People

Navdeep Sekhon, MD

Secretary

Baylor College of Medicine

Hi, my name is Navdeep Sekhon, and I am running for re-election for the position of member-at-large for the Executive Board of Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine (CDEM). It has been a great honor to represent clerkship directors over the past two years. I have been an active clerkship director since 2016, and am very familiar with the issues that are important to clerkship directors. In particular, I am passionate about creating and maintaining CDEM related products that our members can use on their clerkships. In this light, I have agreed to help lead the CDEM Curriculum and Assessment committee for the past 2-3 years. This is a passion of mine, as it creates products that clerkship directors and students actually use- for example the M4 curriculum has over 300,000 views per year.

Over the past few years, I have helped to lead the updates of the CDEM M3 and Peds EM curriculum (. In addition, I am working with Dr. Tews to update the national CDEM emergency medicine curriculum and turning it into a unified national curriculum.

I also understand how important assessment is to our group, especially for clerkships that are unable to afford the NBME exam. Thus, I have been working with the Assessment subcommittee to update the M4 exam (which has over 7,000 users annually).

If elected, I will continue to advocate that CDEM continues to create and maintain resources that our clerkship directors and students use.

Nathan Lewis, MD, FACEP

Member-at-Large

Virginia Commonwealth University

I am currently honored to serve as a Member-at-Large on the CDEM EC and would consider it a privilege to continuing doing so. Throughout my career, CDEM has provided me with such an amazing network of colleagues who have been collaborators, mentors, and friends. Serving on the EC provides an opportunity to do more for this incredible organization. As the clerkship director at Virginia Commonwealth University, I am fortunate to have my dream job helping students achieve their educational and career goals. In this role, I have experience working with our faculty and our medical school to improve upon the learner experience. I have also gained experience mentoring residents, fellows, and junior faculty in undergraduate medical education. Through CDEM, I have served on multiple committees, including the Assessment Committee, the Membership and Engagement Committee, and as chair of the Communications and Social Media Committee. In 2014, I created and now cohost the EM Stud Podcast, a podcast for EM-bound medical students. This was adopted by CDEM in 2016 and is still a source of advising information used by students across the country. Additionally, as an assistant program director for our residency, I have been actively involved on the CORD Advising Students Committee in EM. Through this role, I have gained further opportunities to represent CDEM and collaborate with leaders in GME in achieving goals related to the education and career advancement of medical students. I believe that understanding the continuum of educational priorities, from UME to GME, is critical to ensuring our students are well prepared for residency training and beyond. Though the acronym CDEM stands for Clerkship Directors, our membership is comprised of a larger group of faculty committed to undergraduate medical education, as it should be. If elected, I hope to continue to work with other leaders across CDEM and SAEM to provide resources for those of us whose “specialty” is UME. I also want to express how important I feel it is for CDEM to continue to be a voice for students. As a member of the EC, I will aim to keep CDEM a prominent advocate for our students and for their education.

Matthew Ryan, MD, PhD

Member-at-Large

University of Florida, Department of Emergency Medicine

I received my PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Florida and thereafter completed fellowships at the Technical University of Berlin and at York University in Toronto. I served as Associate Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University North where I taught both general chemistry and advanced chemistry courses in addition to conducting basic research before embarking on a career of medicine. I earned my MD from Indiana University and completed my residency in Emergency Medicine at ORMC in Orlando, Florida. I joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida in 2008 soon thereafter I became our EM Clerkship Director and a member of CDEM. Currently I serve as Vice Chair of Education. In addition to Clerkship Director, I also served as Director of the 4th Year Program and on numerous UF COM committees including the Curriculum Committee and Academic Assessment Committee. I currently serve on the University of Florida (UF) Curriculum Committee, the UF Academic Assessment Committee and the UF General Education Committee which oversee the educational mission for the entire university. I have served and continue to serve on numerous SAEM committees including the Program Committee, the Ethics Committee, the Membership Committee, and the Awards Committee. I have also served on the CDEM Academic Assessment Committee and the Awards Committee. I have presented numerous times at SAEM and CORD regarding SLOE writing and other educational topics including Feedback and Clerkship Initiatives such as wilderness medicine. I believe CDEM provides a clear and unified voice for our specialty which is vital to continuing to attract the best and most dedicated learners to emergency medicine. In this regard, making strides to engage both preclinical and clinical students is vital. I would like to help create a road map for early engagement of students and early learners, to bridge any existing gaps between UME and GME and continue to illuminate what makes our specialty important within medicine.

