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Hometown: Gambrills, MD; Dayton, OH

Undergraduate: Southern Methodist University

Medical School: Case Western Reserve University SOM

Hobbies and Interests: Ballroom dance, Rock & Ice climbing, Beverages (coffee, tea, beer, scotch - anything liquid and delicious)

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Memento (and the rest of the early oeuvre of Christopher Nolan); anything by Michael Haneke

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: L'Albatros (outstanding French cuisine here in Cleveland!)

Favorite Music: Electro-swing; Classical; Showtunes

Five Year Plan: An academic EM career in Public Policy or Wilderness Medicine; Having at least 2 of the Seven Summits under my belt (Kilimanjaro and Elbrus)

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Surgery. But why do surgery when you can do EM!?

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Perfect comedic timing

Random Fact: Through the CIA, we spent $20 million researching "psychic phenomenon" for application to military intelligence gathering. Seriously? (Here's the declassified white paper: https://goo.gl/JQsGGr)

Nickname: Abe

Hometown: New Haven, CT

Undergraduate: University of Connecticut

Medical School: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Hobbies and Interests: Physical Fitness, Marksmanship, World Travel, Cooking & Grilling

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Anything with karate, cars and explosions.

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant:Meat / Meat from Barrio inside a taco

Favorite Music: Depends what I’m doing: 90’s Alternative for driving, Rap for lifting, Videogame music for running, Country for social events.

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?:  Buying and selling houses.

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: It would be awesome to be able to speak every human language fluently.

Random Fact: I grew up 10 minutes away from the Wiffle Ball and Pez Candy factories.

Nickname: Jules

Hometown: Hermosillo, Sonora (Mexico) and Dearborn, MI

Undergraduate: University of Michigan

Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine

Hobbies and Interests: eating, trying new restaurants, yoga, gymnastics (obviously can't do this anymore)

Favorite Movies and TV shows: The Office, Trolls and also horror movies in general

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: Sushi, Dim Sum, soup, cheese, REAL Mexican food

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: I wish I could be a special effects makeup artist

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: To secretly be an all powerful healer of all ailments

Random Fact: My family smuggled a Chihuahua onto a plane so she wouldn't have to ride with the checked luggage

Hometown: Bowling Green, OH

Undergraduate: Miami University (OH)

Medical School: Ohio State University

Hobbies and Interests: Beer brewing, Dogs (I have 3), Gardening, Science Fiction

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Star Trek, Star Trek, Star Trek

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: The Inn on Coventry (best pancakes in town)

Five Year Plan: Community EM, likely back in my hometown

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Running a brewery/used bookstore/dog rescue operation.

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Talking to animals

Nickname: Nick

Hometown: Queensbury, NY

Undergraduate: Colgate Univetsity

Medical School: SUNY Upstate Medical University

Hobbies and Interests: Football, Racquetball, Rugby, Weight Training, Fishing, Hunting, Hiking, Cooking & Eating, Traveling

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Braveheart, All Marvel Movies, House of Cards, Hannibal, Big Bang Theory, Scrubs

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant:Steak or Ribs, The Greenhouse Tavern

Favorite Music: Country

Five Year Plan: Finish my emergency medicine residency, maybe a toxicology fellowship, then settle down and practice emergency medicine in Washington, DC or Northern Virginia.

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Opening my own gym affiliated with a physical therapy group that can be used as a step down from physical therapy with trainers focusing on prehabilitation in addition to general health and fitness.

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: The ability to never get tired or need sleep.

Random Fact: I have torn a ligament or tendon in all 4 extremities

Hometown: Northampton, PA

Undergraduate: La Salle University

Medical School: Temple University School of Medicine

Hobbies and Interests: Cooking (and then eating), gardening, DIYing just about anything

Favorite Movies and TV shows: GOT, Gladiator, New Girl, Friends

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: Latin or Mexican. Barroco, SOHO Chicken and Whiskey

Five Year Plan: Likely pursuing a fellowship and then working in CLE for at least a few years

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Meteorology

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: To have the smell of fresh baked biscuits follow me around

Random Fact: I’m still carrying around a baby tooth and just hoping in doesn’t fall out at too inopportune of a time

Hometown: Fort Smith, Arkansas

Undergraduate: University of Arkansas

Medical School: Des Moines University COM

Hobbies and Interests: Cooking/baking, running/lifting, bourbon tasting, traveling, hiking

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Indiana Jones, Star Wars

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant:Jerky...any jerky/Flour, 3 Palms, Black Pig

Favorite Music: Americana/Indie Rock/Folk

Five Year Plan: ER Doc, Wilderness Medicine, Expedition Medicine Consultant/Doc

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: National Geographic site scout

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: The Force

Random Fact: I've been writing a murder mystery novel for the last 3 years. Also, I was classically trained as a chef after I dropped out of college on my sorted road to medical school.

Nickname: Nik Snufflapugus

Hometown: Amherst, ohio

Undergraduate: University of Akron

Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical University

Hobbies and Interests: Hopeless Cleveland Sports Fan, Food Junkie, Drink Connoisseur

Favorite Movies and TV shows: 24, game of thrones, James bond movies

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: Fahrenheit, Blue Point Grille, Mia Bella's

Favorite Music: Favorite Pandora station: Summer hits of the 90s

Five Year Plan: Mix between community and academic medicine

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Baseball Player

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Read Minds

Random Fact: I was published in a medical journal at the age of 13 months

Hometown: Nashville, IL

Undergraduate: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Medical School: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Hobbies and Interests: Travel, PC Gaming, Indie rock shows, Brunch, 80's/90's Action Movies

Favorite Movies and TV shows: True Lies, Demolition Man, Die Hard, Road House

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: Korean (mandu, galbi, kimchi-jjigae, etc.)

Favorite Music: Neko Case, Future Islands, Belle & Sebastian, Radiohead

Five Year Plan: Global health, MSF

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Public Health

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: I'd like jazz music to play every time I make jazz hands

Random Fact: I lived for 3 months in Brazil studying mosquitoes.

Nickname: Andy

Hometown: Randolph, OH

Undergraduate: The University of Akron

Medical School: The University of Toledo

Hobbies and Interests: Volleyball, Hiking, Skiing (water and snow), Cooking, Hunting

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Game of Thrones since the beginning, but I do binge-watch multiple series on days off.

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant:Jeckyll's Kitchen in Chagrin Falls

Favorite Music: Country unless Disney sing alongs count

Five Year Plan: Constantly changing but making time for family will always be in the plan.

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Probably designing biomaterials using my engineering background

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Speed!!!

Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA

Undergraduate: Boston College

Medical School: University of Pittsburgh SOM

Hobbies and Interests: Eating, cooking, traveling, scuba diving, AVGeek, points and miles, Pittsburgh sports (Pirates, Steelers, Penguins in that order), finance, following the news and politics

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Marvel, HP, LOTR, Scrubs, The West Wing

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: Japanese! Trying to figure out my favorite restaurants in CLE currently

Favorite Music: Anything on the radio, I’m not picky

Five Year Plan: Working somewhere in the region and making my last payment on my student loan

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Part time traveler and part time chef

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Flying

Random Fact: Mike Tomlin was my neighbor in Pittsburgh

Hometown: Gaithersburg, MD

Undergraduate: University of California, Davis. Go Ags!

Medical School: Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine

Hobbies and Interests: Late night online shopping, cooking and then eating, Netflix, hiking with my pup Rooney, trying new restaurants, dragging friends to some random festival I found, trying new skincare products that I read about on a blog, anything beach-related, politics.

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Anything on Bravo...or E! Stand up comedy specials, Parts Unknown, The Daily Show, Ugly Delicious. Fave movies are To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar and A League of Their Own.

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: Favorite food is Udon Noodle Soup, and fave CLE restaurant is Sokolowski's University Inn. Get the stuffed cabbage, you won't regret it!

Favorite Music: Slow Jamz

Five Year Plan: I'd like to work in disaster medicine globally, and with the urban underserved locally. I also would like to be heavily involved in healthcare advocacy. And to continue my learning by getting an MPH and a master's in Medical Ethics.

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Trying to become the next Dr. Ruth or a chef/restaurateur.

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: To be able to apparate.

Random Fact: I've driven across the country twice, and I am absolutely terrified of bats.

Nickname: Hutch

Hometown: Sacramento, CA

Undergraduate: UC Santa Barbara

Medical School: A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona

Hobbies and Interests: My 5 month-old Boston Terrier puppy, reading, gardening & houseplants

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Narcos, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Silicon Valley, Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock, and more

Favorite Food: Tacos:

Five Year Plan: Graduate residency and get more dogs

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Become a florist

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Time travel

Hometown: West Chester, OH

Undergraduate: Kent State University

Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical University

Hobbies and Interests: Basketball, napping, painting, board games

Favorite Movies and TV shows: The Office, Parks and Recreation, Despicable Me 3

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: Swensons, Barrio, Mia Bella

Favorite Music: Country

Five Year Plan: Still working on my plan for tomorrow? Unless I get my Hogwarts acceptance letter.

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Best case scenario-be an actress in hollywood. Realistically-teacher. A different medical specialty? General Surgery

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Teleportation

Nickname: Zac

Hometown: Independence, IA

Undergraduate: University of Iowa

Medical School: University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

Hobbies and Interests: Travelling to National Parks, Camping, Soccer, Snowboarding, Golfing, Running, Trying new restaurants

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Inception, The Dark Knight, Gladiator, Seinfeld, The Office, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: Barrio

Favorite Music: Country, Classic Rock, Mumford and Sons

Five Year Plan: Finish emergency medicine residency and practice community medicine while making time for hobbies and family

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Biomedical engineer developing medical devices

Hometown: Dearborn, MI

Undergraduate: Wayne State University

Medical School: Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Hobbies and Interests: Traveling, hiking, kayaking, yoga, reading, broadway musicals (I've watched Hamilton 3 times and have most of the soundtrack memorized), food, tv

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Friends, Grey's Anatomy, The Office, Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Favorite Food: Breakfast food!

Five Year Plan: Hopefully to survive residency and pay off some loans. I'm interested in ultrasound, medEd, global health and disaster medicine, so maybe pursue a fellowship of some sort and eventually work in academic medicine.

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Teaching

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Flying!

Random Fact: 1) I speak English, Arabic and Farsi fluently. 2) I have a habit of memorizing people's license plates and weirding them out.

Hometown: Plano, TX

Undergraduate: University of Texas at Dallas

Medical School: UT Southwestern

Hobbies and Interests: Food, trivia, building things, revamping thrift store furniture, helping my husband run his art business

Favorite Movies and TV shows: he Americans, Banshee, Taboo, Battlestar Galactica, Peaky Blinders, Lucifer, iZombie, Veronica Mars, Riverdale

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: Cleveland Restaurants: Dewey’s Pizza, Hot Sauce Legacy, Bangkok Thai, Maha’s Falafel

Favorite Music: A little of everything mixed with the same bands I listened to 10 years ago.

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Family Medicine

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Stopping time

Random Fact: 1) I was born in South Africa, and my family won the lottery to immigrate here. 2) I’m board certified in Family Medicine, and I love placing IUDs and Nexplanons 3) I have a very handsome and intelligent cat named Biscuit, Destroyer of Worlds.

Hometown: Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Undergraduate: The College of Wooster

Medical School: Rush Medical College

Hobbies and Interests: Hiking, traveling, eating (but not cooking)

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Breaking Bad, Orange is the new Black

Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: Empress Taytu Restaurant

Five Year Plan: Do community EM with some flavor of international EM. Travel to other countries to teach EM.

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: I would run a coffee shop (although I don't drink coffee) I just love the smell of coffee and the relaxing atmosphere.

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Teleportation

Random Fact: 1) I was born at home. 2) Moved to America when I was 18 more specifically to Wooster, OHIO.

Hometown: Miamisburg, OH

Undergraduate: University of Kentucky

Medical School: University of Cincinnati

Hobbies and Interests: Traveling, dogs, boating, listening to podcasts, reading (HP of course), beer tasting, and about anything outdoors

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: Any breakfast food- waffles, pancakes, goetta

Five Year Plan: Working in an academic EM attending position and doing some travels abroad

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Flight!

