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  • Benjamin Fombonne

    Fellowship Director, Global EM

  • Shirley Jones, DO

    Shirley completed her EM Residency at EVMS and her Global Health Fellowship at the University of Utah. Shirley is the EVMS Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director. Her past and current projects include Vietnam Emergency Medicine Diploma Project, WHO's and ICRC Humanitarian Emergencies in Large Population Course in Geneva, Himalayan Health Exchange, and Trinidad Mount Hope. 

  • Amye Farage

    Associate Professor

  • Amye Farag

    Assistant Professor

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  • Maddie Ross, MD MPH
  • Maddie Ross, MD MPH
  • Maddie Ross

    Assistant Fellowship Director

  • Madeline Ross

    Assistant Fellowship Director

  • Pinaki Mukherji, MD

    Site Director, Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center

    Northwell Health

    Dr. Mukherji is the Site Director at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center at the North Shore/LIJ Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Northwell Health. He has worked in undergraduate education, with emergency residency clerkship students, as a Teaching Fellowship Director and as a Program Director for both emergency medicine categorical and EM/IM/Critical Care residencies. He has a passion for education as a force multiplier and is interested in decision making, getting better, and being wrong. He has been active in the development of Simulation training, Critical Care pathways, and International EM. He has lectured nationally and internationally on many core EM topics, as well as on topics of his interest in bias and cognitive error.

  • Andrew Barbera, MD

    Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program

    Lakeland Regional Health

    Dr. Barbera is an emergency medicine (EM) physician and the inaugural Program Director for the Lakeland Regional Health EM Residency Program. Dr. Barbera has held faculty positions at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, CUNY School of Medicine, and is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor with Nova Southeastern University School of Medicine and Orlando College of Osteopathic Medicine. As the Program Director, Dr. Barbera supervises all departmental medical education and research in one of the busiest emergency departments in the country, averaging approximately 200,000 patient visits annually. In addition, Dr. Barbera has been an integral part of creating an academic culture at a large community medical center as they launched a graduate medical education program with the start of seven ACGME accredited programs.

  • Daniel Frank, MD

    Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

    Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

    Dr. Frank is an attending physician at South Shore University Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He completed both medical school and residency training in EM at Stony Brook University's Health Science Center. While there, he served as chief resident and conducted research on post-intubation care in the emergency department (ED). After finishing residency training, Dr. Frank went on to complete a two-year fellowship in critical care medicine at North Shore University Hospital of Northwell Health. He then joined the Core Faculty of the EM Residency at Hackensack University Medical Center, where he spent 3 years working closely with residents and developing his interest in graduate medical education. Since joining South Shore University Hospital, Dr. Frank has worked to build and establish the residency program, publish scholarly work, present at national conferences, and serve on various graduate medical education committees as well as the Student Advancement Commiteee at the Zucker School of Medicine.

  • Rupa Kapoor, MD

    Associate Professor, Pediatrics

    Eastern Virginia Medical School

    Dr. Kapoor is an Associate Professor in Pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS). She is an Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Residency Program and the Founder of the Global Health Scholars Program in Pediatrics. She also serves as the Assistant Program Director for Resident Scholarly Work. Her passions include medical education research, curriculum design, leadership and resilience training, and global health and disparity work.

  • Heather Newton, EdD, MEd

    Executive Director of GME, Educational Programs

    Eastern Virginia Medical School

    Dr. Newton obtained both her doctorate degree in Educational Psychology and a master’s degree in Teacher Education and Curriculum Instruction from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She also completed a three-year research fellowship. Dr. Newton’s passion is education and she has over 27 years of professional experience in the educational field from preschool through postgraduate. Currently, Dr. Newton works with Graduate Medical Education as the Executive Director of GME, Educational Programs at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS). In this role, she helps to create and implement faculty development curricula and deliver training in multiple modalities to residents, faculty, and staff. Dr. Newton has a passion for teaching, mentoring, scholarship, accreditation, and leadership. Her research interests are in program evaluations, conducting needs assessments, leadership, and interprofessional relationships for producing scholarship. Additionally, Dr. Newton is an associate professor with the EVMS Department of Pediatrics and the EVMS School of Health Professions.