Matthew Ryan

Member-at-Large

University of Florida, Department of Emergency Medicine

I received my PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Florida and thereafter completed fellowships at the Technical University of Berlin and at York University in Toronto. I served as Associate Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University North where I taught both general chemistry and advanced chemistry courses in addition to conducting basic research before embarking on a career of medicine. I earned my MD from Indiana University and completed my residency in Emergency Medicine at ORMC in Orlando, Florida. I joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida in 2008 soon thereafter I became our EM Clerkship Director and a member of CDEM. Currently I serve as Vice Chair of Education. In addition to Clerkship Director, I also served as Director of the 4th Year Program and on numerous UF COM committees including the Curriculum Committee and Academic Assessment Committee. I currently serve on the University of Florida (UF) Curriculum Committee, the UF Academic Assessment Committee and the UF General Education Committee which oversee the educational mission for the entire university. I have served and continue to serve on numerous SAEM committees including the Program Committee, the Ethics Committee, the Membership Committee, and the Awards Committee. I have also served on the CDEM Academic Assessment Committee and the Awards Committee. I have presented numerous times at SAEM and CORD regarding SLOE writing and other educational topics including Feedback and Clerkship Initiatives such as wilderness medicine. I believe CDEM provides a clear and unified voice for our specialty which is vital to continuing to attract the best and most dedicated learners to emergency medicine. In this regard, making strides to engage both preclinical and clinical students is vital. I would like to help create a road map for early engagement of students and early learners, to bridge any existing gaps between UME and GME and continue to illuminate what makes our specialty important within medicine.

David Tillman, MD

Member-at-Large

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Like all of us, I am passionate about medical student education. Specifically, I am interested in career advising both for individual medical students and as it applies to standards for advising across the country. As the EM - residency application landscape continues to develop and change, I believe that CDEM is well poised to provide consistency and support to both clerkship directors and students. I hope to accomplish the development of regular real-time forums for discussion of challenging topics among clerkship directors followed by dissemination of key points to the group at-large. I have been involved in leading the ASC-EM consult service for the last few years. This is an awesome service, but the greatest benefits are only seen by those who submit questions. I believe that pushing information out to our busy colleagues in digestible formats will help us all.

Jose V. Nable, MD

Treasurer

Georgetown University School of Medicine

I graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and completed my EM residency training at the University of Maryland. I have served as Georgetown’s EM clerkship director since 2016. I am currently the Secretary for CDEM's executive committee. I have been also a member of CDEM’s Visiting Students Task Force, and chaired that group in 2019-2020. If elected, I will continue advocate the exceptional progress CDEM has made to build us all up to succeed as clerkship directors. I credit CDEM for building the relationships and resources that I leverage to position and inspire our students to thrive. I firmly believe in cultivating equity and inclusion in our various clerkships, celebrating the diversity of our students, patients, and our faculty. As a member of the Executive Committee, I will champion the sharing of best practices related to equity initiatives within CDEM. This includes developing a toolkit to reduce bias in the assessment and evaluation of our students. I will also work with CDEM leadership to improve how our specialty handles away rotation applications, making for a fairer and more transparent process for both our students and clerkship directors. COVID has also highlighted pressing challenges surrounding medical student advising. Too many students struggled this year applying to our speciality. I will give voice for greater consensus in an approach to mentoring students that allows all our learners to succeed. 

