Global Emergency Medicine Med-Ed Fellowship
Program
Curriculum
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Alumni
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Our Alumni
Michael Shen, MD
he/him
Michael completed residency at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. In fellowship, he focused on emergency care education and education capacity building in Kono, Sierra Leone, where he piloted a training of trainers program targeted at Sierra Leonean nurses and midlevel providers.
His current interests remain in education and systems development in global health settings. At present, he is working in the community at Advocate Trinity Hospital on the south side of Chicago.
Pranali Sheth, MD
she/her
After completing residency at Rutgers-Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Pranali joined and completed the Global Emergency Medicine Medical Education fellowship at the University of Chicago, focusing on education development in low- and middle-income countries. Throughout fellowship, she worked with Partners in Health Sierra Leone, where she developed the first emergency care training program and multiple patient care protocols for medical officers, community health officers, and nurses working in the emergency department in Kono, Sierra Leone. Pranali works as a global health faculty member at Jacobi Medical Center and is an assistant professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York. Pranali’s academic interests include global medical education and ultrasound, climate change emergencies, disaster response, and women in medicine.
William Weber, MD
he/him
Will focused on the medical rights of immigrants detained in the US during his fellowship. He helped found the Medical Justice Alliance, a national organization comprised of over 400 physicians that trains volunteer physicians to review medical records and inform judges and other administrative bodies about gaps in care for those behind bars. As a result, hundreds of people behind bars have received better medical care or release due to medical reasons. He also consulted for the World Health Organization and served on the Executive Committee of the Global Emergency Medicine Academy within the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM).
He currently works as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. His work educating physicians at the intersection of the medical and legal fields spans beyond his work with the Medical Justice Alliance and he serves on the medical-legal committee at the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and on the board of Medical Malpractice Insights, a monthly newsletter on medical legal topics. He also serves as Chair of ACEP’s Public Health Committee where he helps shape policy on population health.
Nicholas Ludmer, MD
he/him
Nick completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, and continued on to complete his fellowship in Global Emergency Medicine Medical Education at the University of Chicago. Dr. Ludmer currently serves as the director of the Global Health Track within the Emergency Medicine Residency, as well as the Assistant Director for the Emergency Medicine Global Health Fellowship. His academic interests include global health, with current work focusing on developing emergency care curricula for a group of primary providers in rural Chiapas, Mexico. He is passionate about pre and post-graduate medical education, and serves as the Assistant Director for Tissue, Cell and Organ Physiology Course within the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.