Andy Jagoda, MD, FACEP

Editor In Chief

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Andy Jagoda, MD, FACEP, is Professor and Chair Emeritus of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He trained at Georgetown University and completed his emergency medicine residency in 1987. He spent a total of 13 years in the Navy, inclusing service in Desert Shield / Desert Storm for which he received a Navy Commendation Medal for “meritorious service.” He came to Mount Sinai in 1995 and has been instrumental in building the department into one of the leading programs in the country. Dr. Jagoda is nationally recognized for his involvement in EM education, and for his work in the area of neurologic emergencies and practice guideline development. He has edited nine books and has authored 81 peer reviewed publications and 54 book chapters. He is the Editor-in-Chief of a NLM-indexed monthly publication, Emergency Medicine Practice.

Dr. Jagoda is a member of the Executive Committee of the Brain Attack Coalition at the NINDS and on the advisory board of the Brain Trauma Foundation. He is a team leader for a NFL Neurotrauma Consultants team; Chair of the Credentialing Committee for the NFL’s Airway Management Physician Program; he helps coordinate the NFL’s Visiting Team Medical Liaison program. Internationally, Dr. Jagoda has been involved in the development of emergency medicine in Italy and Holland. He was inducted as a "Master Educator" into the Mount Sinai Institute for Medical Education in 2009. In 2011, he received the Mount Sinai Alumni Association "Achievement in Medical Education" award and was presented with the NYACEP “Physician of the Year" award. In 2015, he received a Mount Sinai Alumni Jacobi Medallion. Dr. Jagoda is the immediate past President of the Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Board.

Kaushal H. Shah, MD, FACEP

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Kaushal H. Shah, MD, FACEP, received his undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1996, his MD from Dartmouth Medical School in 2000, and completed his residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2003. Currently, Dr. Shah is Assistant Dean of Academic Advising at Weill Cornell School of Medicine, where he is also an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair for Education at the Department of Emergency Medicine. Previously, he was the Emergency Medicine Residency Director and an Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Dr. Shah has a strong interest in education and trauma. He is presently the Chair of SAEM’s National Trauma Interest Group and section editor for “Trauma Reports” in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. He is an active member of ACEP, particularly at the state level, where he is on the Board of Directors and serves as Chair of the Education Committee. He is also a member of ACEP’s Clinical Policies Committee. He has distinguished himself as a writer and editor in the emergency medicine community with his Essential Emergency series, published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. There are presently four books in the series: Essential Emergency Procedures, Essential Emergency Trauma, Essential Emergency Imaging, and Essential Emergency Procedural Sedation and Pain Management. Dr. Shah’s most recent book, Practical Emergency Resuscitation and Critical Care, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. In 2018, Dr. Shah was recognized by Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society as a Fellow in Leadership.

Saadia Akhtar, MD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dr. Saadia Akhtar is the Associate Dean for Trainee Well-being and Resilience in the Office of Well-being and Resilience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She is also the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and the Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She completed a five-year combined residency in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Akhtar is nationally recognized for her work with several organizations and activities. She is a Past President for the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD); an Oral Board Examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine; and a faculty member for the inaugural 2018 American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)-CORD Resident Teaching Fellowship.

Dr. Akhtar has received several national awards for her dedication to medical education, emergency medicine and community service, including the prestigious 2018 ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award for Program Director excellence and the 2018 CORD Michael P. Wainscott Program Director Award.

William J. Brady, MD

University of Virginia Medical Center

William J. Brady, MD William J. Brady, MD, received his BA in history from the University of Virginia in 1984 and his MD from the Medical College of Virginia in 1988. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the Medical College of Virginia in 1991 and a residency in emergency medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1994. He is currently Professor of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine and Vice-Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville. His clinical and research interests are emergency medicine, resuscitation, electrocardiography, and emergency medical systems.

Calvin A. Brown III, MD

Harvard Medical School

Dr. Brown Calvin A. Brown, MD, is the Director of Physician Compliance, Credentialing and Urgent Care Services for Brigham and Women’s Hospital, former Associate Chief in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, and an attending physician in the emergency departments at both the Brigham and Women’s and Faulkner campuses. He is also an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Brown graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1995 with honors in biochemistry. He attended medical school at the University of Mississippi and graduated magna cum laude in 2001. During medical school he was recognized with the SAEM Excellence in Emergency Medicine student award, was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society, and was named medical student of the year in 2001. Dr. Brown completed his emergency medicine residency training at the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency program from 2001-2005, serving as chief resident in his final year. His primary areas of interest include airway management research, process improvement, and medical student/resident education. He has received the Outstanding Attending of the Year Award in four consecutive years (2008-2011) in recognition of the BWH faculty who exhibits excellence in emergency medicine resident education and mentorship.

Dr. Brown's research endeavors include serving as principle investigator for the National Emergency Airway Registry (NEAR) and principle investigator for two grant funded projects on performance characteristics of emergency video laryngoscopy and pre-hospital airway management. Dr. Brown has published original research in Annals of Emergency Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine, The Journal of Emergency Medicine, Resuscitation, Critical Care Medicine, and American Journal of EM and Pediatrics, and he has authored chapters on airway management in UpToDate – Emergency Medicine, The Manual of Emergency Airway Management 3rd Ed, and Rosen’s Textbook of Emergency Medicine. He is an associate editor for New England Journal of Medicine – Journal Watch and is an ad hoc reviewer for several emergency medicine and critical care journals, including the Journal of Emergency Medicine, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and The Journal of Critical Care. He has spoken locally, nationally, and internationally on airway management and has been a member of the teaching faculty for the Difficult Airway Course: Emergency™ since 2005.

Peter DeBlieux, MD

Louisiana State University School of Medicine

Peter DeBlieux, MD completed medical school at Louisiana State Health Science Center (LSUHSC), an internship in internal medicine at the LSUHSC Department of Medicine, residency and chief residency in emergency medicine at LSUHSC Charity Hospital, and a pulmonary critical care fellowship at LSUHSC Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at LSUHSC Charity Hospital. He was the Program Director of the LSUHSC Charity Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency for 10 years, followed by serving as the Director of Resident and Faculty Development for an additional 10 years. He was an attending in the Emergency Department and Medical Intensive Care Unit of Charity Hospital for 25 years. He currently serves as the Director of Quality and as the Chief Medical Officer of the University Medical Center in New Orleans. Appointments include Clinical Professor of Medicine at LSUHSC, Clinical Professor of Surgery at Tulane University Medical School, and Attending in Emergency Medicine. He is currently the Chief Experience Officer of the University Medical Center in New Orleans.

Daniel J. Egan, MD

Harvard Medical School

Daniel Egan, MD, is the Program Director of the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program. He received his undergraduate degree from The College of New Jersey in 1998 and his medical degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2002. At Mount Sinai, Dr. Egan was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. He completed his residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency program at Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals, where he was also chief resident. Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Vice Chair of Education for the Department of Emergency Medicine. He also previously served as the Program Director of the Mount Sinai St. Luke's Roosevelt Emergency Medicine Residency. Dr. Egan is active within the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors and is co-chair of the Academic Assembly. He is the co-author of Blueprints Emergency Medicine and the co-editor of Essential Emergency Trauma and Scientific American Emergency Medicine.

Nicholas Genes, MD, PhD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Nicholas Genes, MD, PhD, Nicholas Genes, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Dr. Genes earned his undergraduate degree from Brown University, received his MD and PhD from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and completed emergency medicine residency training, chief residency, and a fellowship in informatics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is board certified in both Clinical Informatics and Emergency Medicine, and serves as Medical Director for Mount Sinai's direct-to-consumer telehealth initiative. He is the Chair of ACEP's Informatics Section. Dr. Genes' research interests include usability studies of electronic health records, and the use of mobile health apps and devices to facilitate remote monitoring and improve transitions of care.

Michael A. Gibbs, MD, FACEP

University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Michael A. Gibbs, MD, FACEP is the Chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maine Medical Center. He received the 2005 ACEP National Teaching award, which acknowledged his dedication and innovation in teaching at the local, regional, and national level. In this nomination letter, Dr. Gibbs was described as “the ultimate equal opportunity teacher, not just willing to teach on a moment's notice, but doing so consistently at the highest level possible. He is an outstanding steward of our specialty, cares deeply about the future practice of Emergency Medicine, and is committed to educating the next generation of care givers.”

Steven A. Godwin, MD, FACEP

University of Florida COM-Jacksonville

Steven Andy Godwin, MD, FACEP is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville. He is also Assisstant Dean for Simulation Education. He received his MD at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in 1993. After a one-year internship in internal medicine at MUSC, he completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida Health Science Center in Jacksonville. Upon residency graduation in 1997, Dr. Godwin remained on staff as the Assistant Residency Director and Student Clerkship Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine. He assumed the role of Director of Medical Education and Residency Program Director in 2000, later becoming the Associate Chair and then Department Chair. He is a creator of SimWars and remains active in simulation education as the Assistant Dean for Simulation Education at the University of Florida Health Science Center–Jacksonville. Dr. Godwin is a member of the ACEP Clinical Policies Committee and has chaired multiple writing subcommittees for policies on headache, procedural sedation, and asymptomatic hypertension in the emergency department. In addition to being a member of the Editorial Board for Emergency Medicine Practice, he has authored and co-authored numerous publications, including resources on pediatric and adult procedural sedation and airway management. He has been a frequent faculty member for SEMPA and ACEP Scientific Assembly and is a 2005 recipient of the ACEP Faculty Teaching Award.

Gregory L. Henry, MD, FACEP

University of Michigan

Gregory L. Henry, MD, FACEP is Clinical Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, Staff Physician at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital System, CEO of Medical Practice Risk Assessment, Inc., Risk Management Consultant of Emergency Physicians Medical Group in Ann Arbor, Michigan, President of Savannah Assurance, Limited in Bridgetown, Barbados, and Past President of ACEP.

John M. Howell, MD, FACEP, FAAEM

The George Washington University

John M. Howell, MD, FACEP is Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University and Director of Academic Affairs at Best Practices Inc and Inova Fairfax Hospita in Falls Church, Virginia.

Shkelzen Hoxhaj, MD, MPH, MBA

Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami

Shkelzen Hoxhaj, MD, MPH, MBA is the Chief of Emergency Medicine and Associate Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine. He graduated from NY Medical College and completed a combined Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine residency at the Medical Center of Delaware/ Christiana Care Health System. He completed a fellowship in Healthcare Administration. He has advanced degrees in Public Health and Business Administration from Columbia University and the University of Tennessee. He has expertise in the areas of healthcare management, utilization management, performance improvement, risk management, and patient satisfaction.

Eric Legome, MD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Eric Legome, MD has been the Chair of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai West since 2016. He is a tenured Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Prior to Mount Sinai, he was Chief of Emergency Medicine at Kings County Hospital for six years; prior to Kings County, he was at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Manhattan, serving as the Chair of Emergency Medicine. Previous to those positions, Dr. Legome was the director of the NYU/Bellevue Emergency Medical Residency for seven years. Before joining NYU, Dr. Legome practiced in emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and served as the associate residency director of the Harvard MGH/BWH Emergency Medicine Training Program.

