ALiEM Connect 3: An All-EM Residency Graduation Celebration
June 15, 2020
In rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the cancellation of weekly conferences for U.S. Emergency Medicine (EM) residencies, our team launched a new initiative called ALiEM Connect. This FREE, live, educational telecast, however, is not just a one-way webinar of premiere speakers. We also incorporate a monitored and curated backchannel discussion on the Slack platform, where participants can answer each others’ questions and popular questions are addressed by the live speaker.
Watch the full All-EM residency graduation celebration on the YouTube platform to see the videostream as well as the real-time comments from celebrities behind the scenes and those watching the event from home.
Despite the impact it has had on our EM community, we refuse to let COVID-19 get in the way of celebrating the graduation of our senior EM residents and all the residents leveling-up a year. Connect 3 is an 80-minute commencement ceremony for the entire EM community to pause, reflect, and most importantly commend the dedication and perseverance of EM residents. However, this all-EM event isn’t your traditional commencement event. We are sprinkling in our secret sauce of mind-blowing surprises and fun that is fitting of the EM world.
Commencement Speakers
Celebrity Guest Appearances
- Grey Damon (Actor, “Jack Gibson” on Station 19)
- Barrett Doss (Actress, “Victoria Hughes” on Station 19)
- Dr. Angela Duckworth (Psychologist and author of book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance)
- Dr. Anthony Fauci (Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
- Emergency the Musical (Cast from the off Broadway musical)
- Jason George (Actor, “Dr. Ben Warren” on Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19)
- Herb Lang (Former Harlem Globetrotter)
- Peter Mansbridge (Former Canadian news anchor of The National and chief correspondent for CBC News)
- Jana Lee Ortiz (Actress, “Andy Herrera” on Station 19)
- Danielle Savre (Actress, “Maya Bishop” on Station 19)
Some of the other featured guests who will be celebrating this event with you include:
- Dr. Jill Baren (President, American Board of Emergency Medicine)
- Dr. Jenny Beck-Esmay (Assistant Residency Director, St. Luke’s-Mount Sinai West; Editor-in Chief, FemInEM)
- Dr. Pam Benson (First female EM resident!)
- Dr. Uché Blackstock (Emergency physician, Founder & CEO at Advancing Health Equity)
- Dr. Keme Carter (University of Chicago)
- Dr. Teresa Chan (Assistant Dean for Faculty Development for the Faculty Health Sciences, McMaster University)
- Dr. Alecs Chochinov (President, Canadian Association for Emergency Physicians)
- Dr. Ilene Claudius (Pediatric EM, Harbor-UCLA)
- Dr. Tsion Firew (Columbia University; Special Advisor to the Ministry of Health for the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia)
- Dr. Fiona Gallahue (President, Council of EM Residency Directors)
- Dr. Lewis Goldfrank (NYU Langone; Textbook Editor for Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies)
- Dr. Glaucomflecken (Ophthalmologist, comedian, speaker @Dglaucomflecken)
- Dr. Jim Holmes (President, Society of Academic Emergency Medicine)
- Dr. Jaime Hope (Oakland University William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak; Motivational speaker, author, founder of Dr. Hope Health)
- Dr. Hannah Hughes (President, Emergency Medicine Residents Association)
- Dr. Abbas Husain (Staten Island University Hospital; All NYC EM President)
- Dr. William Jaquis (President, American College of Emergency Physicians)
- Dr. Dara Kass (Columbia University; Founder of FemInEM)
- Dr. Lexie Mannix (University of Florida – Jacksonville; Founder of SheMD)
- Dr. Lisa Moreno–Walton (President, American Academy of Emergency Medicine)
- Dr. Monalisa Muchatuta (SUNY Downstate Medical Center)
- Dr. Josh Mugele (Residency Director, Northeast Georgia Medical Center)
- Dr. Rob Orman (Emergency Physician, Glenwood Springs, CO; Creator and Host of ERCast and Stimulus podcast)
- Dr. Mike Paddock (Regions Hospital / HealthPartners)
- Dr. Megan Ranney (Brown University; Chief Research Officer, AFFIRM)
- Dr. Jonathan Sherbino (Assistant Dean, Health Professions Education Research, McMaster University; Founding Editor, ICENet Blog)
- Dr. Teresa Smith (Designated Institutional Official, SUNY Downstate/Kings County)
- Dr. Robert Suter (President, American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians)
- Dr. Anand Swaminathan (St. Joseph’s Hospital; Deputy Editor for EM:RAP, Managing Editor for EM Abstracts and Associate Editor for REBEL EM and REBELCast)
- Dr. Judith Tintinalli (Senior Textbook Editor, Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide)
- Dr. Seth Trueger (Northwestern University; Digital Media Editor, JAMA)
- Dr. Scott Weingart (Stony Brook University, Founder of EMCrit Podcast)
- Dr. Brian Zink (Senior Associate Dean for Faculty & Faculty Development, University of Michigan; Author of Anyone, Anything, Anytime – A History of Emergency Medicine)
Featured Residents
- Dr. Gordon Chien (EM resident, Jacobi/Montefiore Residency)
- Dr. Emily Earl-Royal (EM Resident, Stanford University)
- Dr. Elaine Hsiang (EM Resident, UC San Francisco)
- Dr. Andres Maldonado (EM resident, Jacobi/Montefiore Residency, featured in NY Times)
- Dr. Gracie Maldonado (EM resident, Mayo Clinic)
- Dr. Aaron Rosenthal (EM resident, Jefferson Northeast)
Exclusive Sponsor
The American Board of Emergency Medicine
- Dr. Al’ai Alvarez (Stanford University)
- Soon-to-be Dr. Bryn Dhir (International American University)
- Dr. Michael Gisondi (Stanford University)
- Dr. Mary Haas (University of Michigan)
- Dr. Adaira Landry (Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
- Dr. Michelle Lin (UC San Francisco)
- Dr. Sarah Mott (Emergency Physician, Emergency Care Consultants, Minnesota)
- Dr. Carl Preiksaitas (Stanford University)
- Dr. Christian Rose (Stanford University)
Special Thanks
Special thanks to Slack.com and Zoom.com for donating upgraded platforms for us to use.
The Connect Team
- Christian Rose, MD (@RoseLikeTheFlwr): Project co-lead
- Michelle Lin, MD (@M_Lin): Project co-lead
- Michael Gisondi, MD (@MikeGisondi): Livestream event host
- Adaira Landry, MD (@AdairaLandryMD): Executive committee member
- Sarah Mott, MD (@Mottse): Slack backchannel moderator
- Jonathan Bronner, MD (@Bronski_EM): Slack backchannel moderator
- Tim Montrief, MD (@EMinMiami): Slack backchannel moderator
- Al’ai Alvarez, MD (@alvarezzzy): Slack backchannel moderator, Digital operations engineer, Twitter co-strategist
- Moises Gallegos, MD (@moyinscrubs): Twitter co-strategist
- Bryn Dhir, BA (@BDhir): Twitter co-strategist
- Carl Preiksaitis, MD (@CMPreik): Digital operations engineer
- Gabe Sudario, MD (@GabeSudario): Instagram lead
- Teresa Chan, MD (@TChanMD): Program evaluation analyst
- Yusuf Yilmaz, PhD (@YusufYilmazPhD): Program evaluation analyst
- Mary Haas, MD (@MaryHaasMD)