People | SinaiEM

Amanda Bates, M.D.

Ultrasound Fellow 2019-2020

Akash Desai

Academic Interests - Ultrasound, International Medicine, Wilderness medicine

Jackie Tin, MD

Interests - Admin, Global Health, QI, Ultrasound, Wellness

Rishi Khakhkhar, MD, MBA

Academic Interests: health policy, administration/operations, advocacy

Brendan Milliner, MD

Interests - Global health, Medicine and Human Rights, medical writing

Nachi Gupta, MD PhD

Interests - Biostatistics, Critical Care, Entrepreneurship, Global Health, Medical Education

Shefali Trivedi, M.D.

Clerkship Director, Sinai
Academic Interests: Medical Education, Specifically Medical Students; Burnout

Turandot Saul, M.D.

Ultrasound Division Director, Mount Sinai West

Megan Murphy, RDMS

Ultrasound Supervisor

William Berk, MD

Academic Interests:
Global Health, Medicine and Human Rights

Rahul Thakker, MD

Resident
Academic Interests: Global health, wilderness medicine, medical education, entrepreneurship

Mark Heller, M.D.

Sinai Attending
Academic Interests: Education

Rijo Maracheril, MD

Resident
Academic Interests: Medical Education, Global Medicine, Critical Care

Benjamin Azan, MD

Class of 2016 - VR/Social Media Guru
Interests: FOAM, founder of foambase.org, Med Ed, Airway, ultrasound

Taryn Webb, MD

Interests: Sports Medicine, Pediatric EM, Wellness, Med Ed

Morgan Potter, MD

Resident
Wayne State
Wilderness Medicine, Global Health, LGBTQI+ Medicine

Jesse Humm, MD

PEM Fellow
Academic Interests: Simulation, Medical Education, Ultrasonography

John Zhang, MD

Resident
Academic Interests: MedEd, Critical Care, Ultrasound

Chandni Pawar, MD

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

Abram Lishansky, MD

Interests - Global health, Ultrasound, Critical Care

Andy Jagoda, M.D.

Chair/Chief Academic Officer, Sinai
Academic Interests: Stroke, Status Epilepticus, Concussion/TBI

Chris Counts, MD

Resident
Johns Hopkins
Academic Interests: Health Policy and Advocacy, LGBT Health

Peter England, MD

Elmhurst Chief
Interests - Critical care and Ultrasound

Alex Bonilla, MD

Resident
Harvard
Academic Interests: critical care, immigrant health, ultrasound

Puja Patel, MD

Resident
Academic Interests: Medical Education, Ultrasound, Wellness, Pediatric EM

Leslie Pendery, MD

Interests: Medical education, Sports Medicine, Women’s Health

Nestor Nestor, M.D.

Elmhurst Attending
Academic Interests: Critical Care, Informatics, Operations and Advocacy

Sam Schuberg, MD

Interests - Stroke, Prehospital Care, LGBT Health, Critical Care, Ultrasound

Diandra Wong, MD

Resident
SUNY Downstate
Academic Interests: Global Public Health, Health Disparities, Social EM

John Rozehnal, MD, MS

Interests - Medical Education, Wilderness Medicine, Toxicology, tbd.

Tim Snow, MD

2017-2018 Conference Chief
Interests - FOAM, global health, education, ultrasound.

Kaitlyn Votta, MD

Resident
Thomas Jefferson
Academic Interests: Medical Education, Global Health, Disaster Medicine

Bryan Beattie, MD

Interests: Wilderness Medicine, Critical Care, Sports Medicine

Philip Andrus, MD, FACEP

Associate Director, Emergency Ultrasound

Varun Katdare, MD

Interests - Critical Care and Trauma

Hashem Zikry, MD

Resident
Mount Sinai
Academic Interests: Healthcare Economics, Health Policy and Quality Improvement, Sports Medicine

Erick Eiting, M.D.

Medical Director, Beth Israel

Michelle Lin, M.D.

Beth Israel Attending
Academic Interests: Health Policy; Researching Care Delivery and Payment Redesign to Improve Population Health and Patient-Centered Outcomes

Gwen Hooley, MD

Academic Interests: Pediatrics, Education

Ryan LeBuhn, MD

Resident
Oregon Health and Sciences University
Academic Interests: Wilderness Medicine, Medical Education

Allie Lockwood, MD

Resident
Academic Interests: Disaster planning, Medical education, Global health

Eric (Weyjuin) Chao, MD

Interests - Global Health, Wellness, Innovation

Zachary Wilson, MD

Interests - Global Health, Disaster Medicine, Wilderness medicine, LGBT Health

Jeff Julian, MD

Academic Interests: Critical care, Ultrasound, Health Policy

Melissa Villars, MD

Resident
Academic Interests: Public health, policy, administration, disaster medicine, education

Paul Johnston, MD, MPH

Resident
Einstein
Academic Interests: Tactical Medicine

Bret P. Nelson, M.D.

Director, Emergency Ultrasound Division

Lara Spagnol Silverman, MD

Resident
Georgetown
Academic Interests: Health Policy, Translational Research, Women in Medicine

Judah Jeremy Sueker, MD

Sinai Chief

Interests - Medical Quality, Opiate use in the ED

Ryan O’Halloran, MD

Interests: Critical Care, EMS, QI/process improvement

Joseph Pinero, MD

Class of 2016 - Elmhurst Chief
Interests - Sports Medicine and admin/education

Benjamin Laraway, MD

Resident
Academic Interests: Toxicology, Critical Care, Med Ed

Jared Ditkowsky, MD

Interests- Healthcare Policy & Decision Analysis, Medical Education, Healthcare Narratives

Jeremy Kim, MD

Interests - Ultrasound, Critical Care

Ee Tay, MD, FAAP

Associate Director, Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound

Sumintra Wood, MD

Interests - Medical Education, Global Health, Infectious Diseases

Edwin Mo, M.D.

Sinai EM CCM Attending
My Academic Interests: critical care, ultrasound and SIM. Also scheduled lunch breaks during shifts.

Laura Iavicoli, M.D.

Associate Clinical Director, Elmhurst
Academic Interests: Emergency Management, EMS, Administration, Quality, Sexual Assault Forensics

Geoff Jara-Almonte, M.D.

Assistant Program Director, Elmhurst
Academic Interests: Assessment and Feedback, Sim, Peds Resp Emergencies

Turandot Saul, M.D.

SLW Ultrasound Division Director

Nupur Garg, MD

Class of 2016
Interests - Systems Research, Ultrasound

Patrick Maher, M.D.

Sinai EM-CCM Attending
My Academic Interests: Blood transfusion, utilization practices, and coagulopathy testing

Marcee Wilder, MD, MPH

2017-2018 Peds Chief
Interests - Research (Health Disparities), Health policy

Neil Dubey, MD, MBA

Interests: Admin/QI, innovation, humanities

Matt Egan, MD

Interests - Sports Medicine and Tox

Ben McVane, M.D.

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

Kimberly Kahne, MD

Class of 2016 - PEM Fellow

Interests - Ultrasound, Critical Care

Daniel Bell, MD

Class of 2016
Interests: Palliative Care, QI, Critical Care

Ayushi Chandramani, MD

Academic Interests: Global Health, Social EM, Women's Health

Fred Milgrim, MD

Resident
Boston University
Academic Interests: Wilderness medicine, Ultrasound, Medical Education

Jayram Pai, MD

Interests: Medical Education, Critical Care, Trauma

Kaushal Shah, M.D.

Former Program Director
Academic Interests - Trauma, Imaging, Procedures, Medical Education

Ben Kliot, M.D.

Beth Israel Attending
Academic Interests: ED flow, physician wellness and quality of life, Expedition Medicine

Joe-Ann Moser, MD

Resident
Mount Sinai
Academic Interests: Medical Education, Global Health, Palliative Care

Cara Brown, M.D.

