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Our Keynote Speaker
Benjamin Abo, DO, Paramedic, EMTT, FAWM
”The World is Our Oyster”
Sunday, April 10, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Dr. Abo is an EMS and emergency physician and toxinologist currently practicing in Naples, Florida who graduated with multiple honors from Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine – California and Masters of Public Health Program. He currently has a number of roles including Medical Director for Gainesville Fire Rescue, Sanibel Fire Rescue, Captiva Fire Rescue, Pine Island Fire Department, Lake County Fire Rescue’s Venom 2 Venomous Response Unit, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue’s Venom One and USAR Florida Task Force 1. He also serves as medical director and CMO for Rescue Company 1 and the Florida Helo-Aquatics Rescue Team. He has experienced EMS and emergency medicine around the globe with a number of philanthropic ventures, consulting, and serving as medical director and lead medical consultant/talent for a variety of television and movie productions including Shark Week, National Geographic, Shark Attack Files, and Kings of Pain. He continues to be extremely active in emergency and EMS after 25 years with research, education, speaking engagements, consulting, national and international committees as well as active field response. A recipient of NCEMSF’s EMS Provider of the Year for Heroism and Valor in addition to Touro University’s Inaugural Alumni Lamplighter Award. Furthermore, he served as the Co-Founder and Pilot External in the Carolina Wilderness EMS Externship where he is now an active instructor. More recently, Dr. Abo co-founded the Asclepius Snakebite Foundation and serves as honorary medical director of the Surfers Medical Association.
Get to know some of our Spring Seminar presenters.
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Brian Acunto
Dr. Acunto currently serves as the director of Emergency Services for Atlanticare Regional Medical Center-City Division as well as medical safety officer for Atlanticare Health System. In addition to practicing emergency medicine, Dr. Acunto holds an executive juris doctorate and lectures on medical legal issues and diagnostic excellence.
Peter Alamia
Jenny Beck-Esmay
Dr. Jenny Beck-Esmay is an associate professor of emergency medicine and assistant residency director at Mt. Sinai Morningside – West in New York City. Jenny received a degree in drama from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, completed medical school at the University of Minnesota and emergency medicine residency at NYU-Bellevue. She is passionate about medical education and is proud to have contributed content to numerous FOAM resources. She is an Associate Editor of R.E.B.E.L. EM, Co-Host of the Rebel Core podcast and a contributor to EM:RAP and UC:RAP. Additionally, Jenny is a life long feminist and is passionate about gender equity and is Editor-In-Chief of FemInEM. She is an established speaker, including appearances at SMACC, Essentials of EM, Resuscitate NYC, FemInEM Idea Exchange (FIX), Rebellion in EM, All NYC, MedEd Evolved, CORD, ACEP, ACOEP and SEMPA.
G. Joseph Beirne
Dr. Beirne is currently ACOEP president, 2021-2022. He has served the college as president-elect 2019-2021, secretary 2017-2019 and general board member 2014-2017. He was EMS committee chair 2009-2014. He is a clinical instructor in EM as part of the faculty of the Washington University School of Medicine, department of Emergency Medicine. He is EMS medical director at Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis, MO, and medical director for Respond Right EMS Academy in St. Peters, MO. Prior to medical school, he was a paramedic and then shift supervisor for a hospital-based EMS service in suburban St. Louis, MO. He is an avid St. Louis Blues and St. Louis Cardinals fan. He plays hockey and holds a 5th degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Kaitlin Bowers
Matthew Brice
David Carr
Dr Carr is an associate professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is an emergency physician and clinical investigator at the University Health Network and Mackenzie Health Hospital. He is also the continuing professional development lead in the Tri-Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto. He has been the recipients of multiple undergraduate and post graduate clinical teaching awards. During the baseball season, he works at the Roger’s Centre as the medical director of Stadium Medicine for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2010, he pursued his passions serving as an ER physician in the Athletes Village for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Since 2010, he has co- authored the chapter on Occlusive Arterial Disease in the 7-9th editions of “Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine.”
Yasmany Cartaya
Dr. Yasmany Cartaya’s interest in emergency medicine was initially peaked while serving in the United States Marine Corps when he attended the Combat Life Savers Course. After his honorable discharge, he set his new sites on medicine. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and he is now an Ultrasound Fellow at the AdventHealth East Orlando Ultrasound Fellowship.
John Casey
A fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians, John Casey, DO, is an AOA board-certified emergency physician. He serves as residency program director for the emergency medicine residency at OhioHealth Doctors Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Casey also serves as EMS medical director for multiple EMS agencies. Honored for his achievements as a resident, Dr. Casey was named Outstanding Resident of the Year by the American Osteopathic Foundation and Outstanding Emergency Medicine Resident by Doctors Hospital, both in 2012. In 2014, Dr. Casey was named USACS Clinician of the Year. He received the USACS Maimonides Award for teaching excellence in 2017. Outside of his service to the ACOEP, Dr. Casey serves on the Public Health Policy and Federal Government Affairs Committees for the American College of Emergency Physicians. He was honored by President Obama as a “Champion of Change” for his work with the Affordable Care Act. Dr. Casey received his degree in osteopathic medicine from Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he was named Student Doctor of the Year in 2008. He completed his internship and residency training at Doctors Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
Christopher Colbert
Christopher Colbert is the assistant program director of the emergency medicine residency at the University of Illinois with specific interest in both academic and social emergency medicine. Dr. Colbert is the chair of continuing medical education for the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians (ACOEP), president-elect of the EM national medical association (NMA), the co-chair of Illinois College of Emergency Physicians (ICEP) spring symposiums and a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Reserve. Dr. Colbert has provided and moderated lectures nationally and internationally receiving awards for both speaker engagement and contribution to medical education. Dr. Colbert is a frequent medical contributor to WBBM news radio, the Chicago Tribune, Forbes magazine and local Chicago news stations. Dr. Colbert was awarded Crain’s Chicago notable healthcare heroes of 2020 and 2021, and Chicago medicine “Who’s Who” of 2021. Dr. Colbert received his undergraduate degree from Hampton University, medical degree from Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his emergency medicine residency in Chicago.
Geoffrey Comp
Dr. Comp completed medical school at KCU-COM in Kansas City and emergency medicine residency at Doctors Hospital in Columbus, OH, before returning back home to Arizona. He is currently an associate program director for the Creighton University School of Medicine Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the Valleywise Health Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona (Formerly Maricopa Medical Center). Dr. Comp participates as a leader, mentor and advocate for wilderness medicine and EM medical education at various levels of education and training. His professional and research focus includes wilderness medicine, physician wellness, mentorship, as well as innovation in medical education. He is constantly seeking out opportunities to combine his interests through collaboration and personal outdoor exploration.
Molly Estes
Molly Estes completed her residency at the Stanford/Kaiser EM Program and her fellowship in Medical Education also at Stanford. She currently works as an assistant professor and academic faculty at Loma Linda University and is the emergency medicine student clerkship director as well as the medical education fellowship director. She is the recipient of the AAEM Young Educator’s Award and the AAEM Women in Emergency Medicine Young Leader Award. She has a passion for teaching, and her current research involves curriculum design in education.
Rodney Fullmer
Rodney Fullmer DO, MBS, FACOEP, graduated from Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his emergency medicine residency through Franciscan/Midwestern University in Chicago, IL. He has since gone on to complete a fellowship in health policy studies through New York Institute of Technology School of Medicine and American Osteopathic Association (AOA). He is completing a Faculty Incubator ALiEM Fellowship. He currently practices in Chicago, IL, and holds the position of associate program director at Swedish Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program. Dr Fullmer has also spoken at multiple national, state and local conferences on a variety of educational and medical topics for AACOM, AOA, ACOEP and ICEP. He also currently serves as an active member of the CME committee for the ACOEP.
Alin Gragossian
Alin Gragossian is currently a PGY5 clinical fellow in critical care medicine at The Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. She completed her residency training in emergency medicine in Philadelphia, PA. While in training, she had to receive an urgent heart transplant after going through a sudden illness. Since then, she has been using her unique voice as a “patient-doctor” to advocate for the importance of organ donation. She has also created a now-popular blog documenting her life as a patient in medical training.
Karen Greenberg
Dr. Greenberg is board-certified in both emergency medicine and neurocritical care and is highly specialized in the treatment of neurologic emergencies. She is director of the Neurologic Emergency Department at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, the only dedicated neurologic emergency department in the country. The Neuro ED has received Gold Plus Target: Stroke Elite Plus/Target Advanced Therapy Award which is the highest level of recognition by the American Heart Association. Dr. Greenberg’s work was critical to the establishment of the nation’s first dedicated neurologic emergency department. The American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians (ACOEP) recognized her innovations to speed critical treatment to patients experiencing acute ischemic stroke and awarded her its inaugural Practice Innovation Award. In 2021, she received the Willoughby Award from the ACOEP that honors the top female leader in emergency medicine. She has advanced the state of neurologic emergency treatment and has published research in Neurosurgery, The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, AEM Education and Training, Radiology Case Reports and International Journal of Medical Reviews and Case Reports. Dr. Greenberg is passionate about all types of neurologic emergencies, especially stroke, and lectures at emergency medicine and neuroscience conferences both locally and nationally. Dr. Greenberg is a fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. Most recently she was granted fellowship with the American Heart Association. She also serves as an oral board examiner with the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine. She graduated from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – School of Osteopathic Medicine (UMDNJ-SOM), receiving the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Emergency Medicine. She was chief intern and Intern of the Year at UMDNJ-SOM and completed her emergency medicine residency program there, serving as chief resident. She also won The Foxhole Award, which honors the resident whom other attending physicians most want to collaborate with while working in the emergency department. Dr. Greenberg is an assistant professor of neurosurgery and emergency medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine, clinical assistant professor (adjunct) of Neurology in the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine for the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine. She is a member of the American Osteopathic Association, the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians, the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the American Heart Association. Dr. Greenberg is an avid Tar Heel fan having played division I lacrosse for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a two-time Final Four athlete while there. She volunteers for a local high school girls lacrosse team in Medford NJ, leading them to a state championship in 2016 and multiple other South Jersey championships.
Tanner Gronowski
Tanner Gronowski, DO, graduated from Saint Martin’s University (Lacey, Washington) with a bachelors of science in biology while playing collegiate baseball. He then attended medical school at Pacific Northwest University graduating in 2013. He completed his emergency medicine residency at Doctors Hospital (Columbus, OH) where he was a chief resident in his final year. Upon graduation he started working as a traveling physician for US Acute Care Solutions. Through his medical career Tanner has been involved in various aspects of education, wellness and leadership. He is an avid wilderness medicine participant, enjoys FOAMed and has produced various forms of medical media including designing and creating a medical publication The Fast Track and is a co-host for the podcast EM Over Easy. He also has worked with Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM), helping with their Wellness Think Tank and serving as the COO of the Chief Resident Incubator. Passion projects include leadership, sleep hygiene, wilderness medicine and emotional intelligence. He is a graduate of the USACS Scholars Program, designed to enhance and develop leadership in the emergency medicine realm. In his free time, he loves spending time with his two kids, wife, dog and friends, collecting baseball cards, woodworking and getting outdoors to fly fish and hike as much as possible.
Shayne Gue
Dr. Gue was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia, where he received his medical degree from the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University in 2015. He completed his emergency medicine residency at AdventHealth East Orlando where he led as chief resident, was named Resident of the Year (in 2018), and served as president of the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association of Florida.
