President - Michael Ybarra, MD

• Hometown: San Diego, CA
• Undergrad: Stanford
• Medical School: Georgetown Medicine
• Residency Program: Georgetown/Washington Hospital Center
• Professional Interests: the structure and business of healthcare in the US and the policy making implications. My current dream job is a combination of working clinically in the ED and professionally in government affairs for AAEM, AMA or AHA.
• Hobbies: running, cooking, building things and visiting all of the cool (free) museums and neighborhoods in DC. I'm also a political junkie...I watch a lot of CNN.

Vice President - Alicia Pilarski, DO

• Hometown: Chicago, IL
• Undergrad: University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
• Medical School: Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine in California
• Residency Program: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Professional Interests: education, ultrasound, cardiovascular emergencies
• Hobbies: cooking, traveling, knitting, hiking, disc golf

Secretary-Treasurer - Cyrus Shahpar, MD MPH MBA

• Hometown: Alameda, CA
• Undergrad: Johns Hopkins University
• Medical School: UC Irvine
• Residency Program: Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Professional Interests: global health, informatics, epidemiology
• Hobbies: making house staff schedules

Immediate Past President - Megan Boysen, MD

• Hometown: Santa Maria, CA
• Undergrad: University of San Diego
• Medical School: University of California, Irvine
• Residency Program: University of California, Irvine
• Professional Interests: pursuing a career in academic medicine, resident and medical student education, critical care, ultrasound
• Hobbies: surfing, snowboarding, tennis, softball/baseball

Board Member, Advocacy Committee Chair - Heather Kuhlenschmidt Jimenez, MD

• Hometown: Evansville, IN
• Undergrad: University of Notre Dame
• Medical School: Indiana University
• Residency Program: Indiana University
• Professional Interests: medical education, pediatric resuscitation/critical care
• Hobbies: being a mom, socializing with friends from undergrad/medical school, reading

Board Member, Communications Committee Chair - Jennifer Kanapicki, MD

• Hometown: Wethersfield, CT
• Undergrad: University of Connecticut
• Medical School: Upstate Medical University
• Residency Program: Stanford/Kaiser Programs
• Professional Interests: international EM, academics
• Hobbies: traveling, skiing, tennis, eating good food

Board Member, Education Committee Chair - Jeff Pinnow, MD

• Hometown: Burbank, CA
• Undergrad: UCSD
• Medical School: University of Minnesota
• Residency Program: York Pennsylvania Emergency Residency Program
• Professional Interests: resident education
• Hobbies: gardening, playing basketball, flipping houses, performance dancing, lounging by the pool with my kids

Board Member, Communications Committee Co-Chair - Ryan Shanahan, MD

• Hometown: Grew up all over the country, eventually settling in the mid-Atlantic
• Undergrad: University of Virginia
• Medical School: Georgetown
• Residency Program: John Hopkins University
• Professional Interests: health policy, emergency education and departmental management
• Hobbies: outside of work I would most happily be found on a high alpine mountain hiking or skiing, though sailing might be a future change given my current Baltimore address

Board Member, Membership Committee Chair - Sandra Thomasian, MD

• Hometown: Tarzana, CA
• Undergrad: UCLA
• Medical School: Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
• Residency Program: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Professional Interests: emergency medicine education, difficult airway management, clinical research
• Hobbies: weight training, indoor cycling, hiking, roller-skating

Student Representative - Jamie "Akiva" Kahn

• Hometown: Manhattan Beach, CA
• Undergrad: Wellesley College, MA
• Medical School: University of California, Irvine
• Residency Program: To Be Determined!
• Professional Interests: trauma and injury prevention (especially alcohol related), education, operations, international emergency medicine with a current focus on malaria prevention
• Hobbies: volleyball, cooking/baking, gardening, snowboarding, cycling and traveling!

AAEM Board Liaison - Mark Reiter, MD MBA FAAEM

• Hometown: Bethlehem, PA
• Undergrad: Rutgers College
• Medical School: UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
• Residency Program: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
• Professional Interests: ED operations, benchmarking, quality improvement, health policy, business of healthcare, pain management
• Hobbies: sports, weightlifting, poker, investing, movies, politics, history