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Bryant Kendall Allen, MD
Associate Residency Director Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Allen completed a BS in Mathematics at Birmingham-Southern College before attending medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine (UAB/UASOM). He completed his Emergency Medicine residency training at Carolinas Medical Center in 2015, where he served as chief resident in his final year. After joining the general CMC faculty, Bryant became involved heavily in the residency training program, becoming the Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency didactic curriculum and an Associate Residency Program Director. 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). Outside of the hospital, Bryant can be found with his wife, Mollie, and three wild sons, Ollie, Max, Finn and daughter Annie.
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Jill Antoniazzi, MD, FACEP
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Antoniazzi 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.
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Andrew Asimos, MD, FACEP
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Asimos received his Medical Degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1990 and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. In 1994, he joined the CMC faculty, 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.
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Vitaliy Belyshev, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Born in Russia, Dr. Belyshev 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 and his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. 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. He completed his Advanced Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center. 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. Dr. Belyshev is a devout Christian and lives in Charlotte with his wife and 4 children.
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Cortlyn Brown, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Brown graduated with honors from the University of Chicago and matriculated to the Yale School of Medicine where she received the Parker Prize given to the graduating student who has shown the best qualifications for a successful physician. She completed the NIH Howard Hughes Medical Research fellowship. She then completed her residency 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 highest institutional honors that is given to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to the ideals of DEI. She recently completed a Masters in Clinical Operations from Harvard University School of Medicine.
Dr. Brown joined Carolinas Medical Center Atrium Health faculty in 2020 as the department’s Vice Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In addition to this role, she serves as clerkship director for the Health Disparities in Emergency Medicine rotation and Co-Leader of the Women in Emergency Medicine group.
In addition to local leadership, Dr. Brown holds several national leadership roles including Immediately Past Chair for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion National Section as well as Section Editor for the WestJEM. Throughout her medical education, she also held several national leadership positions including, but not limited to, Student National Medical Association National Vice President and Strategic Planning Council Member and National Chair of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine Resident and Student Association Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Her research related to DEI has been published in such journals as JAMA Internal Medicine, Annals of Emergency Medicine, and Academic Emergency Medicine.
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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).
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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, building the Atrium Health strategic response to climate change. 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..
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Lindsey Chaudoin, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Chaudoin 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.
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Stephen Colucciello, MD, FACEP
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Colucciello 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 300 emergency medicine publications and has given more than 500 national and international presentations. He won a national award for presentations in emergency medicine. He is the editor or co-editor of eight emergency medicine textbooks and the founder and past editor-in-chief of an Emergency Medicine journal entitled "EM Practice." He is Vice Chair 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.
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Tyler Constantine, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Constantine graduated with a bachelor's degree from Colgate University in 2004 and from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2013. He left New York to train at the University of Chicago, completing his residency in Emergency Medicine in 2016 and serving as Chief Flight Physician for the hospital’s helicopter transport service, UCAN. In the summer of 2016, he moved to Charlotte where he completed Carolina Medical Center’s ACGME-accredited EMS Fellowship. He joined the Emergency Department Faculty in 2017. He has a passion for Emergency Medicine and, in particular, EMS. His roles within EMS include, among others: Medical Director for Atrium Health's Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) program; EMS Fellowship Program Director; Stanly County EMS Medical Director; and Stanly College Paramedic Program Medical Director.
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Dalton Cox, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Cox 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. His interests include clinical quality and patient safety. He currently serves as a leader of the EM QA Committee as well as leader of the Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Team.
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Lia Cruz, DO
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Cruz 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. During her graduating year at St. Christopher’s, she served as both Chief Fellow and Junior Simulation Faculty. She later went on to complete a fellowship in Simulation at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston in 2022, where she remains as a member of their teaching team. She currently leads the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship simulation program at CMC. Her research interests include teamwork science and the ways in which experiential learning activities may improve healthcare outcomes.
