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
Executive 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.
Michael Epter, DO
Senior Associate Editor
Maricopa Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine
Michael Epter is the Program Director & Vice Chair of Education at Maricopa Medical Center and the President of the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD-EM). His interests include resident education, physician wellness and neurology.
Andrew King, MD
Section Editor
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine
Andrew King is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and an Assistant Residency Program Director at The Ohio State University. He is dedicated to medical education innovation, and has been instrumental in the development and implementation of a flipped classroom resident didactic curriculum, resident coaching program, and novel longitudinal academic track curricula. His professional interests include innovation in medical education, curricular development and assessment, technology in medical education, professional development and mentorship.
Sara Paradise Dimeo, MD
Section Editor
Prisma Health System-Upstate, Greenville, Department of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Dimeo completed the Multimedia Design Education Technology Fellowship at the UC-Irvine in 2019. She completed her residency at the University of Arizona in Tucson in 2017. She is the former Director of Education for the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA). Here at Greenville she serves as the Fellowship Director for the Medical Education and Technology Fellowship, and the Director of Assessment and Feedback for Graduate Medical Education. Her professional interests including slide design and using interactive methods of learning during didactics such as gamification and team-based learning.
Gabriel Sudario, MD
Section Editor
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
University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine
Jon Smart is the Assistant Program Director at University of California Irvine. He completed his fellowship in Multimedia Design and Educational Technology (MDEdTech) after completing medical school at LSU-New Orleans and then emergency medicine residency at UT-San Antonio he is now continually searching for paths to innovate in medical education at all levels of training. Areas of particular interest are gamification, meta-learning, novel technology applications, as well as engaging speaking methods and slide design. Essentially he has a dream of making ineffective and mind-numbingly dull educational experiences extinct.
Jessica Andrusaitis, MD, MS-BATS
Section Editor
University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine
Jessica played NCAA basketball at UC Santa Cruz before transferring to UC Davis to finish her undergraduate degree. She obtained her medical degree and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical and Translational Science at UC Irvine. She went to Kaiser Permanente in San Diego for Emergency Medicine residency. She acted as chief resident involved in education and curriculum. She currently is a Multimedia Design Education Technology Fellow. Her interests include simulation, resuscitation, and educational innovations.
John Bailitz, MD
Section Editor
Northwestern University, Department of Emergency Medicine
John Bailitz completed medical school at Northwestern followed by residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. As an attending at Cook County, he served as Clerkship Director, Assistant Program Director, Advising and Remediation Committee Chair, before starting an interdisciplinary Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship for EM, PEM, Critical Care and Hospitalist. Along the way, John completed both the ACEP Teaching Fellowship, as well as the ACEP EMBRS Fellowship. Most recently, John served as the Collaborative Research Director and Academic Associate Program co-founder, publishing numerous articles in trauma, US and novel procedures. John currently is Chair of ACEP Online Education, President of the Society for Clinical US Fellowships, and part of the Organizing Committee for the Social Media and Critical Care Conference. He recently became the Program Director for Northwestern Emergency Medicine. John is most passionate about the application of innovative ideas and technology in healthcare and education.
Ronald Rivera, MD
Section Editor
University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine
Ronnie Rivera is a faculty member and Assistant Clerkship Director at the University of California, Irvine Department of Emergency Medicine. Having completed medical school at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, he went on to complete his residency at SUNY Downstate / Kings County in Brooklyn, New York and a fellowship in Multimedia Design and Education Technology (MDEdTech). After being elected to Chief of Education, he discovered a passion for teaching his peers much in the same way he advocates for improving bedside patient education as part of patient centered care. He is currently pursuing a masters in education with hopes of creating a free, public-access, health literacy education series. His current projects include teaching techniques for improved bedside interactions with patients from at-risk populations and educating on improving social determinants of health from the Emergency Room.
Christopher San Miguel, MD
Section Editor
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine
Megan Stobart-Gallagher, DO
Section Editor
Megan Stobart-Gallagher is the Residency Program Director at Einstein Medical Center Montgomery. She attended the Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her Emergency Medicine residency at Einstein Healthcare Network, where she also started her career with experiences as a 4th year Clerkship Director and Assistant Residency Director. She was previously the Associate Residency Director for Thomas Jefferson University Hospital before becoming the Residency Program Director at Einstein Medical Center Montgomery. She enjoys writing down random ideas while commuting on scraps of paper and then trialing them on her residents. She calls it being innovative on a budget. She specifically enjoys gamification, team-based learning and integration of technology/simulation into didactic learning.
Jenna Fredette, MD
Section Editor
Christiana Care Health System, Department of Emergency Medicine
Jenna Fredette is the Residency Program Director and Medical Education Fellowship Director at Christiana Care Health System in Newark, DE. Through her work in medical education she has developed a strong competency-based residency curriculum that has its foundations in individual assessment and a robust coaching culture. Professionally she is interested in the creation of feedback cultures, novel curricular development, competency based medical education, and faculty development.
James Waymack, MD
Section Editor
Southern Illinois University, Department of Emergency Medicine
James Waymack MD, is Program Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine in Springfield, Illinois. Dr. Waymack is a graduate of SIU School of Medicine, where he also completed his emergency medicine residency training. After joining as faculty, Dr. Waymack served as Assistant Program Director and Director of Undergraduate Medical Education. His research interests include medical education, EMS and quality improvement projects. His professional interests include sharing his expertise in tactical and disaster medicine. He currently serves on the Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Committee for ACEP, as well as an instructor for National Association of Emergency Medicine Technicians.
Patrick Meloy, MD
Section Editor
Emory University, Department of Emergency Medicine
Patrick Meloy is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Emory University, and is currently practicing at Emory University Hospital Midtown and Grady Memorial Hospital. He earned his bachelor’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and his MD from St. George’s University School of Medicine. He graduated from the Sinai-Grace Hospital/Wayne State University Emergency Medicine residency after serving as chief resident. After completing the ACEP Teaching Fellowship, he now serves as the Site Director of the residency at a community hospital. A dedicated nocturnist, his professional interests include trauma care, infectious disease preparedness, and pediatric emergency care.
Cheyenne Low, BS
Editorial Director; Social Media Editor
Cheyenne Low received her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and will be participating in the 2020 Medical School application cycle. Cheyenne was a collegiate swimmer at the University of the Texas, Austin and then transferred to UCSB where she was the captain of her swim team her senior year. Upon graduating, she worked as a research assistan