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Milana Zaurova

Director of Palliative Care Quality and Equity

NYC Health + Hospitals

milanaz@nychhc.org

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Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

Areas of Expertise:

1. Education 
2. Quality improvement
   

Speaking Categories: 

1. Quality improvement

Areas You’ve Received Funding: Quality improvement

Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

Audrey Tan

Director of Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Division & Clinical Associate Professor

NYU Langone Health

audrey.tan@nyulangone.org

Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

Areas of Expertise:

1. Education 
2. Communication skills
3. Symptom management
4. Quality improvement
5. Systems/pathways of care
6. Research

Speaking Categories: see Expertise, above

Areas You’ve Received Funding: Systems/pathways of care

Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

Jessica Fleischer-Black

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine & Fellow in Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

jfblackmd@gmail.com

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Palliative Medicine boarded?: No

Areas of Expertise:

1. Education 
2. Systems/pathways of care
3. Mid-career fellowship

Speaking Categories: 

1. Mid-career fellowship

Areas You’ve Received Funding: None

Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

Maria Ramos

Program Director/ Assistant Professor

University of Puerto Rico

maria.ramos5@upr.edu

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Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

Areas of Expertise:

1. Education 
2. Quality improvement
3. Symptom management

Speaking Categories: 

1. Symptom management

Areas You’ve Received Funding: None

Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

Marynell Jellinek

Assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine

LAC-USC Medical center

mnell@aol.com

Link to Bio

Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

Areas of Expertise:

1. Education 
2. Communication skills
3. Symptom management

Speaking Categories: None

Areas You’ve Received Funding: None

Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

Kate Aberger

Medical Director

Division of Palliative Care and Geriatrics

kateaberger@gmail.com

Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

Areas of Expertise:

1. Education
   
2. Communication skills
   
3. Symptom management
   
4. Systems/pathways of care
   
5. Quality improvement
   
6. COVID

Speaking Categories: 

1.  Communication skills
2. Symptom management
3. Systems/pathways of care

Areas You’ve Received Funding: None

Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

Mari Siegel

Attending Physician

Temple University

marisiegel@yahoo.com

Link to Bio

Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

Areas of Expertise:

1. Education 
2. Communication skills
3. Symptom management

Speaking Categories: see Expertise, above

Areas You’ve Received Funding: None

Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: No

Anisha R. Turner, MD, MBA

Baylor College of Medicine

"Combining Interprofessional Education Simulation and Coaching to Teach Health Equity"

Dr. Anisha Turner is an educator, patient advocate and Texas native physician that completed her undergraduate training at Rice University in Houston, Texas and her medical school training at UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. For residency, she left the lone star state to pursue a combined emergency medicine and family medicine residency training program at Louisiana State University, one of only two programs of its kind in the country. After emergency/family medicine resident training, she returned to Texas as an education and administration fellow at Baylor College’s of Medicine’s Section of Emergency Medicine. During fellowship, she received her MBA in Health Administration and completed several projects in patient safety, health equity and interprofessional education. She currently serves as an assistant professor, core faculty, and assistant director of justice, equity and inclusion for the Department of Emergency Medicine Residency program. She is also an adjunct faculty with the Family Medicine Department and serves as course director for multiple undergraduate medical education courses. 

Dr. Turner’s interests focus on interprofessional education, health equity, patient advocacy/safety, and health administration including interdepartmental relations, care transitions, quality improvement, and feedback and evaluation.

Preeti Panda, MD

Stanford University

"Health Disparities of Trafficked Children Presenting to Emergency Departments"

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 identifying disparities in the delivery and access of emergency care for trafficked children, and the development of emergency department-based interventions to support at-risk youth. During pediatric residency, Dr. Panda co-founded the Haven Clinic, a medical home that provides trauma-informed medical care to survivors of child trafficking. Dr. Panda has received awards both locally and nationally for her work, including recent recognition by the Boston Congress of Public Health as a 40 Under 40 Public Health Catalyst awardee.

