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Dr. Wu is an Emergency and Critical Care Medicine who grew up in the Boston area but has spent most of his adult life wandering up and down the I-90 corridor. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Albany Medical Center in 2017, serving as chief resident.

Elias Wan, MD FAAEM is a board-certified Emergency Medicine and Critical Care physician. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Icahn School of Medicine – Beth Israel in Manhattan and Internal Medicine Critical Care Fellowship at Albert Einstein School of Medicine – Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York where he also served as the Chief Academic Fellow in his senior year.

Dr. Shiber completed his undergraduate degree and further graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University, and then medical school at U. of Maryland. He was the first graduate of the combined EM-IM Residency at U. Maryland Medical System (UMMS) where he was Chief Resident.

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.

Dr. Tsuyoshi Mitarai was born and grew up in Japan until he was 17. He graduated from University of Rochester School of Medicine in 2002 and completed his combined internal medicine/emergency medicine residency at University of Maryland in 2007.

Skyler Lentz, MD, FAAEM is a board-certified emergency and critical care physician. He regular speaks locally, regionally and nationally on mechanical ventilation and other critical care topics.

Trying to understand the lifelong lesson that is the art of medicine is an ongoing and daily practice. As an emergency physician with a hankering for trauma critical care and emergency ultrasound with a sprinkling of global health and simulation curricula, Ashika continues to take the opportunity to combine passions.

Dr. Bailey is an Emergency Medicine Intensivist, Dr. Bailey completed her Emergency Medicine Residency and a Faculty Fellowship in Critical Care at the Medical College of PA in Philadelphia. Her career is rooted in education, trainee development and mentorship.

Max Hockstein works as both an emergency physician and cardiovascular surgical intensivist in Washington, DC. Interests include echocardiography, mechanical circulatory support, and clinical/translational research.

Dr. Gordon is an Emergency Medicine / Critical Care physician with an additional year of advanced resuscitation training. He has spoken at multiple resident lectures as contributed to the Maryland Critical Care Project, The Crashing Patient Conference, and the Critical Care Symposium.

Dr. Harman S Gill is a dual trained EM-CCM physician at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.  He also serves as the APD for the IM-CCM fellowship program and the residency research director for the DHMC EM residency. 

Dr. Bailey is an Emergency Medicine Intensivist, Dr. Bailey completed her Emergency Medicine Residency and a Faculty Fellowship in Critical Care at the Medical College of PA in Philadelphia. Her career is rooted in education, trainee development and mentorship.

Dr. Keith Leap is the editor of Common Sense. Dr. Leap once saw an article about someone working as a ‘physician advocate.’ He commented to an emergency physician friend that he would like to have such a job. The friend responded, ‘I think that based on your writing, you’ve already been doing it.’  Dr. Leap has been an advocate for […]

Dr. Mehruba Anwar Parris is the Assistant Editor of Common Sense. She is currently the Associate Medical Director of the Emergency Department at Jackson South Medical Center in Miami, Florida. She completed medical school at Stony Brook University and her emergency medicine residency in 2014 at the New York Presbyterian-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. She has also […]

Dr. Stephen Hayden graduated from the accelerated six-year biomedical program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Albany Medical College and was elected to the alpha omega alpha honor medical society. He did a General Surgery internship at the San Diego Naval Hospital, which was followed by a tour of duty as senior flight surgeon for the […]

Leah Colucci is a current PGY1 at Yale New Haven Hospital. She has been a part of AAEM/RSA since her first AAEM Scientific Assembly when she was an MS1 at the University of Miami. She served as the Vice Chair of the AAEM/RSA Medical Student Council, then the Membership and Awards Chair prior to running […]

Fred Earl Kency Jr, MD, FAAEM is a board-certified emergency physician and a native of Jackson, Mississippi who is passionate about men’s health. He received his Bachelors of Science in Biology from Alcorn State University and his Doctorate of Medicine from the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile, Alabama. Dr. Kency proudly […]

Dr. Kraftin E. Schreyer is an attending physician and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. She received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University, and her medical degree from the Drexel University College of Medicine. She holds a Certification in Medical Quality and a Masters in Business […]

Dr. Vicki Norton is a community Emergency Physician in Florida and is a partner in one of the few independent, democratic groups in the state. She has served as clinical affiliate faculty for Florida Atlantic University since 2021 and enjoys teaching and mentoring medical students and scribes working in the Emergency Department. Dr. Norton graduated […]

Dr. Bruce Lo, MD MBA FAAEM, is currently a partner with the Emergency Physicians of Tidewater (EPT), a democratic group servicing southeast Virginia. He attended the University of Virginia school of medicine and did his residency at the University of Pittsburgh. He then completed his Master of Business Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst […]

Robert Lam, MD FAAEM is a partner with Emergency Physician Specialists a democratic independent group in Colorado Springs. Dr. Lam also serves as the Director of Physician Wellness for UCHealth in the Southern Region. He launched an organizational wellness program for physicians that includes an individual resilience curriculum, peer support program, social connectedness and collegiality […]

I graduated from the University of Ilorin with a law degree, studied Philosophy at Clark University, and attended Columbia University for medical school, with the original intent of becoming a bioethics professor. Along the way, I started and led several companies to include a healthcare, legal, and management consulting firm based in NYC. I obtained […]

Phillip Dixon is currently an Assistant Professor for the Department of Emergency Medicine at The Ohio State University and was elected YPS Director of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine in March of 2019. Dr. Dixon completed his undergraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University while playing 4 years of football. He then went to St. […]

Kimberly M. Brown, MD, MPH, FAAEM is emergency physician serving the greater Memphis area. She graduated from Fisk University, then matriculated to the University of Florida, where she received her Master of Public Health degree in Management and Policy, Dr. Brown attended Ross University School of Medicine and completed residency at the University of Tennessee […]

Dr. Bontempo is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She received her medical degree from Northwestern University in 1994 and subsequently completed an emergency medicine residency at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. She spent 5 years at Harvard University as the Associate Emergency Medicine Program Director and then was […]