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.
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.