Faculty

Georgetown University Hospital/Washington Hospital Center Emergency Medicine Training Program host a diverse and well-rounded faculty. Attending physicians at Georgetown University Hospital, Washington Hospital Center, Union Memorial Hospital and Franklin Square Hospital Center are integrated into a single department with a single chair. This ensures a consistent educational mission and sustained mentorship to the residents of the program.

Program Leadership

Mark S. Smith, MD

Mark S. Smith, MD, FACEP
Chair, MedStar Emergency Physicians
Professor and Chair
Department of Emergency Medicine
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Contact: Dr. Mark Smith

Jonathan Davis, MD

Jonathan E. Davis, MD, FACEP
Program Director
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Interests: Allergic emergencies, GU emergencies, heme emergencies, resident and faculty development
Contact: Dr. Jonathan Davis

Rahul Bhat, MD

Rahul Bhat, MD, FACEP
Associate Program Director
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Interests: Medical education, emergency ultrasound, M&M conference
Contact: Dr. Rahul Bhat

Autumn Graham, MD

Autumn Graham, MD, FAAEM
Associate Program Director
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Medical education, evidence-based practice, critical care
Contact: Dr. Autumn Graham

David Lane, MD

David R. Lane, MD, FACEP
Clerkship Director
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Interests: Medical education, aeromedical transport, competency training and assessment
Contact: Dr. David Lane

Jeffrey Love, MD

Jeffrey N. Love, MD, FACEP
Founding Program Director
Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs
Interests: Education, toxicology, eye trauma, emergency radiology
Contact: Dr. Jeffrey Love

Our Faculty

Dr. Shantanu Agrawal

Shantanu Agrawal, MD, MPhil, FAAEM
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician,
Interests: Health Policy, Healthcare Fraud
Contact: Dr. Shantanu Agrawal

Michael Antonis, DO

Michael S. Antonis, DO, RDMS, FACEP
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Director, MEP Emergency Ultrasound Division
Interests: Ultrasound, aeromedicine, physician control
Contact: Michael Antonis, DO

Shewit Bezabeh, MD, MPH

Shewit Bezabeh MD, MPH
Medical Epidemiologist US FDA
Attending Physician, MWHC Department of Emergency Medicine
Interests: Drug Safety, Clinical trials, clinical epidemiology and international health
Contact: Shewit Bezabeh, MD

Ethan Booker, MD

Ethan Booker, MD, FACEP
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Contact: Ethan Booker, MD

Joelle Borhart, MD

Joelle Borhart, MD, FAAEM
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Contact: Joelle Borhart, MD

David Carlberg, MD

David Carlberg, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: ECGs
Contact: Dr. David Carlberg

Eric Chang, MD

Eric Chang, MD, FACEP
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests Simulation, airway management
Contact: Dr. Eric Chang



Liesl Curtis, MD

Liesl A. Curtis, MD, FACEP
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Contact: Dr. Liesl Curtis

Liz Delasobera, MD

B. Elizabeth Delasobera, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician,
Interests: Sports medicine
Contact: Dr. Liz Delasobera

John DeSimone, MD

John DeSimone, MD, FACEP
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Associate Medical Director, Georgetown University Hospital
Contact: Dr. John DeSimone

Heather DeVore, MD

Heather DeVore, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Sexual assault, child car seats, car crash, injury prevention
Contact: Dr. Heather DeVore

Jeffrey S. Dubin, MD

Jeffrey S. Dubin, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Vice-Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington Hospital Center
Interests: Administration, quality improvement, risk management
Contact: Dr. Jeff Dubin

Rollin J. (Terry) Fairbanks, MD

Rollin J. (Terry) Fairbanks, MD MS FACEP
Director, National Center for Human Factors Engineering in Healthcare
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician, Washington Hospital Center
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Georgetown University
Interests: Research, system safety engineering, human factors engineering
Contact: Dr. Terry Fairbanks


