ACADEMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS Dr. N. Nounou Taleghani Promoted to Clinical Professor With Stanford EM N. Nounou Taleghani, MD, PhD, has been promoted to clinical professor with Stanford University department of emergency medicine. As director for medical student education for the department, Dr. Taleghani oversees all the department’s medical school courses and served as the inaugural director Dr. N. Nounou Taleghani of the required EMED clerkship. Dr. Taleghani is the assistant dean for academic advising and the director of the Center for Specialty Career Advising for Stanford School of Medicine.
Dr. Raina Merchant is Promoted to Full Professor at UPenn School of Medicine Raina M. Merchant, MD, MSHP, has been appointed to the position of full professor (tenured) at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, effective July 1, 2021. She is the first African American physician in her department’s history to be promoted to full professor on the tenure Dr. Raina M. Merchant track. Dr. Merchant also serves as the Penn Medicine associate vice president of digital health and is the inaugural director of the Penn Medicine Center for Digital Health.
Dr. Anne Messman Appointed Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education at Wayne State Anne Messman, MD, associate professor and vice chair of education for the Wayne State University (WSU) School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine, has been appointed associate dean of graduate medical education. Dr. Messman will also serve as the School of Medicine’s designated Dr. Anne Messman institutional officer, overseeing the Office of Graduate Medical Education and all WSU residency programs. Dr. Messman, who chairs the WSU Women in Medicine and Science group, joined the faculty in 2013. She is the medical education fellowship director for the department of emergency medicine,
Dr. Ali Raja Promoted to Full Professor of EM at Harvard Medical School
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Ali S. Raja, MD, MBA, MPH, has been promoted to professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Raja also serves as the executive vice chair for the department of emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is returning to the SAEM Board of Directors in May 2021.
Dr. Jonathan Slutzman Named Founding Director, Center for the Environment and Health and Medical Director for Environmental Sustainability J onathan E. Slutzman, MD, has been named the founding director of the Center for the Environment and Health and medical director for Environmental Sustainability at Massachusetts General Hospital. In this role, he will lead a team infusing environmental issues into the hospital’s missions of clinical care, education, Dr. Jonathan E. Slutzman research, and community health.
Dr. Manish Sharma Promoted to Associate Professor at Weill Cornell Manish Sharma, MD has been promoted to the rank of associate professor at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Sharma currently serves as chief of emergency medicine at NewYorkPresbyterian (NYP) Queens. Dr. Sharma completed his training in emergency medicine at NYP-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where Dr. Manish Sharma he served as chief resident. He subsequently joined the faculty of NYP-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital where he served in several leadership roles including clerkship director and associate quality director. Dr. Sharma joined NYP-Queens in 2008, initially serving as associate residency director and vice chairman prior to becoming chief in 2016.
Dr. Catherin Staton is First EM Faculty at Duke to Receive Tenure Catherine Staton, MD, MS, associate professor of surgery, associate research professor of global health, and associate professor in neurosurgery in the department of surgery, division of emergency medicine at Duke University, was awarded tenure. She is the first Duke emergency medicine Dr. Catherine Staton faculty to achieve this distinction. Dr. Staton has achieved numerous “firsts” for Duke Emergency Medicine, including the first to be awarded an NIH K award, and NIH R21 and NIH R01 award.
Dr. Andrea Wu Promoted to Vice Chair and Director of Clincal Operations at Harbor-UCLA
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Andrea Wu, MD, MMM, director of the adult emergency department, co-director of the ED administration fellowship, and health sciences assistant clinical professor, was promoted to vice chair and director of clinical operations in the department of emergency medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
