Emergency Medicine Faculty

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

Tsuyoshi Mitarai, MD
Associate Vice Chair

Residency Training: University of Maryland
Professional Interests: Internal Medicine/Critical Care Medicine

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

Moon Lee, MD, MPH
Quality Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Residency Training: University of California, Davis
Professional Interests: Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Ryan Ribeira, MD
Assistant Medical Director

Residency: Stanford

Cori Poffenberger, MD
Director of Faculty Development and Wellness

Residency Training: University of California, Los Angeles - Harbor
Professional Interests: Ultrasound

Rebecca Smith-Coggins, MD
Co-Director of Academic Affairs

Residency Training: Northwestern University
Professional Interests: Wellness, Physiological effects of shift work, Simulation

Ewen Wang, MD
Co-Director of Academic Affairs
Associate Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Residency Training: Stanford
Professional Interests: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Social Emergency Medicine

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

Paul Auerbach, MD

Residency Training: University of California, Los Angeles
Professional Interests: Wilderness Med., Biodesign, Medicine & the Environment, Dive Med.

Italo Brown, MD, MPH

Residency: Jacobi Montefiore Medical Centers

Professional Interests: Social Emergency Medicine, Health Equity

Holly Caretta-Weyer, MD

Residency: University of Wisconsin
Professional Interests: Education and Assessment

Youyou Duanmu, MD

Residency: Mount Sinai Beth Israel

Professional Interests: Point-of-Care Echocardiography, Clinical Decision Tools

Eddie Garcia, MD

Michelle Feltes, MD

Residency: George Washington University
Professional Interests: International Emergency Medicine

Wei David Hao, MD

Residency: Yale New Haven Medical Center 

Professional Interests: Global Emergency Medicine

Mia Karamatsu, MD

Residency Training: Children's Hospital of Orange County

Professional Interests: Pediatric Emergency Medicine

David Kim, MD

Residency Training: Stanford University
Professional Interests: Machine Learning, Population Health, Epidemiology, Network Science

Grant Lipman, MD

Residency Training: St. Luke's - Roosevelt
Professional Interests: Wilderness Medicine, Evidence-based Medicine

Jason Lowe, DO

Residency Training: University of California, San Francisco - Fresno
Professional Interests: Pediatric Emergency Medicine

James Marvel, MD

Jennifer Newberry, MD, JD

Residency Training: Stanford
Professional Interests: Social Emergency Medicine and Population Health

Brian Travis Rice, MD

Residency: LAC USC Emergency Medicine Residency 
Professional Interests: International emergency medicine

Cherrelle Smith, MD

Residency Training: University of North Carolina

Professional Interests: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, clinical operations and process improvement

Alfredo Urdaneta, MD

Residency Training: UCSF, Fresno
Professional Interests: Emergency Medicine, CCM, ECLS/ECMO, Trauma Resuscitation, Sepsis, and Medical Education

Samuel Yang, MD

Residency Training: Johns Hopkins University
Professional Interests: Infectious Diseases, Global Health, Medical Technology

Michael Bresler, MD

Natalie Htet, MD

Anne Merritt, MD

Shyam Sivasankar, MD

Vance Vanier, MD