Bill Frohna, MD

William Frohna, MD
Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington Hospital Center
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Vice Chair, MedStar Emergency Physicians
Interests: Mass gathering medicine, ED administration (quality improvement, safety/risk management)
Contact: Dr. Bill Frohna

Brendan Furlong, MD

Brendan R. Furlong, MD, FACEP
Chief of Service, Emergency Medicine, Georgetown University Hospital
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Interests: EMTALA, Medical legal aspects of ER, clinical operations
Contact: Dr. Brendan Furlong

Justin Gatewood, MD

Justin Gatewood, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Health informatics
Contact: Dr. Justin Gatewood

Kulleni Gebreyes, MD

Kulleni Gebreyes, MD

Interests: Community outreach, public policy, clinical quality improvement and patient safety
Contact: Dr. Kulleni Gebreyes

Eric Glasser, MD

Eric G. Glasser, MD, FACEP
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Assistant Director of Operations, Department of Emergency Medicine at Georgetown
Contact: Dr. Eric Glasser

Munish Goyal, MD

Munish Goyal, MD, FACEP
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director, Emergency Intensive Care
Interests: Resuscitation, Post-cardiac arrest syndrome, septic shock
Contact: munish.goyal@medstar.net

Michelle Grant-Ervin, MD

Michelle Grant-Ervin, MD, MHPE
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Education and palliative medicine
Director of a local hospice in Washington, DC

Jon Hall, MD

Jon Hall, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: International medicine
Contact: Dr. Jon Hall

Zach Hettinger, MD

A. Zach Hettinger, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Health information technology, patient safety research
Contact: Dr. Zach Hettinger

Korin Hudson, MD

Korin B. Hudson, MD, FACEP
GERMS Director and EMS Rotation Coordinator
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Interests: EMS, sports medicine, ethics
Contact: Dr. Korin Hudson

Latrise Jefferson, MD

Latrise Jefferson, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Contact: Dr. Latrise Jefferson

Sangeeta Kaushik, MD

Sangeeta Kaushik, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Contact: Dr. Sangeeta Kaushik

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Genese Lamare, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician,
Critical Care Fellow
Contact: Dr. Genese Lamare

Kerri Layman, MD

Kerri Layman, MD, RDMS
Director, Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship MWHC/MGUH
Site Director, MGUH Emergency Ultrasound
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Contact: Dr. Kerri Layman

Toby Litovitz, MD, FACMT
Executive Medical Director, National Capital Poison Center
Professor of Emergency Medicine

Sunil Madan, MD

Sunil I. Madan, MD, FACEP
Medical Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington Hospital Center
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Contact: Dr. Sunil Madan

Jasmine Malek, MD

Jasmine Malek, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Interests: HIV, head injury, international emergency medicine
Contact: Dr. Jasmine Malek

Kevin Maloy, MD

Kevin Maloy, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Medical informatics, data visualization, ambient information
Contact: Dr. Kevin Maloy

EG Marchand, MD

E. Gregory Marchand, MD, FACEP
Director of Informatics, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington Hospital Center
Associate Medical Director, MedSTAR Transport
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Interests: Air medicine, patient safety initiatives, use of information technology in health care, airway management, trauma care
Contact: Dr. Greg Marchand

David Marcozzi, MD

David Marcozzi, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician,
Senior Medical Advisor, Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations, Department of Health and Human Services
Interests: Federal emergency preparedness policy, disaster medicine, pre-hospital care
Contact: Dr. David Marcozzi

Norine McGrath, MD

Norine McGrath, MD, FACEP
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Chair, MWHC Bioethics Committee
Interests: Medical ethics

David Milzman, MD

David P. Milzman, MD, FACEP
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Senior Clinical Advisor for Research
SMP Medical Director for Community Outreach
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Adjunct Faculty
Research Director , Post Bacculaureate Program
Georgetown University
Research Director Georgetown U./MedStar Washington Hospital Center Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Interests: Research, mass gathering, trauma/critical care
Contact: Dr. David Milzman

Susan O'Mara, MD

Susan R. O’Mara, MD, FAAEM
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Interests: Lecturing, medical writing, RN-MD team building
Contact: Dr. Susan O’Mara