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Adeline Dozois, MD
Program Director, Global Medicine Fellowship
Acting Internship Director
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Originally from Bradenton, Florida, Adeline attended college at the University of Notre Dame and medical school at Vanderbilt University. Adeline then began her Emergency Medicine residency at CMC in 2015 where she engaged in research projects in global health and neurologic emergency. She stayed on as CMC’s inaugural Global Health Fellow before joining the faculty in 2019. In her role as Director of the Global EM Fellowship, she is committed to continuing to support CMC’s relationship with our Tanzanian partners. In addition, Dr. Dozois directs the Acting Internship in Emergency Medicine at our campus, helping 4th year medical students experience the rewards, challenges and wonderful chaos of a career in EM. She is passionate about medical education and enjoys teaching medical students, residents and engaging in peer-to-peer learning with international colleagues. Outside of work, Adeline enjoys running, learning foreign languages, and cyclically adopting and discarding new hobbies (she's taking suggestions for the next one).
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Erik Fisher, MD
Associate Program Director, Medical Toxicology Fellowship
AH Carolinas Medical Center and Levine Children's Hospital
Division of Medical Toxicology
Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Dr. Fisher grew up in Portland, Maine. He received his undergraduate degree in Microbiology from Cornell University and his medical degree from the Weill Cornell Medical College. He completed his Emergency Medicine residency at Yale University and his Medical Toxicology fellowship at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix. Following fellowship, he worked at Prisma Health in Greenville, SC and joined the CMC faculty in 2019. He currently serves as the Associate Program Director for the Medical Toxicology fellowship. His academic interests include the treatment of snake envenomation, care of critically-ill poisoned patients, medical education, and HIV screening and prevention in the Emergency Department.
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Sean Fox, MD
Residency Program Director
Professor of Emergency Medicine/Professor of Pediatrics
Dr. Fox 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.
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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.
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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.
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Michael Gibbs, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Department Chair
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Gibbs received his medical degree at New York Medical College, and he then went on to complete residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.
Mike has served as the Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center and Levine Children's Hospital since 2011. For the past ten years Mike has also been the Medical Director of the Atrium Health Emergency Medicine Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship. Since Atrium Health, Advocate Health, and Wake Forest School of Medicine joined to become one large academic health system, Mike has played a major role with the integration of education and research across the Emergency Medicine Service Line.
Mike’s academic interests include trauma, airway management, diagnostic imaging, and medical errors. He is nationally recognized as a clinical educator and advocate for patient safety and academic excellence. Mike has served as faculty for the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Scientific Assembly and the ACEP Teaching Fellowship for over 25 years. Mike has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and 40 book chapters to his credit. He is also the creator and editor of the CMC Imaging Mastery Project, an internationally followed educational platform housed on the CMC Emergency Medicine educational website www.EMGuidewire.com.
As the leader of this Department Mike's core values include academic excellence, a determination to drive Emergency Medicine forward, a pursuit of equity in all of its forms, and an absolute commitment to serve and protect our patients, our Department, our Emergency Medicine family, and our community.
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Mary Grady, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Grady received her BA in International Studies from Seattle University in 2005. She volunteered in migrant farm community in Washington State and taught English in East Africa prior to studying medicine. She received her medical degree from New York Medical College in 2014. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at NYU in 2017 and her fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine from Carolinas Medical Center in 2020. Mary’s interests include pediatric emergency ultrasound and medical education.
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Christopher Griggs MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Christopher Griggs MD, MPH graduated from Emory College, Rollins School of Public Health and Emory School of Medicine. He completed Emergency Medicine residency training at Boston Medical Center this year. His current research focuses on the use of prescription monitoring programs in the Emergency Department setting and he has interests in health policy and opioid abuse.
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Eric Hawkins, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Hawkins comes to us from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he pursued his undergraduate, masters in public health and, eventually, his medical school training. He then completed his residency in emergency medicine here at Carolinas Medical Center (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. Dr. Hawkins currently serves as the assistant medical director for CMC Special Events Medicine and the Center for Prehospital Medicine.