Kristie Price, MD

Resident
SUNY Stony Brook
Academic Interests: Social Emergency Medicine, Population Health, Physician Wellness

Ahra Cho, MD

Resident
Dartmouth
Academic Interests: Critical Care, Admin, Medical Education

Kelly Bogaert, MD

Interests - Global health, women's/children's health, health disparities

Dan Lakoff, MD

Former Assistant Residency Director, Elmhurst
Interests - Ultrasound, Wellness

Gabriel Prager, MD

Interests: Critical Care, Ultrasound, Global Health

Jose Miguel Juarez, MD

Resident
Academic Interests: EMS, Clinical Research, Critical Care, Health Disparities

Katleen Lozada, MD

Resident
Mount Sinai
Academic Interests: Medical Education, Global Health, Social Emergency Medicine, FeminEM

Kevin Hu, MD

Interests - Medical Education and Administration

Adam Hill, M.D.

Elmhurst Attending
Academic Interests: Wilderness Medicine, Rural Medicine, Outdoor Education

Jason Huo, MD

Resident
NYU
Academic Interests: Hospital Operations and Administration, Informatics, Wilderness Medicine

Dania Goodin, MD

Academic Interests: Global Health, Healthcare disparities, Social Psychology, Psychiatric Emergencies

Danish Ahmad, M.D.

Sinai EM-CCM Attending
My Academic Interests: Critical Care, Happiness

Clark Owyang, MD

Interests - Med Ed & social media #FOAMed, critical care, global health, ultrasound

Xiao Han, MD

Interests - Global Health, Informatics, QI

Joe Hardardt, MD

Academic Interests: HIV screening in the ED, population/global health, LGBTQ health, ultrasound, wellness

Ranjita Raghavan, MD

Resident
Keck School of Medicine, USC
Academic Interests: Medical Education & Global Medicine

Wuya Lumeh, MD

Interests: Medical Education, Global Health, or Disaster Planning

Nathan Louras, MD

Interests - Administration, International and Wilderness Medicine

Kyle Remy, MD

Resident
University of Vermont
Academic Interests: mentoring & medical education, women in medicine, ED design, social emergency medicine

Tamana Ghani, MD

Resident
Tufts University
Academic Interests: Medical education, Healthcare Disparities, Ultrasound

Ellie Roberts, MD

Academic interests - Women's health, toxicology

Andres Arredondo, MD, MSc

Academic Interests: Tox, Ultrasound, Sports Med, Med Ed

Randy Sorge, MD

Interests - Critical care, palliative care, medical education

Lauren Zinns, M.D.

Sinai PEM Attending
Academic Interests: Debriefing, CHOP ED Clinical Pathways

Ben Hong, MD

Resident
Mount Sinai
Academic Interests: Medical Education, Wellness, Global/Community Health, Wilderness Medicine

Ahra Joh, MD MPH

Interests - Critical Care, Medical Education, Informatics, Global Health

Jacqueline Paulis, MD

Interests - Medical Education, Public Health, Medicine in the Media, Sports Medicine

James Morrison, MD

Sinai Chief
Interests - Critical care, EMS, palliative care

Rachel Shively, MD

Interests - Research, Pediatric EM, Global Health, Health Policy

Daniel McConnell, MD

Resident
Columbia
Academic Interests: Health Tech, EMS, Administration

David Zhang, MD PhD

Interests: genomics, personalized medicine, hospital administration

Felipe Terán, MD

Class of 2016 - Academic Chief

Emily Taub, MD

Interests - Medical education, Toxicology, Infectious Disease

Wendy Lin, MD

Interests: Ultrasound, medical education, wellness

Daniel Lakoff, MD

Associate Director, Emergency Ultrasound; Elmhurst Hospital Center

Al Giwa, M.D.

Sinai Attending, Night Shift King
Academic Interests: Law and Ethics, Combat Medicine, Resuscitation/Critical Care

Vaishali Patel, M.D.

Sinai Attending
My Academic Interests: PA education, wellness

Sean Hickey, MD

Interests - Disaster Medicine, Pre-Hospital Care, Critical Care

Angela Chen, MD

Peds/Education Chief

Interests - Palliative Care, QI, Medical Education

Farnia Naeem, MD

Resident
Einstein
Academic Interests: Ultrasound, Mentorship, Underserved Communities

Ethan Cowan, M.D.

