Emergency Medicine Faculty
Leadership
Andra Blomkalns, MD, MBA
Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
Residency Training: University of Cincinnati Hospital and College of Medicine
Professional Interests: Technology and Innovation, Cardiovascular Emergencies, Point-of-Care Testing, Innate Immunity
Michael Gisondi, MD
Vice Chair of Education
Residency Training: Stanford/Kaiser
Professional Interests: Medical Education, Faculty Development, Education Research, Palliative Care
Sam Shen, MD, MBA
Vice Chair of Clinical Operations and Quality
Residency Training: Harvard/Beth Israel Deaconess
Professional Interests: Health Care Management, Emergency Department Operations
Matthew Strehlow, MD
Vice Chair of Strategy
Residency Training: Stanford/Kaiser
Professional Interests: International Medicine, Medical Education, Critical Care, Sepsis, Congestive Heart Failure
Prasanthi Govindarajan, MD
Associate Vice Chair
Residency Training: Boston Medical Center
Professional Interests: Neurological Emergencies, Pre-hospital Care, Stroke.
Tsuyoshi Mitarai, MD
Associate Vice Chair
Residency Training: University of Maryland
Professional Interests: Internal Medicine/Critical Care Medicine
Clinical Directors
Bernard Dannenberg, MD
Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Residency Training: University of California, Irvine - Pediatrics / Loma Linda University - Emergency Medicine
Professional Interests: Pediatric Pain Management, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Laleh Gharahbaghian, MD
Medical Director of Adult Emergency Medicine
Residency Training: University of California, Irvine
Professional Interests: Ultrasound, Medical Education
Daniel Imler, MD
Medical Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Fellowship Training: Boston Medical Center - Boston University
Residency Training: Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Professional Interests: Clinical Informatics, Clinical Decision Support Systems, Global Health, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Donald Schreiber, MD
Quality Director of Adult Emergency Medicine
Residency Training: University of Southern California
Professional Interests: Cardiovascular Emergencies
Moon Lee, MD, MPH
Quality Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Residency Training: University of California, Davis
Professional Interests: Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Alexei Wagner, MD, MBA
Assistant Director of Adult Emergency Medicine (Clinical)
Residency Training: University of Chicago
Professional Interests: Aeromedicine, Airway Management, Medical Education
Ian Brown, MD
Assistant Director of Adult Emergency Medicine (Informatics)
Residency Training: Johns Hopkins University
Professional Interests: Cardiovascular Emergencies, Cardiac Risk Stratification, Medical Informatics
Academic Directors
Phillip Harter, MD
Director of Continuing Medical Education
Residency Training: Christ Hospital and Medical Center
Professional Interests: Medical Education, Simulation and Virtual Reality, Residency Administration
Rebecca Smith-Coggins, MD
Co-Director of Academic Affairs
Residency Training: Northwestern University
Professional Interests: Wellness, Physiological effects of shift work, Simulation
Cori Poffenberger, MD
Director of Faculty Development and Wellness
Residency Training: University of California, Los Angeles - Harbor
Professional Interests: Ultrasound
James Quinn, MD
Director of Research
Residency Training: University of Ottawa
Professional Interests: Medical Informatics, Wound Management, Syncope, Decision Rules
Kimberly Schertzer, MD
Director of Emergency Medicine Simulation
Residency Training: Stanford/Kaiser
Professional Interests: Simulation
Nounou Taleghani, MD, PhD
Director of Undergraduate Medical Education
Residency Training: Stanford/Kaiser
Professional Interests: International Emergency Medicine, Medical Education, Emergency Medical Services
Ewen Wang, MD
Co-Director of Academic Affairs
Associate Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Residency Training: Stanford/Kaiser
Professional Interests: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Social Emergency Medicine and Population Health
Rebecca Walker, MD
Director of Postgraduate Fellowships
Residency Training: Loma Linda University
Professional Interests: International Emergency Medicine, Public Health, Administration
Sarah Williams, MD
Director of Graduate Medical Education
Residency Training: Stanford/Kaiser
Professional Interests: Ultrasound, Medical Education, Health Advocacy
Stanford Full-Time Faculty
Peter Acker, MD
Residency Training: University of Chicago
Professional Interests: International Emergency Medicine, Pre-hospital Emergency Care, Medical Education
Al'ai Alvarez, MD
Residency Training: Jacobi-Montefiore Emergency Medicine / Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Professional Interests: Quality and Clinical Operations, Physician Wellbeing, Diversity and Inclusion
Kenton Anderson, MD
Residency Training: Duke University Medical Center
Professional Interests: Cardiac Arrest, Emergency Ultrasound
Nicholas Ashenburg, MD
Residency: Maine Medical Center
Professional Interests: Emergency Medicine; Ultrasound
Paul Auerbach, MD
Residency Training: University of California, Los Angeles
Professional Interests: Wilderness Medicine, Biodesign, Medicine and the Environment, Dive Medicine
Joseph Becker, MD
Residency Training: Yale New Haven
Professional Interests: Emergency Medicine
Milana Boukhman, MD
Residency Training: Harvard/Beth Israel Deaconess
Professional Interests: Bioterrorism, Disaster Medicine, International Medicine, Innovations in Healthcare
Patrick Burns, MD
Residency Training: University of Washington
Professional Interests: Emergency Medicine
Holly Caretta-Weyer, MD
Residency: University of Wisconsin
Professional Interests: Education and Assessment
Eli Carrillo, MD
Residency Training: Highland Emergency Medicine
Professional Interests: Emergency Medical Services
Henry Curtis, MD
Residency Training: Mount Sinai
