Board members

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Emilie J. Calvello Hynes, MD MPH FACEP

Dr. Calvello Hynes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of Colorado, and leads the university's Global Emergency Care Initiative. She also holds faculty appointments in South Africa at the University of Stellenbosch and in the UAE at the University of the United Arab Emirates Faculty of Medicine.

Dr. Calvello Hynes' professional interest is in developing emergency care capacity via innovative approaches to health system strengthening and education of health care personnel to provide best practice service delivery. Among her field experiences, she served as director of emergency services for International Medical Corps immediately after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, senior technical advisor to Catholic Relief Services during the Haiti cholera epidemic and senior faculty at JFK Medical Center in Monrovia, Liberia from 2009 to 2013. She is a consultant to the US State Department for their Senior Crisis Management and Hospital Based Management of Mass Casualty Incident courses held throughout the world and serves as a visiting consultant to the World Health Organization’s program for Emergency, Trauma and Acute Care.

 

Janis P. Tupesis, MD FACEP FAAEM

Dr. Tupesis is the chairperson of University of Wisconsin Health's Graduate Medical Education Global Health Committee, and is the institution's Graduate Medical Education liaison to the UW-Madison’s Global Health Institute. Prior to this position, he was the Program Director for the University of Wisconsin's Department of Emergency Medicine Residency until 2014. He serves on multiple international global health education committees, including the International Federation of Emergency Medicine, African Federation for Emergency Medicine among others. He has been involved in establishing graduate medical education programs in Liberia and Ethiopia, and he currently has ongoing projects that focus on the intersection of education, health systems and technology. Dr. Tupesis' primary interest lies in the development of new and innovative educational curricula and learner evaluation methodology.

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Hani O. Mowafi, MD MPH FACEP FAAEM

Dr. Mowafi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University and Chief of the Section of Global Health and International Emergency Medicine. He also serves as the Director of the GHIEM Fellowship. His interests are in developing the science and practice of emergency care with emphasis on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where the burden of emergency conditions is greatest is combined with an unmet need for emergency services.

Dr. Mowafi's research interests include analysis of global emergency care systems; evaluating the burden of injury in LMICs and addressing health and human security in humanitarian emergencies. He has 15 years of experience in consulting and research in emergency medicine and global public health.

 

Morgan C. Broccoli, MD MSc

Dr. Broccoli is a senior resident in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center. She served as the first Programs Coordinator for the African Federation for Emergency Medicine from 2013-2014. During this time, she lived and worked in Tanzania, South Africa, Zambia, and Kenya, leading several research projects related to African emergency care development and assisting with administration of the organization. Dr. Broccoli was also an intern at the World Health Organization in 2016, working with the Emergency, Trauma, and Acute Care Team (ETA) of the Department for Management of NCD’s, Disability, Violence, and Injury Prevention (NVI) on several projects including the WHO's Basic Emergency Care (BEC) Course and indicators for emergency care. Dr. Broccoli continues to be closely involved with AFEM, and is currently working on emergency care development in Zambia, including implementation of the WHO's BEC Course.

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Dr. Corey B Bills, MD

Dr. Corey B Bills is faculty at the University of Colorado in the Department of Emergency Medicine and a core member of the Global Emergency Care Initiative. Previously, he was Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Affiliate Faculty member of the Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS, UCSF). Dr. Bills graduated medical school and attended residency in emergency medicine at the University of Chicago where he served as chief resident in his final year. He subsequently completed a Global Health Fellowship and was a Clinical Instructor at Stanford University before joining the faculty of UCSF. Prior to medical school he completed undergraduate studies at Middlebury College with a double major in environmental studies and comparative religion. He obtained a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University as a Peter J Sharp Scholar, and worked for several years with the International Rescue Committee on refugee youth and adolescent programming in West Africa. Dr. Bills’ current global health work focuses on methods of assessing quality in the development of acute care referral and prehospital systems in resource poor settings, with particular focus in Liberia, Uganda, and India.