He trained in emergency medicine at the Denver Affiliate Resident Program, one of the oldest in the nation, after completing an internship in general surgery at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. He completed college at Emory University and medical school at Ohio State University College of Medicine. A noted author and educator, Dr. Legome is active in leadership roles in national emergency medicine societies and has spoken nationally and internationally regarding the emergency medical perspective on traumatic emergencies. He has performed research and published on trauma, administration, and public health as related to emergency medicine. He has been devoted to resident and student education and mentoring throughout his career. He is on the editorial and review boards of several journals and specialty publications, is the Co-Editor of the EBM trauma care Current Topics and Controversies books and a Cambridge University Press multidisciplinary trauma textbook, Trauma: A Comprehensive Emergency Medicine Approach, and is a section editor for a trauma column in the Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Keith A. Marill, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Keith A. Marill, MD graduated from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and completed residencies in internal and emergency medicine at the University of New Mexico and Texas Tech University, El Paso, respectively. He currently practices emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and serves as a core teacher in the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program. Primary research interests include cardiovascular emergencies, particularly dysrhythmic diseases, and quantitative analytic techniques in emergency medicine research.

Charles V. Pollack, Jr., MA, MD, FACEP

University of Mississippi School of Medicine

Charles V. Pollack, MA, MD, is a Clinician-Scientist at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. Previously, he was Associate Provost for Innovation in Education, Thomas Jefferson University; Director, Jefferson Institute of Emerging Health Professions (IEHP); Associate Dean for CME and Strategic Partner Alliances, Thomas Jefferson University; and Professor and Senior Advisor for Interdisciplinary Research and Clinical Trials, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. From 2001 to 2015, Dr. Pollack was Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania and served as Chairman of Emergency Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. From 1992 to 2001, Dr. Pollack served in various positions in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, an urban, tertiary care teaching hospital affiliated with the Medical College of the University of Arizona and the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. He was Research Director from 1994 to 2000, and chaired the department from 1997 to 2001. From 2000 through mid-2001, Dr. Pollack was also Director of Emergency Medicine at Arizona Heart Hospital. He graduated summa cum laude from Emory University in 1980 with bachelor’s degrees in history and chemistry and a master’s degree in the history of science and medicine, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Pollack earned his medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine and is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha.

Michael S. Radeos, MD, MPH

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Michael S. Radeos, MD, MPH graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1983 and began his emergency career as an EM intern at LA county that year. He completed his EM residency at Lincoln Medical Center in the Bronx in 1986, and he has been EM faculty at Lincoln, Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami, Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Massachusetts General Hospital, and is currently Assistant Profess of Emergency Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, NY. His faculty appointment is Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City. Dr. Radeos completed an NIH Training Grant Fellowship in Respiratory Epidemiology at the Channing Laboratory of Brigham and Women's Hospital, earning his Master's in Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2000. His research interests include asthma, COPD, and access to primary care and prescription drugs.

Ali S. Raja, MD, MBA, MPH, FACEP

Harvard Medical School

Ali S. Raja, MD, MBA, MPH, FACEP, is the Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Raja received his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, holds MD and MBA degrees from Duke University and, after training in emergency medicine at the University of Cincinnati, completed a research fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is board certified in both emergency medicine and clinical informatics, and is appointed to both the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Radiology at HMS. A practicing emergency physician and author of over 200 publications, Dr. Raja’s federally-funded research focuses on improving the appropriateness of resource utilization in emergency medicine. Dr. Raja is also an expert on the management of critically ill patients in the emergency department and prehospital arenas. He has served as a critical care air transport team commander for the US Air Force, a civilian flight physician, a tactical physician for a number of local, state, and federal agencies, and a physician with MA-1 DMAT.

Robert L. Rogers, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, FACP

University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Robert L. Rogers, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, FACP is a 1997 graduate of The University of Tennessee College of Medicine, and a 2002 graduate of the combined Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine residency program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. He served as Chief Resident in Emergency Medicine during his last year of training and later served as Chief Resident in Medicine from 2002-2003. His previous positions include Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair of Faculty Development at University of Kentucky HealthCare and Director of Medical Education and Teaching Fellowship Director, Medical Education and Teaching Fellowship, Department of Emergency Medicine, at the University of Maryland. He is the creator and CEO of Encompass 360.

Alfred D. Sacchetti, MD, FACEP

Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA

Alfred D. Sacchetti, MD, FACEP is the Chief of Emergency Services at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, NJ and Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from La Salle College and his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. Sacchetti is both a dedicated researcher and enthusiastic educator with over 75 journal publications and textbook chapters, as well as over 200 national and international lectures, to his credit. His research focuses include Procedural Sedation and Analgesics, Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN), and Congestive Heart Failure. Dr. Sacchetti co-authored the nation's first Emergency Medical Services for Children Law, pioneered the Emergency Information Form for CSHCN for the American College of Emergency Physician, and serves as a peer reviewer for over a dozen professional journals including the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Journal of American Medical Association, the British Medical Journal, the Annals of Emergency Medicine, and Emergency Medicine Practice. He is past president of the New Jersey American College of Emergency Physicians and former president of the Medical Staff of Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Dr. Sacchetti maintains a full time clinical practice as a general emergency physician.

Robert M. Schiller, MD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Robert M. Schiller, MD, received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine and completed his residency in family medicine at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. He is currently Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and Chair of Graduate Medical Education for the Institute’s three family medicine residency programs. He is also Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Senior Faculty in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. In addition to his interests in reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care, Dr. Schiller has developed expertise in incorporating integrative medicine (also called alternative and complementary medicine) into the primary care setting, targeting the underserved. He has authored articles on the use of integrative medicine in the primary care setting.