Dr. Gue currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Florida College of Emergency Physicians where he serves as co-chair of the Membership and Professional Development Committee. He chairs the planning committee of Symposium by the Sea, FCEP’s annual meeting and conference, as well as participating in Emergency Medicine Days, the premier advocacy event for Emergency Medicine in Florida. He is also actively involved in national committees within ACEP and SAEM. He is currently pursuing a master’s in medical education from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine and further educational training through the American College of Emergency Physicians Teaching Fellowship. He is the recipient of the AdventHealth GME Faculty of the Year Award for 2020 and the ACEP Microteaching Award for 2021. His educational interests are focused on developing novel approaches to graduate medical education in the form of interactive curriculum design and gamification. Additionally, he enjoys educating our future leaders on the non-clinical aspects of medicine such as wellness/resiliency, advocacy, administration and organized medicine as a whole.
Ricardo Hernandez
Ricardo Hernandez was born in Isabela, Puerto Rico where he spent most of his life. He is a proud alumni of the University of Puerto Rico where he completed his dregree in biology. He later received a medical degree from Ponce Health Science University in Puerto Rico. Moving mainland, he is currently doing an emergency medicine residency at AdventHealth Orlando.
Christopher Hicks
Christopher Hicks is an emergency physician and trauma team leader at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, and assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is a clinician educator and education research scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, and appointee to the International Centre for Surgical Safety, with a program of research that focuses on simulation-based psychological skills training, human factors and clinical logistics. To that end, he has studied all sorts of peculiar stuff, from mental practice to stress inoculation training, in an effort to help make teams safer and more effective. In 2018, Chris co-created and chaired resusTO, a unique resuscitation-focused simulation conference in Toronto. Chris’ clinical interests include trauma resuscitation, emergency cardiology, and getting things done in the resus room. Chris is an avid speaker and lecturer, staunch FOAMed supporter, occasional runner, semi-retired pianist, and proud father of three lunatic boys.
Dallas Holladay
Dallas Holladay attended medical school at AT Still School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona. After completion of medical school, she completed an emergency medicine residency at Midwestern University in Chicago, followed by an ultrasound fellowship at Rush University Medical Center. She was the assistant ultrasound director at Rush until 2020 when she decided to return home to the Pacific Northwest. She is now the medical director at Providence Seaside Hospital, a critical access hospital on the Oregon coast. She enjoys hiking, biking and enjoying sunny days on the beach.
Yaron Ivan
Dr. Yaron Ivan is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at AdventHealth for Children in Orlando Florida. He currently serves as a faculty member for the emergency medicine residency as well as the pediatric residency in his hospital. He received his medical degree from Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa Israel in 2010. Dr. Ivan completed his pediatric residency at Baystate Children’s Hospital in Springfield, MA followed by a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Ivan has special interests in medical education. Since completing his fellowship, Dr. Ivan has received three teaching awards from the pediatric and emergency medicine residencies. In addition, Dr. Ivan is the host and founder of PEM Rules, a dedicated pediatric emergency medicine podcast.
Kristina Jacomino
Kristina Jacomino, MD, was born and raised in a loud, Cuban family in Miami, Florida. She completed a bachelor’s degree at the University of Miami (Go Canes!) before going to Vanderbilt University for medical school (Go Dores!). After completing residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, FL, she was granted the opportunity to complete an ultrasound fellowship at George Washington University in Washington DC. Recently, she joined the AdventHealth East family as assistant ultrasound director in Orlando, FL.
Rupal Jain
Dr. Rupal Jain is adjunct assistant professor at University of Maryland School of Medicine where she also trained for residency, served as chief resident and completed a faculty development fellowship. She also is a graduate of the ACEP Teaching Fellowship, where she furthered her interest in medical education. She is the creator of the The Rad Review channel on Critical Care Now, where she posts educational videos on various radiology topics for the emergency medicine clinician. Currently she works in Prince George’s County, Maryland and lives in Washington, D.C. where you can find her roller-skating or paddle boarding along the Potomac River on a perfect day off.
