People

Grace M. Chatsika, MD

Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital

Grace Chatsika is a wife, mother of two, and an Emergency Medicine physician.
She holds a Masters degree in Emergency Medicine from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Currently, she is the Head of Department at the Adult Emergency Department at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Malawi, the first emergency department in the country.
She is involved in several hospital management roles including research and drug procurement committees.
She serves as a part-time faculty member at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, where she is in-charge of Emergency medicine postgraduate training. She is also involved in undergraduate training and curriculum development.
Her personal interests include to improve emergency care access in Malawi, and she holds special interest in global health, antimicrobial stewardship, trauma and sepsis.

Stephen J. Wolf, MD

Denver Health Medical Center

Dr. Stephen J. Wolf, MD serves as Chair of Emergency Medicine at Denver Health Medical Center and Professor and Vice Chair for Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from the University of Virginia in 1998 and completed his residency in emergency medicine at Denver Health in 2002. In the past, he has worked in the Denver Health and University of Colorado School of Medicine system as Residency Program Director, Departmental Director of Education, and an Assistant then Associate Dean within the University of Colorado School of Medicine. From 2014-18, Dr. Wolf served as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, before returning to Colorado to take his current position. Nationally, Dr. Wolf is past-President for the Colorado Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), past-Director for the Academy of Scholarship for the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Program Directors (CORD-EM), and past-Chair for the ACEP Clinical Policies Committee, helping to define the standards of care for emergency medicine. Currently, he co-directs the SAEM/AACEM's Emerging Leader Development Program (eLEAD). To date in his career, Dr. Wolf has started multiple faculty coaching programs and leadership curriculums, all geared at advancing emergency medicine and our faculty. His areas of scholarship and research include leadership, mentorship, coaching and career development, medical education, clinical guidelines and thromboembolic disease. He has authored or co-authored over 50 scholarly publications, 60 national presentations, and 20 book chapters.

Joshua D. Niforatos, MD, MTS

BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health

Dr. Niforatos graduated with bachelor of arts degrees in ethnology and linguistics, and separately in biology, from the University of New Mexico. He completed a Master of Theological Studies in philosophy, theology and ethics at Boston University School of Theology prior to obtaining his medical degree from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine (CCLCM).

After medical school, Dr. Niforatos completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine/The Johns Hopkins Hospital. While in residency, he was the resident research committee chair and focused his time on the Emergency Medicine Evidence-Based Guideline Committee, the Improved Clinical Efficiency Committee, and presented lectures on research and biostatistics to residents.

Resa E. Lewiss, MD

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Resa E Lewiss MD is a Professor of Emergency Medicine. A TEDMED speaker and TimesUp Healthcare founder, she’s an internationally renowned point-of-care ultrasound educator and champion for diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces. She attended college at Brown University, medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, Emergency Medicine residency at the Harvard Emergency Medicine Residency, and fellowship at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Roosevelt. She led point-of-care ultrasound sections at St. Luke’s Roosevelt, the University of Colorado, and Thomas Jefferson. A physician healthcare designer at Perkins&Will, her design focus has been ultrasound hardware and workflows. She’s helped to redesign the built environment of a Harvard ICU and an infectious diseases unit in Malawi. As host and founder of the Visible Voices Podcast, she’s interviewed over many subject matter experts in healthcare, equity, and current trends. Her writings are published in the popular press and scientific journals, such as Harvard Business Review, Slate, Nature, and Fast Company. Her new book, MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact is forthcoming from HarperCollins in 2024.

