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 Academic Chair
Department of Emergency Medicine
Washington Hospital Center and Georgetown University

Jonathan Davis, MD

Jonathan E. Davis, MD, FACEP
Program Director, Georgetown University Hospital
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Interests: GU Emergencies, Anaphylaxis, Hem/Onc Emergencies, Pitfalls in EM
Contact: jed27@georgetown.edu

Jeffrey Love, MD

Jeffrey N. Love, MD, FACEP
Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs
Interests: Education, Toxicology, Eye Trauma, ER Radiology
Contact: jeffrey.n.love@medstar.net

Rahul Bhat, MD

Rahul Bhat, MD
Assistant Program Director, Washington Hospital Center
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Interests: Medical education, emergency ultrasound, ECGs
Contact: Dr. Rahul G. Bhat

Autumn Graham, MD

Autumn Graham, MD
Assistant Program Director of Education
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician

David Lane, MD

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

Our Faculty

Dr. Shantanu Agrawal

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

Michael Antonis, DO

Michael S. Antonis, DO, RDMS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Director of Ultrasound Program and Fellowship
Interests: Ultrasound, Aeromedicine, Physician Control
Contact: Michael Antonis, DO

Shewit Bezabeh, MD, MPH

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

Ethan Booker, MD

Ethan Booker, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician

Joelle Borhart, MD

Joelle Borhart, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician

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
Special Interests: Simulation, Airway Management

Patrick Cullinan, DO

Patrick Cullinan, DO
Emergency Medicine & Surgical Critical Care Attending Physician
Special Interests: Advanced Medical Technology, Ultrasound and Disaster Management

Liesel Curtis, MD

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

Liz Delasobera, MD

B. Elizabeth Delasobera, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician,
Sports Medicine Fellow, VCU/Fairfax INOVA
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

Heather DeVore, MD

Heather DeVore, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Special Interests: Sexual Assault, Child Car Seats, Car Crash, Injury Prevention

Jeffrey S. Dubin, MD

Jeffrey S. Dubin, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Vice-Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington Hospital Center
Special Interests: Administration, Quality Improvement, Risk Management
Contact: jeffrey.s.dubin@medstar.net

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: terry.fairbanks@medstar.net

Bill Frohna, MD

William Frohna, MD
Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington Hospital Center
Vice Chair, MedStar Emergency Physicians
Interests: Mass Gathering Medicine, ED Administration (Quality Improvement, Safety/Risk Management)
Contact: bill.frohna@medstar.net

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: brf2@gunet.georgetown.edu

Justin Gatewood, MD

Justin Gatewood, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Health Informatics
Contact: justin.s.gatewood@medstar.net

Kulleni Gebreyes, MD

Kulleni Gebreyes, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Interests: Community Outreach, Public Policy, Clinical Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
Contact: kulleni.gebreyes@medstar.net

Eric Glasser, MD

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

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

Zach Hettinger, MD

A. Zach Hettinger, MD, MS
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Health Information Technology, Patient Safety Research
Contact: aaron.z.hettinger@medstar.net

Korin Hudson, MD

Korin B. Hudson, MD
GERMS Director and EMS Rotation Coordinator
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Interests: EMS, Sports Medicine, Ethics
Contact: Korin Hudson, MD

Lisa Jacobson, MD

Lisa Jacobson, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician

Latrise Jefferson, MD

Latrise Jefferson, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician

Sangeeta Kaushik, MD

Sangeeta Kaushik, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician

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Genese Lamare, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician,
Critical Care Fellow

Kerry Layman, MD

Kerri Layman, MD
Ultrasound Site Director, Georgetown University Hospital
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician

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

Jasmine Malek, MD

Jasmine Malek, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Interests: HIV, Head Injury, International Emergency Medicine

Kevin Maloy, MD

Kevin Maloy, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Medical Informatics, Programming

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

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
Special Interests: Federal Emergency Preparedness Policy, Disaster Medicine, Pre-hospital Care

Norine McGrath, MD

Norine McGrath, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician

David Milzman, MD

David P. Milzman, MD, FACEP
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician,
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Interests: Research, Mass Gathering, Trauma/Critical Care
Contact: davidmilzman@comcast.net

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: somaramd@rcn.com

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: james.k.palma@medstar.net

Carolyn Phillips, MD

Carolyn Phillips, MD, RDMS, FACEP
Assistant Director, Ultrasound Program and Fellowship
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Ultrasound, Medical Informatics
Contact: carolynaphillips@gmail.com

Martin Pitts, MD

Martin Pitts, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Elizabeth Pontius, MD

Elizabeth Pontius, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician,
Emergency Medical Student Ultrasound Director
Intereests: Emergency ultrasound

Kevin Reed, MD

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

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: wrogers@cms.hhs.gov

Tina Rosenbaum, MD

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

Amir Sakla, MD

Amir Sakla, MD, FACEP
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician

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
Medical Officer, Office of Device Evaluation, US Food and Drug Administration
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Interests: Medical Technology Evaluation (Safety, Clinical Effectiveness, and Cost Effectiveness)
Contact: shah.medicine@gmail.com

Sanjay Shewakramani, MD

Sanjay Shewakramani, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Medical education; quality improvement
Contact: sanjay.shewakramani@medstar.net

Danielle Silverman, MD

Danielle Silverman, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician,
Ultrasound Fellow
Interests: Emergency ultrasound, patient satisfaction

Janet Smereck, MD

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

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

Todd Templeman, MD

Todd Templeman, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician (Board Certified Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine)
Director of International Medicine Program
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Interests: International Medicine, HIV Screening in the Emergency Department, Aviation Medicine
Contact: toddtempleman@gmail.com

Jennifer Thompson, MD

Jennifer Thompson, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Ultrasound, Occupational Exposures, Health Policy/Public Health
Contact: jennifer_n_thompson@hotmail.com

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.

Lindsey White, MD

Lindsey White, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician

Cory Wittrock, MD

Cory Wittrock, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician,
Ultrasound Fellow
Interests: Emergency Ultrasound, Health Policy

Sangeeta Wood, MD

Sangeeta Wood, MD
Director, Simulation Program
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Simulation, Medical Education

Christopher Wuerker, MD

Christopher Wuerker, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Interests: Flight/Transport Medicine, EMS, Critical Care
Contact: cwuerker@comcast.net

Mike Ybarra, MD

Mike Ybarra, MD
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Interests: Health policy, Medical Education, AAEM/YPS