Drew Jones
Drew Jones is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Michigan Medicine / Saint Joseph’s EM residency in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Following residency, he completed a bedside ultrasound fellowship at Stanford Medicine. Currently, he is the ultrasound director and fellowship director at AdventHealth East Orlando. His areas of interests advanced echocardiogram and health policy.
Drew Kalnow
Drew Kalnow, DO, is an assistant program director and director of simulation for the emergency medicine residency program at OhioHealth Doctors Hospital in Columbus, OH. In addition, he serves as an EMS medical director for several Central Ohio Fire/EMS agencies and is faculty for the OhioHealth EMS fellowship. He is a co-host of EM Over Easy, an emergency medicine podcast focused on “More than Medicine”, a regular contributor to other podcasts and medical publications and is on the editorial board for Emergency Physicians Monthly. Drew attended Kenyon College for his undergraduate degree, received his medical degree from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his emergency medicine residency training at Doctors Hospital-OhioHealth. In addition to simulation and resident education, Dr. Kalnow is passionate about the FOAMed movement and the intersection of FOEMed with SoMe, learning theory, rapid delivery of water and warm blankets to patients, promoting the emergency medicine community and spreading the gospel of video laryngoscopy.
Brandan Kennedy
Dr. Kennedy is a an associate professor in pediatrics from University of Missouri School of Medicine, Kansas City. He is board certified in pediatrics through the American Board of Pediatrics and board certified in clinical informatics through the American Board of Preventative Medicine. He received his medical degree from the Kansas University School of Medicine in 1993 and obtained his pediatric training at Children’s Mercy Hospital from 1993-1996. After seven years in private practice, he returned to Children’s Mercy Kansas City and is currently a pediatric hospitalist involved in academic medicine and clinical teaching. In 2009 he joined the physician team in health informatics and technology at Children’s Mercy and is currently the associate chief medical information officer. He is a physician member of the Children’s Mercy Human Factors Collaborative and is active in research and projects related to usability and human computer interaction. He is also the medical director for the pedsguide development team, a mobile application created to provide clinical decision support and education to health care providers for specific pediatric health conditions.
Pavitra Kotini-Shah
Dr. Kotini-Shah is an emergency medicine physician and an expert in cardiac arrest research. She is one of the current Hub-PIs for ICECAP (Influence of Cooling Duration of Efficacy in Cardiac Arrest Patients), physician lead for her local hospital ROSC Committee (a multidisciplinary committee that does QI around resuscitations), and physician lead for a statewide initiative called Illinois Heart Rescue (ILHR). She is also a current NIH Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Scholar and is particularly interested in sex and gender differences in emergency cardiovascular diseases and exploring a sex-specific approach to resuscitation. Most recently, she is working on sex hormone and inflammation differences in cardiac arrest patients as well as in patients with COVID-19. Her work has resulted in presentations at the American Public Health Association, American Heart Association, American College of Emergency Physicians and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
Clayton Leal
Clayton Leal grew up in San Diego, CA. He went to medical school at Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in Pomona, CA. He is currently a PGYII at Advent Health Orlando Emergency Medicine Residency Program.
Andrew Little
Andy Little, DO, is a graduate of Shawnee State University and is a 2012 graduate of Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. A 2016 graduate from the Doctors Hospital EM Residency in Columbus, Ohio where he served as a chief resident. He currently serves as the associate program director at the AdventHealth Orlando EM Residency. He has research interests and experience in the areas of airway management, vascular access, podcasting and educational delivery models. Outside of his clinical and administrative roles, he is a co-founder and host for the EM Over Easy Podcast. He also serves as the EMRA cast fellowship director an editor for the Academic Life in EM blog, is a regular contributor to Hippo Educations’ various podcasts, and is the editor-in-chief for EP Monthly.
Jason Mansour
Jason Mansour is an attending physician and Associate Program Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Broward Health Medical Center. He has developed a niche in medical education, being recognized for excellence in teaching as well. He has been creating EM FOAMed content on Vimeo and the website www.BrowardER.com.