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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.
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Jessica Hoglund, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Jessica is originally from Toms River, New Jersey, but has lived most of her life in Charlotte. She earned 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. Her interests include medical student education, which she supports as the WFSM Charlotte Campus EM clerkship director.
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Kathryn T. Kopec, D.O.
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Kathryn Kopec is currently a Clinical 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 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. She is originally from Michigan and enjoys traveling, reading, sports, and hanging out with her goldendoodle.
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Margaret Lewis, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Lewis received her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Carolina in 2002. She 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 the clinical ultrasound curriculum for the Charlotte Campus of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and is faculty within the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship. She helps lead ultrasound education initiatives at the continuing education level. Margaret has other roles in undergraduate medical education including Assistant Dean of the Individualization Phase at the Charlotte Campus and overseeing the Transition to Residency course. Her interests include undergraduate medical education, ultrasound in medical student education, resident education, resuscitative ultrasound, and gaming in education.
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Emily MacNeill, MD
Assistant Residency Director Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. MacNeill 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 Associate Dean for Justice and Belonging and an Assistant Residency Director for the Emergency Medicine residency program.
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Christyn Magill, MD
Program Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Magill 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 worked 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 was appointed as the Program Director in July 2019. She has particular interest in the use of ultrasound in pediatric emergency applications, fellow and resident education and violence prevention in urban pediatric populations.
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John Manning, MD, FAMIA, FACEP
Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
John is the world's first healthcare-trained Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Dart/Flutter, which is Google’s cross-platform toolkit to build applications for any screen (mobile, tablet, desktop, web). He is skilled at livecoding in Flutter while lecturing and explaining its core concepts. He has built and deployed apps for patients, clinicians, and EMTs across multiple states. He also helped create the FHIR-FLI collaborative, which focuses on the intersection between Flutter and the global standard for healthcare interoperability, FHIR® (pronounced “fire”). John is dual-boarded in Emergency Medicine and Clinical Informatics. He co-leads the Emergency Medicine Innovation and Informatics Cross-Functional Team and is a certified Physician Builder in EPIC. His research interests include mobile health, informatics, and interoperability.
Also...he juggles fire.
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H. Pendell Meyers, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Pendell received his medical degree from Duke University in 2016. He 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. He has been at CMC since 2020. 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. His primary research focus is to improve the understanding and treatment of Occlusion Myocardial Infarction.
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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.
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Lindsay T. Munn, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Lindsay Munn is a researcher, who is clinically trained as a nurse. She completed her undergraduate degree in Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She then spent over 10 years providing care to patients as a nurse, mostly in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. Lindsay completed a Master of Science in Nursing with a concentration in Health Care Systems at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) in 2010, and she completed a PhD focused on Health Care Quality and Patient Safety at UNC in 2016. Her dissertation research examined factors in the nursing work environment that influence error reporting by nurses. Lindsay has taught in both undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. She is currently the Director of Interprofessional Research at Atrium Health. Her research interests include understanding and optimizing the healthcare work environment to improve patient, clinician, and organizational outcomes. Most recently, her research is focused on the nursing workforce and particularly, nurse burnout.
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Christine Murphy, MD
Program Director, Medical Toxicology Fellowship
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Murphy received her BS and MA degrees in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. She completed both medical school and Emergency Medicine residency at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. She rounded out her post-graduate work with completion of a Medical Toxicology fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2012. She served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency of Medicine and Division of Clinical Toxicology at Virginia Commonwealth University from 2012-2013 and then joined the CMC faculty in 2013. She is the Director of the Medical Toxicology Fellowship Program and routinely teaches residents from all specialties, pharmacy students, and pharmacy residents. She specifically enjoys the field of Pediatric Toxicology and nursing education. Her research interests focus on novel antidotes for drug-induced shock. National and international endeavors include peer review for national journals, peer review for AAPCC NPDS, and lecturer.
