Moira Smith, MD MPH, Chair of the EMRA Education Committee, 2023-2024

Program: University of Virginia Health System

Your goal as an EMRA leader: My goal as an EMRA leader is to support our members during training and to help each other become the best emergency physicians we can be. This includes creating high quality educational content as well as putting on fun events like Quiz Show at CORD. I want to build a community of emergency physicians who feel supported and empowered to lead in their own communities.

What is something people don't know about you? Just prior to starting medical school, my Mom and I took my grandparents to visit a distant relative--and discovered they had my great uncle's violin which had been "lost" for about 30 years. I now play with a violin that was made at the turn of the 20th century.

If I weren't an emergency physician, I would be: Either a biomedical researcher or a religious studies professor

What's the last non-textbook you read? Projections by Karl Deisseroth and Atomic Habits by James Clear

Destiny Folk, MD, Chair-Elect of the EMRA Education Committee, 2023-2024

Program: Carolinas Medical Center

Your goal as an EMRA leader: To improve the educational resources available to medical students and residents to best equip those interested for a career in academics

Mohamad Ali Cheaito, MD, Vice Chair of the EMRA Education Committee, 2023-2024

Program: University of Toledo

Your goal as an EMRA leader: Provide trainees interested in a career in academic emergency medicine with the tools and resources to successfully achieve their career goals.

Hannah Seyller, MD, Vice Chair of the EMRA Education Committee, 2023-2024

Program: CWRU/MH/CCF

If I weren't an emergency physician, I would be: Anthropologist or stay-at-home pet parent

Puja Singh, MD, Vice Chair of the EMRA Education Committee, 2023-2024

Program: Mount Sinai Morningside West

Your goal as an EMRA leader: To help support the education of members, connect with and learn with like-minded leaders, and help grow the various resources we have to advance the flame of emergency medicine that I know we all share.

Favorite life hack for night shifts: a fire fit, yummy snacks, coffee, and a pump up playlist

Dave Wilson, MD, Vice Chair of the EMRA Education Committee, 2023-2024

Program: University of Cincinnati

Your goal as an EMRA leader: EMRA has given me a lot to grow as a clinician and as a professional. As an EMRA leader I'm hoping to do my part to help make Emergency Medicine the best specialty it can be.

What is the best advice you've ever received? Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

Jeena Moss, MD, Asst. Vice Chair of the EMRA Education Committee, 2023-2024

Program: Mount Sinai Morningside-West

Your goal as an EMRA leader: To be part of exciting and innovative discussions about meeting EM learners' needs, to connect with like-minded colleagues, to encourage others to remember their "why" and to reflect on my own.

What is the best advice you've ever received? Cultivate your hobbies and relationships outside of medicine

Elizabeth Yim, MD, Asst. Vice Chair of the EMRA Education Committee, 2023-2024

Program: Mount Sinai Morningside-West

Your goal as an EMRA leader: To find creative and long-lasting solutions to innovate the way medical education is provided and accessed by medical students and physicians.

Top 3 traits of a great leader:
Communicative, Accountable, Problem-solver

What's the last non-textbook you read? The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo- it made me cry just like everyone said it would

What's on your playlist? SZA, Harry Styles, Sam Smith

Kay Nicole Tipton, DO, MS, Asst. Vice Chair of the EMRA Education Committee, 2023-2024

Program: UNC Health Southeastern

Your goal as an EMRA leader: As a leader on the education committee, one of my main goals is to increase outreach to smaller and rural emergency medicine residencies and medical schools with students interested in emergency medicine. EMRA is a large organization with a lot of resources available for students and residents and I want to ensure that these resources are easily accessible for all those interested in emergency medicine.

What is the best advice you've ever received? "Trust the system". I received this advice as a third year medical student struggling with my first rotations, the overwhelming amount of knowledge to learn, and the responsibility of needing to learn everything to ensure that I am giving the best care to my patients. This advice is not to encourage blind trust, but to understand that many people have come before you, gone through the process, and are now working as amazing physicians caring for a variety of patients.

What is something people don't know about you? Starting when I was two years old, I danced ballet for eight years.

If I weren't an emergency physician, I would be: I would likely be working with horses in some capacity. Prior to matriculating into medical school I looked into the possibility of working on dude ranches and even jockey school.