Maxwell Blodgett, MD

Christiana Care Health System

Maxwell Blodgett is an academic faculty member at the Christiana Care Emergency Medicine residency and is an Azssistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College/Thomas Jefferson University. He is a graduate of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and from the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He completed a medical education fellowship at Temple and is enrolled in the Master of Education in the Health Professions at Johns Hopkins University

John Elliott Schneider, MD

Washington University in St. Louis

Medical School: University of Missouri - Columbia. MD Class of 2017
Residency: Washington University in St. Louis: Class of 2021
Fellowship: Medical Education, Virginia Commonwealth University: Class of 2023


My main interests are in exploring how techniques in mental rehearsal and imagery, deliberate practice, and spaced repetition can be integrated into curricula that addresses skill and knowledge decay. I think this applies for all learning, but I am particularly interested in studying this in high acuity, low occurrence procedures and events as well as novel skills. From a more broad outlook my goals are to be innovative and improve how we integrate and assess active learning strategies within formal and informal curricula.

Kerry McCabe, MD

Boston Medical Center

Dr. McCabe graduated from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Boston Medical Center emergency medicine residency. She has spent her career in resident education, including serving as Residency Program Director at Boston Medical Center. She has served on multiple committees within CORD-EM and SAEM, and on hospital committees dedicated to education, diversity and inclusion, and faculty development.

Currently Vice Chair of Education for the Department of Emergency Medicine at BMC and the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Dr. McCabe's interests include developing a culture that serves the objectives of education, equity, and resilience for residents, faculty, and the broader community. Current projects include the United Network for the Study of Human Affect in Medical Education (UNSHAME) collaborative and hospital-wide microaggression response training. Dr. McCabe is a mother of three.

Spenser C. Lang, MD

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

I am currently an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. I trained at Northwestern University EM in Chicago, and joined the faculty at Cincinnati after graduation in 2018. I also serve as an APD and the Director of Simulation for our residency program. In this role, I have an interest in medical education through simulation, bedside teaching, and junior learner mentorship.

Moises Gallegos, MD, MPH

Stanford Emergency Medicine

Moises grew up in Southern California. He attended Harvard College where he studied Neurobiology and topics in Mind/Brain/Behavior. He earned his MD from Stanford School of Medicine and concurrently earned a Masters in Public Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his residency and was Chief Resident at Baylor College of Medicine while working at Ben Taub General Hospital. He began his academic career as an Assistant Professor in the Henry JN Taub Department of Emergency Medicine at Ben Taub and rejoined the Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine in 2019 as a Clinical Assistant Professor. He is the Clerkship Director for EMED301A, the required/core Emergency Medicine rotation. He is currently completing coursework to obtain his Master of Education in the Health Professions from Johns Hopkins University School of Education.

Andrew Beck, MD, MS

Brown University

Andrew Beck, MD, MS is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, OH. He trained in Emergency Medicine at Brown University. Dr. Beck has formal training in medical education, and completed a Fellowship in Global Medical Education with the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brown University. Dr. Beck has seven years of experience in medical education, formally leading MedBoardTutors, LLC, a private medical education tutoring group assisting medical students around the world across the continuum of basic and clinical sciences, during which time he personally instructed over 100 medical students on a one-on-one basis. He frequently travels to Africa to teach Emergency Medicine, often in Kenya and Rwanda. He has taught many WHO Basic Emergency Care Courses in many countries. His main interests include clinical teaching, global medical education, and adult learning theory. He conducts research in global emergency medicine education, specifically on the teaching of resuscitation in the resource-limited emergency setting.

Adam Laytin, MD, MPH

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Adam Laytin, MD MPH is an assistant professor of an Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He earned his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed a Master’s degree in Public Health at the University of California Berkeley. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at Oregon Health & Science University and his fellowship in surgical critical care at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Laytin’s research addresses context-appropriate emergency, trauma and critical care in resource-limited settings, focusing on opportunities for quality improvement and capacity building. He is the chair of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine Critical Care Special Interest Group.

