People

Monica Germain, BSN, RN, CCRN

Boston Medical Center

Monica Germain BSN, RN, CCRN is a registered nurse who is currently serving in the two year Ravin Davidoff Health Equity fellowship to advance Boston Medical Center’s health equity priorities. Monica holds an Associate Degree in Science from Bunker Hill Community College, a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Southern New Hampshire University, and is currently enrolled at Boston University School of Public Health to obtain a Master’s in Public Health. After graduation from Bunker Hill Community College, Monica began working in Boston as a community health nurse to deliver patient-centered care to vulnerable populations. Her nursing background includes community health, correctional nursing, and critical care. Over the last two years, Monica has garnered the respect of her peers and colleagues for her progressive nursing leadership roles. Monica’s passion is creating an inclusive environment in nursing units and finding ways to mentor and create advancement opportunities for BIPOC nurses. She was the founder & chair of the Critical Care Diversity & Inclusion council and served as a ‘Recruitment, Retention, and Recognition’ representative during the 2021 Magnet survey for Boston Medical Center. Monica has been awarded the 2021 ‘Excellence in Nursing Practice” by the New England Black Nurses Association.

Anthony J. Mell, MD, MBA

Boston Medical Center

Anthony was born in the rural community of Oley Valley, PA. His father was a crane operator, and his mother was a lunch lady. He worked as a janitor and landscaper during middle and high school, before going to college at Fairleigh Dickinson University where he got both a BS and subsequently an MBA. While completing his undergraduate education Anthony also worked closely with several disinvested communities including adults with autism, youth in the foster care system, and youth in the criminal legal system. Anthony then completed his medical education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan where he worked closely with the immigrant community in East Harlem. Anthony completed his residency training at the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Childrens’ Hospital and Boston Medical Center in the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy Track. Now Anthony is the inaugural Ravin Davidoff Health Equity Fellow at Boston Medical Center. In this fellowship he studies health equity, implementation sciences, and health system management. He applies those skills to intervention-based projects by working with BMC’s Health Equity Accelerator, a health system wide collaboration to improve the healthcare of Boston Medical Center’s patients, specifically focused on health inequities. Anthony also delivers primary care to the children of Boston through his role as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center. Finally, Anthony routinely teaches health equity content to residents and medical students through his roles as the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy Course Director and as a Health Equity Rounds Faculty Mentor. In those roles, Anthony created an operationalized 18-month long health equity curriculum consisting of monthly in person discussion-based sessions and professional development modules with accompanying asynchronous content. He also mentors residents to create specific case-based health equity conferences that are presented to the pediatric department in a grand rounds format. Finally, he has led teaching sessions on racism across multiple departments in his institution and to all levels of learners, medical students, residents, and faculty. His areas of interest include quality improvement and implementation science, racial socialization, the care of criminal legal system involved youth and youth in the foster care system, the deconstruction of the school to prison pipeline, economic mobility, population health management, and disability justice.

Cody H. Brevik, MD

University of Colorado School of Medicine

I am a Medical Education Science Fellow at the University of Colorado and I work as an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine. I trained at CU SOM and Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine. I will completing my MA in education at UCDenver in July with the conclusion of my fellowship and will be staying on as academic faculty at CU. I have a particular interest and focus in human factors of performance and non-technical skills in emergency medicine training with associated research. My skills also include curriculum development, instruction, simulation, mentorship and coaching, evaluation, and assessment.

Emily Jameyfield, MD, MHPE

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

Yale School of Medicine

Emily Jameyfield, MD, MHPE, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine (EM) at the Yale School of Medicine. She is heavily involved in student and resident education and mentorship. She is also the Learning Specialist for the Physician Associate Program. Her research centers around teaching the skill of verbal de-escalation within health professions education.