Thank you for considering me for the Treasurer position on CDEM’s executive committee! 

Keme Carter, MD

President-Elect

University of Chicago

I completed my undergraduate education at Vanderbilt University, obtained my medical degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine, and completed my residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Chicago. I have served as the Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine since 2010. My scholarly work has focused on studying curricular innovations to improve patient-centered physician communication. Additionally, through my research, writing, public speaking engagements, and medical school admissions work, I continue to advocate for and work towards optimizing and ensuring an equitable pathway to medical school and residency for students of diverse backgrounds. As a medical educator with a focus on undergraduate medical education (UME), I have been involved with SAEM and CDEM over the last decade in various capacities. I have served on the Executive Committee for the last year, authored modules for CDEM educational content, and helped to lead the development of the 2016 iteration of the cdemcurricum.org website as a member of the Executive Editorial Board. If elected to serve as President of CDEM, I hope to continue to increase involvement and engagement of Clerkship Directors in CDEM. I would like to continue faculty development efforts and help to develop a robust platform for faculty to gain mentorship and find collaborators with the goal of supporting promotion, career satisfaction, and educational innovation. In a clinical learning environment that has changed significantly for many across the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, I hope to ensure CDEM remains a central resource for the development and dissemination of educational resources and adaptations so that students, along the continuum of UME, continue to gain exposure to Emergency Medicine and benefit from the teaching, instruction, and support of EM faculty. Finally, in a rapidly changing residency application climate, I hope to foster CDEM’s collaboration with CORD in advocating for medical students’ interests. CDEM has been an integral part of my development as an educator and innovator. I hope to have the opportunity to serve as President of CDEM to help shape the Emergency Medicine educational landscape while providing value to this community of educators.

Kellie LeVine, MD

Resident Member

Emory University

My name is Kellie LeVine, and I am a PGY-1 in Emory University’s Emergency Medicine Residency. I received my MD from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in May of 2022 with Honors with Distinction in research. I was also a 2022 SAEM award recipient. My undergraduate education was at Duke University. I graduated in 2017 with a major in Biology and double minor in Chemistry and French, with one year in between college and medical school doing genetics research at Duke. My experience with SAEM, and more broadly, academic and national Emergency Medicine, includes involvement with SAEM and ACEP throughout medical school. In addition to presenting abstracts at Midwest Regional SAEM in 2020 and the ACEP Research Forum in 2021, I have also been a Medical Student Ambassador with both groups. I was an ACEP Medical Student Scholar in 2021 and an SAEM Medical Student Ambassador in both 2020 and 2021; I was selected as a Lead Ambassador both years. Though the event was cancelled in 2020, I was able to experience SAEM virtually in 2021 and loved my experience with the national platform. I am running to be the resident member of AWAEM because I want the opportunity to serve the EM community on a national level, and in particular, be a representative and voice for female and female-identifying residents in the field. I hope to bring the energy of a new resident’s perspective and enthusiasm for learning more about Emergency Medicine and national involvement, with particular attention to issues facing female and female-identifying physicians and patients alike. I hope that through this role and my own practice to increase evidence-based, quality women’s health and reproductive care in the ED as well as lifting up the women around me in this field.

Ashleigh Omorogbe, MD

Resident Member

George Washington University Hospital

My name is Ashleigh Omorogbe and I am a PGY3 emergency medicine resident at George Washington University Hospital. I Completed undergrad at the University of Maryland Baltimore County where I graduated with a BS in biological sciences and BA health administration policy. I then spent a year working in Baltimore city conducting violence prevention research and helped develop programs to serve Baltimore City youth. I completed my medical education at Indiana University school of medicine. There, I served as the president of the Indiana State Medical Association, Medical Student Section. I am applying to serve as a member of the SAWEM committee because I would like to become more involved in the promotion of women in the field of emergency medicine. As a black woman in the field of emergency medicine, I have not always seen myself represented in positions of leadership. However, I have been greatly inspired and motivated by the many female faculty that I have had the opportunity to learn from during my residency training. One of those women being, president elect, Dr. Kat Ogle. I hope serving in this capacity will be an opportunity for me to contribute to the advancement of women in academic emergency medicine and develop the skills needed to be an effective leader. Further, I am passionate about women’s health and feel that I may be able to address woman specific needs in this section.