Scott M. Silvers, MD, FACEP

Mayo Clinic

Scott M. Silvers, MD, FACEP is the immediate past chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and current Chair of Facilities and Planning at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Stroke Center. Dr. Silvers is a member of both the ACEP Clinical Policies Committee and the American Heart Association's Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee, where he serves in the development of evidence-based guidelines. He is co-editor of the Textbook in Emergency Cardiovascular Care and CPR and has authored multiple editions of the textbook Blueprints in Emergency Medicine. As a member of the University of Miami's Center for Research in Medical Education International Workgroup, he is one of the original developers of the Advanced Stroke Life Support curriculum. Dr. Silvers is a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Education and Research in Neurologic Emergencies and is Co-Director of the national Clinical Decision-Making in Emergency Medicine annual conference.

Corey M. Slovis, MD

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Corey M. Slovis, MD, FACP, FACEP, FAAEM, is a Professor and Chair Emeritus of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Slovis completed residencies in internal medicine and emergency medicine at Emory University and has extensive experience in teaching both of these specialties. Dr. Slovis has been active in emergency medicine for more than 30 years and has published more than 100 journal articles and book chapters and is a former residency director. He has numerous research and practice interests including EMS, toxicology, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, endocrine emergencies, and the uses of magnesium. Dr. Slovis is nationally known for his teaching abilities and has won numerous teaching awards, including selection as the Outstanding Speaker by ACEP. He received the SAEM 1996 Hal Jayne Award for Academic Excellence. He has been selected best clinical professor seven times during his career, and received ACEP’s 2018 Outstanding Contributions in Education Award.

Stephen H. Thomas, MD, MPH

Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar

Dr. Stephen H. Thomas, MD, MPH finished Louisiana State University's six-year medical degree program in 1990, then moved to North Carolina to train in emergency medicine at East Carolina University. After completing a fellowship in air medical transport at Eastern Carolina Univeristy, he joined the faculty at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital. He earned an MPH with a concentration in Quantitative Methods at Harvard University in 1999. Over the course of 16 years at Harvard, Dr. Thomas was primarily involved with medical student education and helicopter EMS, also serving as a founding faculty member of the Harvard Affiliated EM Residency. In 2009, he took over as the first Kaiser Foundation Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Oklahoma. Ongoing areas of clinical research include prehospital medicine, analgesia, and evaluation of new technologies in the air medical and emergency department settings. His professional organization memberships include the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, where he has worked with and chaired the Undergraduate Education Committee. Dr. Thomas has also chaired, and continues to serve on, the Air Medical Services Task Force of the National Association of Emergency Medical Services Physicians.

Ron M. Walls, MD

Harvard Medical School

Ron M. Walls, MD, is Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Medicine (Emergency Medicine) at Harvard Medical School. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Manual of Emergency Airway Management, Senior Editor of Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, Editor-in-Chief of UpToDate, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal Watch for Emergency Medicine, published by the Massachusetts Medical Society (publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine.) He is a peer reviewer for Anesthesia, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the six emergency medicine journals in North America and Europe. Dr. Walls has researched, published, and taught in the area of emergency medicine, with an emphasis on emergency airway management, for many years. He is the principle investigator of NEAR - the National Emergency Airway Registry, a multicenter, international, emergency airway research project that has studied over 16,000 emergency department intubations in over 30 centers. He has been a regular speaker at the ACEP Annual Scientific Assembly and at numerous other regional, national, and international meetings and has been an invited visiting professor at 39 institutions. Dr. Walls has over 130 scientific publications, 10 editions of four textbooks, and numerous textbook chapters.

William A. Knight, IV, MD, FACEP

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

William A. Knight, IV, MD, FACEP, FNCS, received his MD from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at the University of Cincinnati in 2007, where he served as Chief Resident. Dr. Knight elected to remain in Cincinnati for a two-year Neurovascular Emergencies and Neurocritical Care fellowship. He is now an Associate Professor in the departments of Emergency Medicine, Neurology, and Neurosurgery. In addition to working clinically in the Neuroscience ICU, the Surgical ICU, and the Emergency Department, he is an active member of the University of Cincinnati Stroke Team, and is the medical director for a local EMS department. He also serves as an Unaffiliated Neurotrauma Consultant for the NFL. Additional administrative duties include serving as the Medical Director for the Emergency Medicine Advanced Practice Provider program and the associate medical director for the University of Cincinnati Medical Center Neuroscience ICU. His research interests include stroke, traumatic brain injury, and post–cardiac arrest resuscitation.

Scott Weingart, MD

Stony Brook Medicine

Scott D. Weingart, MD, FCCM, received his medical degree and completed a residency in emergency medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He then went on to fellowships in Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and ECMO at the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. He is currently an attending in and Chief of the Division of Emergency Critical Care at Stony Brook Hospital. He is a tenured Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stony Brook Medicine and an Adjunct Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is best known for his podcast on resuscitation and ED critical care called the EMCrit Podcast; it currently is downloaded more than 400,000 times per month.

Joseph Toscano, MD

San Ramon Regional Medical Center

Joseph Toscano, MD, received his MD from Duke University School of Medicine in 1989 and trained in internal medicine at the Naval Hospital in San Diego. He has been an attending emergency physician at San Ramon Regional Medical Center in San Ramon, California, since 1999 and is currently Chief of the department. Dr. Toscano has worked in urgent care since 2005 and was previously a partner and corporate medical director for Pinnacle Medical Group, which operated five urgent care clinics in California and Arizona. In addition to caring for patients and working as senior research editor for Emergency Medicine Practice, he is a member of the editorial boards for the journals Emergency Medicine and the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine. He also develops and reviews continuing medical education programs in urgent care and emergency medicine for a variety of other publications and organizations and is currently the clinical content coordinator for the Urgent Care Association.

Peter Cameron, MD

The Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Peter Cameron, MD, is Vice President of the International federation of Emergency Medicine and Past President of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. He is Academic Director of the Emergency and Trauma Centre Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, and heads the Prehospital Emergency and Trauma Research group at Monash University, as well as the Victorian State Trauma registry. He has co-edited both an adult and pediatric emergency medicine text and written more than 200 peer reviewed publications. His research interests include major trauma epidemiology, cardiac arrest, and patient safety.

