Department of
Emergency Medicine

People

Lab leaders

Erica B. Shaver, M.D., currently serves as an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine as well as the Vice Chair of Education and Training and Program Director of the Emergency Medicine residency at WVU. She is a co-founder of WVU EM REAL who over the years of advising medical students in the application process and helping struggling residents succeed, found a passion in doing scholarly work surrounding these issues.

Christopher S. Kiefer, M.D., currently serves as an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine as well as the Chief of the Division of Education and Associate Program Director of the Emergency Medicine residency at WVU. He is a co-founder of WVU EM REAL who found himself captivated by the residency application process during his own match experience, and began working on exploration of that process during residency. Since returning to WVU in 2012, he and Dr. Shaver have been working together to build a niche in exploration of residency application and medical education in general.

Kimberly D. Quedado, Ph.D., is the Director of Research and Scholarship in the Department of Emergency Medicine at West Virginia University. An organic chemist by training, she brings unique methodologic and statistical expertise to the team at WVU EM REAL provided by both her basic science training, master’s in higher education curriculum and teaching and time spent as a leader in the undergraduate research office at West Virginia University.

Prior and current residents/students who have completed their scholarly projects with WVU REAL:

  • Kristin Davis, MD
  • Joe Hansroth, MD
  • David Gay, MD
  • Anthony Steratore, MD
  • Brian Dilcher, MD
  • Haley Frauen, MD
  • Rachel Polinski, MD
  • Michelle Angeline, MD
  • Ethan Higginbotham (Joan C. Edwards Marshall University School of Medicine)

Internal faculty collaborators

  • Scott Cottrell, EdD, Department of Medical Education
  • Autumn Kiefer, MD, Department of Pediatrics
  • Norman Ferrari, MD, Departments of Medical Education and Pediatrics
  • Timothy Lefeber, MD, Department of Pediatrics
  • PS Martin, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine
  • Adam Hoffman, CHSE, WV STEPS
  • Anthony Steratore, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine
  • Stephen Davis, PhD, Department of Health Policy and Leadership, WVU School of Public Health
  • Lesley Cottrell, PhD, Department of Pediatrics
  • Christopher Goode, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine
  • Anna Lama, MA, Department of Medical Education
  • Scott Findley, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine

External Institutions worked with:

  • Joan C. Edwards Marshall University School of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia
  • Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina