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Rebecca Yang, MD, MPH

Baylor College of Medicine

Rebecca Yang, MD MPH is a second year emergency medicine resident physician at Baylor College of Medicine. She completed her medical degree at New York Medical College and her MPH in Global Health and Humanitarian Studies from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is interested in emergency health systems strengthening in low resource settings, humanitarian response, and the intersection of law, health equity, and migration. She has previously worked in this capacity in Sweden, Montenegro, Kenya, India, Belize, and the Dominican Republic.

Sharmeen Jaffry, DO

Brown University Department of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Sharmeen Jaffry is a Global Emergency Medicine Fellow in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brown University. She completed her EM residency training at the University at Buffalo, NY with a focus in Public Health. She graduated from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Maine and is pursuing a Master's in Public Health at Brown University. Her projects have included understanding maternal health outcomes and capacity building through collaboration with health partners in resource-limited regions in Nepal. Some of her interests include medical education, development of pre-hospital care systems, as well as improving refugee health. She is eager to collaborate with diverse teams to develop sustainable health solutions and make a meaningful impact on global health challenges.

Ly Cloessner, MD, MSPH

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine and Public Health

Washington University in Saint Louis

Ly Cloessner is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and of Public Health at the Washington University in Saint Louis. She is an active SAEM member and currently serves as the RAMS Board Immediate Past President. Her research focuses on supporting the growth of emergency medicine in the Global South.

Evy N. Obare

Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology

Emmanuel O. Idowu, MB, BS, MSc, MPH, MD, FACEP

University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria; College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

Dr. Emmanuel Oluyinka IDOWU
(MBBS, MSc, MPH, MD, FACEP, FAAEM)
Emergency Medicine Specialist and Global Health Expert
University of Ibadan, College of Medicine, Nigeria
Academic Qualifications:
MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery)
MSc.(Master of Science)
MPH(Master of Public Health)
MD (Doctor of Medicine)
Professional Affiliations:
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Global Emergency Medicine Academy
American College of Emergency Physicians
American Academy of Emergency Medicine
Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria
National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria
Harvard Medical School
University of Ibadan
Expertise:
Emergency Medical Services
Trauma Care
Disaster Response
Global Health
Medical Education
Reseach interests: Neurological Emergencies, Emergency Medical services in low-resource settings, Trauma management in sub-saharan Africa, Global Health Disparities
Biography:
Dr.Idowu Emmanuel Oluyinka is a renowned emergency medicine specialist and global health expert who is dedicated to improving healthcare outcomes in Nigeria and internationally. He is a member of International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM), African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM) and American Friends of AFEM (FoAFEM). Recently, he had once served as the DELTA (Doctors in Emergency and Leadership Training in Africa) country representative and as a member of the technical team as publication working group lead for Nigeria. His area of research interests include neurotrauma and neuroregeneration, neurotoxicology, neurosurgery and neurology.He is happily married to Mrs. Idowu Florence with 2 kids namely; Idowu Blessing Adeboye and Idowu Beauty Folu.He is currently residing with his family in Ibadan, Nigeria where he lectures and practices medicine.

Carrie A. Bailes, MD

University of Michigan

Carrie Bailes is a first year education fellow and clinical instructor at the University of Michigan. She is involved with graduate medical education as an assistant program director for the emergency medicine residency. Her research interest include bedside procedural education, feedback and clinical decision making.

Rich H. Sinert, DO

NYC Health & Hospitals

Dr. Richard SInert, DO, is the Vice-Chair In-Charge of Research and Full Professor of Emergency Medicine at Kings County Hospital NYC Health and Hospitals and State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences Univeristy. After completing Residency training in Internal Medicine at Kings County and a Nephrology Fellowship at Mt. Sinai Hospital, he returned to Kings County. Dr. Sinert helped develop an Emergency Medicine Residency training program at Kings County and University Hospital of Brooklyn. Recognizing Dr. Sinert’s contributions to the field of Emergency Medicine, The American Board of Emergency Medicine granted him board certification. As Research Director, Dr. Sinert has mentored many residents, fellows, and junior faculty into promising academic careers in education, NIH, and Pharmaceutical Industry-sponsored research. As an educator, Dr. Sinert developed and proctored a twelve-hour lecture course, Biostatics, at SUNY-Downstate. Dr. Sinert was an active Human Institutional Review Board member and Chaired the Animal Care and Use Committee for many years. In the last 15-20 years, Dr. Sinert has focused on evidence-based medicine and has written many systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Recently, Dr. Sinert was honored by the Society of Academic Emergency (SAEM) by being asked to co-head all the systematic reviews and meta-analyses for the GRACE (Guidelines for Reasonable and Appropriate Care in the Emergency Department )project on Syncope. Dr. Sinert is on the editorial board as Decision Editor for Academic Emergency Medicine Journal, the leading SAEM publication.

Jacqueline A. Ward-Gaines, MD

University of Colorado, Denver

Dr. Jacqueline Ward-Gaines is director of the Diversity & Inclusion Committee, Denver Health Emergency Medicine Residency. She uses her DEI training as a faculty physician in the CU Department of Emergency Medicine to serve as the educational lead for DEI efforts. She is a graduate of Cambridge Heath Alliance Center for Health Equity, Education, and Advocacy 2021 Health Equity Scholars Program. She has served as the chair of the education committee of the Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine as well as a member at large.

Tai Donovan, MBA, NREMT

Windsor University School of Medicine

Tai Donovan is a fourth-year medical student at Windsor University School of Medicine and a nationally certified EMT with five years of service in the NYC 911 system. A graduate of Howard University, she is passionate about advancing equity in emergency medicine and community health. She co-founded The Nest, a grassroots initiative delivering health education and essential resources to unhoused and underserved communities in New York City. Tai also serves on the Board for MedCEEP and Project Impact 180—two Chicago-based nonprofits that support underrepresented youth through mentorship, emergency preparedness, and healthcare career exploration. She holds a Master’s degree in Healthcare Management and Administration.

Adetoriola Odetunde, MD, MPH

University of Chicago

Dr. Odetunde is a second-year resident at the University of Chicago emergency medicine program. She received her MPH from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center and her medical degree from St. Georges University SOM. Her professional interests include social EM, administration, and medical education. She currently serves as the RSA representative for the AAEM JEDI section.

William Mundo, MD

Denver Health Medical Center

Dr. William Mundo is an emergency medicine resident physician at Denver Health Medical Center in Denver, Colorado. He completed his medical degree at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and was awarded a full-tuition scholarship. In addition, Dr. Mundo holds a Master’s in Public Health with a concentration in Global Health Systems Management and Policy from the Colorado School of Public Health, along with bachelor’s degrees in Public Health and Ethnic Studies from CU Denver. His expertise centers on integrating health equity concepts with public health and medicine to identify and implement solutions that address and reduce health inequities at both the individual and systemic levels. Dr. Mundo has led grant-funded initiatives in these areas, serving as principal investigator and co-investigator, and his research has been published in several esteemed journals. Recently, his efforts have focused on developing simulation sessions to enhance communication skills with medical interpreters and to promote accountable behavior among healthcare professionals. He has received numerous honors and accolades throughout his career, including various scholarships, the CU Presidents Diversity Award, the Cesar Chavez Peace and Justice Award, and the Rosa Parks Diversity Award. Dr. Mundo is also the author of “From Margins to Medicine,” in which he shares his journey to medicine as the son of Mexican immigrants and a first-generation Latino. Above all, he is a devoted father of two young girls and a loving husband.

Marc Kanter, MD, FACEP

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center

Dr. Marc Kanter is currently the Chair of Emergency Medicine at Lincoln Medicine Center in the Bronx NY. He if formerly the Associate and Residency Program Director at Lincoln. Dr. Kanter has a background in EMS as a prehospital provider and completed medical school at NY Medical College. He went on to complete a year of Internal Medicine residency training in CT followed by Emergency Medicine residency training at Lincoln Medical Center, the busiest ED in NY State. He is an assistant professor of clinical Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a fellow at the New York Medical College, Center for Disaster Medicine. He is a current member of the board of directors of the NY chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is a long time member of the Trauma Interest group of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. He is an associate member of the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine. He is the NYC Health + Hospitals system representative for the NYC Regional EMS Advisory Committee.

Matthew Chinn, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin

Matthew Chinn, MD, FAEMS, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) where he serves as the Senior Medical Director for the Froedtert Hospital Emergency Department and Co-Medical Director of the Froedtert Hospital Observation Unit. He received his Bachelor of Science at Texas A&M University and his Doctor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He completed his Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Cincinnati and his EMS Medicine fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin. In addition to his hospital roles, he currently serves as an EMS Medical Director for a local fire department and has previously worked as a flight physician. He is a core faculty member in the EMS Medicine fellowship and the Health Executive Administrative Leadership (HEAL) fellowship programs at MCW. His academic interests are in hospital and emergency department operations, EMS, and teaching.

