Faculty

Select the faculty member below to view his/her biography

Bryant Kendall Allen, MD
Jill Antoniazzi, MD
Andrew W. Asimos, MD, FACEP
Vitaliy Belyshev, MD
Cortlyn Brown, MD
Mark J. Bullard, MD, MS-HPEd
David W. Callaway, MD
Lindsey Chaudoin, MD
Kathleen Chen, MD
Stephen Colucciello, MD, FACEP
Tyler Constantine, MD
Dalton Cox, MD
Lia Cruz, DO
Adeline Dozois, MD
Erik Fisher, MD
Sean Fox, MD
Denise Fraga, MD
Ann-Jeannette Geib, MD
Michael Gibbs, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Joshua Glasser, MD
Christopher Griggs, MD, MPH
Ryan Hata, MD
Eric Hawkins, MD
Alan Heffner, MD
Jessica Hoglund, MD

Kathryn T. Kopec, DO
Margaret Lewis, MD
Emily MacNeill, MD
Christyn Magill, MD
John Manning, MD, FAMIA, FACEP
H. Pendell Meyers, MD
Juma A. Mfinanga, MD, MMED
Dr. Nsofor
Courtney Owens, MD
Nilesh Patel, MD
David A. Pearson, MD, MS, MBA, FACEP, FAAEM
Amy Puchalski, MD
Stacy Reynolds, MD
Annie Rominger, MD
Michael Runyon, MD, MPH
Jessica Salzman, MD
Hendry Sawe, MD, MMED, MBA
Chad Scarboro, MD
James “Mac” Segars, MD
Danielle Sutton, MD
Doug Swanson, MD, FACEP, FAEMS, FAMPA
Vivek S. Tayal, MD, FACEP
Kenneth Vanderhave, MD
Cathy Wares, MD
Anthony J. Weekes, MD

Faculty Biographies

	Bryant Kendall Allen, MD Associate Program Director/Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine Bryant completed a BS in Mathematics at Birmingham-Southern College before attending medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. He completed his Emergency Medicine residency training at Carolinas Medical Center in 2015, where he served as chief resident in his final year. Since joining the CMC faculty, Bryant has served as the Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency didactic curriculum and has helped to advance medical education both inside and outside of the residency training program. His academic interests include advancing trauma care and resuscitation, airway management and medical education, with an emphasis on non-traditional methods including his efforts with residency FOAM projects through EMGuidewire (www.emguidewire.com) and Emergency Medicine: Advanced Clinical Topics (EM:ACT). Outside of the hospital, Bryant can be found with his wife, Mollie, and three wild sons, Ollie, Max and Finn, and his even wilder daughter, Annie.
	Jill Antoniazzi, MD, FACEP Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Jill received her medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania Hahnemann University in 2002 and completed residency in Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in 2005. She returned to the faculty in July 2008 after three years of private and academic practice in Chicago. Her interests include clinical resident and medical student education.
	Andrew Asimos, MD, FACEP Professor of Emergency Medicine Dr. Asimos received his Medical Degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1990 and completed his emergency medicine residency at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. In 1994, he joined the emergency medicine faculty at Carolinas Medical Center after pursing a one-year fellowship in Emergency Medicine Administration at Detroit Receiving Hospital and Wayne State University, during which he completed the program on Management in Healthcare at the Kenan Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. Andrew’s major academic and research interests include neurologic emergencies, particularly stroke and TIA. He has received several teaching awards from graduating Emergency Medicine residency classes, including the Outstanding Academician Award in 2007, the Exemplar Award in 2009 and the Outstanding Teacher Award in 2014. Additionally, the American College of Emergency Physicians recognized him with the National Emergency Medicine Faculty Teaching Award in 2021. For his research accomplishments, in 2021 he received the Wake Forest School of Medicine Established Investigator Research Award. Since 2016, Dr. Asimos has been the Medical Director for Atrium Health’s Stroke Network, which is among the busiest integrated acute stroke networks in the country.
	Vitaliy Belyshev, MD Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Born in Russia, Vitaliy immigrated to the United States as a child and grew up in western Massachusetts. Vitaliy received his BS in Physics at the University of Massachusetts in 2009 and his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 2015. During medical school, he spent a year living and studying in Germany. He completed his Emergency Medicine residency at Christiana Care Health Services in Newark, Delaware in 2018. He completed his Advanced Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center in 2019. After his training, he joined the CMC faculty where he continues to actively participate in the ultrasound division serving as the Ultrasound Operations Director and heading the departments resuscitative TEE applications. Apart from ultrasound, his area of interests includes public policy, emerging technologies and administration.
	Cortlyn Brown, MD Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Dr. Cortlyn Brown is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Atrium Health Carolinas in Charlotte, NC. She graduated with honors from the University of Chicago and earned her medical degree from Yale School of Medicine, where she received the Parker Prize for best exemplifying the qualities of a successful physician. During medical school, she also completed the NIH Howard Hughes Medical Research Fellowship. She went on to complete her residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she served as Chief Resident and was awarded the Chancellor Award for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the institution’s highest honors for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion. She later earned a Master’s in Clinical Operations from Harvard Medical School. Since joining Atrium Health in 2020, Dr. Brown has served as Vice Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Department of Emergency Medicine. She also directs the Health Disparities in Emergency Medicine clerkship and leads the Women in Emergency Medicine group. Nationally, Dr. Brown has served in multiple leadership roles, including as Section Editor for WestJEM, Professional Board Member of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA), Chair of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine’s (AAEM) Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Section, National Vice President of the SNMA, and Chair of the AAEM Resident and Student Association Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Her research on health disparities and equity has been published in JAMA Internal Medicine, Annals of Emergency Medicine, and Academic Emergency Medicine.
