People

Glenn Paetow, MD, MACM

Hennepin County Medical Center

Dr. Paetow completed his Emergency Medicine Residency and a Fellowship in Medical Education and Simulation, both at Hennepin County Medical Center. After obtaining his Masters in Academic Medicine through the University of Southern California, he joined Hennepin County Medical Center as a faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He served as an Associate Program Director until 2022 when he became the Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program.

He is also the Medical Director for the Interdisciplinary Simulation and Education Center. His academic interests include graduate medical education, wellness, simulation, quality improvement, and cultural responsive healthcare.

Valerie Dobiesz, MD, MPH

Brigham & Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Valerie Dobiesz, MD, MPH, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, is an emergency physician working clinically at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Tséhootsooí Medical Center in Fort Defiance and serves as the Director of the Front Line Indigenous Partnership (FLIP) Program which is dedicated to improving American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) health and eliminating existing health disparities. She is a core faculty in the BWH emergency department’s Office of Inclusion Diversity, Equity and Social Justice and a core faculty member of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) where she directs programs on Indigenous Health Disparities and Medical Education in War and Conflict. She is nationally recognized for her emergency medicine courses for medical professionals in the areas of simulation education, maternal health, gender equity, orthopedics, and wilderness and expedition medicine. To address the lack of a sufficient AIAN healthcare workforce she partners with Tribal leaders on developing and supporting multiple pathway programs for Indigenous youth to pursue healthcare careers including the Medicine Pathways to Advancing Tribal Healthcare program, Saint Michael Indian School Premedical Society, San Carlos Apache Premedical Summer Program, North American Center of Boston Medicine Ways Pathway Program, and the relaunching of the National Native American Youth Initiative program in collaboration with the Association of American Indian Physicians. She has presented over 200 national and over 100 international lectures on a variety of subspecialties in emergency medicine in Peru, India, Nepal, Tanzania, Antarctica, Cuba, the Philippines, Haiti, Galapagos, Democratic Republic of Congo, Vietnam, Fiji, New Zealand, Bhutan, Ukraine, and Argentina.

Kimberly Sokol, MD, MS, MACM

Kaweah Delta Health Care District

Dr. Sokol is the Medical Director of Simulation, Co-Director of the Clinical Teaching and Simulation Fellowship, and Core Faculty member of the Emergency Medicine residency program at Kaweah Health Medical Center in Visalia, California. A graduate of both the emergency medicine residency program and simulation fellowship at the University of California Irvine, she is interested in running simulations for a variety of learners.

Vivienne Ng, MD, MPH

University of Arizona

Vivienne Ng grew up in several areas of the United States, settling most recently on the West Coast where she completed her undergraduate and public health training at the University of California Berkeley focusing on infectious disease epidemiology, with a special interest in Global Health and Maternal and Child Health. After a brief stint in upstate New York for medical school, she returned quickly to California, where the sun shines for the better part of the year for residency and fellowship training in simulation education and research.

She joined the University of Arizona faculty in 2013 to build the simulation education curriculum for the department of emergency medicine. In addition to her simulation work, she is also an Associate Program Director for the University Campus Emergency Medicine Residency Program and the Director for the Medical Simulation Fellowship. She additionally mentors medical students as a core faculty advisor for EM bound students at the UA.

Her professional interests include medical education and mentorship, simulation education, pediatric emergency care, and global health. She spends her free time traveling, trying new foods, and exploring new outdoor wonders with her family and dog.

Tina Chen, MD

Saint Louis University

Tina Chen is the Associate Dean of Simulation and Clinical Skills for Saint Louis University School of Medicine, as well as the Director of Emergency Medicine Simulation for the Saint Louis University Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She completed Medical Simulation fellowship at the Center for Education, Simulation, and Innovation at Hartford Hospital.

Mary Jo Wagner, MD

Central Michigan University/CMU Medical Education Partners

Dr. Mary Jo Wagner is Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Central Michigan University College of Medicine and the Chief Academic Officer and Designated Institutional Official at CMU Medical Education Partners. She was previously the Program Director of the EM Residency Program in Saginaw, Michigan. In addition, she is currently the GME Cross-Continuum Consultant for the AAMC.