Sharon Chekijian, MD, MPH

Yale School of Medicine

Dr. Chekijian joined the Yale School of Medicine faculty in 2007 where she works full time as an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. She is faculty member in the Section of Global Health and International Emergency Medicine as well as in the Section of Administration. She has served as the inaugural Medical Director of patient experience since 2011. She is also the Medical Director of the Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner group in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Chekijian is a seasoned educator and is the founding Medical Director of the APP residency program which admitted its 1st cohort in 2015. She completed the Yale Medical Education Fellowship in 2014.

Her research interests lie in global emergency medicine and include emergency care systems' development in low and middle-income countries, unintentional injury prevention in low and middle-income countries, as well as stroke and cardiac care in low and middle-income countries. Dr. Chekijian has led and participated in projects in the Republic of Armenia, Uganda, and Iraq. She has consulted for the World Bank and the US Department of State. She is an active member of the Stroke Initiative Advisory Task-Force for Armenia (SIATA). Dr. Chekijian was awarded a Fulbright in 2020 for her work to improve emergency care in Armenia by the establishment of a new emergency medicine residency program in cooperation with the National Institutes of Health of Armenia and supported from a research standpoint by the School of Public Health at the American University of Armenia.

She is deeply committed to patient experience, communication and humanism in medicine. Dr. Chekijian co-produced a film that addresses human rights as it relates to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 under the working title “The Hidden Map” that premiered at the Toronto Pomegranate Film Festival in 2019.

Jenna M. Thomas, MB, BCh, BAO, MHPE

Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

Dr. Jenna Thomas is an Assistant Program Director for the residency program at Washington University in St. Louis. Her broad experiences from medical school in Ireland through Medical Education fellowship in the Midwest piqued a passion for supporting people of diverse personal and professional backgrounds in their own competency based education. She is always looking for ways to collaborate on scholarly projects and share experiences with peers across a variety of institutions and training settings, and is an active member of SAEM's Education Committee.

Erin L. Simon, DO

Cleveland Clinic Akron General/NEOMED

Dr. Erin Simon is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University. She is Research Director for the Cleveland Clinic Akron General Emergency Medicine Program and has published over 160 peer-reviewed manuscripts and abstracts. She is Director for the Cleveland Clinic Akron General's substance use disorder program. Dr. Simon is active in leadership roles on national and international committees for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the International Federation for Emergency Medicine. She is a national oral board examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine and a peer reviewer for The Journal of Emergency Medicine and the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Simon has been dedicated to resident and medical student education for over a decade. 

Roz King, MSN, RN, CNL

University of Vermont

Roz King has greater than fifteen years of experience in Emergency Medicine. She currently works at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, where she holds various roles. As the Director of the Emergency Medicine Research Associate Program, she serves as faculty, teaching four courses in Emergency Medicine Research. As Director of Research in Emergency Medicine and the Chief of the Division of Research, Ms. King is responsible for providing mentorship and guidance to over forty EM faculty members. Under her leadership, research efforts have increased by greater than forty percent. In addition to providing research guidance and mentorship to others, Ms. King is engaged in her own research endeavors, obtaining greater than $4 million dollars in funding over the last three years from various sources, including federal and foundation funding, Her research interests include healthcare disparities, workplace violence, and low barrier access to care.

Kiran A. Faryar, MD, MPH

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Dr. Kiran Faryar, MD, MPH, is a practicing board-certified emergency physician and clinician researcher with a focus on integrating public health and public health services into emergency department settings. Her primary research work is in the field of implementation science, investigating screening and intervention best practices in the ED. She has initiated, managed, and disseminated on community health projects in both academic and community EDs including HIV, HCV, and latent TB infection screening and linkage to care; take-home naloxone distribution; initiation of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) for ED patients with opioid use disorder with next-day linkage to care; county-wide COVID-19 testing through an $18 million COVID program funded by the CARES Act. To date, she has >20 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier emergency medicine and public health journals and has been awarded numerous industry, local, state, and federal grants for public health and health services.

In 2021, she was appointed Research Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, where she oversees departmental research infrastructure, capacity building, and faculty research development. On a national level, she is the Chair of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Research Director’s Interest Group and an active member of the SAEM Research Committee and EMTIDE (Emergency Medicine Transmissible Infectious Diseases and Epidemics) Interest Group.

