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People List

Eliot H. Blum, MD
Member-at-Large

Emory University School of Medicine

Dr. Eliot Blum is an Assistant Professor of emergency medicine (EM) at Emory. He serves as the chair of the LGBTQ+ Subcommittee of ADIEM, the LGBTQIA+ Subcommittee Chair in his department’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and is also the faculty advisor for the Emory GME Pride Committee. Dr. Blum works extensively in the community and serves as the medical director for Atlanta Pride and the AIDS Vaccine 200 bicycle race. Additionally, he works on the Transgender Task Force for Healthcare Reform through the Medical Associate of Georgia. He currently works at Grady Memorial Hospital and lectures nationally and within the school of medicine on LGBTQIA+ health, mentoring, and allyship. In 2023, Dr. Blum helped start a GME-wide mentoring program for LGBTQIA+ medical students and residents and was awarded "Faculty Mentor of the Year" by his department.
Cassandra Kim Bradby, MD
Immediate Past President

Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University

Dr. Cassandra Bradby is an emergency medicine (EM) physician and Assistant Professor at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. As a graduate of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN, she has dedicated her career to improving diversity and inclusion in medicine through mentoring and education. After finishing up as the Education Chief Resident at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, NY, Dr. Bradby headed back to Greenville, NC, where she now serves as the Residency Program Director and Vice Chair for Diversity and Inclusion for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vidant Medical Center.
Ryan Tsuchida
Secretary-Treasure

University of Wisconsin

Dr. Ryan Tsuchida is the assistant dean for multicultural affairs for health professions learners, a board-certified emergency medicine physician, and an assistant professor at the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Tsuchida has a wealth of experience, scholarship, and expertise in equitable and inclusive organization leadership ranging from pathway program development, medical student and health professions student support, and quality improvement initiatives in both the clinical and education arenas. In recognizing his impact, he has received many awards including recently being named one of “Wisconsin’s Most Influential Asian American Leaders” by Madison365. His peers elected him to serve as the president-elect for SAEM’s ADIEM executive committee.
Tania Ahluwalia
Tania Ahluwalia
William Bruno
William Bruno
William Bruno
William Bruno
Michelle Feltes, MD
Immediate Past Chair

Stanford University Hospital

Michelle Feltes is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University Hospital and is a Co-Director for the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship. While in her fellowship with Stanford Emergency Medicine International, she focused on the design and implementation of an emergency medicine diploma course for physicians in Myanmar. During her fellowship, she also pursued a Master of Academic Medicine degree from the University of Southern California.
Wei David Hao
Benjamin Lindquist
Prakriti Gill, MD DTM&H
Joseph Becker
Kei Ouchi, MD, MPH
President-Elect
Erin Hunt
Medical Student Member

I grew up in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania—a small town in the Poconos—alongside my parents and younger brother. After high school, I attended East Stroudsburg University, where I earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology. During college, I became an EMT and spent 4 years working in EMS, which sparked my interest in EM. This interest has only deepened since starting medical school at the Ohio State University. As I advance in my medical career, I hope to find a path that combines my passion for EM with a commitment to improving care for the aging population and individuals with disabilities.
Rachel Skains, MD, MSPH
Member-At-Large

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) with a joint faculty appointment at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (BVAMC). I am an early-stage investigator focused on improving the acute care of older adults through patient-centered outcomes research, specifically on delirium and medication safety. I was awarded the AHRQ NRSA T32 Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship (2020-2022), in addition to funding through the UAB Integrative Center for Aging Research (ICAR) to examine the risk of delirium with opioid use among older adults in the ED and validate the nursing delirium screening scale (NuDESC) in the ED. Further, I completed the UAB Geriatric Scholar Interprofessional Program from 2019-2021 and attended the 2021 Network for Investigation of Delirium: Unifying Scientists (NIDUS) Bootcamp that both provided interdisciplinary geriatric educational sessions and specialty training in delirium. I have recently been awarded two NIA awards: Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists' Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR) R03 (2023-2025) to evaluate the risk factors and time course of incident delirium among older adults in the ED and Exploratory/ Developmental Grant R21 (2023-2025) for comprehensive assessment of delirium risk due to medications. Furthermore, I am an ED physician champion for the UAB – Highlands and BVAMC Geriatric ED Committees, which received Level 1 (2021) and Level 3 (2023) accreditations respectively, served as Fellow board member for the Geriatric EM Section of ACEP (2021-2023) and currently Chair of the AGEM Grants & Awards Subcommittee (2023-Present). Finally, I was awarded the 2023 SAEM AGEM Early Career Achievement Award, in addition to the UAB DEM Outstanding Researcher of the Year 2023.
Angel Li, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

The Ohio State University

Angel Li, MD, MBA, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine and the medical director of observation units at The Ohio State University.
Anna Yaffee, MD, MPH
Program Director
Peter Acker