Susan B. Promes, MD, FACEP, one of our FemInEM leaders, has been named editor for the forthcoming journal AEM Education and Training. This will be SAEM’s new global journal in emergency care educational research and training methodology, scheduled to launch in early 2017.

Dr. Promes is professor and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Penn State University, Hershey Medical Center. She has received numerous awards and honors for excellence in teaching, leadership, and service and brings years of experience in medical education to her role as editor. In addition to starting two emergency medicine residency programs (one at Duke University and another at the University of California San Francisco, where she served as the Director, Curricular Affairs, GME and acting DIO), Susan has significant experience in curriculum design and learner assessment at the UME, GME and CME level.

Dr. Promes is a graduate of the UCSF Teaching Scholars Program and a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators. She was honored with the Academy’s Teaching Excellence Award and the ACGME Courage to Teach Award. She serves as Course Director for the American College of Emergency Physicians Teaching Fellowship and served six years as a member of the ACGME Emergency Medicine Residency Review Committee. She served on the editorial board for the Journal of Graduate Medical Education.

Susan’s academic interests include team training, bedside teaching, medical errors, and clinical guidelines; her research focuses on medical education and faculty development with a current emphasis on evaluation of learners. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, MO, Susan received her MD Degree from Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine and did her residency training at Alameda County Medical Center, Highland General Hospital where she served as a chief resident.

Needless to say we are proud to call her a FemInEM!

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