Melanie Watts, MD, DTM&H
Melanie Watts, MD, DTM&H, works as an Emergency Physician at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and an Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine at Kesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences Bhutan. Dr. Watts attended a combined medical school program with Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University followed by a fellowship in Applied Epidemiology at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the Department of Zoonotic Disease. She completed residency at Highland Hospital/Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, California and was subsequently an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of California San Francisco. Dr. Watts obtained a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her academic interests include Global Emergency Medicine education development, procedural and simulation education and tropical medicine and infectious diseases. This has included extensive Emergency Medicine education work in Haiti, Rwanda, Nepal, Tanzania and most recently Bhutan where she worked to help establish the first Emergency Medicine Residency postgraduate degree program.
Evie Marcolini, MD
Evie Marcolini, MD, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Neurology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She has been involved with, and is now the Scientific Program Chair for the annual Vietnamese Society of Emergency Medicine International Conference on Emergency Medicine and Critical Care since 2013. This conference has helped develop Emergency Medicine as a specialty in Vietnam, training medical students, residents, physicians and nurses in the practice and art of Emergency Medicine after it was designated an official medical specialty by the government. Evie has taught and worked on conferences in Vietnam, Argentina, India and in Europe, and has a special interest in neurologic topics pertinent to Emergency Medicine.
Shankar LeVine, MD
Shankar LeVine, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and an Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine at Kesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences in Bhutan. He is a graduate of Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University and completed residency at Highland Hospital/Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, California. Before starting at Dartmouth, he worked for 3 years (2018 to 2020) at Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences in Bhutan in the development of the Emergency Medicine residency and Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) Bhutan’s paramedic programs. Prior experiences in emergency medicine include working and teaching in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mexico, and Haiti. His areas of interest include working in limited resource environments, emergency resident and procedural education, global prehospital development, and clinical integration of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) in resource constrained environments.
Kathy Clem, MD, FACEP
Kathleen Clem, MD, FACEP has been involved in Global Health with a focus on Emergency Medicine for her entire career. She established one of the nation’s first International (Global Health) Emergency Medicine Fellowships and has organized medical teams to establish clinics or provide medical support and teaching in Tanzania, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Honduras, Nepal, Vietnam, and the Solomon Islands. She spent time in the People's Republic of China by helping to organize the Emergency Department and develop an Emergency Medicine Residency program in China. She was invited to work with USAID in Palestine to develop a trauma system for the region. She sees the opportunity to collaborate with other countries to advance emergency care and training for academic growth/clinical care as empowering and unprecedented for career satisfaction.