People

Jason An, MD, FACEP

Riverside Community Hospital

My name is Jason An and I currently serve as the Designated Institutional Official and Emergency Medicine Program Director at Riverside Community Hospital in California. I am proud to be a part of a department that won the ACEP EM Wellness Center of Excellence award in 2022. My areas of interest in EM include medical education, ED procedures, mentoring, and physician well-being.

Jennifer Chapman, MD, MBA

Orange Park Medical Center

My name is Jennifer Chapman MD, MBA and my current professional roles include Program Director of HCA Florida- Orange Park Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Vice-Chairman Department of Emergency Medicine and Assistant Facilty Medical Director of Emergency Department. I attended University of Rochester School of Medicine before completing EM residency at Kings County/SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn. Upon finishing residency, I enjoyed working at Lahey Hospital in Burlington MA, working with Boston Medical College EM residents before moving down to sunny Florida. My family and I enjoy the benefits of living in the Jacksonville area. We are avid football fans and I was thrilled to take on the role of Airway Management Physician for the Jacksonville Jaguars, a position that I share with two of my EM colleagues.

Vinay N. Kampalath, MD, DTM&H

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Vinay N. Kampalath, MD, DTM&H is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kampalath has worked in several development and humanitarian contexts as a clinician and educator, and is a researcher studying humanitarian emergencies, universal health coverage, and emergency care development. Dr. Kampalath earned his medical degree at Brown University and finished his residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine and global health at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He earned his diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Shama Patel, MD MPH

University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville

Shama Patel has worked in the field of global health for over 15 years, starting as a Global Health fellow at CDC and moving onto medicine, completing an International Emergency Medicine Fellowship and now working as clinical faculty of University of Florida - Jacksonville. She works in health systems development and resilency, global EM research, disaster response and educational programming.

Katie Wells, MD, MPH

University of Vermont Medical Center

Dr. Katie Wells is the University of Vermont (UVM) Emergency Department Network Director of International Emergency Medicine and Health Equity. She is also the inaugural UVM Larner College of Medicine Director of Social Medicine. Over the last five years, Dr. Wells has built the UVM International Emergency Medicine program from the ground up, having been awarded multiple grants focused on building critical access to healthcare for Vermont’s immigrant and refugee communities. She completed her Global Health Fellowship with the University of Utah Center for Global Surgery, where she researched trauma, emergency, and surgical system development. Dr. Wells received her Master’s in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She spent two years working in Mongolia, focusing on surgical, emergency, and trauma system development while conducting research with the Mongolian Ministry of Health and the national hospital system. During her fellowship, she completed her MPH with a focus on disaster medicine and refugee health. Dr. Wells also focuses on building curriculum and researching health equity and social justice while overseeing trainee involvement in social medicine programs.

Since joining Vermont, Dr. Wells and her team have built partnerships, working alongside multiple international partners and organizations focused on expanding international emergency care system development. UVM Department of Emergency Medicine has supported the development of the first Ugandan curriculum for emergency care nursing for the country, developed an International Rural Emergency Care Systems (IRECS) rotation built for practitioners working in the international context, which was piloted this year with Ugandan partners including SEED Global Health, and two Ugandan residency training programs at Makerere and Mbarara University of Science and Technology with the plan to expand this for all international partners. Additionally, Wells partnered with AFEM and South African partners, Stellenbosch University and the University of Cape Town, to explore equitable GH partnerships and built UVM’s first institutional multidisciplinary Global Health Equity fellowship starting July 2024, amongst many other initiatives. Wells has also developed the first UVM institutional collaborative immigrant health program called the Immigrant Health Initiative (IHI), bringing in members of over 20 different University of Vermont Health Network departments and over 50 community partners and created the first salary-funded hospital network immigrant community liaison position held explicitly by a member of Vermont’s refugee community. Dr. Wells is working collaboratively with community and medical center partners to change statewide policy focused on immigrant health.

Michael Hrdy, MD

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Michael Hrdy, MD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Division of Emergency Medicine at the Perlman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and works in the pediatric emergency department at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is one of the core simulation faculty and is the Director of Emergency Simulation for the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's King of Prussia campus. He completed Pediatrics residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC. 

Alexander Croft, MD

Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

Dr. Croft is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. After receiving his medical degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, he pursued training in Emergency Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine where he also completed a Chief Residency. It was during this time he found his love for simulation-based education, leading him to a fellowship in Medical Simulation through Indiana University School of Medicine.

Professionally, Dr. Croft has interests in advanced debriefing techniques, human factors engineering, in-situ simulation, and intradisciplinary simulation. At Washington University in St. Louis, he serves as the Director for Simulation, and the Director of the In-Situ Simulation Acute Care Program.

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.