Planning Committee
Daryhl L. Johnson II, MD, MPH, FACS
May Day Medical Director
Alberto Bonifacio, RN, BSN, MHA, TCRN
May Day Conference Coordinator
Emily Armstrong, RN
Paula Bruno
Amy Bruns, RN, MSN, TCRN
Jennifer Clurman, RN, MSN, TCRN
Wendy Fansler, CSTR, CAISS
Melissa Miller, RRT
Darlene Poe, BS
Cricket Scovil, MSW, LCSW, LCAS,
Nathan Stokes, RN, BSN, EMT-P
Justin McDuffie
Kristina Porter-Butterfield, CAISS
Anna Stormzand, MPH, CHES, NCTTP
Amber Strubhart, RN, BSN
Stefan Szymanowski, RN, BSN
Gina Thompson, RN, BSN, CPN, CTP-C
Jennifer Turley, PT, DPT
Kathy Wilson, RN, BSN, CCRN
Cheryl Workman, RN, MSN, TCRN, CSTR, CAISS
Paul Zarick, RN, BSN, CCRN
Jordan Deese, RN, CCRN, EMT-P
Michael Gardner, EMT-P, NRP, FP-C
Neda AbuGharbiyeh, PharmD
Emergency Medicine PGY2 Pharmacy Resident UNC Medical Center
Neda AbuGharbiyeh is a Emergency Medicine PGY2 Resident at the University of North Carolina Medical Center (UNCMC). She is originally from Millbrae, California which is located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Last year, she completed her PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed her PharmD at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to pharmacy school, she attended the University of California, San Diego for her undergraduate degree in human biology. Besides emergency medicine, her clinical interests include toxicology and substance use disorders.
Greta Anton, PharmD, BCPS, BCEMP
Emergency Medicine Pharmacist
UNC Hospital
Greta Anton is an Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacist and the EM Pharmacy Residency Coordinator at UNC Medical Center. She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of New England, completed a PGY1 pharmacy residency at the UMass Memorial, followed by a PGY2 EM pharmacy residency at the University of New Mexico. Before moving to Chapel Hill, she worked at Boston Medical Center and has since, been with UNC working in the Emergency Department for the past five years.
Evan Bradley, AAS, LP, FP-C
Flight Paramedic
UNC Health
Evan started his career in Emergency Services in 2014, and has managed public safety planning, logistics, data management, and technical services for events with upwards of 60,000 attendees. Evan also co-founded an emergency services company in Texas providing EMS, Fire, Law Enforcement, K9, Vaccination, Laboratory Testing, Biohazard remediation, and Health & Safety Supervision. Evan is currently a rotor-wing Flight Paramedic in the Bell 429/EC135/EC145 platforms with extensive fixed-wing experience treating and transporting critical care patients throughout Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Oklahoma, and ground experience in a suburban/rural 911 EMS agency outside of Austin, Texas.
Jared Gallaher, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Surgery
UNC Department of Surgery
Jared Gallaher, MD, MPH, FACS is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of General and Acute Care Surgery at UNC in Chapel Hill, NC. He also has an adjunct appointment in the UNC Gilings School of Global Public Health and co-teaches a course there each spring on cost-effectiveness analysis. Dr. Gallaher graduated from Wake Forest School of Medicine in 2011 and completed his MPH at UNC Gilings School of Global Public Health in 2016. After finishing his General Surgery Residency at UNC in 2018, he completed his Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at Oregon Health Sciences University in 2019 and then returned to UNC to join the faculty in the Department of Surgery. His research focuses on global health in Malawi, especially in the fields of trauma, general surgery, and burn, and he serves as the co-director of the Malawi Surgical Initiative at UNC. He has also published clinical research on trauma and ECMO in the United States.
Whitney J. Ly, PharmD, BCCCP
Surgery Trauma Critical Care Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
UNC Health/Pharmacy Department
Dr. Whitney Ly is a Board-Certified Critical Care Pharmacist originally from Belleville, New Jersey. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Studies, as well as her Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree, from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, PA, in 2020. Following her graduation, Dr. Ly completed a PGY1 Acute Care Pharmacy Residency and a PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency at the University of North Carolina Medical Center from 2020 to 2022.
Dr. Ly currently practices in the Surgery Trauma Critical Care Unit at UNC Medical Center, where she delivers expert pharmaceutical care in the critical care setting. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmacy and serves as Course Director for the Critical Care Elective at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. In addition, Dr. Ly precepts pharmacy residents and students as part of the UNC pharmacy residency programs and school of pharmacy.
Her professional interests include trauma resuscitation, anticoagulation reversal, emergency medicine, and advanced cardiac life support.
Leslie Rink, PhD, RN
Coach, Educator
Self Employed
Dr. Leslie Rink helps individuals, healthcare workers, and employees struggling with stress and burnout. She earned her PhD at Duke School of Nursing where she studied burnout and resilience among healthcare workers. She is a wellness consultant who received health coach training at Duke Integrative Medicine. Dr. Rink is a certified mindfulness teacher who is passionate about helping others increase their resilience, lower stress, and realize the joy and relief of living in the present moment.
Ben Smith MD
Medical Director
UNC Hospitals Emergency Management
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
Dr. Smith is an emergency physician at UNC and the medical director for emergency management at UNC Hospitals as well as the medical advisor for the Mid-Carolina Healthcare Preparedness Coalition. He is board-certified in both Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services. He has been involved in field response to disasters both locally and across the state. He is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina and also serves as the Medical Director for Carolina Air Care and Air Life NC.
For More information, please don’t hesitate to inquire:
101 Manning Dr., Chapel Hill, North Carolinatarheeltrauma@unchealth.unc.edu