Andrea Duca, MD

Ospedale Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy

Andrea Duca, MD, graduated from Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Medicine of Milan, Italy in 2010. He completed a five-year residency program in emergency medicine at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Medicine of Milan, Italy in 2016 and spent a period of his residency at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. He currently works as an attending physician in the Emergency Department of Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo, Italy. Dr. Duca's areas of clinical and research interests include emergency medicine, resuscitation and ultrasound.

Suzanne Y.G. Peeters, MD

Flevo Teaching Hospital, Almere, The Netherlands

Suzanne Y.G. Peeters, MD, is an attending emergency physician at Flevo Teaching Hospital, Almere, The Netherlands. She received her medical degree from Maastricht University and completed her residency in emergency medicine at the Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis in Amsterdam in 2005. She is the Dutch representative member of the ACEP Clinical Policies Committee and coauthored the clinical policy on syncope. In The Netherlands, she strives for the development of emergency medicine as a recognized specialty. Her special interests are guidelines development and implementation, research in risk stratifying chest pain patients, and patient safety in the emergency department.

Edgardo Menendez, MD

Churruca Hospital of Buenos Aires University, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Professor Edgardo Menendez, MD, FIFEM, graduated as a medical physician from Buenos Aires University in 1987. He is a professor in medicine, emergency medicine, and internal medicine specialist. In 2012, Professor Menendez was recognized as a Fellow of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM). He currently serves as the Director of both the Emergency Department and the Emergency Medicine Resident Program at Churruca Hospital affiliated with Buenos Aires University, and is an associate physician in the intensive care service at Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires. He is also the Director of the Postgraduate School of Emergency Medicine at Buenos Aires University and is the Director of Specialist Careers in Emergency Medicine at the Sociedad Argentina de Emergencias (SAE). A founding member of SAE, he has served as President (2008-2010), as a member of the editorial board for the SAE book Emergency, and presently is the Secretary of International Relations and Director of the Airway Committee. Professor Menendez has worked for the development of emergency medicine as an IFEM Board Member and Representative of Central and South America since 2012. In 2017, he received the Amin Kazzi International Emergency Medicine Leadership award from the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.

Sam Ashoo, MD, FACEP

Tallahassee, Florida

Sam Ashoo, MD, FACEP, is board-certified in emergency medicine and clinical informatics. For more than 15 years, he has practiced as an emergency physician in the Tallahassee, FL area. He has served as medical director of emergency services, medical director of the area’s leading chest pain center, and family practice residency preceptor. Based on his former experience as Chief Medical Officer of a regional staffing and emergency department optimization services firm, Dr. Ashoo founded Admin EM in 2016 to help other such leaders improve administration and delivery of direct patient care. He is CEO of the company, which produces clinical reference tools and specializes in emergency medicine analytics, case file guidance and review, patient flow studies, and other best-practices consulting services. At Florida State University, Dr. Ashoo serves as faculty for the emergency medicine clerkship program, adjunct faculty for the college of medicine, and internal medicine residency preceptor. He trained at the University of Florida School of Medicine and completed his emergency medicine residency at Orlando Regional Medical Center in 2004. He signed on as EB Medicine’s EMplify podcast host in January 2020.

Deborah Diercks, MD, MS, FACEP, FACC

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Deborah Diercks, MD, MS, FACEP, FACC, is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine UT Southwestern Medical Center, where she has been a faculty member since 2014. After receiving her medical degree from Tufts University, Dr. Diercks completed her residency at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and obtained a Master of Science from the Harvard University School of Public Health. Her clinical research interests include the diagnosis and management of patients who present to the emergency department with suspected acute coronary syndrome and congestive heart failure. She has been involved in single center and multicenter trials in both of these areas. Dr. Diercks has collaborated in studies involving the identification of acute coronary syndrome in the emergency department, including the use of cardiac injury markers and novel electrocardiogram techniques, and has been involved in the evaluation of observation unit care of the chest pain patient. She has also participated in therapeutic trials for congestive heart failure and acute coronary syndrome. Over the past several years, she has participated in several national acute coronary syndrome symposia. She has served on many ACEP committees and on the SAEM Board of Directors; she is also active within the American College of Cardiology and serves on the Editorial Boards for Circulation and Academic Emergency Medicine. Dr. Diercks has received awards for the Advancement of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine and Advancement of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine.

Marie-Carmelle Elie, MD, RDMS, FACEP

University of Alabama Heersink School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL

Marie-Carmelle Elie, MD, RDMS, FACEP, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama Heersink School of Medicine in Birmingham. She has been a funded principal or co-investigator in multidisciplinary studies funded by the NIH, PCORI and other foundations over the past 15 years. Her research interests include the investigation of preventative strategies for end-organ dysfunction in critical illness, including ARDS, kidney injury, and cognitive impairment; novel strategies for the treatment of complicated infections and sepsis; and the advancement of emergency based palliative strategies.

