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.
2023-2024 GEMA Executive Committee
President: Naz Karim, MD, MHA, MPH
President-Elect: Stephanie Chow Garbern, MD, MPH, DTMH
Secretary: Catalina Gonzalez Marques, MD, MPH
Treasurer: John Austin Lee, MD, MPH
Immediate Past President: Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH
Member-at-Large: Florian Schmitzberger, MD, MS
Member-at-Large: Shama Patel, MD, MPH
Medical Student/Resident Representative: Rmaah Memon, MD
Development and Grants Officer: Torben ("Tom") Becker, MD, PhD
IT Chair: Sonya Naganathan, MD, MPH
Program Committee Liaison: Vinay Kampalath, MD, DTMH
Board Liaison: Ava E. Pierce, MD
Staff Liaison: Holly Byrd-Duncan, MBA
GEMA Past Presidents
Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH
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