Our Mission
The Emergency Medical Minute disseminates relevant medical education to clinicians and the public through various avenues, striving to be a resource for medical professionals wanting to enhance their knowledge base and practice.
Our Vision
The Emergency Medical Minute is a non-partisan organization that provides quality open-access medical education to health professionals and public for the enhancement of knowledge. The goal of EMM is to provide an accessible media platform where professionals discuss and provide information of educational relevance that can be used as a catalyst to improve local, national, and global communities. EMM will encourage healthcare professionals to stay up to date with the most recent medical advances and best practices.
Diversity & Inclusion
The Emergency Medical Minute Team Members

jack spartz
founding member

don stader
chair emeritus

erik verzeMnieks
treasurer
Erik Verzemnieks is a practicing emergency physician at Swedish Medical Center and long time member of the Emergency Medical Minute, where he acts as the final gauntlet for the podcasts and manages the cash. He is also a member of the Colorado ACEP Board of Directors. Before moving to Colorado, he completed residency in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins. Now, like just about every Coloradan, he enjoys snowboarding, hiking and camping, but really this is to gain a little respect so he can then hide out on the golf course.

nick tsipis
chair
Nick Tsipis, MD MPH is an ER physician at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colorado where he is also the Associate Medical Director of the ED. He completed medical school at Duke University in 2015 and training in EM at Georgetown/Washington Hospital Center in 2018. He lives in Denver with his wife/better half Ryan, and their bulldog Gladstone. Together, Nick and his family love doing all the outdoorsy and care-free things listed amongst the other bios here, in addition to trying valiantly to sample the entire Denver nacho scene.

Jordan Ourada
Vice chair

Colleen decker
secretary

Nate Novotny
Immediate Past Executive Director

Mason Tuttle
Executive Director
Mason graduated from University of Denver with a BS in Biochemistry with a second major in French. He is currently an Emergency Medical Technician in the Emergency Department at The Medical Center of Aurora and works a 911 service on Peterson AFB. He is currently enrolled in Masters of Biomedical Sciences at DU before applying to medical school. His professional interests include Emergency Medicine, Public Health and Global Health. In his free time, he enjoys camping, whitewater rafting, backcountry skiing, cooking, and listening to live music.

Aaron wolfe
director of education
Aaron is an emergency physician at The Medical Center of Aurora. He is from the Denver area and attended medical school in Iowa at Des Moines University and did his emergency medicine residency in Ohio at the MetroHealth/Cleveland Clinic Foundation program. After completing his residency he stayed on as faculty where he was the Co-Director of the Emergency Medicine Simulation program and was an associate professor at CaseWestern Reserve University School of Medicine. He and his wife Meghan, son Brandon, and daughter Madelyn are excited to be back in Denver and currently get to enjoy everything that Colorado has to offer.

Tanisha Crosby-Attipoe
Director of events and grants

Ashley Lyons
Director of Social Media and Marketing

Katelyn Tapia
Director of Continuing Medical Education
Katelyn graduated from Colorado State University with a major in Biology and minors in Biomedical Science and Chemistry. She works as a medical scribe in the emergency departments at The Medical Center of Aurora and Sky Ridge Medical Center. Katelyn is currently applying to medical school. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, skiing, spending time with her dogs, and reading.

Jorge Chalit
Director of Audio Team and Mental Health Monthly Coordinator

Helen Strong
Audio Team

MEg joyce
medical minute Team
Meg graduated from University of Colorado Boulder with a major in Molecular Biology and a minor in Anthropology. She is currently working as an EMT in the Emergency Department at Swedish Medical Center while applying to medical school. She loves dogs and is raising a service dog in training for the next 10 months in hopes “Cucumber,” a sweet yellow lab puppy, will graduate and help someone in need. In her free time, Meg loves playing any and all sports, hiking, and spending time with friends and family.

Annabelle Linke
medical minute Team

Jeffrey Olson
Audio Team
Jeffrey was born and raised in Greenwood Village, Colorado. He graduated from the University of Denver in 2013 with a BS in Biology with minors in Math, Physics, and Chemistry. He taught High School Math for 7 years and High School Science for 1 year before returning to school as a medical student at the Univerisity of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus. He is currently involved with Student Senate, Knowledge Base (a peer teaching student org), and his research involves radiology with Dr. Carballido-Gamio’s lab. He enjoys tennis, lacrosse, and hiking with his wife, Kali, and golden retriever, Ollie. He loves to travel and has most recently done trips to Greece and Japan.
Other affiliates and past members
- Will Dewispelaere, MD
- Stephen Bahmani
- Travis Barlock, MD
- Ryan Circh, MD
- Ilsa Hale
- Greyson Elkins
- Sarah Khan, PharmD
- Kelsi Krakauer
- Dylan Luyten, MD
- Joe Powell
- Cameron Redwine, RN
- Rachael Waterson, PharmD
- Lexi Johnson, NP
- Caroline Montgomery OMS-I