Hillary C. Moss, MD

Montefiore Medical Center

"Creating a Novel Simulation Based Palliative Care Curriculum for the EM Resident"

Dr. Moss is currently an assistant professor of emergency medicine, assistant director of simulation education, and director of emergency medicine PA/NP education at Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center Moses Campus in the Bronx, NY. She completed her emergency medicine residency and simulation fellowship at the Zucker School of Medicine, North Shore Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Dr. Moss is passionate about all aspects of residency education and is particularly interested in increasing learner engagement in didactics. She is excited to spend the next year completing her project on palliative care simulation for emergency medicine residents.

Adam D. Laytin, MD, MPH

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

"Developing a Context-Appropriate VAP Prevention Strategy in Ethiopia"

Adam Laytin, MD MPH is an assistant professor of an Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. 

His areas of clinical expertise include surgical critical care and emergency medicine. His research interests include injury epidemiology and prevention, social determinants of health, and emergency medicine, critical care and trauma systems in resource-limited settings. He has collaborated with clinicians and researchers in the US, Ethiopia, India, South Africa and Israel. 

His current research, conducted in collaboration with emergency physicians and intensivists in Ethiopia, addresses the burden of medical emergencies, critical illness and trauma in low- and middle-income countries with the goal of developing data-driven, context-appropriate quality improvement and capacity building initiatives to improve the care of critical ill and injured people worldwide. 

Mehruba A. Parris, MD

Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences

"Efficacy and Incidence of Adverse Events of High Dose Buprenorphine for MOUD in the ED"

Dr. Parris is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) and a medical toxicology consultant with the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System. She is board-certified in emergency medicine and medical toxicology. Dr. Parris completed her residency in emergency medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and a medical toxicology fellowship at Emory University/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prior to her role at NJMS, Dr. Parris had been in emergency medicine education, administration, and consulting in Miami and Atlanta. Her areas of focus are acute and critical care in medical toxicology, public/global health, diversity, and women in medicine.

Karrin Weisenthal, MD, MHS

Boston Medical Center

"Decreasing Risk and Stigma Among Patients Who Use Drugs"

Karri Weisenthal, MD/MHS is a fellow in Addiction Medicine at Boston Medical Center, per diem attending in Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center, and clinical instructor at the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. She graduated cum laude from the Yale School of Medicine and completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center, serving as education chief during her final year. She has been recognized for her academic merit and teaching abilities, receiving awards such as the David A. Frommer Award for Academic Excellence and the Senior Resident Teaching Award. Upon completion of her fellowship, she has accepted a position at Boston Medical Center with joint appointments in emergency and addiction medicine.

Dr. Weisenthal is an active researcher in the fields of emergency and addiction medicine. Her current research interests include improving initiation and access to medications for opioid use disorder in the emergency department (ED) with an equity lens, ensuring smooth transitions of care from the ED to outpatient settings for patients identified with a substance use disorder, and integrating a harm reduction approach into the care of patients who use drugs in the ED. She is grateful to have been awarded the NIDA Mentor-Facilitated Training Grant, and the opportunity to develop an ED provider and nursing curriculum focusing on the incorporation of harm reduction into the care of patients who use drugs and access emergency services.

Angadpreet Sidhu, DO, MS

NYCHHC Harlem & Metropolitan Hospital

"Increasing Bupe Admin for OUD in the ED at Harlem and Metropolitan Hospital"

Dr. Sidhu is a third-year resident at New York Medical College Metropolitan/Harlem EM Residency and residency director of administration and addiction medicine. Dr. Sidhu was born in India and grew up in the bay area in Pleasanton, California. He attended California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo for undergrad, majoring in biological sciences with the concentration of anatomy, physiology and microbiology. Dr. Sidhu attended Touro University California for both masters and medical school. His emergency medicine interests are administration, quality control, and medical education.

Di Coneybeare, MD, MHPE

Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

"Professional Identity Formation in Emergency Medicine Fellows: A Qualitative Investigation to Define the Transformation"

Dr. Coneybeare grew up in the pacific northwest and transplanted to New York for her medical training. She completed her residency at Bellevue Hospital/New York University Medical Center and stayed on for her ultrasound fellowship and concurrently completed a Master of Health Professions Education from Maastricht University.

