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Alexandra Reens, MD, FACEP

NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island

Alexandra Reens is an EM/PEM physician who also proudly serves as the director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island in Mineola, NY. She went to medical school at SUNY Stony Brook and did residency training at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset and fellowship at Cohen Children's Medical Center in Queens. She is a core faculty member for the Emergency Medicine residency at NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine. She serves in both the emergency department-wide and the hospital-wide wellness committees.

Moira E. Smith, MD, MPH

University of Virginia

Moira Smith, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Director of Digital Clinical Workflows, and Assistant Emergency Medicine Informatics Director at the University of Virginia. She completed her emergency medicine residency and clinical informatics fellowship at the University of Virginia. Her work focuses on data analytics and reporting, quality improvement, electronic health record usability and workflow optimization, and clinical decision support. She is the current Chair Elect of the SAEM Informatics, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence Interest Group.

Yash Chavda, DO, MBA, FPD-AEMUS

NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island

Dr. Chavda is the Director of Emergency Ultrasound at NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island. He completed his residency and chief residency at St. Barnabas Hospital. He did an academic Fellowship with All NYC EM. Dr. Chavda completed his ultrasound fellowship at North Shore University Hospital. He has presented on various topics at the local, regional, and national level.

Diana Savitzky, MD

NYU Langone Health

Diana is a core faculty physician in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and an assistant clinical professor at NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine. She completed her Pediatrics residency at UCLA and Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at Cohen Children’s Hospital at Northwell. In addition, she is the current chair of the ACEP Wellness Section (2024-2025), and has presented regional and nationally on the topic of physician wellness. She co-founded and currently co-chairs the Hospital-Wide Committee for Professional Health and Well-Being at the NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine and serves on the Executive Committee to consult with the Dean. Within the Emergency Department she serves as the Director of Wellness for Faculty and GME. She is a wife and mom of 2 young girls, 3 and 5 years old. When Dr. Savitzky isn’t working or solving world peace, she likes to treat travel and taking vacation like a contact sport and loves to chase sunsets.

Andrew Stromberg, MD

Stanford University

Second year administration fellow at Stanford University with interests in clinical operations and quality improvement.

Daniel Miller, MD, CHSE

University of Iowa

Daniel Miller is a Clinical Professor of Emergency and Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa. He practices both Emergency Medicine and Palliative Care. He also holds positions as Simulation Director and Director of Faculty Affairs and Development.

Dr. Miller graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Chemistry. He earned his doctorate at the University of Illinois-Chicago and then completed Emergency Medicine training at Advocate Christ Hospital in Chicagoland, where he was selected as a Chief Resident. After serving as Director of Simulation at the University of New Mexico he moved to Iowa where he has served as Director of Simulation at the University of Iowa since 2011. In 2019 Dr. Miller pursued fellowship training in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, in the practice of which he has found many opportunities to apply the lessons and techniques of debriefing to patient care.

Debayan Guha, MD

Jacobi Medical Center

Debayan Guha is a simulation-trained, Emergency Medicine faculty at Jacobi Medical Center, and Clinical Instructor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His interests include global health, distance simulation, graduate and undergraduate medical education.

Luan Lawson, MD, MAEd

Virginia Commonwealth University

Dr. Luan E. Lawson serves as the Senior Associate Dean of Medical Education and Student Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. She earned her medical degree and completed her residency training at East Carolina University. Her academic interests have focused on undergraduate education with particular expertise in curriculum development, assessment, accreditation, and team training.

During Dr. Lawson’s tenure as Director of Undergraduate Medical Education in Emergency Medicine, she developed and established an Emergency Medicine clerkship for fourth year medical students featuring a simulation-based curriculum. Dr. Lawson also collaborated in developing the National Clinical Assessment Tool in Emergency Medicine, a standardized assessment tool utilized in clerkships across the country. Dr. Lawson served on the National Board of Medical Examiners Emergency Medicine Advanced Clinical Exam Task Force and is a past-president of the Clerkship Directors of Emergency Medicine.

Sweta Giri, MBBS, MD

Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan

Dr. Sweta Giri is an Emergency Physician based in Thimphu, the capital city of Bhutan. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka. Dr. Sweta worked as a medical doctor in the Emergency Department for 3 years when she realized that emergency medicine was her calling and went on to pursue a Master's Degree in Emergency Medicine from the Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan. She graduated in 2023, becoming the country’s second female emergency physician.

Recognised for her dedication and commitment to the field of Emergency Medicine, she was appointed as the Program Director for the Emergency Medicine residency program shortly after completing her training. Dr. Sweta is additionally a Senior Lecturer at the medical university, works as a flight physician for the Bhutan Emergency Aeromedical Services and also serves as the Managing Editor of Bhutan's only medical journal, the Bhutan Health Journal.

Her professional interests include critical care, simulation education, research and quality improvement.

