Meet Our Team

CORE FACULTY

Dr. John Broach, Disaster Medicine Division Director

Dr. Broach attended undergraduate and medical school, as well as receiving his MPH from Northwestern University in Chicago before his emergency medicine residency training at the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Broach completed the UMaSs DM fellowship. He serves on several hospital-wide disaster preparedness committees, as well as being a member of the Massachusetts DMAT-MA2. Dr. Broach has been instrumental in preparing UMass for emerging infectious diseases such as H1N1 and Ebola.

Dr. Andrew Milsten, Disaster Medicine Fellowship Director

Dr. Milsten received his MD from George Washington University and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the Lincoln Medical Center in New York City. He completed an EMS Fellowship in addition to a MAsters of Science in Emergency Health Services at the University of Maryland. He has been active as a clinician and researcher since 2000 at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. His research has primarily focused on mass gathering medicine while he was the director for special events & Ravens stadium fan operations. He joined the UMass Emergency Medicine Program and faculty in 2009  and is the fellowship director of Disaster Medicine and Emergency MAnagement. Dr. Milsten coordinates and runs the NDLSF training programs at UMass, specifically BDLS and ADLS. He was also instrumental in organizing and founding the New England Society of Disaster Medicine (NESDM).

CURRENT FELLLOWS

Jordan Hitchens, DO

Dr. Hitchens grew up in Gaithersburg, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC. She attended undergraduate at University of California, Davis where she studied International Relations and African Studies. During her junior year, she studied abroad at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. After graduation, she redirected her career path by retgurning to school for a Premedical Post Bac at American University. She was accepted for matriculation at Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine where she graduated in 2017. During her time in MEdical school, she served on the National Board with the STudent Osteopathic Medical Association (SOMA), and sat on the Board of Trustees of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) as the student representative. She completed a one-year traditional rotating internship with University Hospitals Regionals and from there matched into Emergency Medicine with University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, where she served as Resident Assistant Medical Director. She begins her Disaster Medicine Fellowship at UMass in July 2021. She has interests in large-scale disaster planning and disaster response. She enjoys trying new restaurants, birkenstocks and tie-dye, planning her next trip, and anything involving a large body of water. She is looking forward to exploring the Northeast with her dog, Rooney.

Michael J. Weiner, MD

Dr. Weiner grew up in Winchester, MA. He attended undergraduate at Quinnipiac University and received his MD at Tufts University. Dr Weiner completed his Residency at UMass and will be our inaugural sequential EMS/DM fellow. He will work towards completing 2 years of fellowship, while getting a Master's degree. His first year will be an EMS fellowship and the second year will be the Disaster Medicine fellowhsip. His hobbies include spending time with his wife, dogs, and family, video games, cooking and gardening.

EMS FACULTY

AFFILIATED DM FACULTY