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.
2021-2022 AAAEM Executive Committee
President: Kain Robbins
President-Elect: Amy Jameson, MPhil, MA, MBA
Secretary: David Christiansen, MBA
Treasurer: Becky McGowan, MBA
Immediate Past President: Rhea Begeman, RN, BSN, MS
Member-at-Large: Jennifer Patton Muir, MBA
Member-at-Large: Travis W. Schmitz, PhD, MBA
Board Liaison: Jody A. Vogel, MD, MSc, MSW
Staff Liaison: Michelle Aguirre, MPA
2021-2022 AAAEM Committee Chairs
Nominating Committee: Rhea Begeman, RN, BSN, MS
Benchmark Committee: James Scheulen PA, MBA and Gregory Archual MBA
Communications Committee: Shannon Giger MHA
Strategic Planning Committee: Andrew Kennedy MBA
Membership Committee: Steven Petrovic MBA
Education Committee: Ashlee Melendez MSPH, BSN
Wellness Committee: Laura Robinson MPA
Inclusion, Diversity, Equality & Anti-Racism Committee: Chair, Louis Burton