Nana Sefa, MD, MPH

MedStar Washington Hospital Center

Dr. Sefa is an assistant professor of emergency medicine and critical care at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. He completed medical school at the University of Ghana Medical School and his masters in Public Health at the University of Michigan. He completed residency in emergency medicine at William Beaumont Hospital and fellowship in medical critical care at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Sarah K. Knack, MD

Hennepin Healthcare

I am currently an emergency physician and a second-year research fellow at Hennepin Healthcare. During my time in medical school at Duke University School of Medicine I used my scholarly year to participate in multiple research projects through the Hennepin Healthcare Department of Emergency Medicine building my research skills and interest. After residency, I decided to further advance my research knowledge by accepting a fellowship position and enrolling in a Masters of Clinical Research program at the University of Minnesota. My current research interests are acute trauma care, traumatic brain injury and management of sedation and analgesia in shock states. I have active research support through the University of Minnesota Translational Center for Resuscitative Trauma Care using national databases to explore my research interests. I also furthered my grant writing skills through the NINDS Clinical Trials Methodology Course in 2023. I plan to continue building my knowledge base and research skills with the goal of helping to improve emergency care. I am actively involved in the SAEM research committee for the mentorship, networking, and opportunities to advance my career in academic emergency medicine.

Khiem Hoang, MD, MPH

Emory University School of Medicine

Khiem Hoang (they/them), MD, MPH is a current PGY-3 Emergency Medicine resident at Emory.

Melissa Edwards, DO

Virginia Commonwealth University

Melissa Edwards, DO. Ultrasound & Resuscitation Fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System.

Eliot H. Blum, MD

Emory University School of Medicine

Eliot Blum is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine 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. Eliot works extensively in the community and serves as the medical director for Atlanta Pride and the AIDS Vaccine 200 bicycle race. Additionally, Eliot 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, Eliot helped start a GME-wide mentoring program for LGBTQIA+ medical students and residents and was awarded "Faculty Mentor of the Year" by his department. Lastly, Eliot prides himself on being a professional listener of music, an amateur cyclist, rock climber and runner, lover of the outdoors and, most importantly, his wife and three children.

Michelle Feeney, MD

University of Michigan

Michelle Feeney is a 4th year resident at Michigan Medicine. She attended The Ohio State University College of Medicine and will be working with Team Health in New Jersey after graduation.

Lizzie M. Hovis, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Maxwell Hovis is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She completed medical school at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and residency training in General Adult Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Following residency she completed a fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Her academic interests include perinatal substance use as well as identifying and mitigating bias and stigma to improve whole person care of psychiatric patients.

Shannon A. Markus, MD MPH

University of Texas, Austin

Shannon Markus, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Dell Medical School in Austin, Texas, where she recently served as Associate Medical Director. She received her Bachelor's degree from The University of Texas at Austin before attending medical school at Perelman Medical School at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her Master of Public Health degree at The University of Texas Health Science Center with a focus on leadership before moving to Nashville to complete a residency in Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt. At Vanderbilt, Dr. Markus served as the inaugural Fellow in Health Policy and Equity, during which time she co-created a GME-wide Resident Interdisciplinary Elective in Health Equity and performed postdoctoral research in health disparities in the COVID pandemic. Her academic interests include policies that affect our most vulnerable populations, including reducing barriers to care, care for the uninsured and underinsured, protection of safety-net institutions, and studying how sociodemographic factors affect health outcomes. She is passionate about mentoring URM students and residents. Dr. Markus enjoys international travel, caring for her 100+ houseplants, camping, and cooking. She is married to Reid and has four fur-babies at home.

Samantha Chao, MD, HEC-C

University of Michigan

Samantha is a PGY-4 in Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan and one of the current chief residents. She completed medical school at the University of Michigan in 2020 and earned her undergraduate degree at Carleton College with a double major in English and Chemistry. She is an active member of the ACEP Ethics Committee and one of the few residents to sit on the committee. Her current academic and research interests include applying clinical ethics in the emergency department, improving health care for patients who are incarcerated, palliative care, clinical ultrasound, and DEI efforts related to reducing the use of stigmatizing language.