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Sean Rees

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Sean Rees is passionate about all things resuscitation and emergency critical care.

Dr. Sean Rees is as a highly accomplished emergency room physician with an impressive career spanning over 25 years. Raised in Moscow, Idaho, where his father was a philosophy professor at the University of Idaho, Dr. Rees developed a love for learning early on. He attended the University of Oregon and earned his medical degree from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland. Following medical school, he completed his Emergency Medicine residency at New York University (NYU) in New York City, graduating in 1998.

Dr. Rees has been board certified in Emergency Medicine since 1998 and is a Fellow of both the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. Before coming to Idaho, he spent 21 years practicing in the Portland area. An esteemed educator and author, Dr. Rees has published numerous articles and book chapters in core emergency medicine textbooks. He is a professor at the Resuscitation Leadership Academy and a contributing author for EMCrit, an internationally renowned podcast focusing on emergency medicine and critical care. Dr. Rees has also completed advanced training, including a year-long course for emergency department directors and a resuscitation/critical care fellowship.

Outside of medicine, Dr. Rees is a physician partner with the Lost Trail Ski Patrol and an avid outdoorsman. His hobbies include alpine, cross-country, and backcountry skiing, fly fishing, and road, mountain, and gravel biking. A devoted father of three daughters, he humorously describes his garage as an “REI annex,” equipped for any outdoor adventure—though he wishes he had more time to enjoy them all.

Dr. Rees is director of Emergency Medicine/Critical Care, director of Trauma and medical director of Pharmacy/Therapeutics and Infection Control at the Steele Memorial Medical Center

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Sean follows the discussions on RLA's forum and provides insightful commentary and guidance to all of the fellows current and past.

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Lars Peterson

Lars Peterson is an assistant professor in the departments of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School at Rowan University and practices in a multidisciplinary ICU and the emergency department of Cooper University Hospital in Camden, NJ.  Originally from Arizona, he attended medical school at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY.  He completed a residency in emergency medicine and a fellowship in critical care medicine at the University of Rochester as well.
In addition to mentoring residents and fellows in emergency medicine and critical care medicine, Lars focuses on improving the systems and logistics of caring for the critically ill.  His other interests include patient safety and physician wellness.

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Shawn Zhong

Dr. Shawn (Xun) Zhong received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He then completed a fellowship in Trauma/Surgical Critical Care at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
He is currently an attending physician in Emergency Medicine at Staten Island University Hospital and attending physician in Critical Care Medicine at Geisinger Medical Center. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine.
He is passionate about resident education, critical care ultrasound and resuscitation.

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Emily Damuth

Emily Damuth is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine in Camden, New Jersey. She trained in emergency medicine at Duke University Medical Center prior to completing critical care fellowship at Cooper University Hospital. Emily splits her clinical time equally between the Emergency Department and a multidisciplinary ICU. She is passionate about medical education and mentoring residents and fellows. Her clinical and research interests include critically ill patients treated with prolonged mechanical ventilation and improving physician communication with patients and families.

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Evie Marcolini

Evie Marcolini is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Neurocritical Care at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. She is also the Director of the SkyHealth Critical Care transport service providing air medical helicopter transport to critically ill patients in New York and Connecticut. After Emergency Medicine residency, Evie completed a Surgical Critical Care fellowship at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, and is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Neurocritical care. She divides her clinical time between the Emergency Department and the Neurosciences ICU.

Evie is the Chair of the Critical Care Section at American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), speaks nationally and internationally on critical care topics, and is a co-editor of Emergency Department Resuscitation of the Critically Ill and Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America – Critical Care Emergencies. She has won multiple teaching awards, including the National Junior Faculty Teaching Award from ACEP.

Evie is happy to talk about any topic related to Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, but is especially passionate about Neurocritical Care emergencies and the continuity of care, as the patient transitions from prehospital to Emergency Department and then to the ICU environment.

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