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Holly Caretta-Weyer
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioHolly Caretta-Weyer is currently Associate Dean for Admissions and Assessment at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is additionally the Director of Assessment for the Department of Emergency Medicine and Chair of the Clinical Competency Committee. Dr. Caretta-Weyer attended medical school at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health where she graduated Alpha Omega Alpha with Honors in Research. She loved being a Badger so much that she stayed for her Emergency Medicine Residency at the University of Wisconsin where she was also Chief Resident. Dr. Caretta-Weyer then moved to the West Coast where she completed her Medical Education Scholarship Fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and completed her Masters in Health Professions Education (MHPE) at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is currently a PhD candidate at Maastricht University studying postgraduate selection in a competency-based system with an anticipated completion date in 2025.
While at OHSU, Dr. Caretta-Weyer worked as a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency pilot team and was a founding member of the OHSU undergraduate medical education entrustment committee. She continues to be involved with the national AAMC Core EPA Pilot through her continued collaboration with the OHSU team. Through this process she has gained valuable experience in working to define programmatic assessment, formulate summative entrustment decisions, and more seamlessly bridge the transition from undergraduate to graduate medical education, all of which are key initiatives within medical education.
Dr. Caretta-Weyer is also the PI on a $1.3M AMA Reimagining Residency Grant focused on implementing competency-based education and redesigning assessment across the continuum of emergency medicine training and introducing predictive learning analytics to the process. She is a former Visiting Scholar with the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) examining summative entrustment decision-making by competency committees and its implications for initial certification. She is additionally a member of the International Competency-Based Medical Education (ICBME) Collaborators, a group that seeks to further research on CBME around the world. Finally, Dr. Caretta-Weyer was recently elected as the inaugural Chair of the CBME Task Force for Emergency Medicine. Her work led the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada to recognize her as the International Medical Educator of the Year in 2022. She also recently was a keynote speaker for the American Board of Medical Specialties and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's annual meetings.
Dr. Caretta-Weyer's education research interests focus on the implementation of competency-based education and assessment across the continuum of medical education, summative entrustment and promotion decision-making processes, residency selection in a competency-based system, and the development of learner handovers to span key transitions in the educational continuum. When not focusing on her administrative work and education research, Dr. Caretta-Weyer can be found kayaking, hiking, cycling, playing volleyball, or cheering on her favorite sports teams including the Marquette Golden Eagles and Milwaukee Brewers. -
Eli Carrillo, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioDr. Carrillo is an emergency physician with expertise in prehospital emergency care. He is board certified in Emergency Medical Services and is a medical director for the Santa Clara County Fire Department and Milpitas Fire Department. He is the director of prehospital education at Stanford which includes the education of resident physicians and paramedics/EMTs throughout the region. He currently serves as a medical team manager for Urban Search And Rescue, Task Force-3, based out of Menlo Park, CA, a team that deploys to local and national disasters requiring complex search and rescue in confined spaces. He serves as the base hospital medical director in support of Stanford's designation as the single source for EMS communication/consultation in San Mateo County.
Dr. Carrillo's research interests include the role of physicians in prehospital care, mobile integrated healthcare, cardiac arrest outcomes, and health disparities in EMS care.
He serves as the clinical and academic advisor for numerous medical students, residents, and EMS Fellows. -
Andrew Chu, MD, MPH, MBA
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioDr. Chu is a board-certified emergency medicine physician and clinical assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He is passionate about integrating lean startup methodologies into daily academic practice and has a decade of experience leading multi-disciplinary teams in designing, developing, and launching award-winning healthcare technologies. Dr. Chu is currently working with his colleagues to build AI solutions that will improve clinical operations for the emergency department.
He is also part of the Stanford EM Partners Program (STEPP), where he evaluates and executes on promising academic-industry partnerships. He is also an active committee member and former co-chair for the Stanford EM Innovation Conference, the premier virtual conference on AI and innovation for the acute care space.
He completed his residency in emergency medicine at the Harvard affiliated Mass General Brigham program. He received his applied research fellowship in healthcare innovation at Harvard Medical School. He also completed the Stanford Biodesign Faculty Fellowship. He pursued a medical degree at Boston University, a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree at Harvard, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree at the Quantic School of Business and Technology.
He is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians, American Academy of Emergency Medicine, and Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. -
Nathaniel Lee Coggins
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency MedicineBioNathaniel Coggins, M.D. is a palliative care and emergency medicine physician specializing in the implementation and dissemination of palliative care in the emergency department setting. Dr. Coggins holds dual-appointments as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Emergency Medicine and is the Program Director for Stanford Emergency Palliative Care.
Dr. Coggins received his medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in 2019, where he was a recipient of the David Geffen Medical Scholarship. He completed his emergency medicine residency training at UCLA and hospice and palliative medicine fellowship training at the University of Utah. Dr. Coggins joined Stanford University as faculty in 2024, where he is an attending physician on the inpatient palliative care service and in the adult emergency department. -
Peter D'Souza
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioDr. D'Souza's clinical practice is in Emergency Medicine at Stanford Hospital. He has a strong interest in Emergency Medical Services and pre-hospital care. He currently serves as medical advisor for the Palo Alto Fire Department, Mountain View Fire Department, and Santa Clara Fire Department. He serves as the Department Liaison to the Trauma Service. He previously served as Medical Director for Stanford Life Flight and course director for the Stanford EMT Training Program. His research interests include treatment of neurological emergencies and variability in trauma care.
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Debadutta (Dev) Dash, MD, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioDr. Dash is an emergency medicine physician. He delivers care in the Stanford Health Care level 1 trauma center. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
He received fellowship training in clinical informatics at Stanford Health Care. He earned a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from Harvard University.
His research interests include computer vision and natural language processing. He is also interested in quality assurance and quality improvement in digital health initiatives.
Other research projects of Dr. Dash include development of an image classification algorithm that helps predict hypoxic outcomes. He also worked on the development of a hardware and software system designed to provide real-time feedback about cardiac function at the patient’s bedside.
Dr. Dash was vice president of the American Medical Informatics Association Clinical Fellows while completing his fellowship. He was also a post-doctoral research fellow at the Stanford University Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine & Imaging.
He is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians and American Academy of Emergency Medicine.
He speaks English and Oriya fluently. He also speaks, reads, and writes Japanese and Spanish with intermediate competence.
His interests outside of patient care include piano, computer programming, sustainable energy projects, and cooking multi-course East Asian meals. -
John Robert Dayton
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioBefore becoming an assistant professor, Dr. Dayton was the inaugural Medical Design and Innovation Fellow with Stanford's Department of Emergency Medicine. He also completed a Biodesign Faculty Fellowship with the Byers Center for Biodesign. In addition to practicing medicine, he co-founded the Stanford Emergency Medicine Partnership Program (STEPP), directed two Stanford Emergency Medicine Innovation Symposium (StEMIX) pitch events, and led the 2022 ACEP Hackathon.
Outside of Stanford, Dr. Dayton advises health-tech companies on strategy and physician user experience and works in VC. He co-founded Utah's Society of Physician Entrepreneurs and has served in both state and national leadership positions with the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). He also works with Intermountain Health as an emergency physician and physician advisor to Intermountain Ventures and is a life science investor with Frame VC.
John's areas of expertise include digital therapeutics, healthcare innovation, AI operational tools, medical devices, clinical validation, academic-private pilot partnerships, and venture funding. -
Lauren Destino
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
Clinical Professor, Emergency MedicineBioLauren Destino, MD, is the Associate Division Chief of the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Division and co-Medical Director of Acute Care and Case Management at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford (LPCHS) and a Clinical Professor at Stanford University. She was a site co-Investigator for the I-PASS study at Stanford and the site Principal Investigator for the PCORI grant, Bringing I-PASS to the Bedside: A Communication Bundle to Improve Patient Safety and Experience. She is involved in a number of quality and process improvement related activities at LPCHS. She has led trainee education in quality and performance improvement and is a fellow in the Stanford Medicine Center for Improvement. Her research interests include communication among the care team (inclusive of patients and families), patient flow throughout the hospital, and value centered improvement.
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Ram Duriseti
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioRam's Doctoral background and academic interests are in the computational modeling of complex decisions, algorithm design and implementation, and data driven decision making. Outside of clinical work, his main competencies in this regard are software development, algorithm design and implementation, cost-effectiveness analysis, and decision analysis through computational models. He has also collaborated with industry to create and deploy operation specific software involving statistical computing and reasoning under inference. He has been practicing clinical Emergency Medicine in both community and academic settings for over 20 years.
