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 and Director of Emergency Department Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at Albert Einstein Medical Center.  He is an 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.

He is Vice President of the Albert Einstein Medical Center (AEMC) Medical Staff Board, Chair of the Physician Advocacy Committee of the Medical Staff Board, and Chair of the AEMC Pneumonia Task Force.  Also at AEMC he is a member of the Hospital Board's Finance/Mission Resources Committee, Medical Leadership Executive Committee, Performance Improvement Council, Cath Alert QA Group, Stroke Task Force, and Network Mission/Vision "Alignment" Leadership Group.  He is President and a Board Member of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), and is a Member of the Education Committee.  Nationally, he is a member of the ACEP Quality and Performance Committee, and is Past Chair of the ACEP Academic Affairs Committee,  Past Chair of the ACEP Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Section and appointed to the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Membership Committee.  Dr. Kelly has published on Quality of Emergency Care, Patient Safety, and Emergency Airway Safety/Assessment.  He was awarded the AEMC Physician Partnership Award and the Albert Einstein Society Physician Leadership Award.

Douglas McGee, DO, FACOEP, FACEP

Dr. McGee is Medical Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine.  He is the Chief Academic Officer for the Einstein Healthcare Network and as such is responsible for all of the residency and fellowship training programs. He is Chair of the Graduate Education Committee at Albert Einstein, and the Osteopathic Director of Medical Education.  He is an Assistant Dean at Jefferson Medical College and is Past President of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is an ACEP Councilor and a member of the ACEP Council Steering Committee.  This year he is chairing a Council Reference Committee, and has served on an ACEP Council Reference Committee.  Dr. McGee is a member of the Board of Directors of the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine is a Board Advisor to the Society for Emergency Medicine Physician Assistants and Dr. McGee is active in the Pennsylvania Medical Society, serving on the PMS Medical Imaging Task Force and the Crowding and Patient Flow Committee of the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania.  He is also a member of the Graduate Education Committee for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Editor of the SAEM Academic Career Guide, and Chair and Coordinator of the National Emergency Medicine Clinical Pathological Case (CPC) Competition sponsored by the Council of Residency Directors, ACEP, SAEM and EMRA.  Dr. McGee has received numerous awards including the PaACEP Chapter Meritorious Service Award, the Benjamin Field Mentorship Award given by the ACOEP, the John W. Becher Award for Outstanding Contributions to Emergency Medicine given by the AEMC Alumni Association, the National Faculty Teaching Award given by ACEP, and Excellence in Teaching Award given by the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine.  He is a frequent lecturer in local and national meetings and has lecture extensively on topics in trauma, diagnostic testing, CT scan interpretation, genitourinary emergencies, and residency administration.  He is a graduate of the ACEP/EMF Teaching Fellowship and is now serving as a mentor for current fellows.  Dr. McGee completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center, served as the Associate Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency from 1992-2000 and as the Residency Program Director from 2000-20008.

Gerald O’Malley, DO, FACEP

Dr. O’Malley is Director of Research and a Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.  He is a consultant for the Philadelphia Poison Control Center and Clinical Consultant in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. O’Malley completed his emergency medicine residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center and medical toxicology fellowship at the University of Colorado / Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center in Denver Colorado.  He spent 10 years serving his country in the medical core of the U.S. Navy, has published extensively in Annals of Emergency Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine, The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet, among others, and is currently a highly-sought after, nationally recognized expert speaker and lecturer in the areas of toxicology and emergency medicine. 

Merle Carter, MD , FACEP
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).

Dr. Carter received her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and completed her residency training at the Boston Medical Center (formerly Boston City Hospital). She is an American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Teaching Fellowship graduate, a graduate of the ACEP/Emergency Medicine Foundation Research Skills program, and currently serves as Mentor for the ACEP Teaching Fellowship. Dr. Carter has served several terms as an elected member of the AEHN Medical Staff Board, an appointed Member of the Network Transformation Steering Committee, a Member of the Mission-Driven Leadership Committee, a Member of the Emergency Mid-Level Provider Steering Committee, in addition to her role on the Chaplaincy & Pastoral Education and Graduate Education Committees. She is active in Pennsylvania Chapter of ACEP, serving on the Education Committee and as Oral Board Review Course Faculty.  Her academic interests include curriculum development, adult learning theory, and injury prevention.  Appointed to represent ACEP nationally, she is a member of the task force to revise the Model of Clinical Practice in Emergency Medicine, the core content document used by EM programs to drive their didactic and clinical curricula. She has presented nationally at ACOEP and ACEP conferences and regionally for SAEM. Dr. Carter has won the Medical Student Teacher of the Year Award several years in a row, has media appearances on behalf of the Einstein Network and PA-ACEP, and has been the recipient of the Medical Center’s prestigious Employee Recognition Award. Prior to assuming the role of Program Director, Dr. Carter was the Associate Program Director, Director of Undergraduate Medical Education and Clerkship Director after joining the Einstein faculty.

Robert Albrecht, MD

Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center.

Earl Bryant, DO

Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center.

Jennifer Campbell, DO

Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center.

Sonia Chacko, MD

Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson Medical College, Division of Emergency Medicine

Matthew D. Cook, DO
Attending Physician, Delaware County Memorial Hospital; Member of the Division of Medical Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center.

Kenneth Deitch, DO
Associate Research Director, 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 Director of Quality Assurance and Patient Safety for the Department of Emergency Medicine.  Assistant Professor, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson Medical College, Division of Emergency Medicine

Michael H. Goodyear, DO, FACEP
Assistant Residency Program Director; Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center;American College of Emergency Medicine Teaching Fellow.

Maria Halluska-Handy, 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 , MPH, EMT-P

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

Ishrat Khatri, MD

Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center.

Joel Kravitz, MD
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, NREMT-P

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

Julie O'Connor, MD

Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center

Rika O'Malley, 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

Director of the Division of Medical Toxicology and Fellowship Director; Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Matthew Salzman, MD

Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Member of the Emergency Medicine Division of Toxicology; 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 , MS

Director of Undergraduate Education; Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center

Lynn Scherer, PA-C

Director of the Physician Assistant Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Physician Assistant Manager, Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Physician Assistant, Albert Einstein Medical Center.

Ira Sheldon, DO

Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center.

Serge-Emile Simpson, MD

Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Member of the Division of Medical Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center.

Paul Vanderbeek, MD
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Elkins Park and Germantown Hospital; Member of American College of Emergency Physicians; fellow, American College of Emergency Physicians; ACLS instructor.

L. Albert Villarin, Jr., MD, FACEP
Chief Medical Informatics Director, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network; Director of Medical Informatics in Department of Emergency Medicine; 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.

Sonia Chacko, MD

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

Amanda Howell, MD

Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Delaware County Memorial Hospital.

Jeremy Kirtz, MD

Attending Physician, Delaware County Memorial Hospital.

Eric Solomon, DO

Attending Physician, Delaware County Memorial Hospital

Arpita Shrivastava, 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, DO
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Assistant Director at Elkins Park Emergency Medicine; Assistant Professor, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; President of the AEMC Emergency Medicine Residency Alumni Association.