ACADEMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS Dr. Ronny Otero Named Vice Chair for Clinical Operations
Dr. Greg Jay Awarded an Endowed Professorship
Ronny M. Otero, MD, MSHA, has been appointed vice chair for clinical operations, Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Otero will will assume this newly created senior leadership role on November 1, 2021; he will provide oversight, direction, and leadership for Dr. Ronny M. Otero the operations of all clinical practices of the MCW Department of Emergency Medicine. In addition, he will lead and mentor site medical directors across eight clinical practice locations in the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network. Dr. Otero is the former director of emergency medicine at Henry Ford Medical Center – Sterling Heights, MI.
Gregory Jay, MD, PhD, has been appointed to hold the John and Mary Panton and Emergency Medicine Professorship in Translational Sciences at Brown University. Dr. Jay is a professor of orthopaedics, professor of emergency medicine, and professor of engineering at Brown University in the Dr. Gregory Jay department of emergency medicine and division of engineering. Through his work leading the Musculoskeletal Trauma Lab, his many publications and patents, and his role as a scientific cofounder of the startup company Lμbris, LLC, Greg seeks to improve the care of emergency medicine patients and works to develop treatments for unmet medical needs. He has played a leading role in developing research at UEMF/Brown EM, Lifespan, and for SAEM in New England.
Dr. Deborah Levine Promoted to Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine Deborah Levine, MD, has been promoted to the rank of associate professor of clinical emergency medicine at NewYorkPresbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Levine joined NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine in February 2020 as a research faculty in the division of pediatric Dr. Deborah Levine emergency medicine, departments of emergency medicine and pediatrics. She recently received funding through the President’s Council of Cornell Women Affinito-Stewart Grant and is currently leading a multicenter research consortium based in the New York metropolitan area to develop a predictive model for COVID-19related multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). Dr. Levine is a cofounder of the New York Society of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and a research scholar with the Academic Pediatric Association.
Dr. Kaushal Shah Appointed Assistant Dean of Academic Advising Kaushal Shah, MD, is the new assistant dean of academic advising at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Shah is responsible for the development and ongoing management of academic advisors for all medical students and for restructuring the current career and academic advising model, in collaboration Dr. Kaushal Shah with clinical departments and with other education deans. Dr. Shah joined the emergency department at Weill Cornell Medicine in 2018 as the vice chair of education, a role he will continue to hold. He also holds the rank of assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine.
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Drs. Gerardo and Vissoci Receive NIH Funding to Study Snakebite Charles Gerardo, MD, chief, division of emergency medicine and professor of surgery at Duke School of Medicine, along with his colleague Joao Vissoci, PhD, received an NIH Fogarty International Center R21 grant to study snakebite in the Brazilian Amazon. Snakebite is a neglected tropical disease Dr. Charles Gerardo that affects 2.7 million people, mostly in low resource areas, with up to138,000 deaths, and 400,000 permanent disabilities annually. This proposal will develop and evaluate an innovative multi-modal intervention to improve care, including decentralized antivenom distribution among the existing community health care network in the Brazilian Amazon.
Dr. Angela Lumba-Brown Appointed Associate Vice Chair Angela Lumba-Brown, MD, has been appointed associate vice chair of Stanford Emergency Medicine. Dr. Lumba-Brown is also an associate professor of emergency medicine and, by courtesy, of pediatrics and neurosurgery at Stanford. She sits on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Centers Dr. Angela Lumba-Brown for Disease Control’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and is an appointee to the Pac-12 Brain Trauma Task Force, guiding research and policy in athletes with head injury. Dr. Lumba-Brown is the codirector of the Stanford Brain Performance Center.