Dr. Wagner has educated thousands of emergency physicians as faculty of the ACEP Teaching Fellowship program, as an Academic leader speaking at more than 40 residency programs, and was the Editor of the ACEP “PEER” series of review question books for 20 years. As a leader in Graduate Medical Education (GME), Dr. Wagner has been active in the ACGME representing EM including her role as a member of the Review Committee, a representative at the Duty Hours Congress, and a member of the EM Milestones Workgroup. Her honors include the ACEP Outstanding Contributions in Education Award, the CORD Distinguished Educator Award, and the inaugural awardee of the CORD Gloria Kuhn Award for Outstanding Mentorship and Allyship in Emergency Medicine Education.

Ramon W. Johnson, MD

Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center/Children's Hospital at Mission

Ramon W. Johnson, MD, MBA is President of the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM). Dr. Johnson has been an oral examiner since 1993 and a member of the ABEM Board of Directors since 2015. He has additionally served ABEM as a Chief Examiner for the Oral Certification Examination, the liaison to the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Sub-Board, and question writer for MyEMCert.

Following graduation from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Dr. Johnson completed residency training in Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the UCLA, and received an Executive Health MBA from the École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique in Rennes, France. He has been a community physician and full-time partner in Mission Viejo Emergency Medicine Associates at Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center in Mission Viejo, California, for the past 27 years. 

Barbara Magid, MD, MPH, MIA

New York Presbyterian (NYP)

Barbara Magid is Chief Resident in Emergency Medicine at New York Presbyterian (NYP) Columbia and Cornell. She attended medical school at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and also holds masters in Public Health & Forced Migration (MPH), and in International Affairs (MIA) from Columbia University. Prior to pursuing a career in clinical medicine, she spent over a decade working in international humanitarian aid across five continents on issues such as emergency nutrition and refugee resettlement. She is the resident lead and co-founder of WomEM, the NYP cross-campus women physician’s group. She is an advocate for women trainees, and has also been involved in quality work and migrant health work during her time at NYP.

Riddhi Desai, DO

Maimonides Medical Center

Riddhi Desai is a Senior Medical Education Fellow at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn NY and Clinical Assistant Professor at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. She completed her residency training at St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson NJ in 2022. Riddhi is very enthusiastic about women's professional development, resuscitation, and procedural medicine. Her passion within education lies in bedside teaching, developing curricula to bridge knowledge gaps, mentorship and recruitment. She also earned Masters of Medical Education at University of Pennsylvania during her fellowship.

Sarah K. Wendel, MD, MBA

University of Virginia

Dr. Wendel is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia. She currently serves as the Medical Director in the UVA Emergency Department and Director of Quality for the Department of Emergency Medicine.

Anna P. Fang, MD

Boston Medical Center

Anna Fang, MD is a PGY-3 resident physician at Boston Medical Center. She graduated from Yale University in 2014 and received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 2021. Her academic work focuses on development of emergency care systems and strengthening emergency care delivery in resource-limited settings globally. Drawing on her expertise in data analytics, her research interests also include data optimization for quality improvement processes and development of monitoring and evaluation systems. She has conducted research in Haiti and Sierra Leone on these topics.

Kelly Bookman, MD

University of Colorado School of Medicine/UCHealth

I am Professor and Vice Chair for Operations for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (CUSOM DEM), as well as Senior Medical Director for Informatics for the UCHealth hospital system. My responsibilities include overseeing and leading all aspects of emergency care delivery at the University of Colorado Hospital’s Emergency Department as well as the 3 community hospital EDs that CU SOM DEM faculty staffs. Additionally, I am the Senior Medical Director for the UCHealth Emergency Medicine Service Line where I guide the operations and quality of the ED’s throughout the 12 hospital UCHealth system. I have also served in multiple roles within UCHealth including Chief Medical Officer positions in 3 different hospitals within the system, regional Associate CMO across the large northern region of UCHealth, and interim CEO/President role at one of the community sites. Most recently, I served as the system UCHealth CMO of Revenue Cycle.