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    Sara Schulwolf, MD, MPH

    Emergency Medicine Resident

    Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medical Residency (HAEMR)

    Sara Schulwolf, MD, MPH, received her MD and Masters in Public Health from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She is currently a first-year emergency medicine resident at the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medical Residency (HAEMR) in Boston. Dr. Schulwolf currently serves as a member-at-large to SAEM's Resident and Medical Student (RAMS) Board and was previously a medical student representative. She has been liaison to the SAEM Research Committee as well as the Bylaws Committee over the past two years.

  • Genevieve Pentecost, MD

    Member-at-Large

    Washington University in St. Louis/Barnes-Jewish Hospital

    Dr. Genevieve Pentecost is a PGY-3 at Washington University in St. Louis and attended the University of Missouri-Columbia for her undergraduate and medical school education. For 3 years, Dr. Pentecost has served as a resident representative among several local institutional committee programs that advocate for the resident voice in assuring a safe and fair learning environment, residency recruitment and retention, and prioritizing resident and fellow wellness. For her final year in residency, she turned her focus to broader issues facing trainees on the national scale.

  • Mit Patel, MD

    Member-at-Large

    Henry Ford Hospital

    Dr. Mit Patel is a current PGY-2 at Henry Ford Hospital. Dr. Patel graduated with a BBA in Information Systems from the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago. He went on to earn his MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, where he developed his interest in medical education and research. In Residency, his research interests are in increasing POCUS utilization by trainees, examining causes for ED boarding and overcrowding, and expanding ED-initiated Buprenorphine.

    He's in the first generation of his family to attend medical school, and he mentors middle-schoolers in Detroit on becoming physicians. He believes strongly in connecting experts with enthusiastic learners and is eager to facilitate these relationships. He looks forward to involving curious residents and medical students in all aspects of academic emergency medicine.

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    Juliet Jacobson, MD

    Member-at-Large

    NewYork-Presbyterian Cornell & Columbia

    Dr. Juliet Jacobson is a PGY-2 at NewYork-Presbyterian Cornell & Columbia. Before embarking on her medical career, Dr. Jacobson taught 6th-grade math and science in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. In her role as a teacher, Dr. Jacobson discovered that students often assumed she had a comprehensive understanding of their needs, while in reality, a disconnect often existed. Recognizing this, she made it her mission to create an open environment where students felt encouraged to share their thoughts, concerns, and needs. This dedication to fostering effective communication became a cornerstone of her educational philosophy.

    Shortly after completing her teaching role, Dr. Jacobson began her journey through medical school at New York Medical College. Within just two months, she was elected to the school's curriculum committee, where she served as a liaison between students and faculty. Now in residency, Dr. Jacobson continues to demonstrate her commitment to medical education and learner support. She helps lead her residency's recruitment board, volunteers at college outreach programs, and mentors students at her alma mater. Her passion for medical education drives her to create tools and resources that can support learners not only during medical school and residency but throughout their entire medical careers.

  • Hart L. Edmonson, MD

    Member-at-Large

    Northwestern University

    Dr. Hart Edmonson is a current PGY-1 at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University and a graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine. Before entering medical school, Dr. Edmonson served as Chief of Staff to Congressman Denny Heck in the United States House of Representatives, where he specialized in healthcare policy and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. This background has given him a deep understanding of how policy and healthcare intersect.

    Dr. Edmonson's journey into medicine was driven by a passion for public service and a commitment to advocating for equitable healthcare policies. As a medical student, he focused on pharmacy label translation for patients with limited English proficiency, using his research to influence legislative advocacy. Dr. Edmonson collaborated with other medical students to advocate for state law to better support non-English speaking patients. Dr. Edmonson's contributions to the field have already been recognized with the SAEM Medical Student Excellence Award during his time as a medical student.

  • Aaron D'Amore, MD

    Resident, Emergency Medicine

    Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency - Mass General Brigham

    Aaron D’Amore, MD, is a PGY-2 emergency medicine resident at the Mass General Brigham Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR) Program. After graduating from Ohio State University in 2018, he began his journey into medicine through his work as an Intramural Training Award Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he conducted research in community health clinics, examining the effects and treatment of infectious diseases and opioid use disorder. In 2023, he graduated from medical school at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore where he served as class president for four years. Aaron enjoys all the usual grab-bag of emergency medicine hobbies including rock climbing, snowboarding, mushroom foraging, biking to work, and hiking with his partner, Erin, and their dog, Nutmeg.

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