Our Sinai EM Team - Faculty

Duncan Grossman, DO

Assistant Program Director

Elaine Rabin, MD

Program Director

Geoff Jara-Almonte, MD

Assistant Program Director

Kestrel Reopelle, MD MEd

Assistant Program Director

Nick Jobeun, DO

Assistant Program Director

Sylvia Garcia, MD

Assistant Program Director

Tim Friedmann

Medical Education/Simulation Fellow and Junior APD

Andy Jagoda, MD, FACEP

Professor and Chair Emeritus of the Department of Emergency Medicine

Benjamin Abella, MD, MPhil

Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Health System

Brendan Carr, MD, MA, MS

Chief Executive Officer, and Professor and Kenneth L. Davis, MD, Distinguished Chair, Mount Sinai Health System

Bret Nelson, MD, RDMS, FACEP

Professor of Emergency Medicine, System Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine, System Chief of the Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Division

Deborah Dean, MD

Co-Chair of the Quality, Safety & Patient Experience Committee, and Medical Director of the Emergency Department of Mount Sinai Brooklyn Hospital

Devorah Nazarian, MD

Associate Director of Emergency Medicine at Elmhurst Hospital Center and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Jolion McGreevey MD, MBE, MPH

Associate Professor and Chief Medical Officer of Mount Sinai Beth Israel

Judah Sueker, MD

Medical Director of the Mount Sinai Hospital

Laura Iavicoli, MD, FACEP

Senior Assistant Vice President of Emergency Management at New York City Health and Hospitals

Nicholas Gavin, MD, MBA, MS

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair of Operations in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System

Roland Clayton Merchant, MD, MPH, ScD

Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine

Stuart Kessler, MD

Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of the Emergency Department at Elmhurst Hospital Center

Ugo Ezenkwele, MD, MPH

Medical Director of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai Queens, Vice Chair of DEI and Professor of Emergency MEdicine

Yvette Calderon, MD

Professor, Dean and Vice President for Equity in Clinical Care of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Health System

Alex Manini

Professor of Emergency Medicine | Director of the Toxicology Research Core in the Emergency Medicine Research Division

Andy Jagoda, MD, FACEP

Professor and Chair Emeritus of the Department of Emergency Medicine

Anthony Devivo

Benjamin Abella, MD, MPhil

Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Health System

Brendan Carr, MD, MA, MS

Chief Executive Officer, and Professor and Kenneth L. Davis, MD, Distinguished Chair, Mount Sinai Health System

Cara Brown, MD, RDMS, FACEP

Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Director

Chandni Pawar

Academic Interests: Medical Education, Diversity and Inclusion, Ultrasound, and Community Engagement

Colin Pesyna, MD

Academic Interests: Critical Care, Medical Education, End of Life, Med/Legal

Danish Ahmad, MD

Sinai EM-CCM Attending

Duncan Grossman, DO

Assistant Program Director

Elaine Rabin, MD

Program Director

Eleanor Aluise

Academic Interests: Women's health, toxicology

Evan Leibner

Academic Interests: Critical Care in the Emergency Dept, ECMO, Advanced Resuscitation, Transitions of Critical Ill patients from the ED to the ICU

Jason Shapiro, MD

Sinai Attending

Jeffrey Glassberg

Academic Interests: SICKLE CELL DISEASE, proving to hematologists that EM docs are capable of doing research to elucidate the biological basis of disease in addition to research about emergencies.

Jennifer Love

Academic Interests: toxicology, substance use disorder, women in medicine

Jonathan Schimmel

Director of the Emergency Medicine Clinical Trials Core

Jonathan Yeo, MD

Director of RETU, Sinai

Judah Sueker, MD

Medical Director of the Mount Sinai Hospital

Kestrel Reopelle, MD MEd

Assistant Program Director

Kevin Munjal MD, MPH

Academic Interests: EMS, Telehealth, Population Health, Acute Unscheduled Care Models

Mark Heller, MD

Sinai Attending

Monica Sethi, MD

Academic Interests: Critical Care, Administration

Nick Jobeun, DO

Assistant Program Director

Patrick Maher, MD

Academic Interests: Blood transfusion, utilization practices, and coagulopathy testing

Ruben Olmedo

Director of the Division of Toxicology

Shefali Trivedi, MD

Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director

Stephanie Hernandez

Trevor Pour, MD

Core Faculty

Utsha Khatri

Academic Interests: health equity, health policy, structural marginalization, and population health

Vaishali Patel, MD

Academic Interests: PA education, wellness

Adam Hill

Academic Interests: Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, Rural Medicine

Alex Manini

Professor of Emergency Medicine | Director of the Toxicology Research Core in the Emergency Medicine Research Division

Ben McVane

Academic Interests: Global Health, Human Rights, and Medical Care of Immigrants and Refugees

Carl Mickman

Academic Interests: Global Health and Development

Chad Meyers, MD

Director, Division of Emergency Critical Care, Mount Sinai Medical System

Daniel Lugassy

Danny Duque

Devorah Nazarian, MD

Associate Director of Emergency Medicine at Elmhurst Hospital Center and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

DJ Apakama, MD MS

Academic Interests: Aerospace Medicine, Informatics, Global Health, Health Disparities

Geoff Jara-Almonte, MD

Assistant Program Director

Laura Iavicoli, MD, FACEP

Senior Assistant Vice President of Emergency Management at New York City Health and Hospitals

Lillian Wong, MD

Academic Interests: Simulation education, Resident wellness

Megha George

Core Faculty, Elmhurst Hospital

Micah Nite

Milana Zaurova

Moira Carroll, MD

Academic Interests: Global Health

Nestor Nestor

Philip Fairweather

Associate Director of Emergency Medicine at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Director ED clinical operations and Medical Director ExpressCare at Elmhurst

Rachel Shively

Ram Parekh

Academic Interests: ED Critical Care, Trauma

Ryan O’Halloran

Academic Interests: resuscitation leadership and logistics, regionalization of care, trauma resuscitation, medical education

Sandra Sallustio

Academic Interests: Critical care/Pulmonology/Infectious diseases

Stuart Kessler, MD

Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of the Emergency Department at Elmhurst Hospital Center

Suzi Bentley-Faje, MD

Director of Simulation, Elmhurst

DJ Apakama, MD MS

Academic Interests: Aerospace Medicine, Informatics, Global Health, Health Disparities

Ethan Cowan

Director of Research and Community Engagement Department of Emergency Medicine

Gabriel Prager, MD

Academic Interests: Critical Care, Ultrasound, Global Health

Jonathan Mishoe

Academic Interests: Ultrasound, Medical Education, Health Disparities, Tactical Medicine

Jordan Hernandez, MD

Academic Interests: Mathematics, Peds, Medical Education

Kevin Hu

Academic Interests: ultrasound, medical education

Lara Vanyo

Assistant Program Director, Beth Israel

Turandot Saul

SLW Ultrasound Division Director