speakers

  • Jailyn Avila completed medical school in Loma Linda, California, residency in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and an ultrasound fellowship in Lexington, Kentucky.  During residency,  Jailyn and her then ultrasound director Ben Smith started working on and subsequently launched the website 5minsono.com, a website dedicated to ultrasound education that morphed into Core Ultrasound, an ultrasound education repository that includes short (and long) videos, a clip bank and courses. Jailyn is currently Core Faculty for the UHS SoCal MEC Emergency Medicine Residency in Temecula, California where she also functions as the Associate Ultrasound Director, the Director of Faculty Development, and the Co-Fellowship Director for their Advanced Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Program. Apart from her work on Core Ultrasound, she is a member of the Ultrasound GEL podcast (a podcast that discusses relevant ultrasound literature) and the director of the Ultrasound Leadership Academy and has and continues to collaborate with EMRAP.

    Instagram: @jailyn_avi @coreultrasound

  • Dr. Chung is a Professor at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and the Vice Chair of Academic Affairs for the Department of Emergency Medicine. She is serving in her second consecutive terms for the Board of Directors for the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Chung was the recipient of the New York ACEP Advancing Emergency Care Award in 2018 and recognized as one of the original EMRA 45 Under 45 Young Physician Influencers in Emergency Medicine in 2019. She was honored nationally as the 2022 Residency Director of the Year by EMRA. As a widely recognized speaker and educator, Dr. Chung has made advocating for physician wellness a central focus of her career though lectures, teaching, policy development, and creating sustainable solutions for the future.

  • Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacist, PGY2 EM Pharmacy Residency Program Director at The University of Vermont Medical Center.

  • Director of POCUS for Maine Health, Co-Director POCUS for MMC ED Residency

    Massachusetts GED, BA, MD, FACEP, Maine Class C Driver’s License, Red Cross White Swim Badge, Maine Fishing & Archery license, Ontario Pleasure Craft Operator, payer of taxes, donator to charity, LOVER AND TEACHER OF ULTRASOUND.

  • Heather Herrington is a Pediatric Otolaryngologist and serves as the Chief of Otolaryngology at the University of Vermont Health Network. Her clinical interests include pediatric airway reconstruction, hearing loss and cochlear implantation. She works at the local and national level to improve care for children with difficult airways and tracheostomies through multidisciplinary teams and simulated airway cases. She lives in Charlotte, VT with her husband and four children on a small orchard and organic farm where she and her family love to cook the food they grow with friends and family.

  • Dr. Molly Furin is board-certified in both Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services.  After residency in Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center, she completed fellowship in Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine at Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia and obtained a Master of Science in Disaster Medicine and Management.  After 13 years in urban Philadelphia, she moved to Vermont and currently works as an Emergency Medicine physician at UVM Medical Center and Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital.  She provides medical direction for EMS services in Vermont and New York and works on emergency planning and preparedness throughout the state and New England region.

  • Skyler Lentz, MD is a board-certified emergency and critical care physician who speaks locally, regionally and nationally on critical care topics. He is the Division Chief of Resuscitation Science at the University of Vermont Department of Emergency Medicine and works clinically in the surgical and medical intensive care units and the emergency department. Skyler enjoys understanding and explaining the complex physiology of critical care and believes excellent critical care can be initiated in any emergency department. 

  • Shayna earned a PharmD at Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, New York. Following this, she completed a PGY1 at UCHealth Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, CO and PGY2 in Emergency Medicine at The University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, VT. During her PGY2 she focused on research surrounding hyperosmolar therapy in TBI patients as well as implementation of Tenecteplase for acute ischemic stroke.

    Currently, Shayna is an EM Pharmacist at Maine Medical Center in Portland, ME. She is passionate about pharmacotherapy surrounding neurologic emergencies, infectious disease stewardship in the ED, and is currently working on establishing herself as a preceptor for pharmacy students and residents. Shayna enjoys the collaborative practice of the ED and having the opportunity to practice and share evidence-based medicine with her colleagues. Outside of the ED, you can find her on a mountain skiing, in the woods hiking, or at home with her cat Ramona. 

  • Annahieta Kalantari, DO, FACEP, FACOEP, is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician practicing in Hershey, PA. After graduating from Pennsylvania State University, she attended medical school at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Erie, PA and completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at St. Luke’s University Hospital in Bethlehem, PA.

    Dr. Kalantari is also an internationally known speaker and author.  Her talks range from infectious disease management to physician wellness, establishing a stress mindset and burnout prevention. Her articles and blog posts have been featured on FeminEM, EmDocs, KevinMD, Emergency Medicine News, ACEP Now and ALiEM.

    Dr. Kalantari is the recipient of multiple teaching and speaking awards. She was awarded the American College of Emergency Physicians Teaching Fellowship Micro-teach award and was awarded first place in her category in the American College of Emergency Physicians New Speakers Forum. Most recently she was awarded the American College of Emergency Physicians Faculty Educator of the Year award and the Penn State College of Medicine Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.  

    Dr. Kalantari is passionate about transforming the culture of medicine from a grin-and-bear-it society to one that holds self-care, physician wellness, and community at the center of its values. When not working, she is enjoying life in the great outdoors with her amazing husband and 2 very energetic young boys.ere

  • Miles serves as the Assistant Director of Research in Emergency Medicine at UVM. His research interests include Medication for Opioid Use Disorder, EMS, and Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest. He first became interested in medicine through EMS and continues to volunteer as an Advanced EMT in his hometown of Richmond, VT. Outside of work, he is an active biker, skier and maker, often found 3D printing or sewing. 

  • Dan has a bachelors degree from Northeastern and Masters and DNP in executive leadership from Simmons College.  He is has worked in Boston area hospitals and prior EMT and currently is the Director of Emergency and Patient Care Services at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital- Milton.  Outside his daily work he is a member of the National Disaster Medical System’s Trauma and Critical Care Team and an active member of the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) and developing ski patrol member.

     

    Dr. Nadworny has a specific interest in emergency preparedness and public policy and advocacy.  As a nurse leader in emergency nursing is his goal to encourage the conversations in every department about advocacy and emergency preparedness. 

     

  • Patricia Ruth (Roo) Atchinson is an emergency physician and intensivist practicing at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Dr. Atchinson grew up in Maine, and attended the University of Maine for undergrad. Prior to medical school she was a registered dietitian, and completed her dietetic internship with a focus in Alaskan Native culture and rural healthcare delivery at the University of Alaska. She completed her medical education at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, and residency and fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She is a medical director for CREST, the Center for Rural Emergency Services and Trauma. She is also a Vital Talk educator, and has a particular interest in teaching serious illness conversation skills for acute care settings to students, residents, and acute care clinicians.

  • Blake is an Emergency Medicine Pharmacist and serves as a PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program Director at The University of Vermont Medical Center.

  • Matthew Siket is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Medical Officer of the Care Coordination System for the University of Vermont Health Network. He holds a Master of Health Care Innovation from the University of Pennsylvania and is the Principal Investigator of the AUGMENT Tele-Emergency Medicine program. He completed a fellowship in the Specialized Program for Translational Research in Acute Stroke from Massachusetts General Hospital in 2012 and since then has been committed to improving the timely and efficient evaluation, diagnosis and management of cerebrovascular emergencies. He has been a speaking faculty member at SAEM, AAEM, and ACEP Scientific Assembly and was the recipient of the ACEP 2014 Rising Star Speaker Award.

     

  • Alia Aunchman MD, FACS is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, where she also attended medical school. She completed her general surgery residency at the University of Vermont Medical Center and fellowship in Surgical Critical Care at the Medical University of South Carolina. She is Interim Division Chief of Acute Care Surgery at UVMMC,  Associate Vice Chair of Clinical Operations in the Department of Surgery, and Vice Chair of Quality in the Department of Surgery. She is also in negotiations to be the next Queen of England. She is actively involved in her college as a member of the working groups for the Surgical Critical Care EPA’s and the Mastery of General Surgery Fellowship.  In addition to collecting accolades, she has also collected four children, most of whom have the same father (#4 she adopted from Haiti with her husband). She will tell you that her greatest achievement is her family, but it’s really the fact that she has seen Taylor Swift in concert four times.

  • Dr. Vonzella Bryant is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center and Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at the Chobanian and Avedisian Boston University School of Medicine.  She has a passion for and has given multiple national presentations on increasing diversity in the field of medicine and advocating for healthcare equity.  Because of her work being on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Bryant earned a spot on the US News & World Report list of “Hospital Heros” with Drs. Fauci and Gupta and selected to be a Boston Celtics “Hero Among Us” and “Hero of the Match” for the New England Revolution.  She is Vice President of Operations of New England Medical Association (NEMA), an affiliate of the National Medical Association, which serves as the collective voice of black physicians in the New England area. 

  • David Mackenzie, MDCM is medical director at Maine Medical Center in Portland, and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He co-directs the MMC and MaineHealth ultrasound programs.

  • Graduate of the University of Vermont College of Medicine. 

