Faculty
The commitment demonstrated by the 20 full-time, board-certified attending physicians is unsurpassed. In addition to their
dedication to educating residents, faculty serve as committee members, speakers, and leaders in societies such as the American
College of Emergency Physicians (
ACEP) – including past Pennsylvania Chapter President – Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (
SAEM), American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians (
ACOEP), Pennsylvania Chapter of the American College of Emergency Medicine (
PaACEP).
All of the attendings hold academic faculty positions at the affiliated colleges. Through lectures and clinical training,
residents develop a practice style shaped by the faculty's expertise in airway management, pediatric emergency medicine and
trauma resuscitations. Faculty members become mentors of small resident groups, and senior residents assist in being mentors
for their fellow junior residents, promoting camaraderie.
AEMC Faculty
Carl R. Chudnofsky, MD, FACEP
Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine; Associate Professor, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Fellow,
American College of Emergency Physicians & National Board of Medical Examiners; Diplomate, American Board of Emergency Medicine;
Reviewer, Academic Emergency Medicine & Annals of Emergency Medicine; Examiner, Oral Board Examination, American Board of
Emergency Medicine; Emergency Department Categorization Taskforce and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine; Diplomate,
American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians; Einstein Practice Plan, Inc., Fiscal Subcommittee.
John J. Kelly, DO, FACEP
Associate Chairman, Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Associate Professor,
Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine; Medical College
of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann School of Medicine; adjunct faculty, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia College
of Osteopathic Medicine; member, PaACEP Written Board Review Course; faculty, Freshman Course in Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia
College of Osteopathic Medicine; faculty, American College of Emergency Physicians, Education Committee; preceptor, Sophomore
Fundamentals of Clinical Care, Temple University School of Medicine; manuscript reviewer, Journal of Emergency Medicine; manuscript
reviewer, Annals of Emergency Medicine; CORD Question and Answer Bank, editor, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine; member,
American College of Emergency Physicians; member, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine; Pennsylvania American College of
Emergency Physicians, Education Committee, written board review course faculty; abstract reviewer: "W.H. Spivey Research Presentation";
Israeli Association for Emergency Medicine, Visiting Professorship Program Coordinator; National Eagle Scout Association,
life member.
Douglas McGee, DO, FACOEP, FACEP
Dr. Douglas McGee is the Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program; Associate Chair for Education; Osteopathic Director
of Medical Education and Chief Academic Officer at Albert Einstein Medical Center. He is an Assistant Professor of Emergency
Medicine and Assistant Dean at Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. McGee has been the Residency Program
Director for nearly six years and served as the Associate Program Director for the preceding eight years. He also is a member
of Albert Einstein Medical Center's Graduate Education Committee and Associate Program Director of the Transitional Year Residency
Program.
Gerald O’Malley, DO, FACEP
Director, Division of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, Director of Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine,
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Philadelphia
College of Osteopathic Medicine; adjunct assistant professor, Thomas Jefferson Medical College, Division of Emergency Medicine,
President, AEMC-PCOM Emergency Medicine Alumni Association
Nicole Abate, MD
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson
Medical College, Division of Emergency Medicine
Stacie Byers, DO
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine; Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Jefferson Medical
College, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
Merle Carter, MD
Associate Residency Program Director; Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center;
Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Member, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine; Member, American
College of Emergency Physicians; Member, Pennsylvania Chapter, American College of Emergency Physicians; American Heart Association
Provider & Instructor in Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Basic Life Support; American Heart Association Provider, Pediatric
Advanced Life Support; American College of Surgeons Provider in Advanced Trauma Life Support; Resident Education & Curriculum
Committee; Philadelphia Violence Prevention Collaborative; AEMC Domestic Violence Committee; AEMC Trauma Research Committee
(Departments of Emergency Medicine and General Surgery).
Robert Czincila, DO
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Jefferson Medical
College, Thomas Jefferson University
Kenneth Deitch, DO
Director, Division of Research, Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant
Professor, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University
Charles Fasano, DO
Medical Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Germantown Community Health Services, Attending Physician, Department
of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine;
Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson Medical College, Division of Emergency Medicine
Maria Halluska, MD
Assistant Residency Program Director, Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center;
Assistant Professor, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University
David Jaslow, MD
Chief, Division of Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine; Medical Director, Center for Special Operations Training;
Director, Emergency Medical Services Special Operations and Disaster Medicine Fellowship; Attending Physician, Department
of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Joel Kravitz, MD
Assistant Residency Program Director, Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center;
Attending Physician Department of Emergency Medicine; Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Kenneth Lavelle, MD
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center
Richard Levitan, MD
Director, Airway Laboratory Services, Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center;
Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
David Neubert, MD
Assistant Director, Division of Emergency Medical Services, Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert
Einstein Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Julie O'Connor, MD
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center
Deborah Pierce, DO
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson
University Hospital
Adam Rowden, DO
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson
University Hospital
Matthew Salzman, MD
Undergraduate Medical Education Director, Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center;
Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Peter Sananman, MD
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson
University Hospital
Nandita Sapre, DO
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson
University Hospital
Jordan Spector, MD
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center
Paul Vanderbeek, MD
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Member of American College of Emergency
Physicians; fellow, American College of Emergency Physicians; ACLS instructor.