Random Fact: As a kid, I was known for my ability to eat large numbers of pancakes at sleepovers. My record is 12.

Nickname: Alex

Hometown: Gates Mills, OH

Undergraduate: University of Colorado at Boulder

Medical School: Case Western Reserve University

Hobbies and Interests: Skiing, fly fishing, golf, boating, Cleveland sports...Browns are totally gonna kill it this year

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Cops, Live PD. I’d be a cop if I weren’t a doctor

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: Fire, Felice, Umami, L'albatros

Favorite Music: I’m a classic rocker: Pink Floyd, The Band, Talking Heads, Van the man Morrison, Neil Young, The Cars

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Work on a SWAT team...or be a ski guide

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Omnilinguism

Random Fact: I tore my ACL, MCL and meniscus busting some sick dance moves at my friend’s wedding

Nickname: Jenny

Hometown: Chesterland, OH

Undergraduate: Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

Medical School: Lincoln Memorial University - DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine

Hobbies and Interests: Walking my puppers, watching Netflix, hiking, and just gneral fun stuff

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Parks and Rec, Orange is the New Black, Marvel Movies, anything I can binge on any of the streaming services

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: Thai food, a good hamburger and brick oven pizza

Favorite Music: Most Metal and Rock music and Musicals

Five Year Plan: Finish residency, buy a house with a yard that my puppers deserves, put a small dent in my student loans

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Traveling the world

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Time travel or teleportation

Random Fact: I did a month long rotation in China during medical school

Hometown: Roanoke, VA

Undergraduate: Virginia Tech

Medical School: Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine - Virginia Campus

Hobbies and Interests: Hiking, anything outdoors involving water, writing, reading nonfiction/poetry, traveling, cooking and eating, trying new breweries and wineries, making a plethora of curated Spotify playlists and car-DJing via the aux cord.

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Documentaries, binge watching popular Netflix series. My one guilty reality TV pleasure will always be the Bachelor/Bachelorette.

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: Any and all breakfast foods, appetizers/dips, tacos. Looking forward to exploring the Cleveland foodie scene!

Favorite Music: Song: Fast Car - Tracy Chapman. Genre: electronic/alternative/indie/pop + most any live concerts.

Five Year Plan: Potential fellowship in either toxicology or medical education. Pursuing a career in academic emergency medicine with an emphasis on social EM and advocacy for underrepresented minorities in medicine, particularly the LGBTQ+ population. Also adopting puppies.

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Realistically, working locally and internationally with nonprofit organizations to expand healthcare access to minority populations. Much less realistically, traveling the world after winning the lottery or performing as a professional backup dancer in LA.

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Teleportation.

Random Fact: I recently discovered I can still do a back handspring despite being out of cheerleading/gymnastics for 6+ years.

Hometown: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Undergraduate: University of Idaho

Medical School: Case Western Reserve University

Hobbies and Interests: Reading (Sci-Fi/Fantasy), cooking, video and board gaming, being outdoors

Favorite Movies and TV shows: The Office, Star Wars and Marvel movies, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Mean Girls

Favorite Music: A little bit of everything

Five Year Plan: Most likely community EM and figuring out where to settle down

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Teacher or FBI agent

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: All of Dr. Strange's powers/medical knowledge

Hometown: Mayfield, OH

Undergraduate: Notre Dame College

Medical School: Ohio University - Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine

Hobbies and Interests: Running, hiking, kayaking. Really anything outside! Also, cooking, eating, home remodel and traveling

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Movies: The Equalizer, How to lose a guy in 10 days. TV shows: timeless, billions, blindspot, Brooklyn 99

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: Michelangelos In little Italy

Favorite Music: Anything country

Five Year Plan: Residency, possibly fellowship, and then I hope to stay and work in my community!

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: I’d probably be a chef. I love to cook and create new recipes!

