2024 Administration & Operations Committee Leader Spotlight
Andrew Luo, MD, MBA, Chair of the EMRA Administration & Operations Committee, 2024
Program: Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital
Why get involved in a professional society? Learn the latest developments in Emergency Medicine and help develop the next generation of physician leaders.
Top 3 traits of a great leader: Vision, empowering others, glass-half-full mindset
Savanah L. Harshbarger, MD, MBA, Chair-Elect of the EMRA Administration & Operations Committee, 2024
Program:Harvard (Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham & Women's Hospital)
What is your goal as an EMRA Leader? Empower residents to explore opportunities beyond the hospital and make connections between the worlds of medicine, leadership, and business
Top 3 traits of a great leader: Adaptability, decisiveness, resilience
What is something that people don't know about you? I recently passed my Level I Sommelier exam!
Karan Bains, MD, MBA, Vice Chair of the EMRA Administration & Operations Committee, 2024
Program: UCSF
Your goal as an EMRA leader: To provide trainees with more exposure to important topics in EM administration and operations, and to generate new ideas with others interested in the topic
What is the best advice you've ever received? If you lift others up you'll rise with them
What is something people don't know about you? I hate the sound of styrofoam with a passion
Puja Singh, MD, Vice Chair of the EMRA Administration & Operations Committee, 2024
Program: Mount Sinai Morningside West
Your goal as an EMRA leader: To help support the education of members and help grow the various resources we have to advance the flame of emergency medicine that I know we all share.
What is your favorite hack for night shifts? snacks and vibes
Neha Gupta, MD, Vice Chair of the EMRA Admin and Ops Committee, 2024
Program: George Washington University Emergency Medicine
Richard Ngo, DMD, Asst. Vice Chair of the EMRA Administration & Operations Committee, 2024
Program: University of California - San Francisco
Your goal as an EMRA leader: Build our community of residents and medical students nationally.
Favorite life hack for night shifts: Caffeine naps are the way to go.
Josue Minaya, MD, Asst. Vice Chair of the EMRA Administration & Operations Committee, 2024
Program: Yale New Haven
Your goal as an EMRA leader: My goal as an EMRA leader is to be able to explore various avenues to address some of the most concerning issues in Emergency Medicine including the perceptions of our patients seeking care in the emergency departments during their visits.
Why did you get involved in a professional society? I had been a part of EMRA since medical school and wanted to expand the role I played in helping advance the field of Emergency Medicine Administration and Operations.
If I weren't an emergency physician, I would be: I was very interested in biomedical engineering during my undergraduate studies.
Favorite life hack for night shifts: A very comfortable eye mask and blackout curtains!
What's the last non-textbook you read? The Lightning Thief, again...
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