Beth Israel Attending
Academic Interests: Public health program implementation in the ED, HIV, HCV, SUD, Bioethics, Research Ethics, Social Justice

Deb Sengupta, MD

Interests - Healthcare disparities, quality & process improvement, health system redesign

Candice Cruz, MD

Class of 2016
Interests - ED Operations, QI, Healthcare disparities, Ultrasound

James Tsung, M.D.

Director of Pediatric Ultrasound, Sinai

John Conway, MD

Resident
Einstein
Academic Interests: FOAMed, EBM, Critical Care

Gabriel Rose, DO

SLW Ultrasound Fellowship Director

Suzi Bentley-Faje, M.D.

Director of Simulation, Elmhurst
Academic Interests: Simulation, resuscitation team education and research, assessment, remediation

Anthony Torres, MD

Resident
Keck School of Medicine, USC Academic Interests: EMS

Nicholas Genes, M.D. Ph.D

Sinai Attending, Informatics Master
Academic Interests: Clinical Informatics

Neil Christopher, M.D.

Sinai Attending, EM/IM
Academic Interests: Critical care, ECMO, Ultrasound (specifically lung applications), International medicine

Martin Casey, MD

Interests: public health, outcomes research, hospital administration, ultrasound

Timi Waltuch, MD

PEM 2

Academic Interests - Simulation, Sepsis, Sickle Cell, Med-Education

Alex Tran, MD

Resident
Brown
Academic Interests: Medical Education, Simulation, Critical Care, Health Policy

Danny Duque, M.D.

Director, Emergency Ultrasound; Elmhurst Hospital Center

Paul Peng, MD PhD

Interests: critical care, teaching, bouncebacks, biostatistics, machine learning

Ruchi Gandhi, MD

Class of 2016
Interests: Education, QI, Global Health, Ultrasound

EJ Grewal, MD

SLW Ultrasound Fellow

Tina Mathew, MD

Interests: International, Medical Education, Ultrasound, Administration

Latoshia Henderson, MD

Interests - Medical Education, Critical Care, Ultrasound

Tim Friedmann, MD

Resident
SUNY Stony Brook
Academic Interests: Medical Education, EMS, Administration

Arlene Chung

Assistant Residency Director, Elmhurst
Interests - Narratives and the humanities in medicine

Trevor Pour, M.D.

Associate Residency Director, Sinai
Academic Interests: Education (both GME and UME), palliative care and pain management, critical care, leadership/policy

Devorah Nazarian, M.D.

Elmhurst Attending
Academic Interests: Clinical Guidelines Development Stroke management

Eugene Kim, MD

Class of 2016
Interests: Medical Informatics

Mark Andreae, MD

Critical Care/Systems Chief

Interests - Critical care, EMS, palliative care

Gurpreet “Rupi” Mudan, MD

Class of 2016 - Administrative/Recruitment Chief
Interests - Medical Education, Wellness, Global Health,

Cailey Simmons, MD

Interests - Public Health, Quality Improvement, Behavioral Economics and Social Psychology, International and Wilderness Medicine

Colin Pesyna, MD

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

David Kinas, DO

SLW Ultrasound Fellow

Michael Barsky, MD

Resident
Rutgers
Academic Interests: Critical Care, Medical Education

Zachary Kuschner, MD

Interests - Critical Care, International Medicine, QA/QI

Michelle Vazquez, MD

PEM 3

Interests - Medical Education, Critical Care, Simulation, Ultrasound

Priya Misir, MD

Resident
Boston University
Academic Interests: Global Health, Healthcare Disparities, Health Policy, Ultrasound

Jennifer V. Huang, DO, FACEP

Director, Ultrasound Education

Sam Khan, MD

Conference Chief

Interests – Critical Care, Education, Mentoring, Echocardiography

Jason Shapiro, M.D.

Sinai Attending
Academic Interests: Health informatics and trying to strike a healthy work-life balance

David Cisewski, MD MS

Interests - Pain management, Gender-specific treatments, World extremes medicine

Laura Anderson, MD

Academic Interests: Wellness, Medical Education, International & Wilderness Medicine

Joel Rowe, MD

Resident
SUNY Stony Brook
Academic Interests: Global Health, Medical Education, Ultrasound

Stephen Alerhand, MD

Interests - Ultrasound, Regional Anesthesia, Critical Care, ED tips/tricks, Quality Improvement

Marc Probst, M.D.