Andrea Fang, MD

Treasurer

Stanford University School of Medicine

I am excited for the opportunity to continue to serve as Treasurer of AWAEM’s Executive Committee, a position I currently hold and enjoy immensely. Using my finance skills from my prior life as an investment banker, I have worked to make our financials robust and developed a user-friendly budget model that I hope to pass down to my successors. I also have longstanding record of service to the AWAEM community and SAEM-at-large. I have served on multiple AWAEM & SAEM committees, starting while a trainee at Harbor-UCLA and continuing as a faculty member at Stanford University. During my tenure as Chair of the AWAEM Awards Committee we saw the number of nominations more than triple and expanded the number of scholarships and awards available to women in academic emergency medicine. I have also chaired the AWAEM microsite committee and served as Chair of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Sub-Committee on the SAEM Membership committee. My experience shows that I can be an effective leader and team member who generates results. It has been an honor to be part AWAEM and I hope to continue our mission to elevate women in academic in emergency medicine as Treasurer on the AWAEM Executive Committee. Thank you for your consideration.

Laura Walker, MD, MBA

President-Elect

Mayo Clinic

I have been an active member of Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM) for the last several years, and served as Secretary for two terms. I believe I have a good understanding of the workings of AWAEM as an academy and believe strongly in the mission and goals of the academy. I look forward to the opportunity to continue to serve women in academic emergency medicine, create collaborations across other academies and committees, and promote women's participation and advancement in these spaces.

Margaret Samuels-Kalow, MD, MPhil, MSHP

Vice-President of Communications

Massachusetts General Hospital

I completed residency training at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (BWH/MGH) in 2012, followed by a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship and K12 research fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (2016). My research focuses on developing interventions to reduce disparities in emergency care, and using the emergency department visit to improve health equity, and has been supported by a wide variety of funders including SAEM and NIH (NICHD, NIDCR). Locally, I was part of the founding teams for both our departmental women in EM group, and the Harvard Medical School-wide women’s emergency medicine faculty consortium. Within SAEM, I have been an active member of AWAEM, the Research Committee, and the Social Emergency Medicine and Population Health Interest Group. I was the co-chair of the AWAEM Research Committee from 2019-2022, during which time we developed the research consultation program for AWAEM members. I would love this opportunity to work to help support the broader AWAEM mission. As VP of Communications, I would work to help support the existing AWAEM committees, strengthen our connections within SAEM, and make sure that the important work of the Academy and our members is disseminated effectively.

