The Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA) focuses on improvement of the worldwide delivery of emergency medical care. Global emergency medicine is one of the fastest-growing subspecialties of emergency medicine, as evidenced by the ever increasing number of emergency medicine faculty members, trainees, and medical students pursuing international opportunities.
GEMA's mission is:
- to improve the global delivery of emergency care through research, education, and mentorship:
- to enhance SAEM's role as the key international organization that augments, supports, and shares advances in global research, education, and mentorship in the field of emergency medicine.
2022-2023 GEMA Executive Committee
President: Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH
President-Elect: Naz Karim, MD, MHA, MPH
Secretary: Saadiyah Bilal, MD, MPH
Treasurer: Megan Rybarczyk, MD, MPH
Immediate Past President: Jennifer A. Newberry, MD, JD, MSc
Member-at-Large: Morgan C. Broccoli, MD, MPH, MSc
Member-at-Large: Shama Patel, MD, MPH
Medical Student/Resident Representative: Rebecca Leff, MD
Development and Grants Officer: Adam R. Aluisio, MD
IT Chair: Stephanie Chow Garbern, MD, MPH, DTMH
Program Committee Liaison: Sonya Naganathan, MD, MPH
Board Liaison: Michelle D. Lall, MD
Staff Liaison: Holly Byrd-Duncan, MBA
GEMA Past Presidents
Eric Cioè-Pena, MD, MPH
Stephanie Kayden, MD, MPH
Stephen Dunlop, MD
Bhakti Hansoti, MD
Scott Weiner, MD, MPH
Ian Martin, MD, MBA
Kelli O'Laughlin, MD, MPH