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Madeline Ross

Assistant Professor, University of Colorado

Julia Dixon

Assistant Professor, University of Colorado

Taylor Burkholder

Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

Logan Wolford

Current Global Emergency Medicine Fellow 2023-24

Susan Owens

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington

Grace Lagasse

Assistant Professor. University of Southern Alabama

Grace Lagasse

Assistant Professor, University of Southern Alabama

Sally Madibal

GEMFC Resident Rep

Edward Panacek, MD, MPH

Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine

University of South Alabama College of Medicine

Dr. Panacek received his undergraduate education at UCLA, and his MD degree from the University of South Alabama. His postgraduate training was in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine, all at UC Davis Medical Center. From 1986-1992, he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine (critical care and emergency medicine) at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland. During that time, he developed a clinical trials program focused on sepsis and critical care. In 1992 he joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis, as an Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine and in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He was promoted to Professor in 1997, and served as the EM Residency Program Director from 1992-2000. From 2000-2014 he served as the Director of the Office of Clinical Trials and the EM Research Associates Program at UCD. In 2015 he moved to the University of South Alabama in Mobile as the new Chair of Emergency Medicine, and while there he developed a new EM residency, 3 new EDs, and a clinical research program.

Dr. Panacek has over 300 scientific publications (over 150 peer-reviewed articles, over 50 Book Chapters/Invited Manuscripts, and over 130 research abstracts). He has served as an associate editor for two of the major journals in emergency medicine and is on the editorial board of multiple other journals. He has chaired the Executive Committees and served as the overall Academic Principal Investigator for multiple large multi-center national and international clinical trials. He has won numerous national awards, including the prestigious "Outstanding contributions in research award" from the American College of Emergency Medicine in 2002, the "Hal Jayne Academic Excellence Award" from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine in 2012, and the Lifetime Achievement Awards, from the University of Maryland in 2007 and from the ACEP in 2017, for contributions in EM research and academics.

Robert W. Neumar, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine

University of Michigan Medical Center

 

Jonathan Chan

University of California Davis

Jonathan Chan

Emergency Medicine Physician

Sara Heinert, PhD, MPH

Co-Director of Research & Assistant Professor

Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Dr. Sara Heinert is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of Research in the Emergency Medicine department at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ. Prior to joining Rutgers in 2020, Dr. Heinert spent 7 years as the Director of Research in the Emergency Medicine department at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). During this time, she also obtained her PhD in Health Policy and Administration from the UIC School of Public Health. Dr. Heinert also holds a MPH in Epidemiology from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.

Kiran Faryar, MD, MPH

Director of Research for the Department of Emergency Medicine

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Dr. Kiran Faryar, MD, MPH, is a practicing board-certified emergency physician and clinician researcher with a focus on integrating public health and public health services into emergency department settings. Her primary research work is in the field of implementation science, investigating screening and intervention best practices in the ED. She has initiated, managed, and disseminated on community health projects in both academic and community EDs including HIV, HCV, and latent TB infection screening and linkage to care; take-home naloxone distribution; initiation of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) for ED patients with opioid use disorder with next-day linkage to care; county-wide COVID-19 testing through an $18 million COVID program funded by the CARES Act. To date, she has >15 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier emergency medicine and public health journals and has been awarded numerous industry, local, state, and federal grants for public health and health services. In 2021, she was appointed Director of Research for the Department of Emergency Medicine at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, where she oversees departmental research infrastructure, capacity building, and faculty, resident, and student research development. 

Madeline Juillard

Education Manager Global Health Fellowship

Zach Mayo-Frey

Fellowship Program Coordinator/DEI Administrator

Daniel Ruiz-Betancourt

Medical Student Year 3

Stanford University School of Medicine

Fahad Ali, MD

Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Dr. Ali is an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine with the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is also core faculty with the Department's Social Emergency Medicine Divsion and holds leadership positions pertaining to Health Equity and Belonging.

Jamaji Nwanaji-Enwerem, MD

EM Resident

Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine

Maxwell Spadafore, MD

EM Resident

University of Michigan

Dr. Spadafore is a PGY4 and Chief Resident in emergency medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. He completed his M.D. at the University of Michigan in 2020. He has a background in computer science and has expertise in educational informatics. His research interests focus on machine learning and natural language processing in medical education.