Ramon W. Johnson, MD, MBA, Becomes President of ABEM
Ramon W. Johnson, MD, MBA, is the new president of the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM). Dr. Johnson has been an oral examiner since 1993 and has been a member of the board of directors since July 2015. He has served ABEM in a number of capacities, including as a chief examiner for the Oral Certification Examination, liaison to the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Subboard, and question writer for MyEMCert.
“It is an incredible honor to represent ABEM as a community physician,” he said. “Continuing to set the highest standards for knowledge assessment and professionalism for all emergency physicians will benefit our patients and the specialty.”
D&I Committee Paper Published in Western Journal of EM
EMRA’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee’s paper, “A Virtual National Diversity Mentoring Initiative to Promote Inclusion in Emergency Medicine,” was published in July in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine.
The paper describes the development and implementation of a national virtual mentoring program, the Diversity Mentoring Initiative (DMI), that paired URiM trainees interested in EM with experienced mentors. The authors found that by using a virtual platform, the DMI enhanced the efficiency of mentor-mentee pairing, tailored matches based on participants’ interests and the bandwidth of mentors, and successfully established cross-institutional connections to support the mentorship needs of URiM trainees.
Authors were: Tatiana Carrillo, DO; Lorena Martinez Rodriguez, DO; Adaira Landry, MD, MEd; Al’ai Alvarez, MD; Alyssa Ceniza, BSW; Riane Gay, MPA; Andrea Green, MD; and Jessica Faiz, MD, MSHPM.
Congratulations to EMRA’s D&I Committee upon the paper’s publication and for their collaboration on this important project.
Cameron J. Gettel, MD, MHS, Named 2023-25 ABEM NAM Fellow
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has selected Cameron J. Gettel, MD, MHS, as the 2023-25 ABEM NAM Fellow. Dr. Gettel is an assistant professor in the Department of EM at the Yale School of Medicine and a clinical investigator at the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation.
“I am incredibly honored to have been selected for the NAM ABEM Fellowship,” stated Dr. Gettel. “I’ve always enjoyed thinking on a larger scale toward influencing the greatest number of people, and I believe this opportunity will uniquely allow me to pursue important research questions impacting our nation's emergency patients and clinicians.”