Section Editors
Dr Richard Lappin is an emergency physician with a special interest in neurological and neurovascular emergencies. He is a graduate of the Cornell-Rockefeller M.D.-Ph.D. program, where he researched the development of nerve-muscle synapses. He is currently Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Attending Physician and Stroke Medical Director in the Emergency Department at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Dr. Carlos O. Lopez Ortiz was born in Puerto Rico in 1992. In 2014 he graduated from the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, completing his bachelor's degree in science (BS). In 2018 he graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, acquiring his doctorate in medicine (MD). Currently he is pursuing a Master of Business Administration in the University of Central Florida, and work as a full-time emergency physician in the State of Florida. His interests are related to emergency medicine and medical education.
Dr. Shayne Gue earned his medical degree from the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University and a Master's in Medical Education from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. He serves as the Director of Education and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. His research interests center on interactive educational strategies, including: gamification, team-based learning, simulation, the introduction of artificial intelligence, and the development of novel strategies to motivate the next generation of adult learners.
Dr. Raquel M. Schears is actively involved in the American College of Emergency Physicians and Society for Advancement of Emergency Medicine. She will chair the ACEP Ethics Committee for 2018-2019 and is a member of the SAEM Ethics Committee.
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Masra Muhammad Shameem is currently a second-year resident in the Emergency Medicine Residency of the Zucker School of Medicine at North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Hospital. She earned her Masters in Public Health at Stony Brook University in 2015 and her medical degree at the University of Central Florida in 2021. In 2015-2016 she pursued a Fulbright Scholarship in India. Her interests include International Emergency Medicine and medical education.
Dr Joshua Goldstein is an emergency physician with expertise in neurologic and hematologic emergencies. He is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Center for Neurologic Emergencies at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Dr Venkataraman Anantharaman is Senior Consultant at the Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Clinical Professor at the National University of Singapore and Adjunct Professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. He is Past President of the College of Emergency Physicians, Singapore, and Founder President of both the Society for Emergency Medicine in Singapore (1992-2003) and the Asian Society for Emergency Medicine (1998-2001).
Itai Shavit is a Full Clinical Professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and Division Chair of Pediatrics at Hadassah Medical Center. His research focuses on procedural pain and sedation in children, emergency care simulation, and epidemiology of pediatric emergencies. Prof. Shavit is the Lead Researcher of the Israel Pediatric Emergency Research Network (ISPERN).
Dr Peter Wagoner Greenwald is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and a board certified emergency medicine physician. He is a graduate of SUNY Downstate Health Science Center Brooklyn, residency trained at at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, and received a masters degree in biostatistics and research design from the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health in New York. Dr Greenwald is Emergency Medicine Telehealth Services Co-Director and Director of Emergency Medicine Telehealth Quality Assurance at NewYork Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Dr Kaushal Shah is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and a board certified emergency medicine physician. He is a graduate of Brown University, Dartmouth Medical School, and residency trained at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Shah is the Vice Chair of Education at NewYork Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. He serves on the ACEP Clinical Policies Committee, EAST Practice Management Guidelines Committee and the SAEM Trauma Interest Group. He is the editor-in-chief of the Essential Emergency Trauma textbook.