	Mark J. Bullard, MD, MS-HPEd Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine Dr. Mark Bullard graduated from the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine in 2001, and subsequently completed his residency in emergency medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in 2004. Dr. Bullard has studied simulation education at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston and completed his Master’s in Health Professions Education (MS-HPEd), with a focus on simulation, at Mass General Institute. Dr. Bullard has been involved throughout Atrium Health in the development and implementation of multiple educational curricula using high-fidelity medical simulation as a vehicle to train residents and other medical professionals in a consistent, safe, and efficient environment. Dr. Bullard has used a model of hands-on adult learning with guided discussion, debriefing and feedback to help define simulation as an educational modality within Atrium Health. Currently, Dr. Bullard serves as the Medical Director of Carolinas Simulation Center, Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine’s simulation program and Director for Atrium Health’s Intern Simulation Common Critical Care Curriculum (4Cs).
	David W. Callaway, MD, MPA Professor of Emergency Medicine Dr. Callaway is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center where he serves as the Director of the Division of Operational and Disaster Medicine and the Enterprise Chief of Crisis Operations and Sustainability. Dave joined our faculty in 2011. Prior to CMC, he served as a physician supporting the United States Marine Corps and was a Chief Resident at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Boston. In 2008, he was awarded a Zuckerman Fellowship from the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School of Government to study leadership, national security and disaster response. Dr. Callaway has extensive civilian and military overseas experience in Iraq, Kuwait, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Burma, El Salvador and throughout Africa. In 2012, The World Economic Forum selected Dave as a Young Global Leader (YGL) based upon his innovative work in disaster, humanitarian and crisis medical response. After work in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (2014), he joined Team Rubicon as the Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Callaway currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Committee for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (a best practices R&D group charged with translating battlefield lessons learned to civilian high threat prehospital medicine) and the World Affairs Council of Charlotte. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Callaway's areas of focus include global health security, firearm violence and injury prevention, climate change and crisis innovation..
	Lindsey Chaudoin, MD Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Lindsey received her undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University and completed medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She then moved to NYC for pediatric residency, chief residency, pediatric emergency fellowship and ultrasound fellowship at Columbia University/ Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. She worked in New York for the next 5 years before returning home to the south and her new home of Charlotte and CMC in 2018. She is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Her academic interests are in emergency ultrasound and education.
	Kathleen Chen, MD Assistant Professor Dr. Chen earned her bachelor’s degree in neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh and completed her medical degree at Boston University. Dr. Chen completed her Emergency Medicine Residency at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and her Medical Toxicology Fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Texas. She enjoys hiking, cooking, jigsaw puzzles, and dabbling in gardening.
	Stephen Colucciello, MD, FACEP Professor of Emergency Medicine Steve joined our faculty in 1992, after working in a large county hospital and Trauma Center in south Florida. He trained in Emergency Medicine at the Colombia University Affiliated Hospitals and is the author or co-author of over 350 emergency medicine publications and has given more than 450 national and international presentations. He won a national award for presentations in emergency medicine from ACEP. He is the editor or co-editor of eight emergency medicine textbooks and the founder and past editor-in-chief of two Emergency Medicine journals. He is Vice Chair of the Department, previous director of the Adult ED, and Trauma Coordinator for our department. His many research interests include use of evidence-based algorithms to improve care and reduce medical-legal risk in the ED.
	Tyler Constantine, MD Program Director, EMS Fellowship Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Dr. Constantine earned his B.A. from Colgate University in 2004 and his M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2013. Throughout his post-baccalaureate and medical school training, he worked as a paramedic in the New York metro area. He went on to complete his Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Chicago in 2016, where he also served as Chief Flight Physician for UCAN, the hospital’s helicopter transport service. In 2016, Dr. Constantine moved to Charlotte to complete the ACGME-accredited EMS Fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center, joining the Emergency Medicine faculty the following year. He currently serves as Medical Director for Atrium Health’s Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) Program, which supports Hospital at Home and other innovative operations in Charlotte and Winston-Salem. In addition, he is Program Director for the Carolinas Medical Center EMS Fellowship and oversees the Emergency Medicine resident EMS rotation. Dr. Constantine also provides medical direction for Stanly County EMS and the Stanly Community College Paramedic Program, and supports Mecklenburg EMS with quality assurance and online medical direction.
	Dalton Cox, MD Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Dalton received his medical degree from UNC in 2012 and completed his residency at Mount Sinai in New York City in 2016, where he was named Teaching Resident of the Year. He joined clinical faculty in 2016 and has received faculty teaching awards from both the residency and medical school. In 2025, Dr. Cox was named Faculty Exemplar by the graduating resident class. His interests include clinical quality and patient safety. He currently serves as Interim Medical Director. He is also leader of the EM QA Committee and the Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Team. Outside of work he volunteers as a board member for Camp Blues Skies, a non-profit organization for adults with developmental disabilities.