Sara W. Heinert, PhD, MPH

Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Sara Heinert, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ. She holds a PhD in Health Policy and Administration from University of Illinois at Chicago and a MPH in Epidemiology from University of Michigan- Ann Arbor. Dr. Heinert has led research endeavors in emergency medicine for the past 11 years. Her research interests lie at the intersection of public health and the emergency department, and specifically focus on social emergency medicine research that is patient-centered and addresses access to care and health disparities. For many patients, the emergency department is their only “touch point” with the health care system and Dr. Heinert is interested in developing innovative methods to screen and educate ED patients on their health conditions and connect them to primary care. Additionally, she is engaged in collaborative work with colleagues and community partners to develop novel health advocacy opportunities for youth in underserved neighborhoods. This work involves youth as teachers of health information as a catalyst for adult healthy behavior change. Her work has resulted in first-author publications in such journals as the American Journal of Public Health, Academic Emergency Medicine, Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, and Health Promotion Practice (HPP).

Nathan J. White, MD, MS, FACEP, DRTM

Harborview Medical Center/University of Washington

Nathan White M.D., M.S., is Associate Professor and Associate Chair Research, Department of Emergency Medicine and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. WA USA. Dr. White also holds adjunct appointments with the Departments of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering and is the inaugural director of the Resuscitation Engineering Science Unit (RESCU), an interdisciplinary research center focused on translating new technology for resuscitation of critical illness and injury. In addition, Dr. White is an attending physician at Harborview Medical Center, a busy level I trauma center admitting almost 6,000 trauma patients every year from the Pacific Northwest and a flight doctor with Airlift Northwest.

Dr. White focuses his research on the blood coagulation response to acute hemorrhage and resuscitation with an emphasis on fibrinogen biochemistry. Dr. White works within cross-disciplinary teams of clinicians, basic scientists, and engineers to focus on problems germane to bleeding emergencies including; Identifying novel post-translational oxidative modifications of fibrinogen and their contribution to traumatic coagulopathy; Identifying the role of platelet mechanobiology in bleeding and outcomes after trauma; Developing new hemostatic agents, including fibrinogen concentrates, and bioengineered synthetic hemostats; and the effect of immunomodulation on trauma-induced inflammation and coagulopathy. Dr. White has received the Young Investigator Award from the American Heart Association Resuscitation Science Symposium twice along with the best basic science award and young investigator award from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine.

Kalev Freeman, MD PhD FACEP

University of Vermont

Kalev Freeman M.D., Ph.D. is a physician-scientist and associate professor at the University of Vermont with expertise in emergency medicine and trauma. His lab studies the endothelial cell responses to injury that lead to thrombo-inflammation, seeking novel targets for endothelial restoration that may ultimately improve recovery in trauma patients.

Katarzyna M. Gore, MD

Rush University

Dr Gore is an Associate Program Director for Rush University Emergency Medicine. She has published and spoken national on Feedback at national conferences such as CORD and SAEM. Dr. Katarzyna Gore completed residency training at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Chicago in 2015 after which she started her career at Rush University Medical Center. She was instrumental to the creation of the Emergency Medicine Residency at Rush who's inaugural class started in 2017. Given her dedication to and passion for resident teaching she became the Associate Program Director of the EM residency. She has also become very involved in undergraduate medical education and acts as a clinician educator for the pre-clinical curriculum in the Rush Medical College.

Dr. Gore is particularly interested in faculty development and residency administration and completed the Residency Admin Fellowship through CORD and finished a two year course through the Rush University Interprofessional Leadership Program. She hopes to use these skills to better serve her residents and in particular focus on sponsorship of future female leaders.