Sinai Attending, Researcher
Academic Interests: Research, shared decision-making, syncope.

Robert Cox, MD

Class of 2016
Interests: Ultrasound, Critical Care and Quality

Omar Z. Maniya, MD, MBA

Interests - Administration, Policy, Informatics, Entrepreneurship

Jeffrey Glassberg, M.D.

Researcher/Director of Sickle Cell Clinic, Sinai
Academic Interests: Sickle Cell Disease

Samantha Ganz, MD

Interests - Telemedicine, Ultrasound, Critical Care, Med Ed

Tausif Billah, MD

Academic Interests: Global Health, Health Disparities, Med Ed, Ultrasound

Elaine Rabin, M.D.

Residency Director
Academic Interests - Health policy, hospital boarding/crowding/flow, resident education, neurologic emergencies

Sophia Spadafore, MD

Resident
University of Arizona
Academic Interests: Academic Interests: Health Policy and Advocacy, Medical Education, LGBTQ+ Health

David Gutteridge, MD, MPH

Class of 2016
Sinai Chief
Interests - Operations and QI, Health Policy, Critical Care

Chris Strother, M.D.

Director of Peds ED, Sinai
Academic Interests: Simulation Education and Adult Learning Theory Patient Safety and Inter-professional Team Building, Clinical Debriefing

Indira Gowda, MD

Interests: Peds, Global Health, Translational Research, Med Ed

Ravi Katari, MD

Interests: health law and economics, public opinion, global health

Jeremy Faust, MD, MS, MA

Class of 2016
Interests: Medical Writing, Med Ed, RCTs

Jean Sun Scofi, MD

Sinai Chief
Interests - Critical Care, Administration, Quality Improvement

Jillian Nickerson, MD, MS

Interests - Health Disparities and health systems research, Ultrasound, Med Ed

Shajoti Rahman, MD

Resident
SUNY Downstate
Academic Interests: Healthcare Disparities, Medical Education, Ultrasound

Nico Volz, MD

Interests: Critical Care, Ultrasound, Med Ed

Douglas Scott, MD

Interests - Pediatrics, Global Health

Dominic Rodriguez, MD

Resident
Keck School of Medicine, USC
Academic Interests: Toxicology, Med Ed, Critical Care

Suresh K. Pavuluri, MD

Resident
Academic interests: strengthening of healthcare systems, administration, healthcare disparities

Gregory Fernandez, MD, MBA

Interests: Medical Informatics, Hospital Administration, Critical Care, Ultrasound

Kristen Kelly, MD

Academic Interests: Disaster medicine, Public policy, Advocacy, Global Health

Arjun Prabhu, MD

Interests: Bioethics, health care policy, global health, clinical research

Megha George, MD

Interests - Education, Ultrasound, Patient Safety

Gaurav Bhargava, MD

Interests - Medical education, biases in medicine, ultrasound

Angela Hua, MD

Class of 2016
Interests - Medical Education, Disaster Medicine, Critical Care

Christopher Hansen, MD, MPH

Class of 2016
Interests: Critical Care, Airway Emergencies, EMS

Erena Weathers, MD

Resident
Augusta University
Academic Interests: Global Health, Public Health, Wilderness Medicine, Infectious Disease

Lillian Wong, M.D.

Elmhurst Attending
Academic Interests: Simulation education, Resident wellness

Abia Abia, MD

Resident
Johns Hopkins
Academic Interests: Ultrasound, International Medicine

Omid Manoochehri, MD

Resident
Academic Interests: Medical Education, Administration, Airway Management, FOAMed

Jordan Hernandez, MD

Interests: Mathematics, Peds, Medical Education

Oswald Reid, MD

Resident
Georgetown
Academic Interests: Critical Care, Medical Education, Health Equity, and Social Justice

Jen Bellis, MD

PEM 3

Interests - Simulation, Ultrasound, Critical Care, Sepsis

Colleen Smith, M.D.