L. Albert Villarin, Jr., MD, FACEP
Director, Medical Informatics Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant
Professor, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Fellow, American College of Emergency Physicians;
adjunct faculty, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; faculty, PaACEP Written Board
Review Course; editor, PaACEP Webmaster; member, Academic Affairs Committee, ACEP, Director-Information Technology & Web Education,
WMD/Bioterrorism Preparedness; member, Society of Academic Emergency Medicine; member, American College of Emergency Physicians;
American Heart Association instructor/trainer in ACLS/PALS/BLS; instructor, American College of Surgeons, Advanced Trauma
Life Support; Member SAEM, Web Developers Group; ACEP Informatics Section; IT Director - PaDOH Response to Recovery Education
Initiative.
Emergency Medical Services Fellows Include:
Colin Bucks, MD
EMS Fellow, Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Thomas
Jefferson Medical College, Division of Emergency Medicine
Sonia Chacko, MD 
EMS Fellow, Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Thomas
Jefferson Medical College, Division of Emergency Medicine
Delaware County Memorial Hospital Faculty
John F. Reilly, Jr., DO, FACEP
Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine Delaware County Memorial Hospital. Member: Medical Executive Committee, Joint
Policy Committee, Risk Management Committee, Quality Review Committee, Emergency Room Committee, ED Satisfaction Committee,
HIV Task Force. ACLS & ATLS provider/instructor. Professional membership: Member Communications and Medical Economics Committees,
PA, ACEP; American College of Emergency Physicians, PA Chapter, ACE; American College of Physician Executives, American College
of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians. Academic appointments: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Temple University; Assistant
Professor of Emergency Medicine, PCOM. Recertification ABEM 12/99.
Christine F. Giesa, DO, FACEP
Attending Physician, Delaware County Memorial Hospital; Emergency Medicine Resident Coordinator, Delaware County Memorial
Hospital; Medical Director, Base Command Facility, Delaware County Memorial Hospital; Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Basic
Cardiac Life Support instructor; Assistant Professor, PCOM.
Jane Chen, DO
Attending Physician, Delaware County Memorial Hospital
Matthew Cook, MD
Attending Physician, Delaware County Memorial Hospital
Brenda Foley, MD
Attending Physician, Delaware County Memorial Hospital
Jason Morgan, MD
Attending Physician, Delaware County Memorial Hospital
John O'Donnell, MD
Attending Physician, Delaware County Memorial Hospital
Michael Ross, DO
Attending Physician, Delaware County Memorial Hospital
Eric Solomon, DO
Attending Physician, Delaware County Memorial Hospital
Peter Tsao, DO
Attending Physician, Delaware County Memorial Hospital
Philip Torres, MD
Attending Physician, Delaware County Memorial Hospital
Germantown Community Health Servic es
Steven Parrillo, DO, FACOEP, FACEP
Medical Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Germantown Community Health Services; Chairman, Albert Einstein Medical
Center, Emergency Preparedness Committee; Medical Director of the Emergency Department at MossRehab and Einstein at Elkins
Park; Site Director for the HRSA Bioterrorism Training and Education grant; Director, AEMC HAZMAT Program; Past-President,
Board of Directors, Pennsylvania Chapter of American College of Emergency Physicians; Co-Chairman, Pennsylvania Chapter of
American College of Emergency Physicians, Education Committee; Examiner, American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine;
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University; Clinical Associate
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Jonathon Leiser, MD, FACEP
Associate Director Department of Emergency Medicine Germantown Hospital; Attending Faculty AEMC & DELCO Emergency Departments.
Assistant Professor; Thomas Jefferson University. Adjunct Associate Professor; Philadelphia University. Fellow American College
of Emergency Medicine. Member Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, American Medical Association, Christian Medical and
Dental Associations. Course Director for PaACEP Written Board Review Course, Associate Editor of PaACEP /SAEM Written Board
Review Q&A Book, Associate Chair of PaACEP Education Committee.
Robert Czincila, DOAttending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Jefferson Medical
College, Thomas Jefferson University