Austin Johnson, MD, PhD

University of Utah

Dr. Johnson is an Associate Professor and the Vice-Chair of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Utah. Dr. Johnson received his PhD in Neuroscience and his MD from the University of Wisconsin Madison, followed by residency training in Emergency Medicine at Denver Health in Denver, CO. Dr. Johnson practicing clinical emergency medicine at the University of Utah where he runs a translational research lab focused on the development of new therapies for patients suffering from trauma, cardiac arrest, and stroke. Dr. Johnson's laboratory work has led to over 10 filed patents and over 50 publications. His grant funding has included the Department of Defense, the National Institute of Health, the Zoll Foundation, and the Food and Drug Administration.

Elizabeth Samuels, MD, MPH, MHS

UCLA Emergency Medicine

Dr. Samuels is an emergency medicine physician, health services trained researcher, and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at UCLA. She completed her emergency medicine training at the Brown Emergency Medicine Residency Program, a health service research and health policy fellowship at the Yale National Clinician Scholars Program, and is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Addiction Medicine. Her work focuses on implementation and evaluation of emergency department-based health equity initiatives.

Preeti Panda, MD

Stanford University

Dr. Panda is a pediatric emergency medicine fellow and pediatric global health subspecialty fellow at Stanford University. She earned a bachelor of science degree from Cornell University in Nutrition and Global Health. She went on to earn an MD, with distinction in advocacy, from Albany Medical College. Dr. Panda completed her pediatric residency training at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital/Case Western Reserve University, where she earned specialized certificates in child advocacy and research. She is currently earning a Master of Science in Health Policy at Stanford University, which she will complete over the course of her fellowship.

Dr. Panda has worked with trafficked youth for over 10 years, with involvement in direct clinical care, research, legislative advocacy, and education. Her research currently focuses on youth violence prevention. Dr. Panda has received awards both locally and nationally for her work, including the SAEM Pediatric Emergency Fellow Award.

Shubhi Goli, MD

Stanford University

Dr. Shubhi Goli is a 3rd year fellow in pediatric emergency medicine at Stanford University. She earned her medical degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed her pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. After working as a emergency department pediatrician and pediatric hospitalist, she began her fellowship training in 2021 with a then 9-month-old daughter at home. She was inspired to pursue lactation-related work given her own experiences with lactation as a trainee and is passionate about increasing awareness of trainee lactation and improving related workplace experiences. She will be starting a faculty position at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta/Emory University this fall.

Outside of medicine, she enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter (now 3), telling mom jokes, good movies and reality TV, watching sporting events, and time outdoors hiking and in the vineyards. She is also proud of the number of audiobooks she has "read" on her commute to/from Stanford over the past few years!

Christopher Winckler, MD, LP

UT Health San Antonio

C. J. Winckler serves as the deputy medical director for the San Antonio Fire Department, medical director for North Channel EMS/Wilson County ESD, and Texas Emergency Medical Task Force Region 8. He is an associate clinical professor at the University of Texas San Antonio Health Science Center and Texas A&M College Station. Winckler provides daily clinical supervision to over 2000 EMS providers. Dr. Winckler and multiple stakeholders, worked tirelessly to deploy whole blood in San Antonio. This is the first-time whole blood was available to save prehospital patients in hemorrhagic shock, for an entire American metropolitan city.

Jennifer L. Carey, MD

UMass Chan Medical School

Jennifer Carey, MD is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and a Medical Toxicologist at UMass Chan Medical School. She is the Division Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, and the Education Fellowship Director.

Sofia Chaudhary, MD

Emory University School of Medicine/Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Dr. Sofia Chaudhary is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She completed Pediatrics Residency at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA and Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She has completed a Health Policy Scholars Fellowship Program through the Academic Pediatric Association this year. She is on the executive board for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta's Injury Prevention Program (CHIPP), is co-chair for the Violence Prevention Task Force for the Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory (IPRCE), and co-PI for the Atlanta Chapter of Injury Free Coalition for Kids. Her research and academic interests are focused on improving the health and well-being of children through injury prevention, specifically firearm injury prevention, and bringing evidence-based preventive interventions to both the bedside and within the community. Her most recent work is focused on primary prevention of pediatric firearm injuries through secure storage and lethal means counseling interventions. She has authored multiple publications looking at the impact of firearm injuries on children and teens.