Aaron Bright, MD
Assistant Professor, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Dr. Bright graduated from the University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine and completed an internship in internal medicine before training in emergency medicine at the LAC+USC Dept. of Emergency Medicine where he served as Chief resident. From there he went into community practice in the Los Angeles area eventually becoming medical director at a major metropolitan hospital. He later returned to academics as Assistant Professor and medical director of the emergency department at LAC+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is the co-founder and CEO of Hippo Education.
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Sanjay Arora, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, USC
Dr. Arora completed medical school and residency at the University of California, Los Angeles. After serving as chief resident in the final year of his emergency medicine training, he began his academic career at the University of Southern California in 2005. He is a productive member of the research division, and has a research focus centered on barriers facing disparity health populations with diabetes, providing emergency department based patient education and testing novel strategies for facilitating a link to consistent outpatient management. He has received several grants to support his work, and has published his findings in leading journals in emergency and general medicine. He also coordinates all medical student research in the department. In addition to research, he participates in lecturing and education on the local and national level. His speaking areas of expertise include procedural sedation and analgesia, trauma, hematologic emergencies and diabetes in the ED. He was given the Junior Faculty Speaker of the Year award at the Essentials of Emergency Medicine conference in 2007, is course director for the USC Trauma Review Course and had his debut at the ACEP scientific assembly in 2010. He is also a regular on the popular audio digest series EM:RAP (Emergency Medicine: Reviews and Perspectives), which is distributed to an international audience.
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Paul Jhun, MD FAAEM
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Dr. Jhun loves learning, developing, and delivering innovative educational techniques. Dr. Jhun is smarter than all of us combined and may know how to levitate. He is one of the most humble and likable educators you will ever meet and we are proud to have him on the full time Hippo team. We learn something every time he puts together a piece of education.
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Daniel Joseph, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Yale University
Dr. Joseph is passionate about medical education, pre-hospital care, and wilderness medicine. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center and a fellowship in Emergency Medical Services at Denver Health. He is faculty at Yale University's Department of Emergency Medicine as of 2018. Follow him on Twitter @DanJosephMD.
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Amal Mattu, MD FAAEM
Professor, Vice Chair, of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine
Dr. Amal Mattu has received more than a dozen teaching awards including national teaching awards from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM), and in 2000 he was selected as Founder’s Day Teacher of the Year for the University of Maryland at Baltimore campus. He received the 2005-2006 Rookie Faculty of the Year Award and the Outstanding Speaker of the Year Award from ACEP, the 2006 Program Director of the Year Award from the AAEM Resident and Student Association, the 2007 Maryland Emergency Physician of the Year Award from the Maryland Chapter-ACEP, and the 2008 Joe Lex National Educator of the Year Award from AAEM. Dr. Mattu is a frequent speaker at national and international CME conferences on diverse medical topics and faculty development.
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Sean Nordt, MD PharmD FAAEM
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Dr. Nordt cut his toxicology teeth as an undergraduate pharmacy student at St. John’s University during a rotation at the NYC poison control center. Dr. Nordt attended University of California, San Diego for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Toxicology. Here, he developed a love for patient care and went on to attend medical school in Ireland followed by an EM residency back at UCSD. Currently, Dr. Nordt is the Director of the Section of Toxicology at the Keck School of Medicine.
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Rob Orman, MD
Attending Emergency Physician at Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs, CO and Santiam Hospital in Stayton, OR
A multiple award winning educator and lecturer, Dr. Orman is the host of Essentials of Emergency Medicine and the ERCast podcast where he distills complex ideas into useable nuggets. Rob is a community emergency physician living in Bend, Oregon.
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Emily Rose, MD FAAP FAAEM FACEP
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and ACEP National Pediatric EM Committee Member
Dr. Rose is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine. She trained in EM and was chief resident at Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center and then completed a Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at Loma Linda University Medical Center. She has been EM faculty at USC since 2010 where she has been awarded "Faculty of the Year" by both the residents and medical students. Dr. Rose has many publications and frequently lectures at national conferences.
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Jan Shoenberger, MD FAAEM
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
After graduating from the USC Keck School of Medicine in 1999, Dr. Shoenberger completed her internship in internal medicine at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California. She began her residency training the following year at LAC+USC. After serving as Chief Resident in 2002-2003, she joined the faculty in the department of emergency medicine. Dr. Shoenberger has gained recognition as a speaker on the national level and in addition to her board certification in Emergency Medicine, she became board certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine in 2010. Her primary research interest lies in the interface between palliative medicine and emergency medicine. She has authored numerous peer reviewed papers and book chapters.
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Corey Slovis, MD FAAEM
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine
Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Dr. Slovis completed residencies in both Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Grady Hospital and Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a lifelong educator and has be awarded numerous teaching honors including ACEP’s Outstanding Teacher of the Year, SAEM’s Hal Jayne Academic Excellence Award and has been selected as Best Clinical Professor by seven medical school graduating classes. Dr. Slovis also has two educator awards named after him. His areas of expertise include electrolyte emergencies, acid base, EMS and cardiovascular emergencies along with playing with dogs.
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Stuart Swadron, MD FAAEM
Known internationally, he is one of the most respected, awarded, and preeminent educators in the specialty. From his years as residency director at USC, his work on EM:RAP, Essentials of EM, and thousands of hours of international speaking, he has become known as Captain Cortex! He is not just one of the best presenters in the field, he is a thought leader taking remarkably difficult concepts and distilling them in simple and fresh ways. There really is no better faculty on the planet when it comes to board review, he is the master (but do not tell him we said that!)
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