Dr. Coneybeare now serves as the fellowship director of emergency ultrasound at Columbia University Medical Center. Her master’s thesis focused on motivational factors that influenced the adoption of innovations where one of the primary findings revolved around professional identity formation. Her prior master’s work along with her current position as fellowship director launched her current medical education research interest revolving around post-graduate professional identity formation. 

Nathan L. Haas, MD

University of Michigan

"Accuracy of Continuous Glucose Monitor in DKA (ACID)"

Dr. Haas is a practicing emergency physician at the University of Michigan. He completed medical school at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, and residency at the University of Michigan, where he served as chief resident. Dr. Haas works clinically in the U-M Adult Emergency Department and the Emergency Critical Care Center (EC3), and is assistant medical director of the EC3. His clinical and scholarly interests include emergency department based critical care delivery, diabetic ketoacidosis management, and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, including extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Layne Dylla, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Dr. Dylla has a passion for medicine and using research to advance her treatment of many patients. She pursued this passion for medicine and research as dual MD/PhD student at the University of Colorado in the Medical Scientist Training program where she studied the oncogenic role of microRNAs in Ewing Sarcoma. Dr. Dylla subsequently completed her Emergency Medicine Residency training and a dual Experimental Therapeutic and Emergency Medicine Research fellowships at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Dr. Dylla has been the recipient of several career development and pilot study research grants. This work continues to focus on development of stroke treatments for the prehospital and ED settings, with an emphasis on sex differences in the underlying response to stroke and gender disparities in the care for stroke.

David H. Adler, MD, MPH

Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Rochester

Dr. Adler, MD, MPH, is an emergency physician, educator and researcher. He received his medical training at the University of California at San Francisco and his residency training in emergency medicine at Highland General Hospital in Oakland, California. Dr. Adler has been core faculty in the University of Rochester’s emergency medicine residency program since 2006. He is the Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine, Research, and also directs the SAEM-approved Emergency Medicine Research Fellowship.

Dr. Adler is the site principal investigator for URMC’s participation in the SIREN network and has served as site-PI for a number of multi-center federal and industry sponsored trials.

Dr. Adler’s research background focused on Human papillomavirus and cervical cancer risk among South African women with HIV. This work generated a specimen repository housed at URMC that is now being used, in collaboration with colleagues from Infectious Diseases, to investigate the reproductive tract microbiome in HIV-infected women.

Dr. Adler is currently the principal investigator in a line of research evaluating interventions to increase cancer screening uptake among emergency department (ED) patients. Disparities in healthcare access are often magnified among ED patients who are disproportionately likely to be non-adherent with cancer screening recommendations – making the ED a target-rich environment for interventions that increase screening uptake.

Dr. Adler is Co-Chair of the NCI-supported Comprehensive Oncologic Emergencies Research Network (CONCERN).

Danielle McCarthy, MD

Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Research

Northwestern University

Danielle McCarthy, MD, is an Associate Professor and the Vice Chair of Research in the Northwestern University Department of Emergency Medicine. She is an emergency physician and health services researcher whose work focuses primarily on doctor patient communication in the emergency setting and health literacy.  Her recent research has focused on risk communication about opioids and improving communication about diagnostic uncertainty. Since completing her research training in 2012, she has been funded continuously on multiple grants from a range of foundations and federal agencies. She additionally co-leads the ARMED Course for SAEM.

Dhimitri Nikolla, DO

Core Faculty, Research Director

Allegheny Health Network

Dhimitri Nikolla, DO is core faculty and research director at the Allegheny Health Network Saint Vincent Emergency Medicine Residency Program where he completed residency in 2019 and a research fellowship in 2022. He attended medical school at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed a MS in Clinical Research from Drexel University. Dr. Nikolla implemented a critical appraisal curriculum for journal club with structured presentations for articles.