Amy Zeidan, MD

President-Elect

Emory University School of Medicine

I am an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor at Rollins School of Public Health, and Co-Director of the Georgia Human Rights Clinic. I received my medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, completed residency at The Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, and completed an Emergency Ultrasound fellowship at the University of Kentucky. I am currently in my second year as AWAEM Vice President of Communications. Throughout my academic career, AWAEM has always been a constant and integral part of my career. I joined AWAEM during my second year of residency as the resident representative and have been an active part of AWAEM ever since. I recall my first AWAEM meeting as a resident, nervous and intimated to be in the presence of such phenomenal leaders. I was relieved to be instantaneously welcomed with encouragement and support and treated as an equal despite just beginning my journey in emergency medicine. AWAEM has always been this for me – a source of mentorship, sponsorship, collaboration and friendship. The day I joined AWAEM I gained unparalleled mentorship from women all across the US that truly propelled my career. I have had the opportunity to serve in a number of AWAEM roles; resident representative, CORD liaison, awards committee member, awards committee co-chair, treasurer and Vice President of Communications. I have been an active member of the executive committee for four years and am confident that I have the organizational knowledge, motivation, and skills required to serve as the AWAEM president elect. I have experience working with organizations dedicated to gender equity and have engaged in a number of research projects focused on identifying and eliminating gender inequities. Previously, I worked closely with the organization FemInEM as Finance co-chair, assisted with conference planning for FIX17, FIX18, and FIX19, and helped launch FemInEM Forward at FIX19. In addition to my committee experience through AWAEM, I have also been active on a number of other executive boards and committees. I am an Executive Board member of the Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network (GAIN), Co-Chair of the Research Agenda Subcommittee for the Society of Refugee Healthcare Providers, and a member of the Georgia State University Refugee Prevention Resource Center Community Advisory Board. It has been incredible to watch AWAEM grow exponentially over the past six years. AWAEM is now one of the largest academies and provides limitless resources to women at all stages in their careers. As the world of emergency medicine and our world at large has become increasingly complex, the challenges we face as women physicians have grown as well. It is even more important to have a community like AWAEM leading the way as we navigate new struggles and endure existing and novel inequities in our careers. If elected, I will continue to foster the creation of initiatives and resources to serve our members as changes in our practice and professions arise. I am committed to ensuring AWAEM does what it has always done – be a welcoming and safe space for all members. If elected, there are a number of areas I would like to expand upon. Inclusivity has always been a pillar of AWAEM values. I hope to re-commit to this pillar and fully understand what inclusivity means for all of our members. This may include an environmental scan of our members needs and identifying gaps in the resources we provide. It may also include partnering with other academies to share knowledge and experiences as well as thoughtful consideration of our recruitment and retention strategies as an academy. I also hope to expand upon scholarship opportunities for members that will support promotion and advancement. AWAEM already has a number of phenomenal opportunities for scholarship, from the SAEMF/AWAEM grant, to the internal AWAEM grant, and the research committee and consulting service. I am excited to continue to promote these opportunities and facilitate collaboration through shared research endeavors, publications, presentations, etc., but also identify what, if any, barriers exist to accessing these services to their fullest and identifying solutions. This also includes rethinking what ‘scholarship’ means in order to recognize the unique contributions of women in our specialty. Specifically considering how to incorporate scholarly contributions beyond traditional research including administration, advocacy, community-engaged work and appropriate recognition of these contributions. Finally, I hope to enhance our abilities to recognize the contributions of our AWAEM members to our specialty and beyond. Our members have shaped the current and future state of our specialty in noticeable ways. Celebration of these achievements should be the norm and an inherent part of our operations. I am excited to continue to brainstorm with AWAEM members how to expand our current recognition systems, including highlighting the paths of previous AWAEM leaders and harnessing these avenues for newer members. Joining AWAEM has been one of my best decisions both personally and professionally. I was fortunate to have a sponsor who encouraged me to join and apply for AWAEM leadership positions even when I didn’t feel qualified or worthy enough. I hope to provide this for all AWAEM members on a micro and macro level if elected to serve the academy.

Nicole Zhao

Medical Student Representative

Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University

I am currently a second-year medical student at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. I am extremely interested in this opportunity as a medical student representative for AGEM as it combines my interests in emergency medicine with my passion for geriatric medicine. Having spent the last nine years as one of the primary caretakers for my grandmother with Alzheimer's Disease, I hope to continue advocating and improving the quality of care for these patients in the emergency room. The geriatric patient population is a considerable portion of patients seen in the ED, often requiring end-of-life care, and is highly underserved. With this opportunity, I hope to strike up critical conversations between students and AGEM mentors relating to topics on how we can promote better care in this patient population through leadership, advocacy, research, and projects that will systemically impact change. I have had exposure to EM, palliative, and geriatric medicine through my professional and personal experiences. In EM, I have led initiatives promoting the profession and advocating for more holistic care in underserved populations as the President of the EMIG at Stony Brook. In geriatrics/palliative medicine, I learned how underserved these populations are caring for my grandmother for the last nine years and my grandfather at the end of his life. I've also been a part of the PRIM-ER and EMPallA trials that aim to improve the identification of older patients in the ED with life-limiting illnesses and incorporate palliative care.