	Lia Cruz, DO Program Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Lia began her medical career in the northeast, where she earned her medical degree from The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 2012. She stayed in New Jersey to complete a residency in Pediatrics at Cooper University Hospital, where she served as Chief Resident during her graduating year. She then completed a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia where she served as Chief Fellow. She completed a simulation fellowship in 2022 at the Harvard Center for Medical Simulation and currently remains on as adjunct faculty. Research interests include resident and fellow education, teamwork and organizational science, simulation-based education, and quality improvement.
	Adeline Dozois, MD Program Director, Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director of Acting Internship in EM Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine Originally from Bradenton, Florida, she attended college at the University of Notre Dame and medical school at Vanderbilt University. She first began cultivating a passion for global health during college, involving herself with a variety of projects throughout Central and South America. These early experiences prepared her for a residency elective in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, which subsequently inspired her to sign on as CMC’s inaugural Global Health Fellow. As a faculty member, she supports international partnerships in Tanzania, Brazil, and Guatemala through medical education projects. Outside of work Adeline enjoys running, learning foreign languages, and spending time with her husband and young son.
	Erik Fisher, MD Program Director, Medical Toxicology Fellowship Dr. Fisher was born in Central Vermont and raised in Portland, Maine. He received his BA in Microbiology at Cornell University in 2009 and his medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College in 2013. He completed an Emergency Medicine residency at Yale University, where he served as chief resident. After residency, he pursued a fellowship in Medical Toxicology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix. After completing training, he was part of the Emergency Medicine faculty at Prisma Health – Upstate in Greenville, SC for 3 years where he started an inpatient Medical Toxicology consultation service. Dr. Fisher joined the Division of Medical Toxicology at CMC in 2022. His academic interests include toxicology education, acute care toxicology, snake envenomations, and novel therapies for severe acetaminophen toxicity. Outside of work, he likes to spend time with his husband and their dog and cat. He also enjoys hiking, running, and sci-fi books and movies.
	Sean Fox, MD Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Professor of Emergency Medicine Professor of Pediatrics Sean received his medical degree and completed a combined residency in EM/Peds at the University of Maryland. In his fifth year of residency, he was Chief Resident and developed an interest in teaching medical students and residents. With that interest, he completed ACEP’s Teaching Fellowship focusing on curriculum development with innovative methods. He has received several teaching awards including the Outstanding Teacher Award from the graduating Emergency Medicine class of 2009 and 2015, the W. Elliott White Community Teaching Award from the graduating Pediatric class of 2010, the Outstanding Academician Award in 2011, and the Excellence in Resident Education Award in 2013. Additionally, the American College of Emergency Physicians bestowed the National Emergency Medicine Faculty Teaching Award to Dr. Fox in 2014. Currently he is the program director of the Emergency Medicine residency and works in both the Pediatric and Adult emergency departments. Outside the clinical realm, he encourages continued educational endeavors via electronic media by authoring and managing several websites, including www.PedEMMorsels.com, www.EMGuideWire.com, and www.CMCEdMasters.com.
	Denise Fraga, MD, MPA Program Director, Ultrasound Emergency Medicine Fellowship Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Dr. Fraga grew up along the Texas-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas. She received her undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Notre Dame, her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, and a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Texas at Austin - LBJ School of Public Affairs. She completed her emergency medicine training at the University of Maryland in Baltimore and an ultrasound fellowship at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Dr. Fraga is also the Ultrasound Fellowship Director. She completed her Certification in Critical Care Echocardiography (CCEeXAM) and Focused Practice Designation (FPD) in Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography (AEMUS). Her academic interests include point-of-care echo, ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia, and education. She teaches POCUS in Guatemala through a collaboration with the emergency medicine residency program in Guatemala City and the pediatric residency program in Escuintla, Guatemala. Dr. Fraga has also worked internationally in Colombia, Rwanda, Lesotho, and Guyana.
	Ann-Jeannette Geib, MD, FACEP, FACMT Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine Dr. Geib was born and raised in Edison, NJ, and earned her undergraduate degree in Biology at Villanova University. She obtained her medical degree at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and did a medicine internship at UMDNJ-University Hospital in Newark, NJ. She completed an Emergency Medicine residency at Morristown Memorial Hospital. She completed a Medical Toxicology fellowship at Children’s Hospital in Boston. After three years in private Toxicology/EM practice in Harrisburg, PA, she joined the faculty at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (now Rutgers-RWJMS). There, she expanded a small Medical Toxicology service and established a resident rotation. Dr. Geib joined Carolinas Medical Center’s Department of Emergency Medicine and the Division of Medical Toxicology in 2018. Dr. Geib’s interests include medical student and resident education and acute care toxicology
	Michael Gibbs, MD, FACEP, FAAEM Professor and Chair Department Chair/Professor of Emergency Medicine Dr. Michael Gibbs currently serves as the Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) and Levine Children’s Hospital (LCH). The Emergency Department at CMC/LCH is one of the busiest in the Southeast with over 120,000 annual patient visits. The Department is home for one of the mostly highly reputed emergency medicine residency programs in the country, ranked 4th of 276 U.S. programs by Doximity™ in 2022. In addition to our residency program, CMC/LCH EM operates seven highly competitive fellowship, our faculty serve multiple important leadership roles at Atrium Health and beyond, and our Emergency Medicine Research program is one of the most highly ranked in the country. Dr. Gibbs received his Medical Doctor degree at New York Medical College in 1990, and he then went on to complete emergency medicine residency training at the University of Pittsburg. During his 29-year career as an academic emergency physician he has served a wide array of leadership and administrative roles, first Chief at Maine Medical Center between 2002 and 2011, and subsequently as Chair at Carolinas Medical Center since 2011. In addition to his role as Chair, Dr. Gibbs also served as the Vice President of Research for Atrium Health during 2014 – 2015 and again from 2019 to 2021. For the past seven years, Dr. Gibbs has also been the Medical Director of the Center for Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Emergency Medicine Fellowship. Dr. Gibbs has multiple academic interests including airway management, trauma, asthma, aortic emergencies, diagnostic imaging, and medical errors. He is a nationally and internationally recognized clinical lecturer in the field of Emergency Medicine, and long-time national faculty member for the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Gibbs also has a long history of original contributions to the literature, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications to his credit. Above all things, Dr. Gibbs prides himself most to be an actively practicing member of the CMC/LCH EM faculty that provides the best emergency care in the nation.
