EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT LEADERSHIP

Dr. Zarzar completed her Emergency Medicine Residency in 2017 and a Fellowship in Medical Education and Simulation, both at Hennepin County Medical Center. After obtaining her Masters in Academic Medicine through the University of Southern California, she joined Hennepin County Medical Center as a faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine and served as one of the Associate Program Directors for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program. More recently she transitioned to current role as Senior Medical Director for Emergency Services at Hennepin Healthcare and completed her MBA at the University of Minnesota.

Medical School: University of Virginia

Residency: Emergency Medicine, Hennepin County

Fellowship: Medical Education & Simulation, Hennepin County

Dr. Reardon completed his Emergency Medicine residency at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1997 and then rejoined the faculty at Hennepin in 1998. His areas of research interest include emergency airway management and emergency and critical care ultrasound. He is the Program Director for the Emergency Ultrasound fellowship at HCMC and is the course director for Ultrasound for Clinicians and a course instructor for The Difficult Airway Course.

Dr. Reardon is an accomplished author and editor having contributed to such medical textbooks as Roberts and Hedges’ Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine 6th Edition, Walls and Murphy’s Manual of Emergency Airway Management 4th Edition, Ma and Mateer’s Pocket Atlas of Emergency Ultrasound and Emergency Ultrasound 3rd Edition.

Medical School: University of Minnesota Medical School

Residency: State University of New York at Buffalo

Dr. Paetow completed his Emergency Medicine Residency and a Fellowship in Medical Education and Simulation, both at Hennepin County Medical Center. After obtaining his Masters in Academic Medicine through the University of Southern California, he joined Hennepin County Medical Center as a faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine and is the Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program. His academic interests include graduate medical education, wellness, simulation, quality improvement, and culturally responsive healthcare.

Dr. Stephen Dunlop is an attending physician at Hennepin County Medical Center, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota, Director of the Fellowship in Global Emergency Medicine with an appointment as an ASTMH certified Global Health Course Co-Director focusing on education in Ultrasound, Trauma and Simulation in resource poor settings.  Dr. Dunlop serves as an educator and technical advisor for the International Organization for Migration focusing on migration of medically complex refugees.  He has years of on the ground experience in East Africa as an Attending at the first EM residency in Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on education, research and systems development of Acute Care systems.

Medical School: University of Minnesota

Residency: Emergency Medicine, Hennepin County

Fellowship: Global Emergency Medicine, Hennepin County

Dr. McFarlin completed her Emergency Medicine Residency in 2012 and Pediatrics Residency in 2015, both at LSU in New Orleans.  She became faculty in the Emergency Departments at University Medical Center of New Orleans (Spirit of Charity) and at Children’s Hospital of New Orleans.  She created and was program director of the Combined Emergency Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program there until 2025 when she joined Hennepin Healthcare as emergency medicine faculty and Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine.