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Dr. Broach completed his residency in Emergency Medicine and fellowship in Disaster Medicine and Emergency Management at UMass Chan Medical School and has served as the Division Director for EMS and Disaster Medicine since 2018. He also serves as a Medical Officer on the Federal DMAT MA-2 and has extensive experience with disaster response planning and deployment. He currently serves as the Region 2 EMS Medical Director and has published extensively on topics related to both EMS and Disaster Medicine. |
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Dr. Weisberg is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and board certified in Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services. She graduated with her MD from New Jersey Medical School and did her residency at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. She came here to do her EMS/ Disaster Medicine Fellowship and has been faculty ever since. She is also a Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Head of Laurel House at UMass Chan Medical School. |
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Dr. O'Connor is an emergency physician and health services researcher at UMass Chan Medical School with expertise in prehospital care and community paramedicine. Her career goal is to improve patient care delivery by developing and studying complementary mobile and digital solutions that bring healthcare into the community. |
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Dr. Boardman received his MD from UMass Medical School in 2016, completed residency training in Emergency Medicine through the Alpert Medical School of Brown University in 2020, and completed fellowship training in Emergency Medical Services at the UMass Chan Medical School in 2021. He joined the UMass Chan faculty group and EMS core faculty with the rank of Assistant Professor after completion of his fellowship and assumed the role of EMS Fellowship Director in 2024. His clinical interests include Helicopter EMS, Critical Care Transport, and quality improvement. |
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Dr. Milsten received his MD from George Washington University and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the Lincoln Medical Center in New York City. He completed an EMS Fellowship in addition to a Masters of Science in Emergency Health Services at the University of Maryland. He has been active as a clinician and researcher since 2000 at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. His research has primarily focused on mass gathering medicine while he was the director for special events & Ravens stadium fan operations. He joined the UMass Emergency Medicine Program and faculty in 2009 and is the fellowship director of Disaster Medicine and Emergency Management. Dr. Milsten coordinates and runs the NDLSF training programs at UMass, specifically BDLS and ADLS. He was also instrumental in organizing and founding the New England Society of Disaster Medicine (NESDM). |
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Dr. Weiner completed medical school at Tufts University School of Medicine. He subsequently came to UMass for Emergency Medicine Residency, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) fellowship, and Disaster Medicine fellowship. As an nocturnist EM attending physician as well as an EMS/DM physician, he is the medical director for multiple local fire departments, is the Course Director for Disaster Day, is a telehealth provider with the Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) program, is involved in all levels of medical education, and is involved with many other projects. |
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Dr. Albagli is an emergency physician and EMS fellow. His clinical interests include EMS field response, critical care transport, and wilderness medicine. |
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Dr. Schum is an emergency physician and EMS fellow. |
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Dr. Charbonnet studied civil engineering at the University of Notre Dame. After two years of information technology consulting, she volunteered with an international disaster response organization. She served as demolition team leader on earthquake remediation projects in both Indonesia and Haiti. While in Haiti, Clare discovered a passion for medicine.While in medical school at Northwestern University, Clare conducted research on the biopsychosocial factors that affect HIV transmission among the LGBTQ community. She joined the emergency medicine residency at MetroHealth Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. In residency, Clare established an EMS subspecialty track and developed the training curriculum for online medical command. She is excited to start her two-year Disaster Medicine fellowship in July 2023. |
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Dr. Robinson grew up in Chelmsford, MA. He attended undergraduate at St. Michael's College in Vermont, where he studied biology and music. He completed both medical school and emergency medicine residency at UMass. During the COVID pandemic, he assisted with the setup of and patient care at the DCU Field Hospital in Worcester, MA. Early in the pandemic, he also helped with the development of a risk stratification model aimed at predicting patient decompensation from COVID that was implemented into the Epic EHR. During the same time period, he led the development of a novel remote digital monitoring program to capture patients who decompensated from COVID after discharge. Dr. Robinson will be working towards completing the 2-year combined EMS/Disaster Medicine fellowship while working towards obtaining a master's degree. |