Elise Brickhouse

Medical Student Representative

Baylor College of Medicine

Second year medical student at BCM, BS in neuroscience from the College of William & Mary; publication in JAGS on language discordance in delirium screening in the ED as well as other research on consulting PT for older adults who fall, the feasibility of geriatric screenings in the ED, and other academic emergency medicine topics; research experience involving members of SAEM; as our population ages, I think it will become only more important that our care for older adults improves. Through my classes at BCM, we have learned a lot about delirium and the importance in recognizing it earlier, both to improve outcomes and disposition, and as an indicator of underlying disease that otherwise might not be recognized. Through some of my research, I’ve been able to talk to numerous physicians in the ED about delirium, and have found that’s it’s an often misunderstood condition. Increasing physician awareness about delirium, fall risk, etc. and showing them the importance of finding and addressing these conditions early, could greatly improve our care for older adults in the ED.

Sarah Pajka

Resident Representative

The Ohio State University College of Medicine

I am a fourth year medical student currently interviewing for EM residency. I first became interested in geriatrics as an undergraduate, when I studied the History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health and spent time researching the origins of hospice and care for the aging and severely ill. Since then, I have worked on several studies investigating advance care planning interventions for vulnerable patients in the ED and in alternative settings like permanent supportive housing. In the future, I plan to continue to work toward improving care for aging patients in the ED and hope to incorporate this focus into my emergency medicine training. Since the last AGEM election cycle, I have enjoyed serving as a medical student representative on the Executive, Didactic, and Membership Committees. I have learned a lot while working with teams to improve member recruitment and develop didactics for SAEM 2023 and I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to continue to serve in a similar role as a resident. If elected, I hope to dedicate time to improving formal mentorship structures and building a network for our residents and medical students, by promoting opportunities and incentivizing more experienced clinicians to serve as mentors

Lily Berlin, MD

Resident Representative

Alameda Health System- Highland Hospital

I am a first year resident at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California. I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2022. I have experience with AGEM, serving as Medical Student Representative on the Executive Board in 2020-2021. I have also served on the AGEM Outreach and Membership Committee for the last three years. In that time, I have continued and protocolized the AGEM Author Spotlight series, worked on a project to reach out to lapsed AGEM members to re-engage them in AGEM, worked on the AGEM twitter account, and assisted with the AGEM Gala at SAEM 2022. I also contributed to the AGEM CDEM curriculum project and served as a Medical Student Ambassador at SAEM 2020 and 2021. I am running for AGEM Resident Representative to continue to work with the incredible community and mentors within AGEM. Improving geriatric emergency care is important to me and my career, and I want to continue to contribute to and learn from this community. One of my goals is to continue to grow AGEM with younger trainees at the medical student and resident level. I hope to increase engagement in all levels of training with structured mentorship, educational webinars, continuing the quarterly journal club, and providing more resources to members and non-members. There are many geriatric ED resources that exist, but they are hard to find and not located in the same place. One potential project idea I have is to create a repository of resources, like clinical guideline tools, educational tools, community-based resources, and up-coming classes and webinars that are available to trainees and physicians. Another goal I have is to use the SAEM network and other interest groups and academies to increase AGEM’s exposure by doing partnered events via webinars and at the SAEM annual conference. For example, AGEM could team up with the Climate Change and Health interest group to discuss how climate change affects older patients specifically and what can be done to treat patients in the ED after climate-related disasters. Another idea is to work with the Social EM group with an event on social services available for older patients that can be utilized in the ED. Via these joint events, we can engage more EM providers who are not specifically interested in GEM and share our community, ideas, resources, and passion for geriatric emergency care. In addition, I want to broaden AGEM’s reach to more under-resourced settings, like county hospitals and under-resourced institutions. In my first year at a county residency program, I already see a huge need for improved geriatric emergency care with our most vulnerable older patients. I am already working with my program to improve geriatric education for my peers and to improve geriatric care for our patients. I hope to work within AGEM and the community to create a model for how under-resourced health care systems and hospitals can improve geriatric emergency care. Lastly, I am excited at the opportunity to continue to serve AGEM. I am grateful to have found this community of energized, passionate, and welcoming mentors who are working to improve geriatric emergency medicine care. I am humbled to have met and worked with many AGEM members and leaders, and I hope to continue to learn and grow from this community.

