Our Team
Shannon Toohey, MD, MAEd
Editor-in-Chief
University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine
Shannon Toohey is the Residency Program Director for the University of California, Irvine Department of Emergency Medicine. In 2016, she completed the Multimedia Design and Educational Technology (MDEdTech) Fellowship at the University of California Irvine. She completed medical school at UC Irvine School of Medicine, after which she completed her residency at the UC Irvine Medical Center. She received a Masters in Education, Multimedia and Instructional Design at Cal Poly Pomona. During her time at UC Irvine she has developed and expanded many educational programs for the residents including a flipped medical student and intern podcast curriculum, oral board review course and helped to revamp the curriculum. Her interests include asynchronous learning, flipped curricula, resident and patient education.
Alisa Wray, MD
Senior Associate Editor
University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine
Alisa Wray is the Course Director for Clinical Foundations at the University of California, Irvine and the Associate Program Director for Emergency Medicine. Dr. Wray grew up in rural San Diego county and attended the University of California Irvine for her Bachelors of Science; she then attended Tulane University for her MD, and finally returned to UC Irvine to complete her Emergency Medicine Residency training where, as the Academic Chief of Educational Technologies and Simulation, she helped to develop and expand an online curriculum. She completed a Multimedia Design and Educational Technology (MDEdTech) Fellowship at the University of California Irvine and received a Masters in Education, Multimedia and Instructional Design at Cal Poly Pomona. Dr. Wray’s interests include resident and patient education, incorporation of technology into education, as well as graphic design and flipped curriculum development. Outside of medicine she enjoys spending time with her husband, baking cakes, playing with her doggy and aerial acrobatics.
Megan Boysen-Osborn, MD, MHPE
Senior Associate Editor
University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine
Megan Boysen-Osborn is Dean of Students and Admissions for the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. She completed a medical education fellowship at Stanford University and Master of Health Professions Education (MHPE) at University of Illinois, Chicago. Dr. Osborn’s interests are in curriculum design, residency recruitment, cardiac and neuro-ophthalmologic emergencies.
Warren Wiechmann, MD, MBA
Senior Associate Editor
University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine
Warren Wiechmann is the Associate Dean of Instructional Technologies at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Professior of Emergency Medicine, and the project leader for the school’s iMedEd Initiative (www.imeded.uci.edu), a comprehensive digital overhaul of the curriculum which uses the iPad as its centerpiece for curricular innovation. He is interested in the mash-up of technology, medicine, and education. He is also intrigued by the integration of technology to improve clinical workflows and efficiency, instructional technology and information design to enhance physician and patient education, mobile and asynchronous learning, the development of a medical student curriculum in informatics and instructional technology, digital literacy, and mHealth/eHealth/Medicine 2.0/Health 2.0.
Sara Paradise, MD
Section Editor: Small Groups
University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine
Sara Paradise currently serves as a Multimedia Design and Educational Technology (MDEdTech) Emergency Medicine fellow at the University of California, Irvine. She is completing her Masters in Academic Medicine through the University of Southern California and currently serves as a representative to the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Education Committee through her position as the vice chair of the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA) Education Committee. She completed medical school at the George Washington School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. and attended residency at Banner University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona. She has developed medical school courses on medical Spanish and a resident curriculum on professionalism and communication skills. She is specifically interested in personalized and/or small group teaching, video-based patient discharge instructions, and student mentorship.
Gabriel Sudario, MD
Section Editor: Visual Design, Social Media and Lectures
University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine
Gabriel Sudario currently serves as a Multimedia Design and Educational Technology (MDEdTech) Emergency Medicine fellow at the University of California, Irvine. He will be completing a Masters in Education Technology and Instructional Design. He completed medical school and residency training at the University of California, San Francisco. During residency he worked closely with an international team coordinated through the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine group to develop a visual teaching aid for the PECARN and Canadian Head CT rules. He is specifically interested in visual design, social media “micro teaching”, and diversity/inclusion in the GME setting.
Jon Smart, MD
Section Editor: Games
University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine
Jon Smart is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. For the past three years, he has served as Assistant Program Director for the residency program and Chair of the Clinical Competency Committee. He is also a Dean’s Scholar at the UCI School of Medicine.
He earned his medical degree from LSU-New Orleans and completed his Emergency Medicine residency at UT Health San Antonio. He went on to complete a Medical Education fellowship with a focus on Multimedia Design and Education Technology at UCI, and earned a Master’s in Education from Johns Hopkins University, specializing in Digital Age Learning and Technology.
His academic interests center on meta-learning, cognitive strategies, and instructional design for evidence-based education. He is particularly passionate about using gamification and innovative teaching formats to enhance learner engagement, improve educational outcomes, and advance equity and inclusion in the realm of medical education.
Ronnie Rivera, MD
Section Editor: Social Determinants of Health Topics
University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine
Rivera is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. He serves the campus community as his department’s Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Wellness and Clerkship Director for emergency medicine rotations. He is a Dean’s Scholar for the PRIME – Latino Communities program, mission-based program at the school of medicine. He is also implementing one of the first LGBTQIA+ mission-based programs for medical students. Ronnie completed medical school at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, and residency at SUNY Downstate / Kings County in Brooklyn, New York. After being elected Chief of Education, he discovered a passion for teaching his peers and improving bedside patient education as part of patient centered care. He completed a medical education fellowship in Multimedia Design and Education Technology (MDEdTech) at UCI and a masters degree in education focused on Digital Age Learning and Technology at Johns Hopkins University. His current projects include virtual reality empathy training for physicians to better work with patients from at-risk populations and improving social determinants of health from the Emergency Room.
Lauren Lamparter, MD
Section Editor
University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Lauren Lamparter is an emergency physician with a passion for medical education and resident development. She completed her medical training at Loyola University Chicago, followed by residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois. She went on to complete a MDEdTech Fellowship at the University of California, Irvine, where she now works as an Assistant Professor, further honing her expertise in innovative, learner-centered education. Dr. Lamparter’s academic interests include obstetric and pulmonary care, as well as mentorship and feedback to support resident growth.