People

Faculty

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Christine Ramdin, PhD, is a faculty member at the Instructor level at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Department of Emergency Medicine. She has a PhD in Biomedical Informatics, and has research interests in Addiction Medicine, Medical Toxicology, Pain Medicine, and Stroke. She has published several studies using big data sources such as NHAMCS, HCUP, and NSSATs, and has worked with the NSDUH and TEDs dataset, along with several other local and national datasets. She has experience in conducting big data analyses and utilizing several different types of statistical methods.

Assistant Professor

Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals

Dr. McGurk is an assistant professor in the emergency medicine department at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Prior to pursuing medicine, he worked as an elementary school teacher in the D.C. public school system. He received his medical degree from the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and completed his residency at Cook County Health, where he also served as chief resident. Dr. McGurk's professional interests include medical education, retrospective research, and medical humanities. He is the M3 EM clerkship director and the 2023 recipient of the Joseph C. Carin Excellence in Teaching Award.

Medical Student

George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Michael Makutonin is a fourth-year medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He has been involved in dataset and data science research throughout his medical school career, starting multi-institution collaborations by drawing on skills he learned as a software engineer and data science bootcamp instructor. Mr. Makutonin's nascent research career has earned him recognition in the field, including research awards and plenaries at national conferences. Mr. Makutonin is passionate about the potential of data science research to inform and solve impactful problems, and continues to mentor others in the field as an officer in the EMRA research committee and a principal investigator at the George Washington University Healing Clinic, among other roles.

Director of Medical Student Education/Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Director of Emergency Care Research

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Medical Director

Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital

DaMarcus Baymon is from Houston, TX, and went to the University of Texas-Austin for his undergraduate education. He graduated with a B.S. in Neurobiology. For medical school, he attended the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX. In 2021, he completed his four-year EM residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Program Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. DaMarcus graduated from Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine and is the current medical director for the BWH ED. His research focus is on improving ED operations and equity within the ED care space. Within the Office of IDEaS, he serves as the co-chair of the social justice division. He has also served as ED Trauma Lead, Associate Director of Quality Assurance, and ED liaison for the infectious disease department. 

Member-at-Large

University of Louisville

My educational background includes a BS in Biology from Cumberland College, MD from the University of South Alabama. Internship in Internal Medicine at the University of South Alabama. Residency in Emergency Medicine at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Fellowship in Cardiovascular Emergencies at the University of Virginia. And my Physicians Executive Master’s Degree in Business Administration (PEMBA) from Auburn University.

My career qualifications include 13 years on Core Faculty at UAB Dept. of Emergency Medicine with multiple leadership roles during my time there, including Associate Residency Director, Director of Observation Medicine, System Emergency Department Medical Director, Executive Vice chair of Emergency Medicine and Associate CMO over Sepsis and Emergency Services for the health system. In January of 2020, I joined the University of Louisville Department of Emergency Medicine as Endowed Chair and Chief of Service for Emergency Medicine. In this role, I also serve of the Board of Directors for the University Hospital and the Board of Directors for UofL Physician practice, in addition to multiple other committees across the school of medicine and the health system.

I have been an active member of SAEM for much of my career. My most recent activity is in the AACEM committees (community 2020-22, and DEI – 2022-Present).

I am interested in joining the Executive Committee for AACEM because in my 4 years as chair, I have seen the impact that AACEM can have on the training and the practice of Emergency Medicine nationally and internationally. The focus on the training programs in EM and the quality of our residency programs, the wellbeing of our physicians and residents, and the sustainability of the practice of emergency medicine are at the heart of this group and are the parts of my career that I am most passionate about.

If elected, one of my focuses would be to increase collaboration and connectivity between the academic chairs of EM. The chair position can be a lonely job, but I would like to look at setting up small regional groups of academic chairs that would be interested in meeting (virtual or in person) quarterly or more frequently, to discuss issues in more detail that just the list serve emails, to share resources and build stronger relationships. I also hope to learn from the tremendous leaders in EM that are already serving on the Executive Committee, so that I can hopefully adequately fill their shoes in the future.