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: eleportation

Random Fact: I was a vegetarian since I was 5 years old off of a bet a made with my neighbor...he won when I started eating chicken 17 years later.

Hometown: Lorain, OH

Undergraduate: The Ohio State University

Medical School: University of Toledo School of Medicine

Hobbies and Interests: Cleveland Sports, Working out/weightlifting, Volleyball, Cooking, Outdoor activities, Traveling

Favorite Movies and TV shows: True Detective (1st season), Scrubs, LOTR, Indiana Jones

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Healing Factor

Random Fact: I’m a twin in a family of 8 kids

Hometown: Indianapolis, IN

Undergraduate: Indiana University

Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine

Hobbies and Interests: Reading fantasy, writing, running, meal prepping, my two cats, fine metalwork, any new craft-I want to try them all!

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Breaking Bad, Battlestar Gallactica, Game of Thrones, Nathan for You, The Office

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: Thai food and ice cream

Five Year Plan: Finish residency and work in the area, buy a home and fill it with more pets.

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Cat/Dog sitter

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Flying

Nickname: Ray

Hometown: Aurora, CO

Undergraduate: University of Colorado

Medical School: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Hobbies and Interests: Snowboarding, cooking random food, hiking with my dogs, annoying my wife, working on cars

Favorite Movies and TV shows: GoT (except the last season), Barry, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, John Wick, John Wick 2, John Wick 3

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: Anything Spicy i.e. Mexican, Thai, Vietnamese, and Filipino

Favorite Music: EDM, Old School Hip Hop/R&B, Timeless oldies that my parents listen to

Five Year Plan: Calculating my student debt payments for the following 5 years & beyond

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Probably a mechanic

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Animal whisperer (like Aquaman, only better)

Hometown: Edgewood, KY

Undergraduate: University of Dayton

Medical School: Case Western Reserve University

Hobbies and Interests: Fishing (mostly perch and walleye but love fishing wherever I vacation), hunting (deer), camping, hiking, skiing - basically anything outdoors. Travel - anywhere. Homebrewing beer - mostly pale ales and IPA's with an occasional saison or stout.

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Shawshank Redemption, The Office, Scrubs, Mad Men, various Danish series on Netflix that my wife gets us into.

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: All the foods - except cottage cheese or sherbert ice cream

Favorite Music: Mid-late 90's punk and alternative, late 90's-early 2000's rap, bluegrass, and a range of current bands from the Sirus XMU station

Five Year Plan: EM in the Cleveland/Sandusky area and surviving life with teenagers

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: As medicine is my second career, plan C would have to be activated which would likely involve starting a brewery

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: I mean shooting lasers from your eyes would obviously be fun, but flying has always been up there on my list.

Random Fact: I worked as an Engineer/Manager for 13 years making things like Head and Shoulders shampoo, Mr. Clean, and Febreze. Oh, and I was a radio DJ in college for a while.

Hometown: Hartville, OH

Undergraduate: Malone University

Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical University

Hobbies and Interests: Ohio State Football, hiking with my wife Amanda (we would like to make it to most or all of the national parks), olympic lifting, reading (Harry Potter of course), anything history related, finding ways to do home projects myself, and trying new beers and whiskeys.

Favorite Movies and TV shows: Gladiator, Warrior, Cinderella Man, Braveheart, Saving Private Ryan, The Judge, Stranger Things, Couples Retreat

Favorite Food and Favorite Cleveland Restaurant: I like it all, but I generally pick some kind of Mexican food most often. Right now, Barrio but I have a lot of exploring to do.

Favorite Music: Probably country but I like a little bit of everything

Five Year Plan: Critical Care fellowship and always make time for family.

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: I always thought it would be interesting to work for the FBI, or if not that probably something with the military.

If you could have a superpower what would it be?: Flight

Random Fact: I have a miniature Dachshund named Harvey. He believes he is a German Shepherd. He is the world’s most lovable and ornery dog combined into one, and he has a magical ability to sleep for egregious amounts of time while somehow stilling finding time in the day for plenty of mischief.

