Support the efforts of our faculty in bringing emergency care worldwide:
Emilie J. Calvello Hynes, MD, MPH, MSc
Emilie J. Calvello Hynes, MD, MPH, MSc is an emergency medicine physician, public health specialist, and global health scholar. She serves as a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Prior to joining Dartmouth, she served at the World Health Organization (WHO) Headquarters, where she led global initiatives to strengthen health systems to deliver emergency, critical, and operative care. She has trained in clinical medicine, public health, and health policy and economics at leading academic medical centers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Her early career focused on humanitarian crisis response across multiple countries with international NGOs, after which she pivoted toward strengthening health systems to deliver high-quality emergency care in low- and middle-income countries. She has served as a subject-matter expert and technical advisor to multiple Ministries of Health, the World Bank, WHO headquarters, regional and country offices, and the U.S. Department of State.
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 Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine at Khesar Gyalpo University of Medican Sciences of Bhutan. She obtained a BA in Geography, Latin America Studies, and Women’s Studies at Dartmouth College. She 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 Centers 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 subsequently served as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She 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, 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.
Shankar LeVine, MD
Shankar LeVine, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine at Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences in Bhutan. He is a graduate of The 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. During this time, he worked clinically at Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital in Thimphu, Bhutan, and was a member of the Bhutan Emergency Aeromedical Retrieval (BEAR) team. Prior experiences in emergency medicine include working and teaching in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mexico, and Haiti. He currently works on global emergency medicine residency curricula and content development with the International Federation of Emergency Medicine (IFEM) & Foundations in Emergency Medicine (FoEM). His areas of interest include working in resource-limited environments, emergency resident and procedural education, global prehospital development, and clinical integration of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) in resource-constrained environments.
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 currently 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 Europe, and has a special interest in neurologic topics pertinent to Emergency Medicine.
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.