	Joshua Glasser, MD Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics Medical Director of the Levine Children's Pediatric Emergency Department Dr. Glasser is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine & Pediatrics at Carolinas Medical Center and the Medical Director of the Levine Children's Pediatric Emergency Department at Atrium Health Union Hospital. Originally from Atlanta, GA, Dr. Glasser completed undergraduate studies at Emory University followed by a year of service with AmeriCorps. He attended medical school at the Medical College of Georgia. He completed combined residency training in Emergency Medicine & Pediatrics at the University of Arizona where he served as Chief Resident. Before joining Carolinas Medical Center, Dr Glasser was an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine & Pediatrics at Penn State Health where he served as Director of Undergraduate Medical Education for the Department of Emergency Medicine as well as Core Faculty for the Emergency Medicine Residency, Specialty Advisor for Emergency Medicine for the Penn State College of Medicine, and EM Interest Group Advisor. His interests include delivery of pediatric emergency care across health systems, medical education, airway management, and point of care ultrasound. Outside of work, Dr. Glasser enjoys tennis, ultimate frisbee, travel, and anything that gets him and his family outdoors.
	Christopher Griggs MD, MPH Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine Dr. Griggs is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine. He graduated from Emory College in 2004 with a BS in Neurobiology and Behavioral Biology before earning his MD/MPH from the Rollins School of Public Health and Emory School of Medicine in 2010. He completed his emergency medicine residency at Boston Medical Center in 2014 and is board-certified in both emergency medicine and addiction medicine. Dr. Griggs serves as the medical director for Project SEED, an ED-based SBIRT program, and as a co-medical director for the Mecklenburg County Post-Overdose Response Team. He is also a section editor for the American Journal of Emergency Medicine and a regional medical director for readmission reduction at Atrium Health. Additionally, he serves on the board of the North Carolina College of Emergency Physicians. His professional interests include pain and addiction management in the emergency department, transitions of care, population health, and health policy.
	Ryan Hata, MD Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, Dr. Ryan Hata obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Utah and attended medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Wake Forest University Medical Center in North Carolina, after which he worked in multiple community and academic health centers across the United States. He is a graduate of the Disaster Medicine Fellowship and was a Research Fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to joining Atrium Health, he was the Assistant Director of the Disaster Medicine fellowship at Indiana University. In addition to practicing medicine, Dr. Hata has served in several leadership positions for multiple local, national, and international organizations. He is the Alternate Councilor and newsletter co-editor for the Disaster Medicine Section for ACEP, and is a Director of the Board and Chief Financial Officer for the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine. He has a special interest in medical education and community preparedness, and has taught medical, hygiene and resuscitation skills to health care professionals and communities in the U.S., Africa, Asia, South America and the Caribbean. His clinical and research interests include healthcare technology and cybersecurity, counterterrorism and operational medicine, humanitarian assistance and medical and disaster education. He is pursuing a master’s degree in Cybersecurity and Risk Management at Indiana University. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, exercise, photography and videography, cooking and eating good food and enjoying a nice glass of wine with his wife, Jessica.
	Eric Hawkins, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Eric comes to us from UNC Chapel Hill, where he pursued his undergraduate, Masters in public health, and eventually his medical school training before completing his residency in emergency medicine here at CMC in 2010. He left CMC to work in the community for a year before returning to complete his EMS Fellowship and eventually joined the clinical faculty here in 2012. He has interest in prehospital care, EMS education, injury prevention, and disaster preparedness and currently serves as the assistant medical director for CMC Special Events Medicine and the Center for Prehospital Medicine.
	Alan Heffner, MD Alan C. Heffner, MD, practices adult critical care and emergency medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC, where he is Professor and Co-Director of Adult Critical Care and Director or ECMO Services. Dr. Heffner is a well-recognized national speaker and instructor on acute critical illness.
	Jessica Hoglund, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Jessica is originally from Toms River, New Jersey, but has lived most of her life here in Charlotte. She spent some time in Columbia, South Carolina, earning her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of South Carolina and her Medical Degree from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. She then completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in 2020, where she spent her final year as chief resident, and stayed on as faculty after graduation. She currently serves as the Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director for third year students at WFSOM. Her interests include neurologic emergencies and medical student education.
