Jared Blum

Hometown: Denver, CO
Undergraduate: Tufts
Medical School: University of Vermont
Emergency Medicine Interests: 
Toxicology, Disaster Medicine
Interests outside of Medicine:
Running, skiing, family
What are your elective plans this year?
I am doing a rotation in ultrasound as well as a rotation at a small community hospital in Montpelier, Vermont. The second rotation is to enjoy a little skiing, snowshoeing, and spending some time with family in Vermont.

Stephanie Carreiro

Hometown: Providence, RI
Undergraduate: Rhode Island College
Medical School: New York Medical College
Emergency Medicine Interests:
Toxicology, animal research, education
Interests outside of Medicine:
Running, hiking, spending time with my family
What are your elective plans this year?
I plan to take some extra time to work on my research and to spend a month in Nicaragua working on my Spanish while volunteering at a local hospital.

Elizabeth Goldberg (Chief Resident)

Hometown: Dayton, OH
Undergraduate: Miami University (Oxford, OH)
Medical School: Sackler School of Medicine
Emergency Medicine Interests:
Research, education, public health
Interests outside of Medicine:
Skiing, language studies, traveling
What are your elective plans this year?
I'm planning on doing a research elective to finish off two research projects that I've initiated. One is on asthma control and severity in children. The other is a retrospective chart review of pneumonia in children in Rwanda.

Laura Gould

Hometown: Salem, MA
Undergraduate: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Medical School: Royal College of Surgeons
Emergency Medicine Interests:
Sports Medicine
Interests outside of Medicine:
Surfing, rugby, traveling
What are your elective plans this year?
I will be spending one month in Australia and New Zealand for a sports medicine elective. I also plan to participate in the Australian surf and watch the Rugby World Cup 2011. I will also be doing an elective later in the year at a sports medicine fellowship on the west coast.

Stephen Hendriksen

Hometown: Plainfield, NJ
Undergraduate: Brown University
Medical School: UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Emergency Medicine Interests:
Wilderness Medicine, Hyperbaric Medicine, teaching 
Interests outside of Medicine:
Beagles, hiking, surfing
What are your elective plans this year?
This year I spent the month of August at Kuakini Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, studying Hyperbaric and Diving medicine I was able help treat scuba divers who had suffered accidents while diving. In one incidence a 20-year- old male arrived with severe cognitive deficits and left sided weakness after suffering a cerebral air gas embolism after a rapid ascent after running out of air. It was amazing to see how hyperbaric therapy could take a young person with stroke like symptoms and return them to baseline fairly rapidly. During this time I also became a certified scuba diver.
In April this year, I plan on helping to run the Wilderness Medicine Elective for medical students. The elective is two weeks. The first week involves lectures on wilderness medicine, simulations, and skill sessions in Rhode Island, while the second week we continue this but head up to the White Mountains. It is a great opportunity and a lot of fun that combines my interests of being outside, wilderness and emergency medicine, and teaching.

Reagan Herrington (Chief Resident)

Hometown: Columbus, OH
Undergraduate: University of Notre Dame
Medical School: University of Miami
Emergency Medicine Interests:
Medical student education 
Interests outside of Medicine:
Family, friends, traveling
What are your elective plans this year?
I'll be spending my elective time in Providence while I take care of my newborn!

Joshua Jauregui

Hometown: Santa Barbara, CA
Undergraduate: Pacific Union College
Medical School: Loma Linda University
Emergency Medicine Interests:
Critical Care, Wilderness Medicine, Toxicology
Interests outside of Medicine:
Cycling, running, snowboarding
What are your elective plans this year?
In September, I will spend 2 weeks of my elective time dedicated to my research with co-author/resident Daniel Nelson, as we continue to enroll patients and analyze data. In November, I am traveling to Nepal for a global health elective with an emphasis on disaster preparedness.

Brandon Maughan (Chief Resident)

Hometown: Loma Linda, CA
Undergraduate: Stanford University
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University
Emergency Medicine Interests:
Sepsis, therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest, toxicology
Interests outside of Medicine:
Federal and state health policy, running and outdoor activities, cooking for friends and family
What are your elective plans this year?
In August, I designed a 2-week elective in the Clinical Informatics department. I'm interested in health information technology (IT) from a policy perspective, so it was important for me to learn about implementation of IT systems on the ground. For my second elective as part of my ACEP-EMRA health policy mini-fellowship, I will spend March 2012 in Washington, DC participating in public policy events with ACEP staff members. This will likely include attending congressional committee hearings, meeting with elected representatives and their staff, and participating in discussions with policy analysts at agencies such as CMS, AHRQ, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). During this time I hope to learn about the implementation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) and develop materials for ACEP to promote federal support for health IT expansion among emergency departments nationwide.

Daniel A. Nelson

Hometown: Hackettstown, NJ
Undergraduate: University of Scranton
Medical School: UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Emergency Medicine Interests:
Emergency ultrasound, EMS, community practice
Interests outside of Medicine:
Cycling, running, surfing/snowboarding
What are your elective plans this year?
This year I am planning on some great electives. For my 2-week elective block, I'm planning on working on my BUDDY study (Bedside Ultrasound for the Detection of Dehydration in Youth) with co-author/resident Joshua Jauregui that is currently enrolling patients. For my month long elective in January I am planning on traveling to Thailand with 3 other co-residents to study tropical medicine. Looking forward to both.

Kimmie Pringle

Hometown: Lancaster, PA
Undergraduate: Cornell University
Medical School: Jefferson Medical College
Emergency Medicine Interests:
International Emergency Medicine, public health, teaching
Interests outside of Medicine:
Traveling, adventures, turtles
What are your elective plans this year?
I plan to go to Nicaragua and further develop a relationship between our emergency department and the relatively new (10yrs) emergency medicine residencies at the two large public hospitals in Managua. One hospital is mostly medical and contains the only cath lab in the country for the public sector, while the other is considered the trauma hospital and holds the CT Scanner. The idea is to establish a long-term relationship focusing on health-care capacity building through resident education. In addition to clinical work, I'll take Spanish Classes at Viva Spanish School and live with a host family. For my other elective, I plan to go to Cuba and study a health care system that is radically different from our own.

Steven Rougas

Steven RougasHometown: Providence, RI
Undergraduate: Providence College
Medical School: Brown University
Emergency Medicine Interests:
Education, procedural sedation, curriculum development
Interests outside of Medicine:
Music (piano performance), my Greek heritage, youth ministry in my church
What are your elective plans this year?
I am hoping to develop a teaching academy for the residency to help foster educational research and to heighten the educational experience across all levels of the residency. I am also planning on a conscious sedation elective, where I can better outline the goals and policies needed to safely and properly sedate someone in the Emergency Department.

Jaime Wagner

Hometown: Summit, NJ
Undergraduate: Cornell University
Medical School: SUNY Downstate College of Medicine
Emergency Medicine Interests:
Medical student education, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Interests outside of Medicine:
Tennis, skiing, traveling
What are your elective plans this year?
I will be doing a Tropical Medicine Elective in Thailand! Two weeks of the elective will be at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Bangkok, followed by two weeks at a provincial hospital in rural Thailand.