Angela M. Mills, MD, FACEP

Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Angela M. Mills, MD, FACEP, is the J. E. Beaumont Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as the Chief of Emergency Services for the west campus of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. A national leader and expert in emergency medicine, Dr. Mills graduated summa cum laude from Muhlenberg College and attended Temple University Medical School, where she graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha distinction. Dr. Mills is a graduate and former Chief Resident of the emergency medicine residency program at the University of Pennsylvania. She became a faculty member immediately thereafter at Penn in 2003 and advanced academically, being promoted to Professor of Emergency Medicine in 2017. At Penn, Dr. Mills served in several capacities, including as Medical Director and as the Vice Chair of Clinical Operations. She joined Columbia in February 2018 as the inaugural Chair of the newly formed Department of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Mills has maintained an active research career, through which she has focused on emergency diagnostic imaging, undifferentiated abdominal pain, and clinical operations. She has authored more than 95 scientific publications and has received research funding from both federal agencies and industry. Dedicated to combining scholarship with mentoring, Dr. Mills has influenced the careers of numerous junior faculty and trainees. She is strongly committed to education, with a teaching style that allows for growth and pursuit of individual research interest. Dr. Mills has been invited to deliver lectures and grand rounds at various national venues and serves on numerous national and local committees and task forces. She is an elected member of the Board of Directors of SAEM. Dr. Mills was recently honored with two prestigious awards: the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award from SAEM and the Mid-Career Award from the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Andrew Pelikan, MD

Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia

Andrew Pelikan, MD, received his undergraduate degrees from University of Missouri-Columbia in 2008 and medical degree from University of Missouri-Columbia in 2014. During undergraduate he studied and volunteered for a year in Alicante, Spain in "Vivienda para Jóvenes Solidarios" and upon graduation worked for 18 months in Quito, Ecuador in a community center called "El Centro del Muchacho Trabajador". He stayed on as staff after graduation and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Emergency Department. His is currently active is planning residency didactics and researching evidence-based approaches to medical education. Areas of interest are medical ethics and palliative care. Outside of medicine he is an avid distance runner.

Andrew Schmidt, DO, MPH

Assistant Professor, University of Florida-Jacksonville

Andrew Schmidt, DO, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine with the University of Florida-Jacksonville, with a focus on pre-hospital medicine. His areas of interest in education and research are drowning resuscitation, water safety, pre-hospital medicine, and presentation design. He currently serves on the American Red Cross Scientific Advisory Council for water safety and is the Deputy Medical Director for TraumaOne Flight Services, Medical Director for Jacksonville Beach Ocean Rescue, and Director of Lifeguards Without Borders.

Christopher Hahn, MD

Assistant Professor/Assistant Residency Director, Mount Sinai St. Luke's-Mount Sinai West

Christopher Hahn, MD, graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2012 and trained in emergency medicine at Highland Hospital where he also served as Chief Resident. Prior to entering medicine, Dr. Hahn was a hip-hop artist and during his residency, he combined his passions for music and medical education and created The EMC, a free open access website designed to entertain and teach topics in emergency medicine. He is an ACEP lecturer and has been invited to perform and/or speak at conferences such as Essentials of EM and SMACC . He joined the faculty at Mount Sinai St. Luke's-West in New York City after residency and was a Co-Director of the medical student clerkship before becoming the assistant program director of the residency program in 2017 and the associate program director in 2018.

Denise Whitfield, MD

Director, Education and Innovation, Los Angeles County EMS Agency/EMS Faculty Harbor-UCLA

Denise Whitfield, MD, is the Director, Education and Innovation at the Los Angeles County EMS Agency where she is responsible for educational initiatives and didactic training oversight for pre-hospital care providers in Los Angeles County. She is also an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and EMS faculty at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Whitfield is a former Commander in the U.S. Navy. She spent 12 years on active duty in the Navy with combat deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan. As a Naval Flight Surgeon, she completed operational assignments with the Marine Corps. Following residency training, she was an Emergency Medicine staff physician at Naval Hospital Guam. While in Guam, she served as the Emergency Medical Services medical director for Joint Region Marianas Federal Fire. In 2013, she was selected to be a White House Physician and completed her last military assignment at the White House Medical Unit during the Obama administration. During this tour, she successfully oversaw operational medical planning for all Presidential, Vice-Presidential and First Lady travel as the Chief of Protective Medicine, was selected as Physician to the First Lady, and was the Medical Director for Camp David Emergency Medical Services. After her active-duty military service, Dr. Whitfield completed fellowship training in Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Whitfield graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences, earned her medical degree from UCLA, and received her MBA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Whitfield is board-certified in Emergency Medicine.

Geoffrey Jara-Almonte, MD

Assistant Program Director, Elmhurst Hospital Center / Mount Sinia School of Medicine

Geoffrey Jara-Almonte, MD, Undergrad: University of Wisconsin; Madison, WI
Med School: University of Wisconsin; Madison, WI
Residency: Emergency Medicine - Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN
Fellowship: Pediatric Emergency Medicine - New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist, Brooklyn, NY
Current: Elmhurst Hospital Center, Elmhurst, NY Assistant Residency Director, Mound Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Interests: Medical education, feedback and learner assessment. Pediatric respiratory diseases, simulation
Off time: cycling, trail running, big days in the mountains.

Hoodo Mohamed, MS, PA-C

Regional APP Manager, MWOU, Envision Physician Services; Director, St. Joseph Mercy Saline Urgent Care; Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Ann Arbor; Emergency Physicians Medical Group

Hoodo Mohamed, MS, PA-C, obtained her Master of Physician Assistant Studies degree from Wayne State University in 2005. Hoodo currently works as an emergency medicine physician assistant with Emergency Physician Medical Group at St Joseph Mercy Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is the Regional APP manager for the Midwest operating unit (MWOU) for Envision Physician Services. Hoodo also serves as the Clinical Medical Director for St Joseph Mercy, Saline Urgent Care. She is involved with several departmental committees as well as an active member of the medical executive leadership team.

Jeffery Hill, MD, MEd

Associate Professor, Assistant Residency Director, University of Cincinnati, Department of Emergency Medicine

Jeffery Hill, MD, MEd, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Assistant Residency Director at the University of Cincinnati. He is interested in using social media and modern communication platforms to engage learners, facilitate a dialogue between residents, faculty, and other healthcare providers, and cultivate a community of practice.