	Kathryn T. Kopec, D.O. Professor of Emergency Medicine Dr. Kathryn Kopec is currently a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Kopec obtained her bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Dayton and her medical degree from Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed her Emergency Medicine residency and Medical Toxicology fellowship at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA. Following fellowship, she served as Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology Faculty at Duke University, Durham, NC from 2013-2015. She joined the CMC Faculty in May 2015. Dr. Kopec currently serves as the Director of the Medical Toxicology Division and coordinates the resident and visiting fellow experience on the Medical Toxicology clinical service. She is currently on the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) Board of Directors. Academically her interests involved global toxicology, drugs of abuse, agitated delirium, and toxicology education.
	Margaret Lewis, MD Professor of Emergency Medicine Margaret completed medical school in 2008 and Emergency Medicine residency in 2011, both at the Medical University of South Carolina. After years in Charleston, Margaret moved to Charlotte for an Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center which she completed in 2012 and then joined CMC as ultrasound faculty. Margaret currently directs ultrasound education for Wake Forest University School of Medicine - Charlotte which includes a longitudinal ultrasound experience for the 3rd year medical students, an ultrasound elective for 4th year medical students, and a new pre-clerkship ultrasound course embedded into a problem-based learning curriculum for 1st and 2nd year students. In her ultrasound role within the Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Margaret also teaches residents and fellows point-of-care ultrasound and leads continuing education in ultrasound. Margaret has other roles in undergraduate medical education including her role as Curriculum Director for the 4th Year in Charlotte as well as working with the Transition to Residency. Her focuses include ultrasound in medical student education, resident education, and gaming in education. Other ultrasound interests include resuscitative ultrasound, aortic ultrasound and ultrasound in women’s health.
	Emily MacNeill, MD Assistant Program Director/Professor of Emergency Medicine Emily comes to us from Indiana University where she completed a combined residency in Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics. She attended medical school at Indiana University after completing a Bachelor of Science and Biology at Brown University in Rhode Island. Her interests include pediatric quality work, diversity, inclusion and equity as well as residency administration and education. She currently serves as the Director for Inclusion and Equity for the Division of Medical Education and the Associate Residency Director for the Emergency Medicine residency program.
	Christyn Magill, MD Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine Christyn received her BS in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 from Georgia Institute of Technology and her medical degree from University of Florida in 2009. She completed her pediatrics residency at VCU Medical Center at the Children's Hospital of Richmond in 2012 and was faculty in the CHoR Children's Emergency Department for 2 years before pursuing a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center, which she completed in 2017. She joined the faculty at CMC as Associate Program Director of the PEM Fellowship in 2017 and then served as the Program Director from 2019 to 2025. She has specific interests in pediatric airway management, optimizing care of pediatric patients in the prehospital setting, care of the pediatric trauma patient, and medical education for all levels of trainees. She meets with Wake Forest 3rd year medical students monthly to teach about the care of sick pediatric patients via simulation scenarios and procedural training. She is a researcher with the Charlotte, Houston, and Milwaukee Prehospital (CHaMP) node of PECARN. She is also a faculty member of the Difficult Airway Course: Emergency Edition.
	John Manning, MD, FAMIA, FACEP Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine John is an innovative, usability-focused informatician developer with skills in design and video editing. He received his medical degree from New York Medical College (2012); completed EM residency at Carilion Clinic / Virginia Tech Carilion (2015); and completed fellowship in Clinical Informatics at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2017). Clinical Informatics (CI) is a new specialty of medicine “that transforms healthcare” (per the ACGME) that held its first board exams in 2013. CI is uniquely multidisciplinary and is a career available to any specialty of medicine. As one of the inaugural classes of ACGME-accredited CI fellowships, John was one of the founding board members of AMIA’s CI Fellows (ACIF) and served as their first secretary. He is also the lead author of the “KOI Pond,” which is an open publication that defines informatics practice based on setting (internal, external, policy) and focus area (knowledge, operations, innovation). John harnesses informatics to create user-focused dashboards and visualizations for clinicians, all the while bolstering opportunities for innovation and human factors to improve bedside care. These efforts have been internationally recognized, including keynote talks at HL7® FHIR® DevDays. He is also the world’s first (and currently the only) healthcare person to be designated a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in the programming language Dart/Flutter, of which ~8 Dart/Flutter GDEs exist on this continent and ~80 exist in the world. He is skilled at livecoding in Flutter while lecturing and explaining its core concepts...and in building apps that connect Flutter to the global standard for healthcare interoperability: FHIR® (pronounced “fire”). He is a recipient of the 2021 Wake Forest School of Medicine Entrepreneurship Award. Also...he juggles fire.
	H. Pendell Meyers, MD Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Pendell received his medical degree from Duke University in 2016, then completed EM residency training at Stony Brook University Hospital in 2019, after which he stayed on for a one-year Advanced Resuscitation Training program. His research and educational interests include ED critical care, emergency electrocardiography, and acute coronary occlusion. He is co-editor of Dr. Smith's ECG Blog, through which he contributes to the worldwide free open access meducation movement. He is co-creator of the Occlusion Myocardial Infarction paradigm shift, and co-creator of PMcardio "Queen of Hearts" AI ECG interpretation model. His primary research focus is to improve the understanding and treatment of Occlusion MI (acute coronary occlusion).
