Welcome to www.calaaem.org, the website of the California Chapter of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.
Officers 2009-2010
President
Ingrid Lim, MD FAAEM
Ingrid earned a B.S. in Neuroscience at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, received her M.D. at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and completed her residency training in emergency medicine in 2005, at the Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She stayed on as chief resident and clinical instructor from 2005-2006, before joining The Permanente Medical Group at Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco Medical Center. She was appointed to the Chief of Continuing Medical Education and Staff Education. An Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF, Department of Emergency Medicine, she is residency site director at Kaiser San Francisco, an affiliate of the new UCSF-SFGH Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She was the Conference Chair for the 2009 CAL-ACEP Scientific Assembly, in Palm Springs. After receiving the Rising Star Speaker Award at the 2007 ACEP Scientific Assembly New Speaker's Forum, she has become a speaker at the ACEP Scientific Assembly. Ingrid has served on the CAL/AAEM board since 2006 and is looking forward to expanding membership, supporting and promoting AAEM's mission of workplace fairness.
Vice President
Secretary
Brian Potts, MD MBA FAAEM
Brian is a graduate of Stanford University with a B.S. in Biological Sciences. He attended medical school at University of California - Irvine where he completed a combined MD/MBA degree program. In 2007, he completed his emergency medicine residency at University of California - Irvine. Brian is currently working for Berkeley Emergency Medical Group at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. Since 2001, Brian has served as the Managing Editor for the Cal/AAEM News Service, a free electronic mail subscription service currently serving over 500 emergency physicians. This is his third year on the Cal/AAEM Board of Directors. Brian has also been actively involved with AAEM and is a current Board member for the AAEM Young Physicians Section (YPS). Prior to finishing residency, he spent six years on the Board of the AAEM Resident and Student Association (AAEM/RSA) holding multiple positions including President and Vice-President. He has enjoyed his involvement with AAEM and hopes to continue working to improve the practice environment for emergency physicians and defend the importance of board-certification.
Treasurer
Shahram Lotfipour, MD MPH FAAEM
Shahram Lotfipour, MD MPH is Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) at the University of California, Irvine. He is Assistant Dean for Clinical Science Education, Director of Undergraduate EM Education and the Director of the proposed joint MD/MPH degree program. He completed his medical school education at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and his EM Residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. He obtained a Masters in Public Health in community health sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focus includes medical student education, older adult injury prevention as well as public health. He has a special interest in mentoring medical students in research. Dr. Lotfipour has lectured extensively and has several peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Lotfipour is Managing Associate Editor of the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. He is current treasurer and past President of the California Chapter of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM), as well a founding board member of AAEM's resident and student association. He enjoys travel and keeping up with world events.
Immediate Past President
Stuart Swadron, MD FAAEM
swadron@usc.edu
Stuart currently serves as the Vice-Chair of Education and Program Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center. He has been involved with the residency program ever since joining the faculty at USC in 2000. His academic interests include cardiac and neurological emergencies and he is a frequent invited speaker both nationally and abroad. Dr. Swadron has authored over 30 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and is a regular host on the audio CME journal EM:RAP (Emergency Medicine: Reviews and Perspectives). He holds an appointment as Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine. A native of Toronto, Canada, Stuart graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto in 1992 and spent several years in general practice in British Columbia before emigrating to the United States in 1997 to pursue residency training in emergency medicine.
Stuart has been a member of the Cal/AAEM Board since soon after its inception. He feels strongly about the role of the academic community in promoting leadership in advocacy and supporting fair workplace practices for the scores of residents graduating from training programs across California each year.
Past Presidents
Steven Gabaeff, MD FAAEM
A. Antoine Kazzi, MD FAAEM
Shahram Lotfipour, MD MPH FAAEM
Robert Rodriguez, MD FAAEM
Stuart Swadron, MD FAAEM
Francine Vogler, MD FAAEM
Board Members
Sanjay Arora, MD
Dr. Arora attended UCSD for his undergraduate work before moving to UCLA for medical school. He stayed on there for residency and served as chief resident in his final year at the UCLA-Olive View program. He began his academic career as the Assistant Residency Director at Los Angeles County + USC hospital and held this title for almost two years before turning his focus towards research. He is currently in charge of medical student research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine and his personal research interests include developing programs to help minority populations achieve regular outpatient care for their chronic diseases and developing a better understanding of the many barriers that county patients face in our health care system.
Brendan Kelleher
Trevor Mills, MD FAAEM
Joanne Williams, MD FAAEM
Dr. Williams is a founding fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM). She has served on several AAEM committees throughout the years including, but not limited to the Education Committee. She has served as Secretary-Treasurer for the California Chapter of AAEM and continues to serve on its Board of Directors. Dr. Williams also serves on the Editorial Board for the AAEM Section of MedScape. She has served as the Trauma Track Chair for MEMC IV and is currently serving in that capacity for MEMC V.
Dr. Williams is the Chair of the Emergency Medicine Committee of International Trauma Care, formerly the International Trauma, Anesthesia and Critical Care Society. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science as well as a Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. As the Immediate Past Chair of the Emergency Medicine Section of the National Medical Association (NMA) she has been commissioned to serve on the House of Delegates of the NMA.
Dr. Williams completed her medical education in 1982 at the University of California at Irvine. She did her internship and residency in emergency medicine at Martin Luther King, Jr./Charles R. Drew Medical Center from 1982-1985. She was an active part of the faculty of the Emergency Medicine Department from 1989-2007. She served as Assistant Residency Director and was the Residency Director at the time of the unfortunate closure of the program in 2007.
She has also been in the clinical practice of emergency medicine since 1984. She is especially concerned about the lack of due process for emergency physicians which she has seen deteriorate through the years.
Dr. Williams is married. Her husband, Robert Lozoya, is a retired Marine and history buff. They reside in Rancho Palos Verdes, California and enjoy family and travel.
Keith Yablonicky, MD
I attended Loyola University Chicago for medical school, completed a Transitional year internship at Naval Medical Center San Diego, served in the United States Navy as a flight surgeon for 4 years, and graduated from the Emergency Medicine residency at Los Angeles County + University of Southern California in June of 2009. I currently reside in the San Diego area where I work as staff emergency medicine physician at Sharp Memorial Hospital.
Resident Representative
Montessa Tenny
Sharon Lee, MD
Sharon Lee, MD MS is a second year emergency medicine resident at the University of California, Irvine. She earned a BA in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University and a MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. She received her MD at the University of Southern California. She was also a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to Singapore in 2000 and the National Science Foundation Research Fellowship in 2002.
WestJEM Editor-in-Chief
Mark Langdorf, MD FAAEM
Mark Langdorf, MD MHPE FACEP FAAEM RDMS is Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. After medical school at UC San Diego, he did an EM residency, a fellowship in medical education and the Master degree in Health Professions Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the Interim Program Director for the emergency medicine residency. He consults and speaks nationally and internationally to promote trauma and emergency care. He is Regional Faculty for the Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course and teaches Advanced Trauma Life Support as well. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine (WestJEM), whose purpose is to disseminate information to practicing emergency physicians regarding efficient and optimal delivery of emergency care, emphasizing emerging technologies.(www.westjem.org) The Journal's goal is to be the premier open-access, peer-reviewed emergency medicine journal, drawing submissions from the Western United States and Western Hemisphere, and providing an English language forum for developing emergency care systems throughout the world. In this role, he serves on the board of directors of the California Chapter of AAEM.
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