    Pediatric Residency in San Diego.  Pediatric Emergency Fellowship at Brown University, Providence, RI.  Dr Nelson practiced Pediatric Emergency medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Nevada in Las Vegas for 20 years.  He is now a faculty member at the University of Vermont and the chief of our new section of Peds EM.   He lectures regionally, nationally and internationally.  His community and research interests include EMS education and Emergency Preparedness and Response. 

  • Matt Roginski is an emergency and critical care physician who practices in Dartmouth Hitchcock’s ED, MICU, and SICU. He serves as Dartmouth's critical care transport team's associate medical director. He is passionate about bringing critical care interventions outside of the ICU.

  • Dr. Motov is an Emergency Medicine Attending Physician and Research Director practicing in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Medical Academy of Latvia and completed his EM residency at Maimonides Medical Center. Dr. Motov is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine who is very passionate about safe and effective pain management in the ED.  His primary interests include non-opioid analgesics modalities and qualitative approach to opioid prescribing. Dr. Motov has been growing and researching this body of work both nationally and globally and has given multiple presentation of the subject of ED Pain Management. Dr. Motov has over 60 peer-reviewed pain-related publications in most prestigious Emergency Medicine Journals.

    Twitter: @painfreeED

  • Sam Paskin, MD is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont. Sam started working at UVM as a laboratory research technician while completing his bachelor’s degree and has returned to his alma mater as faculty after completing his residency training at Denver Health. He splits his clinical time between academic and community practice and serves as the Director of Simulation and Procedural Education for the UVM Emergency Medicine Residency. 

  • Dr. Michael Sheeser is a boarded in Emergency Medicine with a special interest in Geriatrics. He completed his doctorate training at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and completed residency at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center.  He currently works at the University of Vermont Medical Center, NY affiliates, and is actively involved and has served as a medical director for local EMS services in Burlington, Vermont. He spends his clinical time running circles around his younger colleagues and dropping knowledge on all his learners and even more time trying to convince everyone he is still hip and not outdated.

  • Dr. Kathy Walsh is boarded in Emergency Medicine with a special interest in quality. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine and serves as the Emergency Department Quality Director. She completed her graduate training at Stony Brook University School of Medicine and her Emergency Medicine residency at Albany Medical Center.

  • Daniel Wolfson is an Associate Professor and Division Chief of Prehospital Medicine for the Larner College of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine and the State of Vermont EMS Medical Director. He is the physician leader for Start Treatment and Recovery (STAR), an emergency department-based program to initiate patients with Opioid Use Disorder onto treatment with buprenorphine or methadone. 

  • Dr. Brillhart is an emergency physician and faculty with the UVM Wilderness Medicine Section. Dr. Brillhart serves as medical director for Stowe Mountain Rescue, as well as advisor for the National Ski Patrol Northern Vermont Region and UVM Outdoor Programs. He has search and rescue experience from Mount Rainier, Denali, and Antarctica. Dr. Brillhart has developed a high altitude mountaineering medicine fellowship rotation on Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, where he is currently also involved with research on pulmonary edema, rescues, and fatalities. He has regularly skied, climbed, and run throughout the mountains surrounding Stowe for over a decade since moving from Alaska.

  • Dr. Peter VanBuren is a board-certified heart failure specialist at UVM Health Center in Burlington, VT. He also specializes in the areas echocardiography and nuclear cardiology. Dr. Van Buren joined the team in 1996, with a joint academic appointment at the University of Vermont. He is a tenured associate professor at the Larner College of Medicine at UVM.

    Dr. VanBuren’s research interests are focused on the fundamental mechanisms of cardiac contractile function. He followed his father, who practiced internal medicine in Burlington for nearly 30 years, into the medical profession.

    Dr. VanBuren is an integral part of the heart failure team at the UVM Medical Center. The Heart Failure Service’s focus is to provide proactive management of patients diagnosed with heart failure, with the understanding that patient education, multidisciplinary communication among providers and close follow-up are the cornerstones of excellent care.

  • Nicholas Aunchman MD, FACEP is a lifelong 6th generation Vermonter who was born and raised in Vermont. He began his medical career at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in 2007 and matriculated in 2011. He completed his emergency medicine residency at Cooper Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, and upon completion returned home to Vermont. He began his attending career at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital (CVPH) in Plattsburgh, NY. Shortly afterwards Dr. Aunchman also began working at the University of Vermont where his spouse was completing her residency. He is now an Associate Professor at the Larner College of Medicine at UVM and Medical Director at CVPH. He spends half his time scanning and the other half of his time on a tractor in his backyard trying to recreate the famous Footloose scene with his kids videoing him and his trauma surgeon wife worried she’ll soon be a widow. He continues to push the limits of tractor racing and community POCUS and is always up for a challenge.