	Juma A. Mfinanga, MD, MMED Juma A. Mfinanga received his medical degree from the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2008. He completed EM residency training at MUHAS in 2013 in the program’s inaugural class, becoming one of the very first locally trained emergency physicians in Tanzania. During his training, he served as a chief resident and chairman of all postgraduates in the University. Dr. Mfinanga is currently the Head of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), the largest national referral hospital in Tanzania. He also serves as coordinator of EMS and Disaster Medicine for MNH and is the country-wide coordinator for the Primary Trauma Care course. He is also a founding member and general secretary of the Emergency Medicine Association of Tanzania (EMAT), the national professional association charged with disseminating emergency care in Tanzania, serves as the treasurer of the Medical Association Tanzania (MAT) and is a member of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM). Dr. Mfinanga’s research interests include EMS, disaster medicine and emergency trauma care.
	Maureen Nsofor, MD Maureen received her medical degree from Morehouse School of Medicine in 2019. She completed her residency in general pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine in 2022 and fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine in 2025. She joined the CMC faculty in August 20225. Maureen has a special interest in injury prevention. Her scholarly project during fellowship focused on pediatric firearm injuries in the Charlotte area. She hopes to continue injury prevention work. She specially wants to be more involved in educating children and their families on preventable childhood injuries at the community level. Currently, Maureen is one of the 2025 T4CIP cohorts, a national program that helps medical students, residents, and fellows build advocacy and leadership skill while working on real-world campaigns to keep kids safer. In her free time, Maureen enjoys spending time with her family, a good work out, or binge-watching some series on Netflix.
	Courtney Owens, MD Assistant Program Director Dr. Courtney Owens completed her undergraduate degree in Medicine, Health and Society from Vanderbilt University in 2013. After completion of her undergraduate studies, Courtney pursued her passion for education and service by joining Teach for America and serving as a 7th Grade Math and Science teacher in Oakland, California from 2013-2015. Courtney then completed her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in 2020. Courtney completed her training in Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center, where she was selected as Chief Resident in her final year. Courtney then completed Ultrasound Fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center in 2024 and joined the Carolinas Medical Center Emergency Medicine faculty thereafter. Courtney’s academic interests include medical education, ultrasound education and diversity, equity and inclusion.
	Nilesh Patel, MD Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Nilesh received his Medical Degree from East Tennessee State University/Quillen College of Medicine in 1999. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA in 2004. He has practiced community based EM for 7 years in Chicago and Charlotte before joining the CMC Faculty in January of 2011. His interests include clinical teaching of Emergency Medicine.
	David A. Pearson, MD, MS, MBA, FACEP, FAAEM Greater Charlotte Market – EM Physician Leader Professor of Emergency Medicine Dave received his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida in 1997 and 1998, respectively. He completed medical school at Vanderbilt University in 2002, Emergency Medicine residency at Denver Health Medical Center in 2006, and a Masters in Business Administration from Wake Forest University in 2017. He is board-certified in Emergency Medicine and Clinical Informatics. His passions are quality of care, ED operations, healthcare innovation and technology, graduate medical education, cardiac arrest resuscitation, cardiovascular emergencies, and healthcare for the homeless. He currently serves as the Charlotte Market physician leader for the Emergency Medicine Service Line and is a physician leader for the Atrium Health Resuscitation Committee, and the medical director of the J. Lee Garvey Chest Pain Network. He is the Chair Emeritus of the Board of Directors of Shelter Health Services, a non-profit, free clinic for Charlotte’s homeless women and children, where the residents and faculty provide majority of volunteer physician hours and continue to fully support clinic operations. He is always pursuing innovative approaches of emergency care delivery that improve patient-oriented outcomes.
	Amy Puchalski, MD Associate Program Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Amy received her medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1997 and moved on to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. There she completed her Pediatrics residency in 2000 and her Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship in 2003. For the past 10 years she has been an attending and part-time assistant professor in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Georgia Reagents University (Medical College of Georgia) in Augusta, GA. She developed interests in child abuse and neglect prevention as well as injury prevention while serving on the Board of trustees for the Children's Trust of South Carolina, a non-profit organization which aims to prevent child abuse and unintentional injuries. Currently she is the Associate Program Director of the PEM Fellowship and helps to run the PEM Fellowship Clinical Competency Committee.
	Stacy Reynolds, MD Division Chief, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Medical Director, Children’s ED Professor of Emergency Medicine Stacy serves as the Division Chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine since 2017. She received her medical degree from Drexel University in 2000. She completed residency in general pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh in 2003 and 2005. She then went on to train in general emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Affiliated Residency in Emergency Medicine until 2008. She served as the pediatric emergency medicine fellowship director from 2010 until June 2019. She served on the Sub-board of Pediatric Emergency Medicine from 2014 to 2020 and served as Chair of the Sub-board of Pediatric Emergency Medicine in 2020. She remains active with the American Board of Pediatrics and serves as a content expert for maintenance of certification. Her academic interests include telemedicine and human trafficking. She is the Medical Director for a grant funded response team called the Atrium Health Human Trafficking Emergency Medical Advocacy Team.
	Annie Rominger, MD Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine Annie received her medical degree and masters of public health from the University of South Florida in 2006 and 2009. She completed her a residency in general pediatrics at the University of South Florida in 2009 and fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and masters of clinical investigation at the University of Louisville in 2012. Dr. Rominger joined the CMC faculty from The University of Louisville in 2020. At the University of Louisville, she was the Associate Research Director and Global Heath Director for the PEM division. She developed a longitudinal ultrasound educational curriculum for local providers in Chiapas, Mexico and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Since joining the CMC faculty, she has mentored multiple fellows on their scholarly projects and has overseen the PEM fellow Scholarly Oversight Committee (SOC). Annie also organizes the division journal club. She is a member of the career development subgroup of the AAP Women in PEM national committee. She has also been an instructor at multiple national and international conferences. She has an interest in education and mentorship.
	Michael Runyon, MD, MPH EM Research Director Chief of Academic & Faculty Affairs Professor of Emergency Medicine Mike worked full-time as a paramedic for five years before completing his undergraduate work at the University of West Florida in 1996, graduating summa cum laude with a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Social Science. He received his MD, with honors, from the University of Florida in 2000 and completed his emergency medicine residency at Carolinas Medical Center in 2003, serving as chief resident during his final year. He remained at CMC for a research fellowship, joined the Emergency Medicine Faculty in 2005, and served for several years as Assistant Residency Director and the Director of Medical Student Education. Mike founded the CMC Global Emergency Medicine Division and helped to develop the first emergency department and emergency medicine residency program in Tanzania, where he serves as an Honorary Lecturer at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam. He received his MPH from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2015 and currently serves as the CMC EM Chief of Academic & Faculty Affairs.
	Jessica Salzman, MD Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine Jessica has been on faculty at Atrium Health’s Carolinas Medical Center since 2011. She earned her medical degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2008. Jessica then went on to complete residency training at Atrium Health’s Carolinas Medical Center in Emergency Medicine serving her last year as Chief Resident. She accepted a clinical faculty position at CMC in 2011 and has since helped create the Medical Scribe program within the Emergency Department. Her non-clinical work is concentrated on intimate partner violence and sexual assault with a focus on nonfatal strangulation. She serves as the Medical Director for Atrium’s Domestic Violence Healthcare Project, the hospital’s IPV advocacy team as well as Atrium’s Charlotte Metro Area SANE program. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, she also serves as the Medical Director for Atrium’s Community Paramedicine program at the Mecklenburg County COVID hotel which provides medical care to vulnerable patients isolating. Outside interests include running, reading, and spending time with loved ones.
	Hendry Sawe, MD, MMED, MBA Hendry R. Sawe received his medical degree at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2008. He completed EM residency training at MUHAS in 2013 in the program’s inaugural class, becoming one of the first locally trained emergency physicians. During his training he served as a chief resident. He received his MBA degree from Mzumbe University in Dar es Salaam, in 2013. Dr. Sawe is currently employed by Abbott Fund Tanzania, where he is working to strengthen the regionalization of Emergency Care in Tanzania. He is also a founding member of the Emergency Medicine Association of Tanzania (EMAT), the national professional association charged with disseminating emergency care in Tanzania and is a former vice-president of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM). Dr. Sawe’s research interests include HIV, sickle cell disease, EMS, and emergency trauma care.
	Steven “Chad” Scarboro, MD Chief Medical Office, Levine Children’s Hospital and Jeff Gordon Children’s Hospital Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics Chad received his BS in biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003. He completed medical school at Wake Forest University in 2007. He did an emergency medicine residency at East Carolina University (2010) and came to Carolinas Medical Center to complete his pediatric emergency medicine fellowship (2012). After completing fellowship, he joined CMC as a faculty member. Dr. Scarboro's research interest is mild traumatic brain injury in the pediatric population. He also has an interest in simulation and has previously led simulation education for the fellowship and has developed programs for multidisciplinary education targeting community emergency departments within the Atrium system. The primary goal of this work is to provide education around resuscitation principles for high risk, low frequency pediatric patients in a safe learning environment. He previously served as the medical director for the children’s emergency department from 2016-2025 and currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer for Levine Children’s Hospital. In this role, he is involved in many administrative, quality, and safety initiatives both within Levine Children’s Hospital and across the healthcare enterprise.
	James “Mac” Segars, MD Dr. Segars completed his undergraduate degree at Clemson University and medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina. He trained in pediatrics at the University of North Carolina and in pediatric emergency medicine at Cincinnati Children's. He also completed a fellowship in global health, during which he spent a year in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania doing prehospital trauma research. He is passionate about improving healthcare access, data science, and trainee education and support. He enjoys learning foreign languages, performing improv, and competing in triathlons.
	Danielle Sutton, MD Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Dr. Danielle Sutton completed her medical school training at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, where she also stayed on to complete her residency in General Pediatrics and a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Her scholarly interests include quality improvement, sports medicine and orthopedic care and trauma in the pediatric emergency department. She also has interests in quality assurance, and pediatric readiness. Dr. Sutton enjoys providing lectures and workshops to help residents and fellows feel comfortable and confident with orthopedic procedures and evaluating patients with orthopedic trauma. Beyond her clinical and academic pursuits, Dr. Sutton is passionate about mentorship. Her favorite part of her work is guiding medical students, residents, and fellows, helping to shape the next generation of physicians working in the emergency department. Dr. Sutton feels blessed to have met her husband, Chris Sutton, a fellow physician, during her time in Augusta. They live in Dilworth and enjoy raising 3 beautiful children.
