, most recently serving as the Chair of the SAEM Grants Committee (2019-2022), the Chair of the Scientific Subcommittee (Abstracts) of the SAEM Program Committee (2019-2022), and the SAEM Representative to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Physician Scientist Training Pathway Committee (2021-present). He also served as the Chair of the Planning Committee for the SAEM Great Plains Regional Meeting in 2016, the Co-Lead of the Writing Committee for the SAEM Generational Issues in Emergency Medicine Task Force (2009-10), and a member of the SAEM Research Committee. Dr. Mohr’s interest in a position on the Board of Directors stems from his deep appreciation for the role SAEM has played in his own mentorship and personal career development. He is particularly interested in issues of professional mentorship within the Society and how the Society can establish procedures for more robust succession planning within committees, task forces, and academies. More globally, he is interested in how emergency medicine as a specialty can grow the cadre of successfully funded independent researchers, and his recent work has focused on improving residency and junior faculty training opportunities for graduates of Medical Scientist Training Programs (MSTP, MD/PhD training). Dr. Mohr feels that the Society is critical to the future of academic emergency medicine education, research, and practice, and he would be honored to serve the Society on the Board of Directors.

Nicholas Cozzi, MD

Dr. Nicholas Cozzi is an MBA trained, Chief Emergency Medicine Resident at Spectrum Health / Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and Chair-Elect of the Spectrum Health House Staff Council (Grand Rapids). Nicholas is grateful to EMRA for providing such meaningful opportunities for personal and professional growth which include being the Chair-Elect of the EMRA Administration and Operations Committee and EMRA Representative to the ACEP EM Practice Committee and ACEP Practice Management and Health Policy Section. Additionally, Nicholas serves as the EMRA Scholar on the EDPMA Federal Health Policy Committee as well as the Education and Fellowship Sub-Committee.

Nehal Naik, MD

SAEM RAMS President

Nehal Naik is a 3rd year resident at the George Washington University in Washington DC. An immigrant to the United States and a Californian at heart. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and received his MD from Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia.

Dr. Naik began his service to SAEM on the inaugural Resident and Medical Students (RAMS) board from 2017-2018, creating a home for trainees in SAEM and as chair of the RAMS research committee. He continued as the RAMS president from 2019-2020, and currently serves as the Immediate Past-President of RAMS. He has led RAMS to become a preeminent organization to advance the future of Emergency Medicine through the development of resident and medical students into academic leaders. He also served as the Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA) Resident representative from 2019-2020.

His academic interests include global emergency medicine development in pre-hospital systems and medical education, along with innovative practice in emergency medicine.

Neel Naik, MD

NYP-Weill Cornell Medicine

"I am currently sssistant professor of emergency medicine, director of EM simulation education. Current Member-At-Large SAEM Simulation Board, Education Small Group Leader SAEM 2020 Telemedicine Consensus Conference. Since I started on the SAEM Simulation Board in the spring of 2020, I have had the responsibility of developing the social media presence of the Simulation Academy. In my time, we have successfully overcome limitations to the account and have actively been tweeting academy updates. Moreover, in order to better serve our members, we have been highlighting publications by our members to increase visibility and continuously promote our members. Through our activity on social media, I have almost doubled the number of followers we have and grown our membership. I have also sought to actively communicate with our membership through regular SAEM Pulse updates to reach those who are not active on social media. As the Vice President of Social Media and Communications, I hope to continue to expand our ability to communicate with our membership, to foster community, announce academy events and promote content created by members of our academy. I hope to continue to grow our social media presence, double our follower base and be a megaphone for our community."

Dr. Neel Naik is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine. He completed his residency and simulation fellowship at New York University/Bellevue Hospital Center, where he developed skills in curriculum design and remediation. Dr. Naik is the Director of Simulation Education at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine, where he is developing and implementing an enterprise-wide telemedicine education platform as part of the Weill Cornell Medicine’s Center for Virtual Care. He is involved in telemedicine education nationally and directs telemedicine education for all medical students at Weill Cornell Medicine leading to him being awarded the 2019 SAEM Simulation Innovation Award. In addition to simulation education, Dr. Naik is interested in innovation in instructional design and all areas of medical education. He has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications in education, directs a national group studying telemedicine education for the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, and is a nationally known expert in this evolving topic.

Neal Sikka, MD

Neal Sikka, MD is a board certified emergency physician and an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University. He has experience providing and developing telehealth services for remote environments as well as his large multispecialty practice. Dr Sikka is the director for GW Telemedicine and Digital Health Fellowship program and has lead a number of grant funded projects related to technology enabled care.

Namita Jayaprakash, MD

Dr. Jayaprakash is am EM-Intensivist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI and clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at Wayne State University. She splits her clinical time between the emergency department (ED) and medical ICU and is a member of the early intervention team at Henry Ford Hospital, seeing critical care consults in the ED.

Michael Ward, MD, PhD, MBA

Michael Ward, MD, PhD, MBA is a board certified emergency physician, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a staff emergency physician at the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville. He earned his PhD in operations management at the University of Cincinnati after completing a research fellowship in operations research. His research is funded by the NIH and the Department of Veterans Affairs focusing on care transitions, feedback systems and implementation of telehealth in emergency care settings.