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Michelle Feltes
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioDr Michelle Feltes is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine. She received her medical degree from Washington University in St Louis and completed residency in the George Washington University Emergency Medicine residency program in Washington DC. She completed the Global EM Fellowship at Stanford and the Masters of Academic Medicine degree at the University of Southern California in 2018. She then stayed on as faculty at Stanford University in the department of Emergency Medicine with a focus on global health. Her academic work focuses on the development of global emergency medicine and medical education.
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Nicolas Fesser
Clinical Instructor, Emergency Medicine
BioNico Fesser, MD, is a Global Emergency Medicine Fellow in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University and a Stanford Global Health Postdoctoral Affiliate with the Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH), Stanford's university-wide hub for global health research, education, and training. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington, where he received the Resident Peer Recognition Award and the UW Medical Center Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award. He earned his MD from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and the Gold Humanism Honor Society and received the Medical Alumni Association Award. He completed his undergraduate studies in Neurobiology, with a minor in Global Health, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Born and raised in Madrid, he moved to upstate New York at age fourteen.
Dr. Fesser's interests include global emergency care, humanitarian response, and resource mobilization, particularly within conflict-affected settings. He has worked and collaborated directly within this context with organizations such as the United Nations, the West Africa AIDS Foundation, and Partners In Health. He has also conducted public health projects and worked clinically across much of sub-Saharan Africa, including Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), tuberculosis care in Lesotho, and HIV/AIDS work in Ghana and Tanzania, among others.
A central focus of his work is the rescue, demobilization, and reintegration of children affected by armed conflict in the eastern DRC. In 2020, he founded Fesser and Friends, a nonprofit organization that operates two child rescue and rehabilitation centers in the province of North Kivu and serves as UNICEF's referral center of choice in the region. The center in Beni serves children orphaned by armed conflict, many of them survivors of some of the country's worst mass atrocities. The center in Goma supports the long-term demobilization and reintegration of former child soldiers, many of whom were forced to commit acts of violence themselves. Both provide housing, medical care, education, vocational training, and family reunification services. To date, the organization has reunited hundreds of missing children with their families and has provided over a quarter of a million meals to children and displaced families. He also founded Beyond the Rhythm, a music-based fundraising initiative that helps support some of this work.
His fellowship training combines clinical practice with targeted coursework in tropical medicine, humanitarian operations, nonprofit leadership, and diplomacy. He is currently completing the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. His planned coursework also includes the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP) course at the University of Geneva, developed with the ICRC and WHO. In his second year, he will complete the Certificate in International Relations and Diplomacy at Sciences Po in Paris.
Dr. Fesser works at the intersection of emergency medicine, humanitarian diplomacy, and policy to improve outcomes for children and communities affected by armed conflict. Following his fellowship, he aspires to serve in senior leadership roles within humanitarian and governmental organizations. -
Ross Fleischman
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioRoss joined the Department of Emergency Medicine in September as a Clinical Professor. He was previously at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, bringing extensive experience in electronic health record implementation, research informatics, wilderness medicine, and disaster preparedness and response. His academic interests include cancer emergencies, the use of electronic health record data for research, and advancing research by medical students, residents, and fellows.
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Moises Gallegos MD MPH MEHP
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioMoises grew up in Southern California, part of a first-generation family in the US, born to immigrant parents from Mexico. He attended Harvard College where he studied Neurobiology and a minor concentration in Mind/Brain/Behavior. He earned his MD from Stanford School of Medicine and concurrently earned a Masters in Public Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed residency and was Chief Resident at Baylor College of Medicine while working at Ben Taub General Hospital. He began his academic career as Assistant Professor in the Henry JN Taub Department of Emergency Medicine at Ben Taub and rejoined the Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine in 2019 as a Clinical Assistant Professor. He is the Clerkship Director for EMED301A, the required/core Emergency Medicine rotation, and serves as core faculty for the EM Residency. He most recently completed coursework to obtain a Master of Education in the Health Professions and Post-Masters Certificate in Evidence-Based Teaching in the Health Professions from Johns Hopkins University School of Education.
