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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.

Francis X. Guyette, MD, MS, MPH, FACEP, FAEMS

University of Pittsburgh

Dr Guyette has spent more than 30 years in Emergency Medicine and EMS and devotes his academic career to acute resuscitation research. He is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and serves as the Medical Director for STAT MedEvac the nation’s largest, academic, non-profit critical care transport group. His areas of expertise are in the recognition of shock, prehospital resuscitation, and clinician decision support. He has examined these issues with funding from the Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety, National Highway and Transportation Safety Administration, National Association of EMS Physicians, and DARPA. Dr. Guyette is the Co-PI of the Linking Investigators in Trauma and Emergency Services (LITES) Network. 

Eric W. Fleegler, MD, MPH

Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr. Fleegler is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a pediatric emergency physician and health services researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Fleegler’s primary interests include firearm injury prevention, understanding and improving families’ health-related social needs and dispariies and health inequities.

Bijan W. Ketabchi, MD, MPH

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Originally from Cincinnati, OH, Bijan Ketabchi completed medical school in Los Angeles at the Keck School of Medicine of USC before returning to his hometown for residency in General Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. His passion for suicide prevention began during residency training and continued to grow as he pursued fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. During fellowship he obtained his MPH and designed & completed a RCT around the distribution of gun locks in the ED setting for children with mental health concerns. This and other work led to Bijan receiving the Injury Prevention Champion award for the state of Ohio and a leadership role on the AAP's Section on Emergency Medicine Advocacy Subcommittee. His fervor for improving delivery of mental health care in the ED was the impetus for him to develop a first-of-its-kind year-long fellowship in Emergency Psychiatry in partnership with the Divisions of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Bijan is currently Pediatric Emergency Medicine faculty at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania wherere his academic efforts are focused on suicide prevention, mental health advocacy, and agitation management.

Tigist T. Bedane, MD Emergency and Critical Care Physician

St Peter Specialized Hospital

Dr.Tigist Tesfaye is an Emergency and Critical Care Physician specialist from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is currently working as the Clinical Service Director at the Addis Ababa COVID 19 Field Hospital.
Dr. Tigist was born and raised in capital of Ethiopia, she received her undergraduate medical education at Jimma University College of Public Health and Medical Sciences on 2015 and proceded to do her residency in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine at Addis Ababa University, Tikur Anbessa Hospital in 2017. Dr. Tigist have 8+ years’ experience as a Clinician in emergency response, 5+ years’ experience working in a senior managerial role at St.Peter Specialized Hospital. Dr. Tigist is certified in Leadership in Public Management from Virginia Tech University School of Public and International Affairs, She also have certificate in Project Managment from Addis Ababa University. Dr. Tigist has been an advocate for Emergency Care both nationally and internationally. She has worked as a consultant in different international organizations for over 3 years . She has also led multiple Disaster Medical Assistant Teams (DMAT) for the Federal Ministry of Health in Ethiopia and is the first Master trainer for the WHO-ICRC Basic Emergency Care course for the country. Dr. Tigist is involved in the curriculum preparation for Ethiopia’s Emergency Medicine training with the Federal Ministry of Health and Addis Ababa University and is certified in BLS, ALS, ILS, ETB as well as PHTLS.

Torben K. Becker, MD, PhD, MBA

Chair

University of Florida

Dr. Becker is an associate professor at the University of Florida. He is board-certified in emergency medicine (EM), critical care medicine, and emergency medical services. After obtaining his MD and PhD at the University of Heidelberg Medical School in Germany, Dr. Becker completed his residency in EM at the University of Michigan, followed by fellowships in critical care medicine and emergency medical services at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Florida, respectively. He is the executive director of EM for the University of Florida Health Critical Care Organization. In the department of EM, he serves as chief of the division of critical care medicine and director of the section of global health.

Miriam Kulkarni, Associate Professor

St. John’s Riverside Hospital

Dr Kulkarni is the Program Director at St John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, NY. She is a graduate of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the Jacobi/Montefiore Emergency Medicine Residency. She has been involved in residency education as an APD and PD since 2009. Dr. Kulkarni has been involved in the match process as an APD and PD for the last 15 years.

Brian Milman, MD

University of Texas Southwestern

Dr. Brian Milman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas. He completed his emergency medicine residency at University of Oklahoma and worked as faculty, Assistant Program Director, then Associate Program Director in Tulsa before moving to Dallas in 2023. Dr. Milman is passionate about teaching, advising, and mentoring.

Mike Kiemeney, MD

Loma Linda University School of Medicine

Dr. Kiemeney completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. His residency training was completed at East Carolina University/Vidant Medical Center. Dr. Kiemeney is now Program Director at Loma Linda University Health. Areas of interest include Medical Education, wellness, mentorship, and the Match. He currently serves as Co-Chair for the multi-organization CORD Match Task Force. Investigating the driving forces of recent applicant behavior and decision making as well as those of Program Directors has allowed the Task Force to develop potential strategies that may contribute to successful EM Matches in the future.

