Dr. Annie Katz, MD, is the Assistant Program Director of the NYP EM residency and simulation faculty for the Weill-Cornell Department of Emergency Medicine. She completed medical school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and residency at Mt. Sinai St. Luke’s and Mt. Sinai West Hospital Center. Following residency, she completed a simulation fellowship at Mt. Sinai St. Luke’s and Mt. Sinai West Hospital Center. Dr. Katz is passionate about simulation curriculum design, medical student and resident mentorship, and improving teamwork and communication skills through in-situ simulation.

Dr. Neel Naik is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and the Director of Emergency Simulation Education at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medicine. He also runs the Simulation Fellowship in Emergency Medicine in collaboration with the NYP-Weill Cornell Medicine Simulation Center. Dr. Naik completed his Simulation Fellowship at NYU/Bellevue, focusing on curriculum design and remediation. As the Director of Emergency Medicine Simulation, he is constantly developing the simulation education program for the New York-Presbyterian Emergency Medicine residencies and faculty. His areas of interest include medical education, simulation, remediation, and innovations in instructional design. This last area of interest has led him to develop the telemedicine curriculum at the Center for Virtual Care for UGME, GME, and CME education. For these innovations in telemedicine education, he was awarded the 2019 SAEM Simulation Innovator of the Year Award. He has spoken nationally on the topic of telemedicine education and led the Educational Needs and Outcomes breakout group for the SAEM 2020 Consensus Conference on Telehealth and Emergency Medicine. He is part of the SAEM Simulation Executive Board and a member of the ACEP Telemedicine Task Force. Ultimately, however, his passion lies in tailored simulation education to help residents discover how they will practice Emergency Medicine.

Adam Blumenberg is from New York City and attended high school at Bronx Science. He has a passion for humanities as well as science and received a BA and MA in history from New York University, then an MD from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. He did his Emergency Medicine residency at Kings County and Downstate Hospitals in Brooklyn, and a Medical Toxicology Fellowship at Oregon Health and Science University.

His clinical interests include resuscitation of critically ill poisoned patients, trauma resuscitation, diagnosis, and evidence-based medicine. His research interests include new psychoactive substances, educational methods, and toxicology. His educational interests include medical simulation, creation of medical educational media (video, software, podcast, blog), and clinical teaching. His personal interests include cooking, filmmaking & photography, science fiction, urban hiking, flea markets & thrift stores, and travel.