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POSTED: June 26th, 2020
POSTED IN: EM Pulse - The Official Newsletter of MOCEP, May/June 2020,

MOCEP held their annual general membership meeting and elections in May. Thank you to all who turned out for the meeting and those that voted. It was our first time holding these events virtually/electronically and it proved to be a successful endeavor. We are still planning to hold the Missouri Emergency Medicine Symposium November 6 and the Emergency Medicine Student Symposium on November 7. These are still scheduled to be in person, and if that changes we will be sure to let you know.

The election process brought us a new President, Vice President, two board members and two councilors. Christopher Sampson, MD, FACEP, was elected as the MOCEP President for the next two years; Brian Bausano, MD, FACEP, was elected Vice President; Robert Poirier, Jr., MD, MBA, FACEP, was elected secretary/treasurer, and Evan Schwarz, MD, FACEP, FACMT, is now the Immediate Past President. We are grateful for the hard work and dedication that Dr. Schwarz brought to MOCEP during his term as President.

New Board Members

Jeanise Butterfield, MD, FACEP

Jeanise Butterfield, MD, FACEP, attended Wayne State University School of Medicine and completed her residency program at the Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center. She remained in Detroit for a few years after residency and moved to Columbia as the Assistant Medical Director of University Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine in 2016.

Dr. Butterfield currently serves as the Medical Director for Women’s and Children’s Hospital Emergency Department in Columbia, and Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and University of Missouri – Columbia School of Medicine. Her responsibilities also include the Director of Quality and Medical Director for the Adult and Pediatric Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Program for the University of Missouri, Department of Emergency Medicine.

Kene Chukwuanu, MD

Kene Chukwuanu, MD, is a native of St. Louis, Missouri and is an emergency medicine trained-intensivist. 

Dr. Chukwuanu completed his undergraduate studies and medical school at the University of Missouri-Columbia.  He completed residency in emergency medicine at Saint Louis University (SLU), where he was also Chief Resident, followed by a Medical Education Fellowship at SLU.  He then completed a Multidisciplinary Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at the University of Florida.  He is board certified in both emergency medicine and critical care medicine.

He currently serves as Associate Residency Program Director and Director of Emergency Ultrasound in the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine.  He also practices critical care medicine at SSM Health DePaul and St. Mary’s Hospitals.  His clinical academic interests include point of care ultrasound education, cardiac arrest, shock, and ARDS.

The following board members were reseated in their board positions:

• Sabina Braithwaite, MD, FACEP – St. Louis
• Jonathan Heidt, MD, MHA, FACEP – Columbia
• Timothy Koboldt, MD, FACEP – Columbia
• Melissa Kroll, MD – St. Louis
• Ted McMurry, MD – Springfield

New MOCEP Councilors

Two new council members were elected and will serve at the 2020 Virtual ACEP Council meeting in the fall. The new council members are:

Kevin Journagan, MD

Kevin Journagan, MD, received his Doctor of Medicine at Saint Louis University School of Medicine and completed a general surgery residency program at Saint Louis University Hospital. He then went on to complete an emergency medicine residency at Washington University followed by a Chief Resident position.

Dr. Journagan has works as an emergency physician at Mercy Hospital – St. Louis and also serves as the Department Chair of Emergency Medicine at Mercy Hospital South. He has served on numerous committees with the Mercy Hospital system and currently serves on the Mercy Clinic St. Louis Board of Directors.

Marc Mendelsohn, MD

Marc Mendelsohn, MD, received his Doctor of Medicine at Stony Brook University in New York, completed his residency program and was Chief Resident at New York Methodist Hospital.

Dr. Mendelsohn worked as a research instructor at The George Washington University until summer 2018 where he then went to work as an Assistant Professor at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital. He is now an Assistant Professor at Washington University. He currently serves as the Chair of the Missouri State Medical Association’s Young Physician Section, and is a Young Physician Section Delegate for the AMA representing ACEP.

Dr. Evan Schwarz was reseated to his position as a MOCEP Councilor for another term.