Meagan R. Hunt, MD

Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Dr. Meagan Hunt is an assistant professor with the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and medical director for the adult emergency department at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. She has served in that role since 2019 and prior to that she was assistant medical director beginning in 2017. During that time Dr. Hunt also was Physician Director of Acute Care APP services for her department from 2015-2024. In June 2022, she founded the ADIEM operations committee to support developing operational solutions to support healthcare equity. Meagan loves spending time with her family and dogs, traveling, and learning to ride horses when she is not at work. She is excited to support all emergency medicine providers in their pursuit of leadership as we all have something to contribute.

Alice Lu, MSL

University of California, San Francisco

Alice Lu is a fourth-year medical student at UCSF with dedicated interests in gender based violence including improving the care of IPV survivors in emergency departments as well as supporting asylum seekers and detainees through medical-legal partnerships. Her educational background includes studying Global Health and Human Biology at UCSD, followed by a master's in law at Northwestern Law where she focused on human rights and the regulation of healthcare and technology. Drawing from her interdisciplinary interests, she plans to become an emergency medicine physician working with underserved patient populations while also advocating for their socio-legal needs. Alice is excited to be starting residency next year with HAEMR at Mass General Brigham.

Annette M. Dekker, MD, MS

University of California, Los Angeles

Annette Dekker MD, MS is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at UCLA / Olive View. She completed her medical training at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and her residency training at University of Chicago, where she served as chief resident. Most recently, she completed a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management as part of her research fellowship at UCLA. Her current research interests trauma-informed care, implementation of care for victims who have experienced trauma, and immigrant health and policy.

Sarah Russell, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin

Sarah Russell, MD is an emergency medicine resident at Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). She obtained her medical degree from MCW. During medical school, she was a member of the quality improvement and patient safety pathway during which time she completed a quality improvement project aimed towards improving patient understanding of discharge instructions. Currently she is a member of the Administration/Operations resident track. At present, she is working on a project regarding procedural consent within the emergency department.

Rebecca Barron, MD, MPH

UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate

Dr. Rebecca Barron is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate and an attending emergency physician at Baystate Health in Springfield, MA. She graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine, where she obtained her medical and master of public health degrees. She completed residency in Emergency Medicine and fellowship in Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital/Alpert Medical of Brown University. As a fellow, she also completed a Post-Master's Certificate in Evidence-Based Teaching in the Health Professions through Johns Hopkins University. She has extensive clinical, education, and research experience in acute sexual assault, including implementing an insitutional sexual assault response team, developing and revising institutional and statewide acute sexual assault protocols, developing and delivering educational content on this topic to medical students and residents, and conducting quantitative and qualitative research aimed at improving care for this patient population. More broadly, Dr. Barron is interested in women's health, public health, and medical education, serving as an Early Clinical Learning small group leader in UMass-Chan Medical school's PURCH track.

Joshua J. Baugh, MD, MPP, MHCM

Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital

Joshua Baugh MD, MPP, MHCM is the Medical Director for Hospital Emergency Preparedness at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Director of Clinical Operations for the MGH Emergency Department, and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Baugh earned his MD at Harvard Medical School, his Masters in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and his Masters in Healthcare Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. After training in emergency medicine at UCLA, he completed dual fellowships in Emergency Medicine Administration and Disaster Medicine at MGH. He is board certified in emergency medicine and practices clinically in the MGH Emergency Department. 

Dr. Baugh also conducts research in the areas of emergency department operations, physician burnout, and emergency preparedness, and has lectured regionally and nationally on these topics

 

Kathleen S. Williams, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals

Dr. Kathleen Williams is an assistant professor and residency program director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She received her Doctor of Medicine from Rush Medical College in Chicago, IL. She completed her residency training from the Medical College of Wisconsin.

She has served in a leadership role in the EM residency program since 2018. 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.

Melissa Platt, MD

University of Louisville

Melissa Platt, M.D. is a Professor in the University of Louisville Department of Emergency Medicine and the Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education for the University of Louisville School of Medicine. She has been a core faculty member for 19 years with areas of expertise including health law, heat illness, and women's health. She firmly believes in education and organized involvement to influence positive change in health care.