Tim Meehan
Cameron Meyer
Tyler Mills
Tyler was born in Flowood, MS but spent his formative years in Orlando. He is a proud alumni of the University of Florida. He received his medical degree from the Michigan State University. After enjoying his time in Michigan, he returned to central Florida for residency and married his high school sweetheart. He is an emergency medicine resident at Adventhealth Orlando.
Camilo Mohar
Camilo Mohar, DO, obtained a bachelor’s degree in biology at Florida International University. He went on to acquire his doctorate’s degree at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. After completing emergency medicine training at University Hospitals in Ohio, he is now an emergency department attending at AdventHealth East Orlando. Dr. Mohar enjoys teaching and has extensive experience working with different providers both at bedside and in conferences. His special interests within emergency medicine include critical care, simulation, ultrasound and observation medicine.
Timothy Montrief
Rachel Munn
Dr. Munn is an assistant professor of emergency medicine and EMS physician at the University of Arizona Tucson. After completing residency in emergency medicine at the OhioHealth Doctors Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency, she moved across the country and completed a fellowship in emergency medical services at the University of New Mexico before starting her career in Tucson and calling Arizona home. Dr. Munn has interests in EMS, resident education and wilderness medicine.
Andrew Phillips
Dr. Phillips is a former junior high teacher turned emergency physician and intensivist. He graduated medical school from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and went on to do both an emergency medicine residency at the Stanford University/Kaiser EM program and an anesthesia critical care fellowship at Stanford University. His research focuses on health professions education, which culminated in his first book, “Survey Methods in Medical and Health Professions Education.” In addition to his own research, he is an associate editor for the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine and a regular guest section editor for the annual CDEM/CORD Education special issue. He the editor-in-chief and founder of EM Coach (www.emcoach.org), the first and only artificial intelligence-driven emergency medicine written board review program. Additionally, he served as the chair of the AAEM Critical Care Section 2020-2021. But his most auspicious and treasured title is “dad.”
Tiffany Proffitt
Dr. Proffitt is a staff emergency medicine physician at Honor Health in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is also a MedEd enthusiast, the co-founder of the HonorHealth Women Physician Leadership Council and a podcaster with CanadiEM. A twin mom, Dr. Proffitt is also a master of toddler-style dancing.
Marco Propersi
Dr. Propersi is a clinical assistant professor in emergency medicine at Saint Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey. He is passionate about medical education and FOAMed. He enjoys using the power of story to entertain, engag, and educate when lecturing. Under renowned speakers in emergency medicine, Dr. Joe Lex and Dr. Anand Swaminathan, Dr. Propersi cultivated his speaking skills. Dr. Propersi has spoken both regionally and nationally on various topics in emergency medicine. He is an associate editor for REBEL EM and contributes regularly. His blog posts and podcasts have also appeared on EM Over Easy and the ICE Blog. In addition, he received an institutional teaching award across three different academic years. Last year he completed the ALiEM Faculty incubator program, furthering his pursuit towards mastery in medical education. When not practicing medicine, Dr. Propersi enjoys spending time with his wife and triplet daughters, reading, snowboarding, fitness and Yankee baseball.
Miguel Reyes
Jon J Risovas
Melissa Sayegh
Victoria Selley
Dr. Selley is a practicing emergency physician for USACS at Adventhealth of Sebring, Lake Placid and Wauchula in the South Florida area. She is currently serving as medical director of those three sites and is the vice chief of staff for the Adventhealth Sebring and Lake Placid campuses. Dr. Selley moved back to Florida after being the medical director at USACS of Carteret in Morehead City, NC. She has served the hospital as the chief of safety and quality in 2015, vice chief of staff in 2016, chief of staff and board member in 2017 and past chief of staff on the Medical Executive Board. he was also chosen as the Carteret Healthcare 2016 Physician of the Year. She helped lead several other committees while there including the troke team and the Patient Experience Action Team. Dr. Selley is a 2013 graduate of the USACS Scholars Program. She earned a master’s degree from Barry University in North Miami Beach, FL. She earned her medical degree at NOVA Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and completed her emergency medicine residency at Lehigh Valley Health Network.
Meenal Sharkey
Dr. Sharkey was born in England and moved to Columbus, Ohio in 1994. She attended Dublin Scioto High School and then went to the Ohio State University for undergraduate, medical school and residency. Dr. Sharkey started at Doctors Hospital in 2014 and has served as faculty since then. She assumed the role of clerkship director in 2018 and now has been the assistant program director since 2020. Her husband just finished his EMS fellowship and also works as an emergency medicine attending. They have three kids and so life can be a bit chaotic – but they wouldn’t have it any other way!
Jacob Smith
Dr. Smith completed my medical school training at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg, WV in 2015 and completed his EM residency at OhioHealth Doctors Hospital in Columbus, OH in 2019. Following this, he pursued a two-year fellowship in surgical critical care at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, VA, where he now practices in both tertiary and community emergency medicine, as well as in the surgical ICU managing various surgical, trauma and neurosurgical critical care patients. He loves living in the Blue Ridge Mountains with his wife, Andrea, and two daughters with endless outdoor adventures just minutes from our front door.
Megan Stobart-Gallagher
Megan Stobart-Gallagher, DO, is an emergency physician practicing in the Philadelphia area. She currently serves as the residency program director at Einstein Medical Center Montgomery. She has special interests in medical education, specifically developing innovative curricula, gamification and teaching others to teach. She graduated from Virginia Tech and then pursued her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine – Virginia campus before completing her residency at Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia. When not herding residents, she is wrangling her three little monsters at home while enjoying outdoor adventures, dance parties in the kitchen and Philadelphia sports.
William Sullivan
William Sullivan is an attending emergency physician at St. Margaret’s Hospital in Spring Valley, IL and is a clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at Midwestern University. He has a private legal practice where he represents physicians in matters such as contract negotiations, medical board issues, medical malpractice complaints, and other issues related to the practice of medicine. He regularly publishes articles on medicolegal topics on his blog at sullivanlegal.us and in Emergency Physician’s Monthly magazine where he is a senior editor. He frequently lectures on medicolegal topics in forums from residency programs to state and national organizations.
Trevonne Thompson
Morgan Torris-Hedlund
Morgan Torris is a nurse educator with experience teaching undergraduate and graduate students. His clinical background includes emergency, critical care, wilderness medicine and disaster response. He has been actively involved in disaster response for more than ten years as a member of Hawaii’s Disaster Medical Assistance Team and has served as a disaster subject matter expert with the United States Army. Torris is a fellow of the American Academy of Wilderness Medicine and is certified in emergency nursing, public health and as a healthcare disaster professional. His research focuses on community-based disaster risk perception and caring for patients in austere settings. He is currently assigned to the 351st Civil Affairs unit in Mountain View, California.
Seth Trueger
Seth Trueger is an emergency physician at Northwestern in Chicago and digital media editor at JAMA Network Open. After attending medical school at Loyola University Chicago, he completed residency at Mount Sinai in New York City followed by the health policy fellowship in the Department of Emergency Medicine at George Washington. He then joined the faculty at the University of Chicago before moving to Northwestern. He was previously social media editor at Annals of Emergency Medicine and has published on a number of topics including emergency airway management, The focus of his research is on social media use for medical education and dissemination of medical journal content. During the COVID pandemic, he led the development and implementation of his emergency department’s airway protocols and procedures. He can be found on Twitter as @MDaware and he lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter.
Shannon Weinstein
Shannon Weinstein, DO, is a board-certified emergency medicine physician at Broward Health North and assistant professor of emergency medicine at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is core faculty and chair of the Clinical Competency Committee of Broward Health North’s emergency medicine residency. Dr Weinstein is passionate about empowering medical students, residents and attendings to reach their fullest potential inside of medicine and in their personal lives as well.