Member-at-Large

NewYork-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medicine

I currently serve as the Barbara and Stephen Friedman Endowed Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medicine, and as a professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences. In 2018, I led the promotion of Emergency Medicine to full academic departmental status. Since then, we've seen transformative growth in education, clinical care, and research—rising from unranked in 2019 to a top 10 NIH-funded department by 2025. I developed a first-of-its kind GME Foundational Telemedicine Course, and established multiple fellowships, including our new innovation fellowship.

Since 2016, I’ve been deeply committed to AACEM, contributing through leadership roles including the Innovations Workgroup (current co-chair) and the Leader Development Workgroup. AACEM is a vital platform for collaboration, mentorship, and strategic advancement, and it would be an honor to serve on the Executive Committee and help to shape the future of our specialty through thoughtful, collaborative leadership.

My academic and research interests focus on leveraging technology to improve emergency care delivery. I am the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Virtual Care at Weill Cornell, which trains clinicians across the NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) enterprise and hosts one of the nation’s first academic virtual care conferences and research forums. I’ve launched multiple ED-based digital platforms and presently serve on the NYP Hospital at Home Executive Steering Committee. My work has been published in JAMA and NEJM Catalyst and I have received funding from both the NIH and AAMC.

I also serve as Vice Chair of the New York State Board for Medicine and have held multiple institutional leadership roles including serving on the NYP and Weill Cornell Medicine Boards. I have served as NYP Medical Board President, Chair of the Finance Committee at Weill Cornell and as a member of the Physician Organization Executive Committee.

Thank you for your consideration.

Member-at-Large

UT Health San Antonio

Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Florida College of Medicine

Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Science and Engineering

University of Florida

Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine Research and Professor of Emergency Medicine

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

Amanda Irish is an Emergency Medicine faculty physician at the University of Iowa. She completed her International Emergency Medicine Global Health Fellowship at Prisma Health. She has demonstrated a lifelong interest in international medicine and infectious diseases and has also earned a Master's in Public Health Epidemiology as well as a certificate in Emerging Infectious Disease Epidemiology (CEIDE) and Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTMH). She has been involved in a variety of research and education projects and enjoys working with and teaching others about Humanitarian Medicine and the intersection of global climate change, disaster medicine, and infectious diseases.

Full Professor

University of Connecticut-Storrs

Dr. Korn came to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) as Director of the Office of Training, Career Development, and Workforce Diversity (now the Office of Training and Workforce Development) in January 2006. He received his PhD in Pharmacology from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, and received postdoctoral training at NIH (as a PRAT Fellow of NIGMS) and at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology (with financial support from NRSA postdoctoral fellowships). He then spent 15 years on the faculty of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where he was a Full Professor. His area of scientific specialty is the molecular basis of ion channel gating and permeation, but he has also conducted electrophysiological and imaging research on calcium and pH transport/buffering, and synaptic transmission in the hippocampal slice. At NINDS, Dr. Korn oversees all training and research education programs that do not specifically target the goal of diversifying the workforce, including all mechanisms that support both individuals and institutional programs, as well as the LRP program and Landis Award program. Recently, Dr. Korn and his office have launched a major effort through the training programs intended to improve the rigor of scientific research done by both trainees and established investigators. 

Assistant Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology

University of California-Berkeley School of Public Health

Dr. Rohini Haar is an emergency medicine physician and faculty in the Epidemiology division at the University of California-Berkeley School of Public Health. She also serves as a board member at the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley and medical advisor at Physicians for Human Rights. Dr. Haar's research interests include studying the health impacts of torture, violations of free speech and assembly, and conflict. She leads studies on the impact of violence against health in humanitarian settings, the health impacts of crowd control weapons, and the social, economic, and health consequences of climate-related crises in California.

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Fellowship Director Global Health Fellowship

Loma Linda University

Jon Roper is the current Fellowship Director of the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Loma Linda University. He completed his Global Emergency Medicine residency at Loma Linda University.  

LLUMC Global Health fellow 1997-1998

Director, Emergency Nursing Research, Emergency Nurses Association