Our Team

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  Joel Berezow, MD

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  Joel Berezow, MD

  Joel is founder and Executive Director of PEPNETWORK. He supervises and plays a role in all aspects of the organization's activities. Joel thinks he is funny and tries to incorporate some of his humor into our courses, with questionable success. He is the Director of Emergency Medicine Resident Education for the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and has dedicated his academic career to demystifying pediatrics for Emergency Medicine residents-in-training and producing practical pediatric educational resources tailor- made for emergency physicians who are not pediatricians.

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  Robert A. Dudas, MD

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  Robert Dudas, MD

  Bob is the official “Voice” of PEP you’ll hear in all of our courses. He is also PEP’s Web-based Education Director, and oversees all online curriculum development. Bob is so humble that you’d never know it unless we told you, so we will: He is a nationally acclaimed medical educator who has published many articles in the fields of medical education innovation and pediatric simulation training for non-pediatric emergency departments. In his spare time, he enjoys mountain biking and is the Associate Director of General Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Chief of Academic Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, and an editorial board member of Pediatrics and Hospital Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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  Kayhan K. Sanyal, MA

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  Kayhan K. Sanyal, MA

  Kayhan is PEP’s Chief Learning Officer. He brings over 10 years of passion and experience in Learning Design and has worked in diverse roles across industries and sectors both for profit and non-profit. Kayhan specializes in curriculum development through blended approaches and was the lead Instructional Designer for the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution program at the School of Professional Studies at Columbia University. An engineer by background, Kayhan has led software development life cycles and implemented a cloud based learning management system that connected low income urban youth across major cities in India. Kayhan holds a Master’s degree in Instructional Technology and Media from Teachers College, Columbia University. His research interests include building communities of practice, leveraging learning analytics for Instructional Design, and Educational Game Design.

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  Martin Pusic, MD PhD

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  Martin Pusic, MD PhD

  Martin is PEPNETWORK’s resident genius and Research Director. He’s an expert in human cognition related to education metrics and health informatics. He is Scholar-in-Residence at the Brigham Education Institute and on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. Martin loves playing soccer and is also an accomplished educational researcher who has received funding from MedU, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the U.S. Department of Defence.

Board of Directors

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  Joel Berezow, MD
  Chief Executive Officer

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  Joel Berezow, MD
  Chief Executive Officer

  Director, Emergency Medicine Resident Education
  Department of Emergency Medicine
  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine
  Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
  

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  F Meridith Sonnett, MD
  Managing Director

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  F Meridith Sonnett, MD
  Managing Director

  Chair, Columbia Doctors Risk Management Committee
  Enterprise Chief for Telehealth, Women’s & Children’s Services
  New York-Presbyterian Hospital
  Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine
  Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
  

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  Robert A. Dudas, MD
  Web-based Education Director

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  Robert A. Dudas, MD
  Web-based Education Director

  Chair, Department of General Pediatrics
  Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
  Associate Director of General Pediatrics
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  

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  Martin Pusic, MD, PhD
  Research Director

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  Martin Pusic, MD, PhD
  Research Director

  Faculty, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
  Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  Scholar-in-Residence
  Brigham Education Institute
  Harvard Medical School
  

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  Kayhan K. Sanyal, MA
  Chief Learning Officer

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  Kayhan K. Sanyal, MA
  Chief Learning Officer

  Chief Learning Officer and Head of Instructional Design, The PEPNETWORK
  President, Education Incubation LLC
  

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  Cheryl Vance, MD
  Member At Large

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  Cheryl Vance, MD
  Member At Large

  Department of Emergency Medicine
  UC Davis Medical Center
  Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics
  University of California
  

Steering Committee

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  Marc Auerbach, MD

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  Marc Auerbach, MD

  Associate Pediatric Trauma Medical director
  Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine
  Yale University School of Medicine
  Co-Director,International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research, and Education (INSPIRE Network)
  

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  Biren Bhatt, MD

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  Biren Bhatt, MD

  Core Faculty Member
  Emergency Medicine Residency Program
  Seton Hall-Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center
  

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  Mary Bing, MD

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  Mary Bing, MD

  Director, Pre-Clinical Programs
  Department of Emergency Medicine
  UC Davis Medical Center
  Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
  University of California Davis School of Medicine
  

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  Peter Dayan, MD

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  Peter Dayan, MD

  Member, Steering Committee
  Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN)
  Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine
  Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
  

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  Elisabeth Edelstein, MD

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  Elisabeth Edelstein, MD

  Elisabeth Edelstein, MD, FACEP, FAWM
  Medical Director,  Yellowstone National Park Clinics
  Member, Board of Directors, Wilderness Medicine Society
  Senior Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine
  University of Colorado School of Medicine
  

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  David Kessler, MD

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  David Kessler, MD

  Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
  Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
  Member, Pediatric Simulation Curriculum Committee
  Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York
  Research Director, International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research, and Education (INSPIRE Network)
  

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  Rishi Madhok, MD

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  Rishi Madhok, MD

  Chief Operating Officer
  Rejuvenan
  

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  Katherine Nacca, MD

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  Katherine Nacca, MD

  Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics
  University of Rochester Medical Center
  

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  Rasha Sawaya, MD

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  Rasha Sawaya, MD

  Associate Director, Emergency Medicine Residency
  Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
  American University of Beirut Medical Center
  

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  Susan Torrey, MD

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  Susan Torrey, MD

  Associate Professor of Pediatrics
  Baylor College of Medicine
  Texas Children’s Hospital
  

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  Anju Wagh, MD

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  Anju Wagh, MD

  Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
  Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
  Co-Director, Emergency Medicine Resident Education
  Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
  New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital