Rich is the Associate Program Director of the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Emergency Medicine Residency Program, where he also completed residency. He has been the Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency Simulation and Procedures curriculum for the past 7 years. His major interests include procedural instruction, medical education, clinical decision making in the ED, public speaking, and medical errors. He is also a content contributor and editor on the EM Daily board. Emily Damuth is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University in Camden, New Jersey. She trained in Emergency Medicine at Duke University Medical Center prior to completing Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Cooper University Hospital. She splits her clinical time equally between the Emergency Department and a multidisciplinary ICU. She is passionate about medical education and mentoring residents and fellows.
Dr. R. Phillip Dellinger is Professor and Chairman of Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. He is the Medical Director of the Adult Health Institute and Senior Attending Critical Care, Cooper University Health. He co-edited the second, third and fourth (2014) edition of the major critical care textbook Critical Care Medicine (Mosby) with the fifth edition in progress. He is associate editor of Critical Care Medicine journal. He was the recipient of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. He was inducted as a Master Fellow in the College of Critical Care Medicine in 2012 and is a Past President of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He was lead author on the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines on the Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock and senior author of the 2016 guidelines. Dr Dellinger became board certified in emergency medicine in 1983 and recertified in 1993. He was American College of Surgeons ATLS State Facility (USAF) from 1986-1990. He was the first Director of the Ben Taub Medicine Emergency Center, Houston, Texas and held that position from 1985-1993. He was co-founder of the SCCM Emergency Medicine Section. David F. Gaieski, MD, is Professor, Vice Chair for Resuscitation Services, and Director of Emergency Critical Care in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of the Thomas Jefferson University. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, completed an Internal Medicine residency at Penn and an Emergency Medicine Residency at Christiana Care Health Services. His clinical and research expertise focuses on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), postcardiac arrest syndrome (PCAS), extracorporeal CPR (ECPR), and protocolized care for severe sepsis and septic shock. Dr. Gaieski has lectured and published extensively on the optimal clinical management of patients with PCAS and severe sepsis. In addition, he has used large national and international databases to study cardiac arrest and sepsis incidence and mortality. He has served as PI or co-pi on grants focused on optimizing outcomes for patients with critical illness, started the first US registry of PCAS care, is a member of the Japanese Circulation Society s Resuscitation Science Subcommittee, is CO-PI on a nationwide study examining length of CPR in Japan, and is involved in the development of the first US ECPR network to pool data and study outcomes.
Dr. Ryan Gibbons attended the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. Upon graduation, he served in Navy as the medical department head on the USS NASHVILLE (LPD 13) and then as the Flight Surgeon for VQ-4. Following his service in the Navy, he returned to Temple for an Emergency Medicine residency and also completed an ultrasound fellowship at Temple, where he currently serves as the Assistant Director of Emergency Ultrasound. Dr. Gibbons enjoys spending time with his beautiful new fiancé, Maureen, and taking sailing lessons. John is an EM trained intensivist at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Medical Director of their Resuscitation & Critical Care Unit and an intensivist in their Heart Vascular ICU. John is the Creator & Editor in Chief of the EMRA PressorDex and has a research interest in resuscitation and mechanical circulatory support.
Dr. Annahieta Kalantari is the Associate Program Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency at Aria Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, PA. She was the former Director of Emergency Ultrasonography where she developed the EM ultrasound program from the ground up before accepting her current position. She developed the Sepsis Alert Protocol at Aria Jefferson Health and currently served as the Chair of the Sepsis Management Committee for 5 years. She has given several talks on the subject of sepsis nationally and is honored to be speaking at ResusEM. Dr. Hope Kilgannon is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. She is a graduate of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed her EM residency at Cooper University Hospital where she has practiced for the past 14 years. Her primary interests are in medical education and resuscitation science. Dr. Kilgannon's research has concentrated on the critical period of illness immediately after return of spontaneous circulation from cardiac arrest. Specifically, it has been focused on post-cardiac arrest optimization of blood pressure and oxygen parameters. Her work is published in multiple peer reviewed journals including JAMA and Circulation and Resuscitation. She is on the editorial board and a regular contributor to EMDaily.
Dr. Haney Mallemat is board certified in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine. He is an Associate Professor and works in both the Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit at Cooper Medical School at Rowan University in Camden, NJ. He has lectured both nationally and internationally, and has contributed to several Emergency Medicine and Critical Care podcasts. He is a firm believer in the benefits of bedside ultrasound for better patient care and uses ultrasound to help educate medical students, residents, fellows, nurses, and midlevel providers. He was awarded the Department of Emergency Medicine Outstanding Teaching Award in 2012, 2013, 2015 and in 2016 and the Faculty Teacher of the Year Award in Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Lars Peterson is an assistant professor in the departments of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School at Rowan University and practices in a multidisciplinary ICU and the emergency department of Cooper University Hospital in Camden, NJ. He came to Camden by way of Arizona (born and raised) and the University of Rochester (EM residency, IM-CCM fellowship). In addition to mentoring residents and fellows in emergency medicine and critical care medicine, Lars focuses on improving the systems and logistics of caring for the critically ill. His other interests include patient safety and physician wellness.
Dr. Brian Roberts is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. He graduated from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School with a Distinction in Service to the Community. He remained at Cooper University Hospital for his emergency medicine residency training and served as Chief Resident during his third year. After residency he joined as a faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Cooper University Hospital and completed a one-year Resuscitation Research Fellowship. Dr. Roberts is a recipient of a K23 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and is currently Study Director for the Emergency Medicine Shock Research Network s current investigation studying hyperoxia in post-cardiac arrest syndrome, funded by an R01 awarded from the NHLBI to Dr. Stephen Trzeciak. Dr. Erin Sabolick attended Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine after graduating from University of Delaware. She then began her training at Aria Health system where she completed a combined residency in both family medicine and emergency medicine. During her residency she was afforded the opportunity to participate in multiple medical missions to Vietnam, Haiti, and Jamaica. Dr. Sabolick then moved to Baltimore to complete a surgical critical care fellowship at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. She returned to Philadelphia to begin her career at Drexel University College of Medicine where she would become an assistant professor of emergency medicine. She then decided to move her employment north to work in neuro-critical care and emergency medicine at Albert Einstein Healthcare System, where she is currently employed. Dr. Sabolick loves working in an academic center and values the opportunity to help educate residents. Beyond work she loves spending time with her family, running with her dog, cooking, and getting outside.
Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH is Head of Critical Care Medicine at Cooper University Health Care, and a Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. His board certifications include internal medicine, emergency medicine, critical care medicine, and neurocritical care. Dr. Trzeciak s area of both clinical and research expertise has been resuscitation science. His research has been funded by grants from the American Heart Association, Shock Society, Emergency Medicine Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of General Medical Sciences and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute). He has 90+ publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, including Circulation, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, The New England Journal of Medicine, and JAMA. Broadly, Dr. Trzeciak s foremost goal is to improve health and quality of life through science.