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.

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • Description text goes hAnnahieta 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. 

  • 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

  • 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. 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.