Department Title: Clinical Assistant Professor

Hometown: Plymouth, MI

Undergraduate: The University of Michigan

Medical School: Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine

Residency: Genesys Regional Medical Center

Research Interests: Post-arrest care

Academic Areas of Interest: Practical application of EBM, ENT emergencies

Hobbies and Interests: Golf, snowboarding, cooking, craft beer

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift:  Intubation and epistaxis management (preferably not at the same time)

Favorite thing about Cleveland: You're never more than a few miles from a restaurant with a solid tap list.

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Sales

For a Wolverine living in exile, Cleveland is a surprisingly welcoming environment.

Department Title: Attending Physician, Center for Emergency Medicine

Hometown: Worthington, OH

Undergraduate: The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Medical School: Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, PA

Residency: Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL

Further Training: Sports Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC.

Research and Academic Areas of Interests: Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, Traumatic Brain Injury.

Hobbies and Interests: Scuba Diving, Running, Cycling

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift: Joint Dislocation

Favorite thing about Cleveland: Sports Teams

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Sports Medicine

Department Title: Medical Director for The Center for Patient Flow Management, Attending Physician

Hometown: Chicago, IL

Undergraduate: Grinnell College

Medical School: Northwestern University School of Medicine

Residency: Northwestern University

Further Training: Board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine

Research and Academic Areas of Interests: NICOM, shock, evidence based emergency medicine, clinical risk management

Hobbies and Interests: Running, family, international travel

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift: Medical decision making in caring for the acutely ill or injured patient

Favorite thing about Cleveland: Everything except for January-March weather and our (mostly) frustrating sports teams

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: I really don't know!

Department Title: Assistant Program Director

Hometown: Youngstown, OH

Undergraduate: Kent State University

Medical School: NEOMED

Residency: UH Cleveland Case Western Reserve

Research and Academic Areas of Interests:Social Determinants of Health

Hobbies and Interests: Retail Therapy

Favorite thing about Cleveland: Cleveland Cavs Games

Department Title: Director of Quality Improvement and Peer Review

Hometown: Battle Creek, Michigan

Undergraduate: University of Michigan (Go Blue!)

Medical School: University of Cincinnati

Residency: University of Cincinnati

Research and Academic Areas of Interests: Effective Educational Modalities, Quality Improvement, Imposterism. Peer Review, Morbidity & Mortality.

Hobbies and Interests: Reading (Harry Potter, a million times), traveling, keeping in touch with friends all over the world

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift: NP scope, approach to the difficult airway

Favorite thing about Cleveland: Lake Erie (seriously!), Georgetown Lakewood

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: My back-up career is a professional nanny. Who doesn't want an MD as a nanny?

Department Title: Emergency Department Attending Physician

Hometown: Huntington Woods, MI

Undergraduate: The University of Michigan

Medical School: The University of Michigan

Residency: Milwaukee County

Research and Academic Areas of Interests: endotracheal drugs, malpractice prevention, contracts

Hobbies and Interests:  swimming, trumpet playing, golf

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift: joint relocations and history taking

Favorite thing about Cleveland: summertime in CLE

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?:  I would have been a math teacher and a swim coach

Hometown: Rochester, NY

Undergraduate: University of Buffalo

Medical School: Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine

Residency: University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Hobbies and Interests: Kayaking, working-out, classic nintendo, spending time with my wife and two daughters

Research and Academic Interests: Medical operations and medical education.

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift:  Airway

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Lead singer in a rock group

Random Fact: I am an Eagle Scout, I grew up in a family of all boys and now have two daughters... I'm just trying to keep my head above water. I also rotated here as a 4th year student, stayed for residency, and was invited to join as faculty! This group is my second family!

Department Title: Clinical Instructor, Associate Clerkship Director

Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio

Undergraduate: The Ohio State University

Medical School: Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine

Residency: University of Kentucky

Research and Academic Areas of Interests: Medical student advising

Hobbies and Interests: Hiking, happy hours, watching trashy TV, exploring new cities. Amateur cook and professional eater.