Navin Ariyaprakai, MD, EMT-P, FAEMS

Associate Program Director EMS & Disaster Fellowship, Envision Physician Services/RWJ Barnabas Health Newark Beth Israel

Navin Ariyaprakai, MD, EMT-P, FAEMS, Dr. Navin Ariyaprakai is the Associate Program Director of the New Jersey EMS & Disaster Medicine Fellowship at RWJ Barnabas Newark Beth Israel (NBI) Medical Center. He is double boarded in Emergency Medicine and EMS & Disaster Medicine. Dr. Ariyaprakai graduated from St. George’s University School of Medicine with honors. He completed his EMS Fellowship and Emergency Medicine Residency at NBI where he continues to actively teach EMS Fellows and Emergency Residents.
Dr. Ariyaprakai is a Fellow of the Academy of Emergency Medical Services, former Paramedic and continues to be active in the Physician EMS Response program with MONOC EMS. His clinical responsibilities include medical standbys at events and mass gathering. He continues to perform critical care transports across the country and the world. He is active as a tactical physician with various local and federal teams. He is currently working clinically at NBI as an attending physician where he supervises fellows, residents, and advanced practice providers. He also works in the Rapid Diagnostic Unit which is an active observation service.

Nicole Piela Tyczynska, MD

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Sidney Kimmel Medical College; Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital

Nicole Piela Tyczynska, MD, I completed a 6-year, traditional European Medical Education at Jagiellonian University’s Collegium Medicum in Kraków, Poland one of the oldest medical colleges in Europe (1364). I became interested in Emergency Medicine while working as an ER nurse’s assistant during my second summer of medical school. After graduating, I spent two years coordinating Emergency Medicine clinical research prior to beginning residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. I continued to have a strong interest in research and participated in multiple research projects and publications during residency, winning our residency research award for three years in a row. After graduating, I stayed on at Jefferson to complete the Medical Education Fellowship and then transitioned into my role as Assistant EM Clerkship Director. I have developed academic interests in mentorship, career development, as well as international medical education and lecturing. I recently changed jobs to work along side my mentor at another institution and am currently practicing at a community teaching hospital.

Tom Fadial, MD

Assistant Professor, Educational Technology and Innovation Officer, UT Health | McGovern Medical School

Tom Fadial, MD, is an Assistant Professor and Educational Technology and Innovation Officer in the Department of Emergency Medicine at School at McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

Tomislav Jelic, MD

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Undergraduate Clerkship Academic and Point of Care Ultrasound Director, University of Manitoba, Department of Emergency Medicine

Tomislav Jelic, MD, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. He completed his FRCPC residency in Manitoba, then went on to complete a point of care ultrasound fellowship at the University of Toronto/Sunnybrook Hospital. He is currently the academic clerkship director as well as the point of care ultrasound lead for the undergraduate program at the University of Manitoba. His main areas of interest are in regional anesthesia in emergency medicine, use of ultrasound in resuscitation and education of medical students and residents.

Vincent Calleo, MD

Fellow of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University

Vincent Calleo, MD, is a native to Central New York. He completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University and is currently in the final year of his Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at SUNY Upstate. In July 2019, he will be starting a fellowship in Medical Toxicology at SUNY Upstate. Special areas of academic interest include pediatric emergency medicine, pediatric toxicology, and undergraduate/graduate medical education.

Keith A. Pochick, MD, FACEP

Charlotte, NC

Keith A. Pochick, MD, FACEP, is an attending physician working in urgent care in Charlotte, NC. He received his undergraduate degree from Virginia Tech in 1999 and his medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 2003. He completed residency in Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center, where he was also chief resident. Dr. Pochick worked as an emergency physician for nine years, then joined Novant Health Urgent Care and Occupational Medicine as a lead physician in 2015. From 2018 to 2021, he was the Medical Director for Novant GoHealth Urgent Care in North Carolina as it grew to include 21 clinic locations.

Cesar Mora Jaramillo, MD

Warren Alpert Medical School Brown University

Cesar Mora Jaramillo, MD, earned his medical degree from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador. He completed his Family and Community Medicine Residency at the University of Arizona Medical Center and joined Providence Community Health Centers in 2014. After five years of practicing primary care, he transitioned to the Urgent Care Department. He is currently the Associate Medical Director of Express urgent care clinics. Dr. Jaramillo also assisted as Director of Content and Clinical Advisor for a nonprofit organization that communicates with the vulnerable populations in Ecuador, and completed a Fellowship in Community Health Policy at George Washington University. He serves as the Treasurer Board Directors of the College of Urgent Care Medicine and as Co- Editor-in-Chief of the College of Urgent Care Medicine newsletter Urgent Caring, is a Rhode Island Medicaid Clinical Advisory Committee member, and is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Warren Alpert Medical School Brown University.

Patrick O'Malley, MD

Newberry, SC

Patrick O’Malley, MD, received his medical degree from Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in 2004 and completed his emergency medicine residency at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. Since completing residency, he has worked in a number of community emergency departments and urgent cares of varying sizes and acuity levels. Dr. O’Malley has lectured at multiple Urgent Care Association national conferences and is the creator of The Laceration Course, working closely with many urgent care groups and organizations. He serves as a peer reviewer for Evidence-Based Urgent Care. He enjoys medical device development and holds several patents for medical and consumer products.

Claude Shackelford, MD

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Claude Edward Shackelford, MD, received his medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2000 and trained in Family Medicine at the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program. He has been an attending physician at Vanderbilt University’s 11 walk-in clinics since 2008, and assistant medical director since 2017. In addition to routine clinical rotations, Dr. Shackelford coordinates resident rotations and instruction in the walk-in setting, oversees quality initiatives, and coordinates research efforts involving the walk-in clinics. Prior to joining Vanderbilt, Dr. Shackelford enjoyed a full-scope primary care practice that included inpatient and outpatient medicine, nursing home and urgent care, and local emergency department coverage.