Professional Interests: Medical Humanities, Disaster Medicine, Virtual Reality Education
Peter D'Souza, MD
Residency Training: Stanford/Kaiser
Professional Interests: Emergency Medical Services
Youyou Duanmu, MD
Residency: Mount Sinai Beth Israel
Professional Interests: Point-of-Care Echocardiography, Clinical Decision Tools
Andrea Fang, MD
Residency Training: University of California, Los Angeles - Harbor
Professional Interests: Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Marc Gautreau, MD
Residency Training: University of Massachusetts
Professional Interests: Emergency Medical Services, Disaster Medicine
Zhara Marjan Ghazi-Askar, MD
Professional Interests: Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Michelle Feltes, MD
Residency: George Washington University
Professional Interests: International Emergency Medicine
Karen Frush, MD
Residency Training: Duke University
Professional Interests: Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Moises Gallegos, MD, MPH
Residency: Baylor College of Medicine
Professional Interests: Medical Education
Gregory Gilbert, MD
Residency Training: Emory University
Professional Interests: Emergency Medical Services, Stroke, Medical Education
Carrie Jurkiewicz, MD
Residency: University of Chicago Hospital
Professional Interests: Wilderness Medicine
Jennifer Kanapicki, MD
Residency Training: Stanford/Kaiser
Professional Interests: International Emergency Medicine, Medical Education
Ayesha Khan, MD
Residency Training: Detroit Medical Center
Professional Interests: Social Emergency Medicine, Mobile Health
Kajal Khanna, MD, JD
Residency Training: University of California, San Francisco
Professional Interests: Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Edward Klofas, MD
Residency Training: University of California, San Francisco
Professional Interests: Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Procedures, Medical Gismos
Justin Lemieux, MD
Residency Training: University of California, San Diego
Professional Interests: Emergency Medical Services, Toxicology
Benjamin Lindquist, MD
Residency Training: Stanford/Kaiser
Professional Interests: International Emergency Medicine
Grant Lipman, MD
Residency Training: St. Luke's - Roosevelt
Professional Interests: Wilderness Medicine, Evidence-based Medicine
Viveta Lobo, MD
Residency Training: Hahnemann University
Professional Interests: Ultrasound
Jason Lowe, DO
Residency Training: University of California, San Francisco - Fresno
Professional Interests: Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Angela Lumba-Brown, MD
Residency Training: New York Medical College
Professional Interests: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Trauma, and Brain Injury
S.V. Mahadevan, MD
Director of Global Affairs and Strategy
Residency Training: University of California, Los Angeles - Olive View
Professional Interests: Trauma, Medical Education, International Medicine
Anne Merritt, MD
Residency Training: Yale University
Professional Interests: Emergency Medicine
William Mulkerin, MD
Residency Training: Stanford/Kaiser
Professional Interests: Emergency Medical Services
Kelly Murphy, MD
Residency Training: Brown University
Professional Interests: International Medicine, Sports Medicine, Tropical Medicine, Rural Grassroots Medical Education, Webmaster
Jennifer Newberry, MD, JD
Residency Training: Stanford/Kaiser
Professional Interests: Social Emergency Medicine and Population Health
Jessica Ngo, MD
Residency Training: Stanford/Kaiser
Professional Interests: Disaster Response
Avinash Patil, MD
Residency Training: Loma Linda University
Professional Interests: Emergency Medicine
Nicholas Pokrajac, MD
(Starting soon)
Shashank Ravi, MD
(Starting soon)
Ryan Ribeira, MD
Brian Travis Rice, MD
Residency: LAC USC Emergency Medicine Residency
Professional Interests: International emergency medicine
Kelly Roszczynialski, MD
(Starting soon)
Stefanie Sebok-Syer, PhD
PhD: Queen's University
Professional Interests: Medical Education
Shyam Sivankar, MD
(Starting soon)
Cherrelle Smith, MD
(Starting soon)
Katherine Staats, MD
Residency Training: University of Texas, Austin
Professional Interests: Community Paramedicine, High-Performance CPR and Prehospital Resuscitation, EMS Education, Active Shooter and Assailant Preparedness
Alfredo Urdaneta, MD
Residency Training: UCSF, Fresno
Professional Interests: Emergency Medicine, CCM, ECLS/ECMO, Trauma Resuscitation, Sepsis, and Medical Education
Vince Vanier, MD
Jenny Wilson, MD
Residency Training: UCSF-SFGH
Professional Interests: Emergency Critical Care, Lung Injury, Sepsis, Critical Care Ultrasound
Samuel Yang, MD
Residency Training: Johns Hopkins University
Professional Interests: Infectious Diseases, Global Health, Medical Technology
Stanford Part-Time Faculty
Rodney Altman, MD
Residency Training: University of Illinois
Professional Interests: Emergency Medicine
Barbie Barrett, MD
Residency Training: University of Southern California
Professional Interests: Emergency Medicine
Michael Bresler, MD
Residency Training: Stanford/Kaiser
Professional Interests: Emergency Medicine
Ram Duriseti, MD
Residency Training: Stanford/Kaiser
Professional Interests: Computational Modeling of Medical Decisions, Statistical Computing, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Sachie Oshima, MD
Residency Training: Stanford/Kaiser
Professional Interests: Health Information Technology
Mitesh Rao, MD
Residency Training: Yale University
Professional Interests: Patient Safety, Quality Improvement, Innovation
Elizabeth Raphael, MD
Residency Training: Detroit Medical Center
Professional Interests: Emergency Medicine
George Sternbach, MD
Residency Training: University of Chicago
Professional Interests: Emergency Medicine
George Sternbach, MD
Residency Training: University of Chicago
Professional Interests: Emergency Medicine
Eric L. Weiss, MD
Residency Training: University of California, Los Angeles
Professional Interests: Infectious Diseases
Ken Zafren, MD
Residency Training: University of California, Los Angeles
Professional Interests: Emergency Medical Services, Wilderness Medicine