The Academy of Administrators in Academic Emergency Medicine (AAAEM) is a professional association for individuals managing the administrative and business functions of an academic department or division of emergency medicine. These academic units typically engage in activities related to patient care, education, and research mission, including the primary administration of an emergency medicine residency program
The mission of AAAEM is:
- to advance the profession of individuals serving as administrators within emergency medicine academic programs;
- to provide a forum for academic emergency medicine administrators to communicate, share ideas, and generate solutions to common problems;
- to use education and research to influence public policy for the benefit of patients, medical student and resident education, emergency
- to serve as a unified voice for academic emergency medicine administrators;
- to foster the professional development and career satisfaction of academic emergency medicine administrators;
- to foster research in emergency medicine operations and management; medicine physicians, and medical schools.
2020-2021 AAAEM Executive Committee
President: Rhea Begeman, RN, BSN, MS
President-Elect: Kain Robbins
Secretary: Amy Jameson, MPhil, MA, MBA
Treasurer: David Christiansen, MBA
Immediate Past President: Ashlee Melendez, MSPH, BSN
Member-at-Large: Travis W. Schmitz, PhD, MBA
Member-at-Large: Janet L. Sherry
Member-at-Large: Jennifer Wyatt
Board Liaison: Jody A. Vogel, MD, MSc, MSW
Staff Liaison: Kat Nagasawa, MBA