	Doug Swanson, MD, FACEP, FAEMS, FAMPA Professor of Emergency Medicine Doug received his medical degree from the University of South Florida in 1992 and joined the faculty in 1995 after completing his residency at Carolinas Medical Center. As an attending he completed the EMS fellowship at CMC in 2002. Currently, Dr. Swanson is the Medical Director for MedCenter Air, Carolinas Medical Center’s specialty care transport service and the Mecklenburg County EMS system. Additionally, he is the Medical Director of Atrium Health’s Event Medicine Team which provides mass gathering medical coverage at Bank of America Stadium (NFL, NCAA, MLS, concerts), Charlotte Motor Speedway (NASCAR), Quail Hollow Country Club (PGA) and other venues. Since 2008, he has been a physician consultant for NASCAR’s Medical Liaison Department. Doug served as the program director for the EMS Fellowship for 10-years during which time the program achieved ACGME accreditation (2013). For the past 14 years he has been a member of the North Carolina’s EMS Advisory Council. Additionally, he is the current President of the North Carolina Chapter of the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP) and Co-Chair of NCCEP's EMS subcommittee. Dr. Swasnon has been a member of the Board of Trustees for the Air Medical Physician Association since 2016 and is the current Immediate Past President. "Out of the office" he enjoys sports, especially baseball, having played at the University of Central Florida and coached youth baseball in Charlotte for 20 years.
	Vivek S. Tayal, MD, FACEP Professor of Emergency Medicine Dr. Tayal is a graduate of the University of Virginia (BA), Medical College of Virginia-VCU (MD) and the Emergency Medicine Residency at Carolinas Medical Center/Charlotte Memorial in 1989. Vivek served as chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, where he was involved with EM education as a faculty member of the Joint Military Medical Centers Emergency Medicine Residency (1989-92),, research director and ultrasound program initiation with an ATL Ultramark 4. Dr. Tayal joined the CMC faculty in the fall of 1993, and he serves as Chief of the Division of Emergency (Point-of-Care) Ultrasound in the CMC. He is a Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine with faculty appointment in the Department of Surgery/Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care. In addition to the being Chief of the Ultrasound division, he directs departmental quality assessment activities for the CMC EM department. He has been active nationally in the ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Section (Chair 2000-2001, 2007-2008), SAEM Ultrasound Interest Group/Academy, AIUM Emergency Ultrasound Section and contributed to the majority of Ultrasound Guidelines and Policies in Emergency Medicine during the last 20 years. He was the lead author of the ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Guidelines (2001, 2008, 2016). He contributed to the ACEP US Imaging Compendium, the ACEP Standard Reporting Guidelines, AIUM FAST guideline, ASE-ACEP Focused Cardiac guideline and multiple other statements and policies. He served on the ABEM Clinical Ultrasonography Task Force establishing Emergency US subspecialty development. He served on the AIUM Board (2017-2019), and he serves on the Clinical Ultrasound Accreditation Program board as Chair. He teaches nationally for the Emergency Ultrasound Course. He has also served for 10 years on the NCCEP Board, serving as President in 2006. He also completed a Health Policy Fellowship in the office of Emergency Care Coordination Center in HHS in 2009-2010. He is author of the textbook Ultrasound Program Management published by Springer in 2018. He is a reviewer for over 10 national medical journals, and published over 50 refereed articles, letters, and chapters. His academic interests include new avenues in ultrasonography, resuscitation, quality improvement and health policy. He leads a division that provides medical direction, undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate, APP, nursing, and system-wide Ultrasound issues.
	Kenneth Vanderhave, MD Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Ken graduated from UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School in 1994 and completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at the University of Cincinnati in 1998. He worked in the community, for the University of Michigan, for 5 years. He then moved to Pennsylvania State University-Hershey Medical Center for 3 years where he was Assistant Residency Director. In 2006, he returned to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, teaching the residents the excitement and tribulations of working nights. He also chaired the ED Quality Assurance Committee. In July of 2013, Ken joined the CMC Faculty. His interests include quality of patient care and clinical teaching of Emergency Medicine.
	Catherine Wares, MD, FACEP Associate Dean of Clinical Education/Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine Cathy earned her medical degree from the University of North Carolina in 2007 and completed her Emergency Medicine residency at Carolinas Medical Center in 2010, serving as chief resident in her final year. After a year in private practice, she joined the faculty in 2011 and has served as Clerkship Director, Curriculum Director, Director of UME Simulation, Assistant Director of EM Simulation, and Assistant Program Director for the EM Residency. She is currently the Associate Dean of Clinical Education for the Charlotte Campus. Her academic interests include bedside teaching of residents and medical students, curriculum development, and simulation-based education.
	Anthony J. Weekes, MD, MSc Director, Emergency Medicine Research Division Professor of Emergency Medicine Anthony graduated from the Jacobi Medical Center EM residency program in New York. He was the emergency ultrasound fellowship director at CMC for 11 years. After obtaining the Master of Science degree in Clinical Research at Drexel University, he became the director of the emergency medicine research division. His research is focused on echocardiography, pulmonary embolism, and critical care. He has been the regional director of multi-center investigations of cardiac ultrasound in cardiac arrest resuscitation, and the principal investigator for the multi-center Pulmonary Embolism Short Term Clinical Outcomes Registry and the Clinical Outcomes in Pulmonary Embolism Research Registry at Atrium Health.