Xiang Yun Yang, MB, BCH, BAO, MMED, LLM

Sarikei Hospital

Dr. Xiang Yun Yang is an esteemed Emergency Physician and the Head of the Emergency and Trauma Department at Sarikei Hospital, Sarawak. She graduated with an MB BCh BAO from Penang Medical College, National University of Ireland and later completed a Master of Medicine in Emergency Medicine at Universiti Sains Malaysia. With a career deeply rooted in rural medicine, Dr. Yang has made significant contributions to interfacility patient transfer, aeromedical, and water emergency medical services (EMS). Her expertise in aquatic life support stems from her experiences medical rescue in her flood-prone homestate. Dr. Yang has co-founded the Basic Transport Medicine Course and contributed to healthcare policy, earning recognition for her pioneering work in improving patient safety and care in remote areas. Additionally, with a Master’s in Healthcare and Medical Law, she has contributed to shaping healthcare policies and local protocols for patient transfer in Sarawak, Malaysia. She is currently working on her PhD on Medical Education at the University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS).

Jeff Baker, MD, AEMUS-FPD

University of Louisville

Anthony R. Rosania, III, MD, MS, MSHI

Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School

Dr. Rosania is a board-certified emergency physician and clinical informatician at Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School where he serves as the Vice Chair for Clinical Operations and Chief of the Division of Operations, Quality, and Informatics.

Kristin Dwyer, MD MPH

Brown Emergency Medicine

Dr. Dwyer is an Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She works as the Director of both the Emergency Ultrasound Division and the EUFAC accredited Advanced Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship at Brown Emergency Medicine. She completed a two-year POCUS fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA after her residency at Boston Medical Center. During fellowship she also obtained her MPH in Quantitative Methods at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has served on the executive committee for both SCUF and SAEM AEUS in the past, and was the finance section director for SCUF. She is currently serving on the EUFAC accredidation council. She enjoys collaborating with residents and fellows on education, research and quality projects in addition to growing and strengthening her division as the director.

Suchismita Datta, MD

NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine

Suchismita [Suchi] Datta, MD is an emergency medicine attending physician at NYU Long Island Hospital. She is core faculty for the residency there, and also serves as the Director for Emergency Medicine Research. Dr Datta in interested in medical education innovations and research, particularly in medical humanities. Her other interests include gender equity and wellness. Dr Datta obtained her medical degree and did her residency training at SUNY Stony Brook.

Christopher R. Carpenter, MD

Mayo Clinic, Rochester

Dr. Christopher Carpenter is residency trained in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine and Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair of Implementation and Innovation at Mayo Clinic-Rochester. He served on the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Board of Directors from 2019-2022 and continues to serve on the American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Policy Committee. His research interests include diagnostics, geriatric emergency medicine, clinical practice guidelines, and implementation science. Dr. Carpenter is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Academic Emergency Medicine, as well as Associate Editor for both the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and Annals of Internal Medicine's ACP Journal Club. He co-authored the Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research (EQUATOR) Network's Standards for Reporting of Implementation Research (StaRI) reporting guidelines. Dr. Carpenter serves on the National Institute of Aging Clinician-Scientists Transdisciplinary Aging Research Leadership Core (https://clin-star.org/) and also developed and leads the SAEM Guidelines for Reasonable and Appropriate Care in Emergency Departments (GRACE, see https://www.saem.org/publications/academic-emergency-medicine/grace) clinical practice guidelines. He is a co-Investigator and Implementation Science Core Lead for the Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research Network (GEAR, see https://gearnetwork.org/) and Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative (https://gedcollaborative.com/), and he chairs the American College of Emergency Physician's Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Advisory Board (https://www.acep.org/geda/). He is the recipient of multiple national awards including the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association Excellence in Teaching, as well as the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine's (AGEM) Gerson-Sanders Award, the AGEM Mentorship Award, and the AGEM Pioneer Award.

Adrian D. Haimovich, MD, PhD

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School

Dr. Adrian Haimovich is Director of Geriatric Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research is at the intersection between data science, electronic health records, and geriatric acute care.

Madeline H. Renny, MD, MS

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Madeline H. Renny, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, and Population Health Science and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is a physician-scientist whose research focuses on pediatric and adolescent drug overdose prevention and emergency department-based interventions for youth with substance use.

Stephen Sandelich, MD

Penn State University

I am a pediatric emergency medicine physician specializing in substance abuse disorders and adolescent mental health. My medical journey has deeply acquainted me with the challenges and nuances of pediatric emergencies arising from substance abuse and mental health crises. Before my current academic position, I was primarily working in community practice. In this role, I focused on honing my clinical acumen and, through exposure to teens and adolescents with substance use disorder, became an expert in the emergency department treatment of these patients. This expertise manifested in developing and implementing an emergency department-based medicated assisted treatment program for adolescents with substance use disorder presenting in withdrawal.

Sean Schnarr, MD

New York University

Dr. Schnarr is on the faculty at NYU Langone's Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine where he serves as associate program director for the EM residency. He completed his residency training at the John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, and received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His academic interests include bedside teaching and FOAMed applications, as well as health disparities and social emergency medicine.

Linda A. Regan, MD, MEd

Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Linda Regan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins, where she serves as the Vice Chair for Education and the director of the Medical Education Fellowship. Dr. Regan served on the program committee for both SAEM and CORD for many years, including three years as a track chair for the CORD Best Practices track. She served for four years as a member of the Board of Directors of CORD and is a well-known national speaker on a wide array of educational topics, having spoken at ACEP, CORD, SAEM, ACGME, and AMEE. 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 Emergency Medicine 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.