Michael Gonzalez, MD

Dr. Michael G. Gonzalez serves as Associate Medical Director for the City of Houston Fire Department/EMS Division, Director of the ETHAN (Emergency Tele-Health and Navigation) Project and is academic faculty with Baylor College of Medicine, Emergency Medicine Residency Program - Director of Advanced Airway Management and Simulation Education. Dr. Gonzalez is a native Texan and graduate of Rice University, and the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. A veteran of the U.S. Air Force, with multiple tours of duty in support of Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn, Gonzalez has served as Chief of Emergency Services, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, as well as Deputy Director & Lead Physician for Critical Care Air Transport Team (CCATT) operations, U.S. Armed Forces Europe and Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. He lectures nationally and internationally with research interests in pre-hospital airway management, telemedicine, critical care transport and trauma.

Michael Brown, MD, MSc

Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

Dr. Brown is the founding chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. After graduating from medical school in 1986, he completed his EM residency training at Butterworth Hospital where he subsequently joined the faculty. It was during this period when he developed a passion for summarizing evidence in a form that is useful to clinicians. This interest led to a MSc degree in Epidemiology with a focus on evidence synthesis (i.e., meta-analysis). Dr. Brown serves as Senior Editor for two Cochrane Networks: Acute and Emergency Care and Circulation and Breathing. He also serves as immediate past president of the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine.

Megan Ranney MD MPH

Megan Ranney MD MPH is a practicing emergency physician and researcher, focusing on the intersection between digital health, violence prevention, and public health.

She is the Director and founder of the Brown Emergency Digital Health Innovation (EDHI) program (www.brownedhi.org). She is also Chief Research Officer for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (www.affirmresearch.org), the country's only non-profit committed to reducing firearm injury through the public health approach, and a founding partner of GetUsPPE.org, dedicated to matching donors to health systems in need of protective equipment. She is a Fellow of the fifth class of the Aspen Health Innovators Fellowship Program and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

She graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in History of Science in 1997. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cote d'Ivoire prior to attending medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in NYC. She graduated with AOA status and received the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine award from the Gold Humanism Society on graduation. She completed internship, residency, and chief residency in Emergency Medicine, as well as a fellowship in Injury Prevention Research and a Master of Public Health, at Brown University.

She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital/Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is an editor for the journal Annals of Emergency Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and an elected member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Board of Directors. She has previously served as an appointed member of HIMSS' mHealth Physician Taskforce. Chair of the Research Committee for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and chair of the Firearm Injury Research Technical Advisory Group for the American College of Emergency Physicians. She has been PI or Co-I over a dozen federally funded grants, all focused on technology-based interventions for high risk populations. Her work has been featured by dozens of media outlets ranging from MSNBC to the New York Times to Fox News.

Matthew Stull, MD

Dr. Matt Stull is an EM-Intensivist and Assistant Program Director at the University Hospitals-Cleveland Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University EM Residency. He works as a cardiothoracic intensivist in addition to his time in the ED. He trained at the University of Pittsburgh for medical school, the University of Cincinnati for EM residency, and University of Michigan for critical care fellowship, as well as completing a medical education fellowship in Washington, D.C. His interests include educational innovation, leadership development, post-arrest management and mechanical circulatory support.

Lisa Maragakis, MD, MPH

Lisa Maragakis is an Associate Professor of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where she received her medical degree and post-doctoral Infectious Diseases training and a master’s degree in public health from The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She serves as Senior Director for Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Prevention for the Johns Hopkins Health System in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Maragakis is the Executive Director of the Biocontainment Unit at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She serves as Co-Chair of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and as Co-Chair for the 2020 update of the SHEA-IDSA Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare Associated Infections. Her research interests integrate infection prevention, human factors engineering, implementation science, and mathematical modeling approaches to develop new interventions to prevent the transmission of high-consequence pathogens in healthcare settings.

Leana Wen, MD, MSc

Dr. Leana Wen is a visiting professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, where she is also the distinguished fellow of the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity. Previously, she served as the Commissioner of Health for the City of Baltimore and as the President/CEO of Planned Parenthood. In 2019, Dr. Wen was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People and as Modern Healthcare’s 50 Most Influential Clinician-Executives.

Dr. Wen earned her medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine and her master’s degrees at the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She completed her residency training in emergency medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. The author of dozens of scientific articles, she has been an op-ed contributor for the Washington Post, National Public Radio, and Baltimore Sun, and is regularly featured on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC, and PBS

Kristin Ray, MD, MS

Dr. Kristin Ray is a general pediatrician at the UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, a health services researcher, and also trained in clinical informatics. She studies pediatric health care delivery systems with the goal of improving effectiveness, family-centeredness, and equity of care, and prior work has examined use of telemedicine in primary care, subspecialty, and emergency settings.

Korilyn Zachrison, MD, MSc

Kori S. Zachrison, MD, MSc is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is a health services researcher whose work focuses on systems of care and telemedicine use in emergency departments (EDs). She has led studies describing the prevalence of telemedicine use by EDs nationally, trends in adoption, barriers to use by rural EDs, and the role of policy in telemedicine implementation. She also has also been lead or co-investigator on multiple studies of telestroke use in EDs. These studies have been funded by various foundations and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Kevin Curtis, MD, MS

Dr. Curtis is the Medical Director of Connected Care and the Center for Telehealth at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health. He earned his medical degree from the Georgetown University School of Medicine and his Masters in Health Care Delivery Science from the Tuck School of Business and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. Curtis completed his Emergency Medicine Residency in 1998 at the George Washington University Medical Center followed by an Emergency Medicine Foundation Research Fellowship. Dr. Curtis has been at Dartmouth-Hitchcock since 2002 with prior roles that include co-founding the Emergency Medicine Residency and serving as its initial Program Director, acting as the Emergency Medicine Research Director and the Assistant Medical Director of Emergency Services, and serving as the Medical Director of TeleEmergency.