Kathleen Williams, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin

Kathleen Williams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she currently serves as the residency program director. She received her undergraduate degree from Indiana University and her medical degree from Rush Medical College of Rush University in Chicago, Illinois. She completed her residency training in at the Medical College of Wisconsin and has completed both the ACEP teaching fellowship and the CORD Residency Administrative Fellowship.
Throughout her time as faculty at MCW, she has served the resident trainees in various capacities. She developed the institutional use of video-taped resuscitation for resident resuscitation training starting in 2015. She has interest in GME curriculum development and design, character development in GME training, and use of novel methods for physician coaching and team based training in resuscitation leadership.
She is an award winning educator, receiving numerous departmental, institutional and national awards for her programmatic developments and bedside education.

Michael P. Jones, MD

Albert Einstein / Jacobi + Montefiore

Dr. Michael P. Jones is a Professor and Vice Chair for Education and the Residency Program Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Jacobi and Montefiore Medical Centers in the Bronx, New York. He received his bachelor’s degree specializing in Biological Sciences, with a focus on vertebrate morphology and physiology, at Columbia University, his medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed his emergency medicine residency training at Jacobi and Montefiore Medical Centers, where he was Chief Resident. He has been an Adjunct Instructor at Columbia University and is currently an Adjunct Instructor in Anatomy and Structural Biology and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein.

Dr. Jones’s primary academic interests are medical student and resident education as well as trauma resuscitation and prehospital care. He is a founding member of a regional Emergency Medicine collaborative that has created a network for education and research throughout all of New York City’s emergency medicine residencies, offering free educational opportunities to hundreds of New York City Emergency Medicine residents, the largest such consortium in the country. Additionally, he is an expert and leader in trauma resuscitation and prehospital care, serving as the co-chair of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine’s Trauma Committee and as the Vice-Chair of the NYC Regional EMS Council, the state mandated oversight body for prehospital care in New York City. Dr. Jones is also the Medical Director and Co-Chair of the Board Directors of the Central Park Medical Unit, an all volunteer ambulance corps that provides free emergency medical services in New York City's world famous Central Park.

Simanjit Mand

University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health

Simanjit K. Mand is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health. She is currently the Director of Resident Coaching and Assistant Director for the AEMUS Fellowship, and has previously held the role of Assistant Residency Program Director.

Emily S. Binstadt, MD, MPH

Bylaws Committee Member

Regions Hospital/University of Minnesota Medical School

I would be honored to serve on the SAEM Bylaws Committee because I believe in the mission and objectives of SAEM and I would like to give back to an organization which has offered me opportunities for career development, collaboration, and a sense of common meaning, purpose, and direction. I trained in EM in the Harvard MGH/BWH program, and completed my MPH and Simulation Fellowship in 2003 at Harvard institutions. I was Assistant Director of STRATUS Center and faculty at Brigham and Women's Hospital until 2007, when I moved back to Minnesota. I am core teaching faculty at Regions Hospital in St Paul, MN and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School. I believe that my diverse experiences in different academic emergency medicine settings affords an inclusive lens that I can use to enhance SAEM's efforts to welcome and support all of its members. I believe in SAEM's research goals and would seek to promote increased grant funding opportunities for members. I support the educational goals of this organization, and would work to encourage innovation in teaching. My professional training has focused on medical education, specifically simulation curriculum development and innovation. SAEM is positioned at the forefront of this field, promoting productive collaborations. SAEM has a role in professional development that transcends an individual location, medical school or academic department. I have personally found opportunities for leadership, meaning, and wellness through my involvement with SAEM, and I am motivated to help promote this type of belonging for all our members. I am action-oriented, reasonably organized, a team-player, and I follow through on commitments. Thank you for your consideration.

Brian Kwan, MD, MS

UC San Diego Health

Prior to pursuing medicine, Brian Kwan had several other careers including nine years as a high school science teacher, where he became interested in educational technology. He authored several high school science textbooks and has received teaching awards at multiple instructional levels. Brian discovered an interest in informatics while an emergency medicine resident at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA, where he also served as a chief resident. Brian subsequently completed a clinical informatics fellowship at UC San Diego in 2023. He is currently an assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and the medical director for education informatics at UC San Diego Health.

Benjamin Kinnear, MD, MEd

University of Cincinnati

Ben is an associate professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics in the Division of Hospital Medicine at University of Cincinnati Medical Center and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and is Program Director for the Med-Peds residency program and the IMSTAR Medical Education fellowship. Ben obtained his Master of Medical Education from University of Cincinnati in 2018 and is currently a PhD student at Maastricht University where he is studying validity argumentation and argumentation theory. He loves St. Louis Cardinals baseball and thinks mint-flavored ice cream is an abomination.

Michael Levine, MD

The Brooklyn Hospital Center

Jacobi/Monte for residency, NYPQ for sim fellowship, ED attending and director of ED simulation at TBHC