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift: Patellar reductions

Favorite thing about Cleveland: THE FOOD!....and being close to my family

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: running an alpaca farm

Hometown: Cedar Springs, MI

Undergraduate: University of Michigan

Medical School: University of Michigan

Residency: Metrohealth Medical Center

Research and Academic Areas of Interests: Critical Care

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift: Intubation

Hobbies and Interests: Running, hiking, snowboarding, spending time with my kids.

Favorite thing about Cleveland: Cleveland Metroparks

Department Title: Assistant Residency Program Director, Assistant Professor

Hometown: Naperville, Illinois

Undergraduate: Dartmouth College

Medical School: Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Residency: University Hospitals, Cleveland Medical Center

Research and Academic Areas of Interests: Medical education, Oral board preparation

Hobbies and Interests: Listening to music, drawing, spending time with family and friends, traveling

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift: Favorite procedure: Placing chest tubes, which earned me the nickname of "ninja" during residency.

Favorite thing about Cleveland: All the amazing restaurants, visiting the Cleveland Botanical Garden

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: I cannot imagine doing anything else! Emergency Medicine is the best specialty.

I am so proud and honored to work alongside such amazing and talented residents and colleagues.

Department Title: Director, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Hometown: Passaic, NJ

Undergraduate: Amherst College

Medical School: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Residency: Morristown Memorial Hospital, Morristown, NJ

Additional Training: EMS and Disaster Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, DC; Master of Science with a Concentration in Crisis, Emergency, and Risk Management, The George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Washington, DC

Research Interests: Prehospital Medicine, Disaster Medicine, Event Medicine, Operational Medicine

Hobbies and Interests: Foodie, Gym, Movies, TV, Travel.

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift:  I like to teach how there are multiple approaches to a patient.

Favorite thing about Cleveland: Love the food scene here! And Playhouse Square has tons of good shows year round!

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Something that would involve traveling and exploring the world!

Department Title: Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Assistant Professor of Critical Care

Hometown: Rochester, New York

Undergraduate: University of Pittsburgh

Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine

Residency: Northwestern

Further Training: Anesthesia/Critical Care at University of Michigan

Research and Academic Areas of Interests: ED-ICU, ECMO, Peer Coaching

Hobbies and Interests: Pitt Athletics, Olympic Weightlifting, Brunch

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift: Resuscitation leadership, any relevant to very sick people

Favorite thing about Cleveland: It's super easy to live here.

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: stand-up philosopher

Department Title: Chairman

Undergraduate: Sewanee - The University of the South

Medical School: University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Residency: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Naval Medical Center - Portsmouth, VA (TI year)

Research and Academic Areas of Interests: Clinical operations and system engineering, trauma. Leadership development.

Hobbies and Interests: Sports

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift: The grasshopper effect and bedside leadership

Favorite thing about Cleveland: Our Department!

Department Title: Attending Physician, Trauma Liason

Hometown: Bath, OH

Undergraduate: The Ohio State University

Medical School: University of Toledo

Residency: Emergency Medicine, Albany Medical Center, NY

Research and Academic Areas of Interests: Cardiac Emergencies

Hobbies and Interests: music, skiing, hiking, cruise ship physician

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift: Taking your practice to the next level

Favorite thing about Cleveland: The Cleveland Orchestra

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Playing the Keytar in a band at a ski resort or on a cruise ship

Department Title: Lots of Jobs - including ultrasound enthusiast, residency cat herder, faculty development cheerleader (AKA Residency Program Director, Vice Chairman Academic Affairs, etc.)

Hometown: Boston, MA

Undergraduate: Princeton University

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania Medical SChool

Residency: Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency

Further Training: Ultrasound Fellowship - St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC

Research and Academic Areas of Interests: Point of care ultrasound, global emergency medicine, imaging efficacy, social justice advocacy in emergency medicine

Hobbies and Interests: My nephews, my boat, traveling.

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift: Ultrasound diagnostics!

Favorite thing about Cleveland: Lebron might actually be a higher order of human, and we have the second best orchestra on the planet!

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Teaching - I love the energy of students

Additional wisdom: Living in academic medicine = career longevity as it is constantly renewing and challenging you!

