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Academic Announcements
Dr. Ronny Otero Named Vice Chair for Clinical Operations
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.
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.
Dr. Greg Jay Awarded an Endowed Professorship
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Charles Wira Charles Wira, MD, assistant professor of emergency medicine, Yale Department of Emergency Medicine, was recently elected to be chair of the Emergency Neurovascular Care Committee of the AHA/ASA Stroke Council. He also serves as a member of the Stroke Council Leadership Committee and is on the program committee for the International Stroke Conference.
Dr. Baruch S. Fertel Baruch S. Fertel, MD, MPA, has been promoted to the rank of associate professor of emergency medicine at Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Fertel is director of operations for the Emergency Services Institute at Cleveland Clinic as well as associate chief quality officer–regulatory affairs for the Cleveland Clinic Health System.
Dr. Sanjey Gupta Promoted to Professor of EM
Sanjey Gupta, MD has been promoted to professor of emergency medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Dr. Gupta is the chair of emergency medicine at South Shore University Hospital, a member hospital of Northwell Health. He is a wilderness
Dr. Sanjey Gupta medicine educator and a fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine.
Dr. Sophia Sheikh Sophia Sheikh, MD, has been promoted to associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine–Jacksonville. Fellowship trained in clinical toxicology, Dr. Sheikh’s research interest is in improving patient safety and education for pain management in acute care settings.
Dr. Alvarez Named Director of Wellbeing and Director of EM Wellness Fellowship
Al’ai Alvarez, MD, clinical assistant professor for Stanford School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine has been named director of wellbeing and director of the emergency medicine wellness fellowship. Previously, Dr. Alvarez served as an associate residency program director. Dr. Alvarez
Dr. Al’ai Alvarez serves as the cochair of Stanford’s WellMD's Physician Wellness Forum, cochair of the Council of EM Residency Directors Wellness Leadership MiniFellowship, and cochairs the largest national diversity mentoring program through a joint ACEP-EMRA initiative. Dr. Alvarez received the 2020 SAEM Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine (ADIEM) Outstanding Academician Award.
Dr. Mark Conroy Mark Conroy, MD, has been promoted to associate professor-clinical at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center where he is also an assistant professor of emergency medicine and sports medicine
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