Associate Program Director, Elmhurst
Academic Interests: Simulation, Medical Education, Wellness

Lara Vanyo, M.D.

Assistant Program Director, Beth Israel
Academic Interests: Physician Wellness, Quality Improvement

Milana Zaurova, MD

Interests - Pall Care, Med Ed, Ultrasound, EMS, Public Policy

Colleen Smith, MD

Interests: Medical Simulation, Medical Education, Deliberate Practice, Wellness

Damani McIntosh-Clarke, MD

Resident
George Washington
Academic Interests: Policy, Obesity, Cardiac Emergencies, Medical Education

Trent She, MD

SLW Ultrasound Fellow

Samantha LeDonne, MD

Interests - EMS, Global Health, Education

Jeff Nusbaum, MD

2017-2018 Elmhurst Chief
Interests - EMS, critical care

Matthew Straight, MD

Resident
University of Texas- San Antonio
Academic Interests: Global health, Disaster Medicine, Academic Medicine

Lara Vanyo, MD

Admin/Wellness Chief
Interests - Wellness, Global Health, medical ethics

Caroline Adegite, M.D.

PEM 3

Interests - Critical Care, Toxicology, Ultrasound

Kathy Li, MD

Interests - Health Policy, QI, Public Health, Ultrasound, Global Health

Ujas Shah, M.D.

Beth Israel Attending
Academic Interests: emergency cardiology, wilderness medicine, medical education and performance improvement

Eric Lee, MD

Interests: Global Health, Public Policy, Education and Teaching

Hayley Neher, MD

Interests: disaster medicine, global health, geriatrics, and education

Cliff Marks, MD

Resident
Academic Interests: Administration, Health Policy, Quality Improvement

Tim Kelly, MD

Resident
University of Washington
Academic Interests: Addiction, mental health, policy, global health

Chris Clifford, MD

Academic Interests: Advocacy and health policy, global health, wilderness medicine, health IT

Jonathan Mishoe, MD

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

Courtney Cassella, MD

Interests: Med Ed, Ultrasound, Tox

Jonathan Yeo, M.D.

Director of RETU, Sinai
Academic Interests: ED Observation

Chad Meyers, MD

Director, Division of Emergency Critical Care, Mount Sinai Medical System
Academic Interests: Emergency Critical Care, Surgical Critical Care, Ultrasound

Sarah Ring, MD

Resident
University of Miami
Academic Interests: Leadership, Women in Medicine, Medical Education, Social Medicine

Kunj Bhatt, MD

Resident
George Washington
Academic Interests: Medical Education, Innovation/Informatics, Health Policy, Community Engagement

Monica Sethi, MD

Interests: Critical Care, Administration

DJ Apakama, MD MS

Interests - Aerospace Medicine, Informatics, Global Health, Health Disparities

Phil Andrus, M.D.

Sinai Attending, Ultrasound Extraordinare
My Academic Interests: Critical Care and General Ultrasound

Douglas Mathern, MD, PhD

Resident
Mount Sinai
Academic Interests: Digital Health Technologies, Medical Adherence, Incentive Medicine, Quality Improvement

Jenny Sanders, M.D.

Sinai PEM Attending
Academic Interests: Pediatric Critical Care, Soft Tissue Ultrasound, Pain Management, Wound Care

Morgan Dauer, MD

Academic Interests: Global Health, Critical Care

Stefan Jung, MD

Resident
Brown
Academic Interests: Critical Care, Wilderness Medicine, Global Health

Carl Mickman, MD

Interests - Global Health and Development

Anastassia Gorvitovskaia, MD

Resident
Brown
Academic Interests: Education, Computational Research, Pediatric Emergency, Wellness

Moira Carroll, MD

Elmhurst Chief

Interests - Global Health

Prakriti Gill, MD

PEM Fellow

Academic Interests: Global health, Ultrasound, Skin and Soft Tissue Infections, Advocacy

Mark Elmer, MD

Class of 2016
Interests - Ultrasound

Eric Bassan, MD

Academic Chief
Interests - Medical Education, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Medical Technology

Alicia Lu, MD

Resident
Academic Interests: Social EM, Education, Wellness, Health Disparities