Dr. Julia Schiff
(2025-2027)
Dr. Julia Schiff is originally from Atlanta, GA. She studied Anthropology/Dance at Tufts University followed by an MD/MPH in Global Health at Emory University. She completed Internal Medicine residency at Emory before coming to Penn for Emergency Medicine residency. In addition to joining Penn as a Global Health Fellow 2025, she is a current Master's in Medical Education candidate at Penn. Some of her interests include social and global education systems development, complex climate and humanitarian emergencies, and providing integrated culturally competent care. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with family, traveling, exploring fun food and activities, animals and whale watching.
Dr. Rmaah Memon
(2024-2026)
Rmaah Memon, MD obtained both her undergraduate and medical degree through the Six-Year BA/MD Program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and completed her residency at the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program at MGH/BWH. Her interests include emergency medicine capacity building and curriculum development in low- and middle-income countries, and she worked on capacity building projects in Pakistan and Iraq during residency. Her prior work has also focused on improving access to refugee care through the implementation of health screening fairs. She has an interest in digital education and telehealth, and is currently leading a telemedicine initiative in Pakistan, primarily aiming to connect physicians in larger urban areas in Pakistan to patients who live in more rural areas. Through this project, she plans to create the first open-source educational curriculum for urgent care telemedicine for a global audience.
Dr. Priya Arumuganathan
(2023-2025)
Priya Arumuganathan, MD. MPH came to PennEM from West Virginia University’s Emergency Medicine Residency Program in Morgantown, WV. She is from West Virginia and stayed in-state to complete her undergraduate degree at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, WV as well as her medical degree at West Virginia University.
During residency, Priya served as a Chief Resident and was very active in teaching core EM content, ultrasound skills, and procedural basics to medical students and new residents. Her rural background and training at several critical access hospitals have helped her build a foundation for working in low-resource environments, and she has been able to translate these skills to her global work. Her most recent endeavors include being an ambassador for Child Family Health International and creating updates for the iEM Education Project EM Clerkship Book. Her academic interests include EM education & training in low-resource environments, telemedicine, and rural health.
Dr. Maham Munawar
(2022-2024)
Maham Munawar DO, MS. MPH came to PennEM from the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Southern Illinois University in Springfield, IL. She is from Texas and completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas in Austin and a Master of Science and her medical degree at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. As a resident, she was very active in lecturing within her program, and she has built up several social, volunteer, and team-building experiences within the program as well. Her academic interests include, but are not limited to, healthcare access and health policy, nutrition, women’s health, and education/EM program development abroad.
Dr. Joseph Leanza
(2021-2023)
Joseph Leanza, MD, MPH is a former PennEM resident who completed the Healthcare Leadership in Quality Residency Track. He is from Goldens Bridge, New York, he completed his undergraduate studies in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, and he received his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
His academic interests include the development of emergency care systems, disaster and humanitarian response, education, and environmental health. Within the NGO Global Response Management, he is the project lead for EM specialty and EMS systems development in Federal Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan. He also works in research and education with the Certification Program in Emergency Medicine in Pakistan and Bangladesh and with the Penn Center for Global Health developing simulation curricula at Vin University in Vietnam. He has previously worked in a clinical and research capacity with Global Emergency Care in Masaka, Uganda