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Courtney Owens, MD
Assistant Program Director, Department of Emergency Medicine Residency
Dr. Courtney Owens completed her undergraduate degree in Medicine, Health and Society from Vanderbilt University in 2013. After completion of her undergraduate studies, Dr. Owens 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. She then completed her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in 2020. Dr. Owens completed her training in Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center, where she was selected as Chief Resident in her final year. Dr. Owens then completed Ultrasound Fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center in 2024, and joined the Carolinas Medical Center Emergency Medicine faculty thereafter. Dr. Owens' academic interests include medical education, ultrasound education and diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Nilesh Patel, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Patel 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 seven years in Chicago and Charlotte before joining the CMC Faculty in January of 2011. His interests include clinical teaching of Emergency Medicine.
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David A. Pearson, MD, MS, MBA, FACEP, FAAEM
Chief - Quality, Patient Safety, and Innovation
Dr. Pearson is a Clinical Professor in Emergency Medicine and is currently the Greater Charlotte Market Clinical Leader for Emergency Medicine for Atrium Health. He graduated from the University of Florida with a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering in 1998, completed medical school at Vanderbilt University in 2002, and completed Emergency Medicine residency at Denver Health Medical Center in 2006. He has been a practicing Emergency Medicine physician at Atrium Health's Carolinas Medical Center since then and is also the CMC EM Chief of Quality, Operations and Innovation. His academic focus is on cardiac emergencies including cardiac and post-cardiac arrest resuscitation, chest pain risk stratification and acute coronary syndrome. He has spearheaded and led numerous innovative processes and initiatives across Atrium Health to include novel clinical care delivery models, Code ROSC, AH-modified HEART Score, high-sensitivity troponin deployment, Atrium Health Resuscitation Committee and the J.L.G. Chest Pain Network. He later completed his MBA at Wake Forest University in 2017. He is board-certified in Emergency Medicine and Clinical Informatics and is passionate about ED operations, medical education, value-based care, innovation, commercialization, clinical informatics, and entrepreneurship in health tech. In his free time he enjoys vacationing and spending time trying to keep up with his family and three boys.
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Amy Puchalski, MD
Associate Program Director, Clinical Core Competency Director
Dr. Puchalski 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.
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Stacy Reynolds, MD
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Chief, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Stacy has served as the 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. She then went on to train in general emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Affiliated Residency in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Reynolds is the Co-Medical Director for a grant funded human trafficking response team called the Atrium Health Human Trafficking Emergency Medical Advocacy Team. She serves as the enterprise lead for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Readiness Team and as the leader for the Southeast Regional Sub-Council of Children's Hospital ED's at Advocate Health.
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Annie Rominger, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Rominger 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.
Annie currently oversees the Scholarly Oversight Committee and Journal Club for the PEM fellowship program. She provides mentorship for multiple PEM fellows while they complete their scholarly projects. During her career at the University of Louisville and CMC, she has mentored numerous residents and fellows in addition to guiding junior faculty members' research projects.
Annie also has an interest in education, particularly in resource limited settings. While at the University of Louisville, she developed a longitudinal ultrasound educational curriculum for local providers in Chiapas, Mexico and San Juan, Puerto Rico. She has also been an instructor at multiple national and international conferences. Annie has interest in education, research and global health.
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Michael Runyon, MD, MPH
EM Research Director
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Runyon 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 in 2009 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 has served as a consultant for the World Health Organization and was an external reviewer for the IMAI District Clinician Manual. Mike currently serves on the board of the IMAI Alliance, a WHO implementation partner, providing emergency training to clinicians in resource limited settings. 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 and Faculty Affairs.