Department Title: Director of Medical Student Education

Hometown: Buena Park, CA

Undergraduate: California State University, Long Beach

Medical School: Albany Medical College

Residency: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School - Newark

Research and Academic Areas of Interests: Medical Education, Palliative Care, Wellness

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, Broadway shows, video games, star trek, tea

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift: Tox, palliative care, wellness

Favorite thing about Cleveland: Lake Erie, natural history museum

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Driving a zamboni

Random Fact: I'm a total NERD and love it!

Department Title: Attending Physician

Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

Undergraduate: Binghamton University

Medical School: New York College of Osteopathic Medicine

Residency: EM/IM OUCOM/St John Medical Center

Further Training: Ultrasound Fellowship

Research and Academic Areas of Interests: Sepsis and Point of Care Ultrasound

Hobbies and Interests: Writing, Baking, Running after my toddlers

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Writer or Teacher

Additional Wisdom: Try everyday to be a little better than yesterday

Department Title: Assistant Residency Director and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine & Anesthesia - Critical Care

Hometown: Pittsgrove, NJ

Undergraduate: Bucknell University

Medical School: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Residency: University of Cincinnati Department of Emergency Medicine

Further Training: Emergency Critical Care Fellowship, University of Michigan & Education & Research Fellowship, American Medical Student Association

Research and Academic Areas of Interests: Effective teaching practices, impacts of mentoring, goal-directed cardiac arrest and post-resuscitative care, physician advocacy/leadership development, effective teaching of social determinants of health. Teaching & mentoring, critical care in the ED, cardiac arrest care, social determinants of health

Hobbies and Interests: Traveling, baking/cooking, U.S. Supreme Court history, political advocacy, bourbon and wine tasting, reading non-fiction, kayaking and curling

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift: An approach to undifferentiated hypotension/shock

Favorite thing about Cleveland: Fahrenheit (they serve bacon as a happy hour snack!)

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Flight Attendent

Department Title: Attending Physician

Hometown: Baltimore

Undergraduate: University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Medical School: University of Maryland

Residency: University of Maryland

Favorite thing about Cleveland: Family activities

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Baking cookies or flying aircraft off a carrier.

Department Title: Assistant Medical Director

Hometown: Northville, MI

Undergraduate: University of Michigan

Medical School: University of Michigan

Residency: University of Michigan

Research and Academic Areas of Interests: Operations and Administration

Hobbies and Interests: Traveling, eating, reading

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift: Lateral Canthotomy

Favorite thing about Cleveland: Greenhouse Tavern, Westside Market

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: I would be a wedding planner.

Department Title: Chief, Division of International Emergency Medicine, Director, Global Emergency Medicine Training Fellowship

Hometown: Howell, Michigan

Undergraduate: University of Michigan

Medical School: A.T. Still University of Health Sciences, Kirksville, Missouri

Residency: University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (Emergency Medicine)

Further Training: St. Joseph Mercy Hospitals (Internal Medicine), University of Michigan (Infectious Diseases Fellowship), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (DTMH)

Research and Academic Areas of Interests: Health in displaced populations, HIV, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Antibiotic Resistance

Hobbies and Interests: Family, camping, landscaping, oenology

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift: Rational antibiotic use

Favorite thing about Cleveland: The people

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Likely working for an international health NGO

Department Title: Associate Director, Division of EMS and Disaster Medicine

Hometown: Millstone Twp, NJ

Undergraduate: Lehigh University

Medical School: Drexel University

Residency: University of Rochester

Additional Training: University of New Mexico - EMS Fellowship

Research Interests: Innovation and technology in Emergency Medicine/Prehospital Medicine; EMS operations/logistics; Mass Casualty/Disaster Medicine; Pediatric Trauma/Injury Prevention

Hobbies and Interests: Hiking, Biking, Kayaking, Live Music, Good food and drinks, Spontaneous adventures and exploration

Favorite procedure or topic to teach on shift: Pre-hospital Medicine

Favorite thing about Cleveland: Exploring new biking spots

If you weren’t doing Emergency Medicine, what would you be doing?: Product Design/Development, using my Engineering and business degree OR I'd be a nomad travelling the world