Julian Orenstein, MD

Julian Orenstein, MD, FACEP, FAAP
Site Coordinator, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital
Dr. Julian Orenstein

James Palma, MD

James Palma, MD, MPH
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Ultrasound, medical education
Contact: Dr. James Palma

Carolyn Phillips, MD

Carolyn Phillips, MD, RDMS, FACEP
Associate Director, Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship MWHC/MGUH
Site Director, MWHC Emergency Ultrasound
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Ultrasound, medical informatics
Contact: Dr. Carolyn Phillips

Martin Pitts, MD

Martin Pitts, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Contact: Dr. Martin Pitts

Elizabeth Pontius, MD

Beth Pontius, MD, RDMS
Course Director, Medical Student Emergency Bedside Ultrasound Elective
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Interests: Emergency ultrasound, medical education, international medicine
Contact: Dr. Elizabeth Pontius

Kevin Reed, MD

Kevin C. Reed, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Interests: Medical simulation, competency training and evaluation
Contact: Dr. Kevin Reed

William Rogers, MD

William D Rogers MD FACEP
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
State Air Surgeon, DC Air National Guard
Air Force Critical Care Transport Physician
Operational Medical Director, National Park Service
Medical Officer, Physician Regulatory Issues Team, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Interests: Aerospace medicine, air transport, medical economics, mass gathering, Medicare/Medicaid
Contact: Dr. William Rogers

Tina Rosenbaum, MD

Tina G. Rosenbaum, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Contact: Dr. Tina Rosenbaum

Amir Sakla, MD

Amir Sakla, MD, FACEP
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician

Contact: Dr. Amir Sakla

Diane Sauter, MD

Diane A. Sauter, MS, MD, FACEP, FACMT
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Primary investigator for phase II clinical trial evaluating the effectiveness of ecallantide for the reversal of ACE-inhibitor angioedema.
Interets: Medical toxicology, clinical research.
contact: Dr. Diane Sauter

Amit Shah, MD

Amit Shah, MD
Director, MedStar Inventor Services
MedStar Institute for Innovation (MI2)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Interests: Medical technology evaluation (safety, clinical effectiveness, and cost effectiveness)
Contact: Dr. Amit Shah

Sanjay Shewakramani, MD

Sanjay Shewakramani, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Medical education; quality improvement
Contact: Dr. Sanjay Shewakramani

Janet Smereck, MD

Janet A. Smereck, MD, FACEP
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Interests: Herbal and seafood toxicities, obstetrical emergencies
Contact: Dr. Janet Smereck

Jennifer Thompson, MD

Jennifer Thompson, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Ultrasound, occupational exposures, health policy/public health
Contact: Dr. Jennifer Thompson

Annemarie Utz, MD

Annemarie Utz, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: End of life issues/palliative care, ED physician wellness, OB/GYN care in the ED patient.
Contact: Dr. Annemarie Utz

Julie Vieth, MD

Julie Vieth, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
GERMS Assistant Medical Director
Interests: EMS, simulation
Contact: Dr. Julie Vieth

Lindsey White, MD

Lindsey White, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Contact: Dr. Lindsey White

Lauren Wiesner, MD

Lauren Wiesner, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Disaster medicine and medical education
Contact: Dr. Lauren Wiesner

Cory Wittrock, MD

Cory Wittrock, MD
Director, MWHC/MGUH Emergency Medicine Resident Education
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician,
Interests: Emergency ultrasound, health policy

Sangeeta Wood, MD

Sangeeta Wood, MD
Director, Simulation Program
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Simulation, medical education
Contact: Dr. Sangeeta Wood

Christopher Wuerker, MD

Christopher Wuerker, MD, FACEP
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Interests: Flight/Transport Medicine, EMS, critical care
Contact: Dr. Christopher Wuerker

Mike Ybarra, MD

Mike Ybarra, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Health policy, medical education, AAEM/YPS
Contact: Dr. Mike Ybarra