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Jessica Salzman, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Salzman 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. Jessica is also active within several community agencies including membership on the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART), Mecklenburg County's Survivor Resource Center Leadership Committee and Advisory Board Member for the Jamie Kimble Foundation. Outside interests include dominating in tennis, reading, and spending time with loved ones.
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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 the Head of Department at MUHAS and serves as Research and EM program director. He is also the deputy editor-in-chief of the Tanzania Medical Journal, serves as president of the Emergency Medicine Association of Tanzania (EMAT), the national professional association charged with disseminating emergency care in Tanzania, and is 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.
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Chad Scarboro, MD
Medical Director, Adult and Pediatric Emergency Departments
Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Scarboro 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 in 2010 and came to Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center to complete his pediatric emergency medicine fellowship in 2012. After completing his fellowship, he joined CMC as a faculty member. Dr. Scarboro has done prior research in mild traumatic brain injury in the pediatric population. The focus of the research was identifying low-risk patients who may not warrant CT brain imaging. He also has an interest in simulation and is an active participate in the simulation education for the PEM fellowship. Additionally, he has developed simulation programs for multidisciplinary education targeting community emergency departments within the healthcare 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. Additionally, as the medical director for both departments, he is involved in many administrative and operational initiatives both within Carolinas Medical Center, Levine Children’s Hospital and across the health care system.
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Danielle Sutton, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Sutton did her medical school training at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University and then stayed on for residency in general pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine in Augusta. Most of Dr. Sutton's research in fellowship centered around pre-hospital medicine and quality improvement, however, she also has a strong interest in orthopedic trauma and sports medicine.
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Doug Swanson, MD, FACEP, FAEMS, FAMPA
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Swanson 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 in 2002, he completed the EMS fellowship at CMC. Currently, Doug is the Medical Director for MedCenter Air, Carolinas Medical Center’s specialty care transport service, and the Mecklenburg EMS Agency, our county’s 911 system. Additionally, he is the Medical Director of Atrium Health’s Event Medicine Team which provides medical coverage at Bank of America Stadium (NFL, NCAA, MLS, concerts), Charlotte Motor Speedway (NASCAR), Quail Hollow Country Club (PGA) and other mass gathering venues. Since 2008, Doug has been a physician consultant for NASCAR’s Medical Liaison Department. Doug served as 10-years during which time the program achieved ACGME accreditation (2013). He is a member of the North Carolina’s EMS Advisory Council, a Co-Chair of NCCEP's EMS subcommittee. Doug has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Air Medical Physician Association for 8 years and served as President from 2022-2024. Outside of medicine he enjoys sports, especially baseball.
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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. He took the inaugural test of the new ABEM FPD-AEMUS successfully in 2022.
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Kenneth Vanderhave, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Vanderhave 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.
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Catherine Wares, MD, FACEP
Associate Dean, Clinical Curriculum
WFUSOM - Charlotte Campus
Cathy received her medical degree from the UNC Chapel Hill in 2007 and she completed her Emergency Medicine Residency at Carolinas Medical Center in 2010, where she was selected chief resident her final year. She joined the faculty in 2011 after spending one year in private practice. She served as the Assistant Residency Program Director, EM Clerkship Director, and the Director of UME Simulation for numerous years before becoming the Associate Dean of Clinical Curriculum for the Charlotte Campus of the WFUSM. Her love of simulation based medical education allows her to contribute to the EM simulation curriculum as the Assistant Director of EM Simulation. In addition to simulation, her interests include bedside teaching and curriculum development.
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Anthony J. Weekes, MD, MSc
Director, Emergency Medicine Research Division
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Weekes graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and he trained at Jacobi Medical Center EM residency program in New York. His academic niche is emergency ultrasound and served as 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 study of point of care cardiac ultrasound in cardiac arrest resuscitation, the principal investigator for the multi-center Pulmonary Embolism Short Term Clinical Outcomes Registry, the Clinical Outcomes in Pulmonary Embolism Research Registry at Atrium Health and is now part of multi-center interventional trials.
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