Benjamin Silverberg, MD

West Virginia University

Benjamin Silverberg, MD, MSc, FAAFP, FCUCM, is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine at West Virginia University (WVU). He is also the Medical Director of the Division of Physician Assistant Studies within the Department of Human Performance at WVU. His clinical work includes student health, urgent care, and travel medicine; his areas of academic focus include sexual and mental health, and health disparities. He is active in the Urgent Care Association and has contributed to the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine. Dr Silverberg is a graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, completed his residency in Family Medicine at the University of Virginia, and pursued a fellowship in Community Medicine at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center. He also holds master’s degrees in biotechnology and Global Health from Georgetown University and Duke University, respectively.

Joseph D. Toscano, MD

John Muir Urgent Care, San Ramon Regional Medical Center

Joseph Toscano, MD, received his MD from Duke University School of Medicine in 1989 and trained in internal medicine at the Naval Hospital in San Diego. He has been an attending emergency physician at San Ramon Regional Medical Center in San Ramon, California, since 1999 and is currently the ED's Medical Director. Dr. Toscano has worked in urgent care since 2005 and was previously a partner and corporate medical director for Pinnacle Medical Group, which operated five urgent care clinics in California and Arizona. In addition to caring for patients and working as senior research editor for Emergency Medicine Practice, he is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine. He also develops and reviews continuing medical education programs in urgent care and emergency medicine for a variety of other publications and organizations and is currently the clinical content coordinator for the Urgent Care Association.

Chrysa Charno, PA-C, MBA, FCUCM

Acute Kids Pediatric Urgent Care, Rochester, NY

Chrysa Charno, PA-C, MBA, FCUCM, has been a practicing Physician Assistant for over 19 years. Her career began in surgical orthopedics but went on to include weekends in emergency medicine/urgent care. Her specialty focus has also included many years in plastic & reconstructive surgery and dermatology. In 2009, she was the first PA to graduate with an MBA from the Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology. A few years later, she became the first PA to be elected to the Board of Directors of the College of Urgent Care Medicine, and currently serves as the Vice President. In August 2019, she became the owner/CEO of AcuteKids Pediatric Urgent Care in Rocester, NY, with plans for expansion in the upcoming year. Chrysa currently lives in Webster, NY, with her husband and three children: Ryan, Matilynn, and Taylor.

Tracey Davidoff, MD, FACP, FCUCM

Urgent Care Physician, Orlando, FL

Tracey Davidoff, MD, FACP, FCUCM, has practiced Urgent Care Medicine for more than 15 years. She received her medical degree at St. Georges University School of Medicine, completed a residency in Internal Medicine in Patterson, NJ, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine. She worked as an emergency physician in several sites in Rochester, NY, spanning 15 years. During that time, she held faculty positions at the University of Rochester, the Rochester Institute of Technology Physician Assistant Program, and several other Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner programs. She is currently on the faculty of the Orlando College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is an active member of the Urgent Care Association and the College of Urgent Care Medicine, serving most recently as the Vice President of the Board of Directors and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the “Urgent Caring” publication, and is on several committees. She has lectured extensively both locally and nationally on a variety of topics related to Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care Medicine. Dr. Davidoff is on the editorial board of the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine and has published multiple articles in the journal. She has an interest in legal medicine and has worked as a case reviewer for the New York State Department of Health and serves as an expert witness for multiple legal firms throughout the United States. She currently practices in Orlando, FL, providing urgent care to patients at a popular tourist destination.

Melinda Johnson, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC, ENP-C

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing

Melinda Johnson, DNP, APRN, is board certified as a Family, Adult Gerontology Acute Care, and Emergency Nurse Practitioner. She is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, where she teaches in the Emergency Nurse Practitioner program. She currently practices at the Vanderbilt Health Walk-In Clinics and prior to this worked in the Pediatric Emergency Department at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. She has a passion for teaching and ensuring evidence-based care is part of clinical practice. She has served as a reviewer for the Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal and is an active member of the American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, and National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. She is a huge fan of National Parks and enjoys spending time outdoors hiking, running, and biking with her family in her free time.

Emily Montgomery, MD

University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine

Emily Montgomery, MD, MHPE, FAAP, received her MD from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine in 2008 and completed her pediatric residency at Children's Mercy Kansas City in 2011. She has worked in Children's Mercy's Division of Urgent Care since completing her chief year in 2012. Dr. Montgomery completed her Master of Health Professions Education in 2021 and has been Director of Education for the Division of Urgent Care since 2019. In this role, she oversees the educational activities of pediatric urgent care clinicians and learners in various stages of their medical training. Dr. Montgomery also plans continuing medical education on a national level through for the Society for Pediatric Urgent Care and the American Academy of Pediatrics Provisional Section of Urgent Care Medicine.

James B. Short, MD, FAAFP, BCUCM

Piedmont Urgent Care, Atlanta, GA

James “Bernie” Short, MD, received his MD from LSU Medical Center in 1981. He completed a flexible internship at Emory University in Atlanta (1982) and a Family Practice residency at University of Florida at Shands (2000). Following his internship at Grady Hospital in Atlanta, he fulfilled his obligation to the Public Health Service before entering private practice in 1984. Between internship and residency, Dr. Short was a founding board member of AID Atlanta, professional advisor to the GA Association of Physicians for Human Rights, hospital Chief of Medicine, served as an attending at a podiatry surgical residency program, and opened a hospital-based urgent care in 1984. He has experience in emergency medicine and has worked with the Bureau of Prisons performing psychiatric evaluations and medication management for felons released from federal prisons. He has recently served as Chair of the Board of Certification in Urgent Care Medicine and on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Physician Specialties. Dr. Short is currently a Director at Piedmont Urgent Care in metro Atlanta.