Lori Clements, BSN, RN, MA, SANE

Lifespan/Brown University

Lori Clements is a Registered Nurse with 22 years of nursing experience. She has worked as a supervising RN in the areas of pediatrics, child and adolescent behavioral health, and adult medicine. She is the Director of the RI Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) Program. With her team she has implemented the first coordinated response for sexual assault patients across the Lifespan hospital system's emergency departments. She holds a BA in Psychology, BSN in Nursing, and completed a post baccalaureate Forensic Nurse Certificate program through John’s Hopkins University. She is currently completing her MSN with a Forensic focus. She is a certified Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) with 9 years experience working as a SANE and 6 years as a TeleSANE through the Massachusetts Department of Health SANE/ TeleSANE program.

Amy Goldberg, MD

Brown University

Amy Goldberg, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and an attending physician at The Lawrence A. Aubin Sr. Child Protection Center at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. She attended medical achool at Boston University, completed pediatric residency training at University of Massachusetts Medical school and fellowship training in Child Abuse Pediatrics at Hasbro Children''s Hospital and The Alpert Medical School of BRown Uiversity. She is a recent past member on the sub- committee for Child Abuse Pediatrics for the American Board of Pediatrics. Dr. Goldberg serves on the advisory committee for the Rhode Island Children’s Advocacy Center, is a member of the RI Human Trafficking Task Force and is on the Rhode Island Children’s Fatality and Review Team. She is actively invovled in training medical trainees at all levels on subjects related to child maltreatment and trauma.

Dr. Goldberg’s clinical and research interests include Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking, Injury patterns in Children with developmental delays and differences and establishing normative data for patterns of physical injury She considers advocacy, patient care and medical education as her highest professional priorities.

Erica J. Hardy, MD, MMSc

Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Dr. Hardy is an Assistant professor of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Divisions of Obstetric Medicine and Infectious Disease. Her research interests include infectious diseases in women, especially the peripartum period, sexually transmitted infections, trauma informed care and acute follow up of the sexual assault survivor. She has ongoing research examining the vaginal mucosal immunology longitudinally aftyer sexual assault as well as collaborating to develop a novel model teaching trauma informed care of the sexual assault survivor.

Lauren T. Southerland, MD, MPH

The Ohio State University

Dr. Lauren Southerland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at The Ohio State University and the Director of Clinical and Implementation Science for the Department. She is a trained Implementation Scientist and her research focuses on clinical process improvement and implementation in the Emergency Department.

Susan J. Duffy, MD, MPH

Alpert Medical School, Brown University

Susan Duffy, MD, MPH, Vice Chair Academic Affairs Deprtment of Emergency Medicine, Professor Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, Brown University. Medical Director RI SAFE Program I am a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Hasbro Children's Hospital, in Providence ,RI and my career has focused on alleviating disparities in emergency care and improving care for children, youth. As current Vice Chair for Academic Development, and former Medical Director, I have over 28 years of experience developing and implementing quality programs and as an educator and researcher. I have significant experience in assessing and developing systems for emergency care and community ED outreach, particularly working with multidisciplinary experts formulating best practices and guidelines for patients with complex medical and social issues including victims of sexual trauma and domestic violence, care of children with mental health crises. I am the Medical Director of the RI SAFE program and PI on a Department of Justice Grant (RI-SAFE) to develop a sexual assault forensic examiner program in Rhode Island EDs I was also awarded a Brown Physicians, Inc. grant to investigate the Implementation of the RI-SAFE program. I am the recipient of a Brown Grant to develop and investigate a virtual education program for clinicians to Improve Care for Victims of Acute Sexual Assault that is now a CME program offered to medical providers throughout the region. Icollaborate in national efforts through the American Academy of Pediatrics, HRSA-Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMS-C), and other medical organizations in the US and Canada to improve equitable care for children with mental health issues presenting to EDs.This has resulted in the collaborative development of best practices for ED patients with acute mental health crises, most recently involvement with HRSA supported EMSC initiatives to develop tools for ED providers to respond to the children’s mental health crisis, facilitate emergency departments in an EMSC/EII quality collaborative to improve care at risk for suicide, developing virtual training for ED pediatric providers on agitation management through an AAP educational platform, through collaborative effort sponsored by HRSA to develop a toolkit to assist EDs to improve preparedness to care for children with mental health crises, through a NIMH Grant to develop an ED screening tool for Adolescent Suicide (ED STARS) and a NIMH Grant to assess the impact of acute trauma on the development of PTSD using social media (ED EAR) and an AAP Healthy Tomorrows Grant to Incorporate Adolescent Substance Abuse Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment into pediatric practice (Adolescent SBIRT).