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Kenneth C. Hanson, MD

Landmark

Board certification in Emergency Medicine, Fellow ACEP, subspecialty certification in EMS, Fellow NAEMSP, subspecialty certification in HPM. Past Chair of AAHPM EM-Special Interest Group.
Palliative Lead and Associate Medical Director East Michigan Market, Optum Health
Community Faculty Emergency Medicine Residency and EMS Fellowship Central Michigan University College of Medicine
Flight Surgeon, 122 Fighter Wing, Indiana Air National Guard, rank of Lt Col.

Naomi George, MD MPH

University of New Mexico

Dr. George is a critical care and emergency medicine physician and early-stage investigator whose goal is to improve long term outcomes for patients and families experiencing critical illness by addressing health-related social needs using a dissemination and implementation science approach.

Justin K. Brooten, MD

Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Dr. Brooten currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, and the Associate Program director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. He is dual board certified in Emergency Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Care and has appointments in the Wake Forest School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine and the Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine. His research interests and educational endeavors focus on the emergency care of older adults and the early integration of palliative care in emergency medical care settings, including prehospital emergency care. In addition, he is interested in the use of clinical informatics methods and utilizing EMR systems to identify patients at high risk for in hospital mortality, and other patient populations who may benefit from early palliative care interventions. He is the co-founder and CEO of PalliEM.org, a website and podcast with the mission of providing free online medical education resources to clinicians interested in applying palliative care principles and skills in emergency medical settings. He completed his medical training at the Medical College of Georgia/UGA medical partnership, and his residency and fellowship training at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, in Winston Salem North Carolina. He currently practices emergency medicine in community and academic settings, and is also an inpatient palliative care consultant at Atrium Health, Wake Forest Baptist. He is happy to call the beautiful piedmont region of North Carolina home, where he lives with his wife and two children.

Annika Bhananker

Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety

Annika Bhananker is a Research Coordinator at the VA Center for Quality, Effectiveness and Safety in Houston, Texas. She is an undergraduate student at Rice University majoring in Anthropology. She is interested in pursuing emergency medicine and serves as a volunteer EMT for Rice EMS.

M Riccardo Colella, DO, MPH, FACEP

Medical College of Wisconsin

Dr. Colella is appointed by the State of Wisconsin’s Department of Health as the Statewide EMS Medical Director. He serves as Chief for the Division of EMS Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and is the immediate-past medical director of the Milwaukee County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) System, a national leader in EMS serving a population of approximately one million citizens. For the past 15 years, Dr. Colella has been a continuously NIH-funded clinical trial investigator and is the founding program director for the ACGME-accredited EMS Fellowship Program.

He completed medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, emergency medicine residency at the Medical College of Georgia, EMS Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and his MPH: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

Melanie F. Molina, MD, MAS

University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Melanie Molina, MD, MAS is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Affiliate Faculty of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Prior to her faculty position, Dr. Molina completed a postdoctoral fellowship through the National Clinician Scholars Program at UCSF and a Masters in Advanced Studies through UCSF’s Training in Clinical Research program. During that time, she investigated and published work elucidating COVID-19-related health disparities and ways to leverage technology to integrate social needs screening/linkage to resources into clinical care. Dr. Molina’s own experiences overcoming childhood adversity sparked her desire to work toward reducing health disparities and continue to drive her advocacy work.

Dick Kuo, MD

Baylor College of Medicine

Dr Kuo currently serves as Professor and Chair of the Henry JN Taub Department of Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. He received his BA from Johns Hopkins University and his MD from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. After completing residency at the University of Maryland he continued on as faculty eventually serving as Medical Director and Director of Faculty Development. He was recruited in 2009 to join Baylor College of Medicine to help form a new EM program based at Ben Taub Hospital in his hometown of Houston, Texas. In 2017 the Henry JN Taub Deaprtment of Emergency Medicine was established and Dr Kuo was named inaugural chair.

Dalia Owda, MD

Yale University School of Medicine

Dalia Owda, MD is an emergency medicine physician and current postdoctoral fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) at Yale University School of Medicine / Yale-New Haven Health System. Prior to fellowship, Dr. Owda completed her emergency medicine residency at Beaumont Health System in Royal Oak, Michigan, where she also served as Chief Resident in her final year. During her time in residency, Dr. Owda became a leader within the DEI space, creating a DEI Committee and mentorship program for URM medical students, which led to her receiving a top award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Currently, Dr. Owda focuses her research on advancing workforce diversity within academic medicine, with specific focus on the expriences of URM trainees and faculty, as well as evaluating disparities of emergency service utilization.

Susan B. Promes, MD, MBA

Penn State University

Dr. Promes is a tenured Professor at Penn State University Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and has served as Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine since 2014. Prior to 2014, she spent seven years at the University of California San Francisco where she served as Vice Chair for Education, the Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director and Director of Curricular Affairs in the GME office and prior to that was at Duke University as the inaugural Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director and Director of the medical school Capstone course. Her scholarly work has centered around topics germane to emergency medicine medical education and clinical guidelines for the practicing emergency physician. In addition to many peer review publications, she has edited multiple McGraw Hill board review books to prepare physicians for the emergency medicine board exam. She is an internationally recognized leader in academic emergency medicine and was chosen by the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine to be the editor of their new journal entitled Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training. The journal debuted in January 2017. She was the recipient of the 2020 Hal Jayne Excellence in Education award from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine and the 2024 Judith E. Tintinalli Outstanding Contribution in Education Award.

Nicole Battaglioli, MD, MHPE

Emory University

Nicole Battaglioli MD is the CEO and Founder of Komorebi Health. She is a board certified Emergency Medicine and Obesity Medicine physician. Dr Battaglioli has prioritized physician wellness throughout her career. She was an inaugural honoree of EMRA's "45 under 45" Influencers in Emergency Medicine. In 2019, she received an honorable mention in the Medical Economics Physician Writing Contest for her piece on postpartum depression. She is a staunch advocate for changing the medical licensing culture to remove invasive questions that deter physician's from seeking out the mental healthcare they need and deserve.

Jazmyn Shaw, MD

University of Cincinnati

Jazmyn Shaw, MD is currently a Chief Resident at the University of Cincinnati. After graduating, she will pursue an ultrasound fellowship and a Master's in Business Administration. Jazmyn’s professional interests include ultrasound, healthcare administration and operations, with a particular focus on quality improvement, as well as medical education. She is dedicated to integrating clinical excellence with operational efficiency to improve healthcare delivery and medical training.

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

Amye Farag

Maddie Ross, MD MPH

Maddie Ross, MD MPH

Maddie Ross

Assistant Fellowship Director

Madeline Ross

Assistant Fellowship Director