Board of Directors
The ALL NYC EM Board brings together residency leaders from across New York City to deliver high-yield conferences and annual events for residents, medical students, faculty, and administrators alike.
Abbas Husain
President
Abbas Husain is a Canadian transplant in NYC who trained in Philadelphia at Drexel University and then moved to NYC where he is the associate program director of Emergency Medicine at Staten Island University Hospital. His academic interests include international medicine and integration of technology in medicine. Along with his strong support of FOAMed, he has a keen interest in clinical informatics and medical education. He is the editor in chief of statenislandem.com and also serves on the NYACEP Board. Abbas is an avid traveler and food enthusiast.
Kaushal Shah
Vice President
Kaushal H. Shah is a Professor and Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, where he also serves as Assistant Dean for Career Advising. Dr. Shah has published and lectured extensively on evidence-based trauma management, medical education, and mentorship. His national leadership includes active service on the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Clinical Policies Committee, where he contributes to shaping national clinical guidelines. Highlights of his career include being a former EM Residency Director and one of the original founders of ALL NYC EM.
Mark Silverberg
Treasurer
Mark Silverberg is an attending physician at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. He has spent more than 3 decades in that prestigious institution starting with medical school in 1993. After completing his Emergency Medicine residency at Kings County Hospital, he stayed on to join their faculty as well. He then began his academic career at SUNY Downstate as the Director of Student Education, but soon became the Assistant Residency Director and then the Associate Residency Director. With COVID looming in the background, he became the Director of Disaster Preparedness for the Emergency Department. Dr. Silverberg has recently joined the EM lecture circuit and combines his love of scuba diving and underwater photography with emergency medicine. These fields mesh nicely to allow him to be a knowledgeable and entertaining speaker on marine envenomation and hyperbaric medicine. Dr. Silverberg also loves the great outdoors and now heads the wilderness medicine division of the Emergency Medicine department at Kings County Hospital.
Laura Melville
Secretary
Laura Melville is an attending physician and Resident Research Director at New York Presbyterian-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where she has been since graduating from residency at SUNY Downstate lo these many years ago. She also serves as faculty for the Peds EM Fellowship, as she has always split her clinical time between adult and pediatric shifts. Dr. Melville is also on the Board of Directors for New York ACEP, and serves as Chair for the NY ACEP Research Committee. Her interests are many, and include diversity, medical education, critical care, trauma, adult and pediatric appendicitis, and patient/parent perceptions and values in regards to medical care. She also loves her family (husband and two boys), oysters, and wine, and is an unapologetic Doctor Who nerd.
Brian Gilberti
Senior Officer
Brian Gilberti is Associate Program Director of the Emergency Medicine residency at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital Center, and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine. He is co-editor-in-chief of Core EM, a free open-access platform of podcasts, videos, and written curriculum that reaches emergency medicine learners worldwide. His academic focus is innovation in graduate medical education, building tools and curricula that make residency better for the people living it. Outside the hospital, Brian enjoys running, the outdoors, puzzles, and spending time with his family.
Mark Curato
Mark Curato is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Director of Medical Student Education for the Emergency Department at NY Presbyterian-Weill Cornell. He is a member of the NY ACEP Board of Directors and a member of the National ACEP Medical-Legal Committee. He is a former residency APD and has been on the ALL NYC EM Board for more than a decade. His extracurricular interests include running, playing guitar (poorly), fly fishing (poorly), learning Italian (slowly), hiking, coffee, wine, cooking… many hobbies. Most importantly, though, is being the obedient human to a 70-pound Spinone named Guilia.
Geoffrey Jara-Almonte
Geoff Jara-Almonte is Assistant Chair of Emergency Medicine at NYC H+H Elmhurst Hospital Center and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He completed medical school at the University of Wisconsin and residency at Hennepin County Medical Center. He is a former residency APD and serves on the New York ACEP education committee and ALL NYC EM board of directors. His clinical interests include critical care and resuscitation, trauma, and sepsis.
Marc Kanter
Dr. Marc Kanter is currently the Associate Program Director and Associate Chief of Emergency Medicine at Lincoln Medical Center in the Bronx, NY. Dr. Kanter has a background in EMS as a prehospital provider around New York State. A native New Yorker, he completed medical school at NY Medical College. He went on to complete a year of Internal Medicine residency training in CT followed by Emergency Medicine residency training at Lincoln Medical Center, the busiest ED in New York State. He is an active participant in the NY chapter and national American College of Emergency Physicians, having served on the EMS committee and currently the Academic Affairs committee and the Tactical EM, Disaster Medicine and Trauma/Injury Prevention sections. He is the NYC Health + Hospitals representative to the NYC REMAC and sits on the system-wide Emergency Management Council. He is an active lecturer and researcher with a particular focus on trauma, resuscitation and airway management.
Anand Swaminathan
Jenny Beck-Esmay
Jenny Beck-Esmay is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and an Associate Residency Director at Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West in New York City. She has contributed educational content to numerous resources, including EM:RAP, UC Max, LIFT by EM:RAP, REBEL EM, Core EM, ER Cast and UC Cast. Additionally, she served for years as Editor-in-Chief of FemInEM and currently sits on its Board of Directors. She has spoken nationally and internationally at SMACC, FIX, EEM, ACOEP, ACEP, SEMPA and Rebellion in EM. Most importantly, she is a proud mother to both a human and a feline, both of whom she adores.
Riddhi Desai
Riddhi Desai, DO, is an emergency physician at Kings County Hospital and serves as the Director of Quality and Patient Safety for the ED. She previously served as an Associate Program Director for the SUNY Downstate/Kings County EM Residency Program. Dr. Desai completed her residency training at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, NJ, followed by a fellowship in Medical Education at Maimonides Medical Center.
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She serves as the Director of the ALL NYC EM Medical Education and Leadership Fellowship. Her professional interests include medical education, physician leadership, quality improvement, patient safety, and developing the next generation of leaders in EM.
Michael P. Jones
Dr. Michael P. Jones is Professor and Interim Chair of Emergency Medicine at Montefiore Health and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In this role, he leads emergency medicine across a large, multi-hospital system in the Bronx and Westchester, with responsibility for clinical operations, quality, residency and medical student education, faculty development, and the continued growth of emergency services across the health system. His clinical and academic interests include trauma and resuscitation, emergency department operations, medical education, and prehospital and regional systems of care. Dr. Jones is a graduate of Columbia University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed his emergency medicine residency at Montefiore Einstein and NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi, where he served as Chief Resident, and has remained at Montefiore Einstein throughout his career. He subsequently served as Residency Program Director and Vice Chair for Education and was inducted into the Leo M. Davidoff Society for outstanding physician educators. Dr. Jones serves as Vice Chair of the Regional Emergency Medical Services Council of New York City and holds national leadership roles in academic emergency medicine and trauma. Prior to medical school, he worked as an EMT in New York City and was a rescue worker at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Outside of medicine, he enjoys traveling and hiking, including summiting Mount Kilimanjaro and trekking in the Himalayas.
Eric Steinberg
Dr. Eric Steinberg is the Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director and Medical Education Fellowship Director at St. Joseph's Health in Paterson, New Jersey. His interests include resident education, point-of-care teaching, emergency medicine radiology, and mentorship. He contributes to Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA) publications, serves as the Co-Vice Chair of the Scientific Assembly Planning Committee for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM), and is on the content team for MDCalc. Outside of work, Eric enjoys exploring new bourbons, coaching his kids' baseball teams, and is on a mission to visit every U.S. national park with his wife and two children; about 30 parks down and counting!
Anand Swaminathan is a core faculty member and Medical Education Fellowship Director at the Staten Island University Hospital Emergency Medicine Department. He is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra. His main interests are in resident education, faculty development, presentation design, resuscitation and knowledge translation. Anand is the managing editor and host for EM:RAP. He is a big believer in and contributor to the Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM) movement and is an associate editor for REBEL EM and REBELCast and a regular contributor to the EM Cases Quick Hits podcast.