Cameron Gettel, MD, MHS

President-Elect

Yale School of Medicine

My name is Cameron Gettel, and I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. I have been a member of the SAEM AGEM since 2016 after developing an interest in all things geriatric emergency medicine as a resident. I have been fortunate to be the recipient of a welcoming academic home within SAEM’s AGEM and have benefited immensely from the mentorship and collaborative opportunities across the group. As a Member-at-Large on AGEM’s Executive Committee for the past two years I have become familiar with what is required for the Academy to continue its success and growth and have contributed to AGEM’s spirit directly by: 1) working to enhance the career and professional development of junior clinician-investigators through webinars, 2) contributing to a membership drive that saw a considerable rise in AGEM membership and increased funds to the Academy, and 3) liaising with SAEM Pulse to promote the great work of our members on a bimonthly basis. If selected as AGEM President, I aim to continue building the geriatric EM community by promoting mentorship and collaboration among its members, encouraging innovation through research and education, and ultimately improving the clinical care for older adults seeking emergency care.

Anita Chary, MD, PhD

Treasurer

Baylor College of Medicine

I would like to serve AGEM as Treasurer in hopes of continuing to foster collaborations with other SAEM academies and other national organizations through co-sponsored programs and events. I have served on the AGEM Executive Committee for the last 4 years as Resident Member and Member-at-Large. During this time, I have collaborated with executive committee members of the Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine and the Academy for Academic Women in Emergency Medicine to hold webinars on mutually relevant topics, establish joint research projects, and attract diverse membership to AGEM. I have also worked with members of these groups, the Emergency Nurses' Association and the American Geriatrics Society to organize and lead workshops to promote inclusion of diverse older adults in emergency care research. As treasurer, I would highly support opportunities to subsidize trainees' participation in national conferences, geriatric EM away rotations, and AGEM mentoring events. I would also work closely with leaders of other national organizations to develop high-quality interdisciplinary programs to enrich the care we offer to older adults in the ED. I hold several administrative positions and have experience in grants management, which will lend to successfully managing the AGEM budget.

Neha Raukar, MD, MS

Treasurer

Mayo Clinic

The subspecialty of Geriatrics is undergoing a renaissance. As the country gets older, and disparities in care and outcomes are better understood, and highlighted, the care given in the acute setting plays a pivotal role in affecting the trajectory of the lives of our geriatric patients. As I work to help my own healthcare institution achieve Geriatric Accreditation, I realize many areas of improvement in the way we deliver care in our US emergency departments. As is the mission of AGEM, through collaboration, research, and education the quality of care can be improved. Furthermore, AGEM stands as the voice of our geriatric patients to advocate for continued education of our colleagues. AGEM is also positioned to encourage innovation in the clinical and operations realms to generate solutions. Through collaboration with other SAEM Academies and Interest Groups, we can advance the care we deliver as a community to this population. I am running for the position of AGEM Treasurer because I realize that these types of innovations have a price tag and I am motivated to find areas to obtain funding that will eventually lead to better patient care. I do have executive committee experience on other Academies and look forward to bringing my experiences and expertise to help promote the missions of AGEM.