Alexis Pelletier-Bui, MD, is the Associate Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU). She graduated from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Camden Campus, in 2011. She completed her emergency medicine residency training at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, where she served as Chief Resident from 2013 to 2014. She has served as Co-Clerkship Director for the emergency medicine clerkship at CMSRU in the past and is currently one of the CMSRU Emergency Medicine Subspecialty Advisors. Dr. Pelletier-Bui is also Chair of the Cooper EM Clinical Competency Committee.

Dr. Pelletier-Bui's passions and research interests surround medical student advising and the residency application process. She is a past chair of the Council of Residency Directors (CORD) Advising Students Committee in Emergency Medicine (ASC-EM) and the CORD Application Process Improvement Committee.  She is currently a co-chair of the CORD eSLOE committee and serves on the CORD Board of Directors.   She is an associate editor for the Emergency Medicine Residents Association (EMRA) & CORD Student Advising Guide: An Evidence-Based Approach to Matching in EM and lectures nationally on the topics of evidence-based advising and residency application process improvement.  

Dr. Pelletier-Bui is an active mentor to medical students and residents and loves identifying leadership and professional growth opportunities for them. She serves as Faculty Co-Chair for the Cooper EM Social Media Committee (Instagram: @cooperem_residency and Twitter: @CooperEMed) as well as faculty chair for the Cooper EM Wellness, Community Service, and Recruitment Committees. 

Dr. Pepe graduated from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA). She completed her residency in internal medicine and fellowship training in infectious diseases at Hahnemann University Hospital (Philadelphia, PA). For more than ten years, she has been a faculty member in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Cooper. Her interests include HIV infection, travel medicine, and quality improvement.

Mark A. Pollard, MD, is originally from Erie, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Penn State as an undergraduate and graduated from MCP/Hahnemann University School of Medicine (now Drexel) in Philadelphia, PA.

Dr. Pollard completed residency training in orthopaedic surgery at UPMC Hamot Medical Center in Erie, PA, and his fellowship in orthopaedic sports medicine at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, AL. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, as well as the Associate Program Director of the Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program. He provides coverage to many high school and college teams, and takes a special interest in knee and shoulder injuries.

Dr. Potestio grew up in the Philadelphia area. He attended medical school at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed his Intern year in Internal Medicine at Cooper University Hospital. He completed Anesthesia residency at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and fellowship in Adult Critical Care Medicine at Columbia University in New York.

Dr. Potestio's academic interests include medical education, perioperative handoff, trauma and resuscitation. In his free time, he runs along the Schuylkill River and is an avid reader.

Dr. Pradhan is an academic psychiatrist, researcher, inventor, meditation practitioner and author. He currently serves as professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, and is the founding director of the Yoga and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (Y-MBCT) and the magnetic brain stimulation (TMS) treatment programs at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, NJ.

Dr. Pradhan had a few years of monastic training before he entered into an immersed career in neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry. Since 1993, his pioneering research work has revolved around cognitive neuroscience, translational research in yoga and mindfulness methods, and developing new models of treatments for adults and children. Known as the Y-MBCT models, these treatment methods are disorder-specific and are based on cutting-edge research on effective medications as well as culturally-adapted models of evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions. The Y-MBCT models combine the methodology and pragmatism of the cognitive behavioral therapy with the techniques of yoga in its entirety (all eight limbs inclusive of meditation), rather than in piecemeal, thus broadening their scope and efficacy. TIMBER© (Trauma Interventions using Mindfulness Based Extinction and Reconsolidation) is the prototype of the Y-MBCT models and is shown to change the expression of trauma memories, the core of PTSD. TIMBER© has been proven effective in the treatment of refractory PTSD, depression, traumatic psychosis and related conditions. It can also be combined with other modalities including rapidly-acting medications like low-dose ketamine.

Dr. Pradhan’s work has been awarded with grant support from the National Institute on Aging (NIA/NIH), Huntington Study Group, and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, USA. He has received the Institutional Bronze Medal from the Prime Minister of India for scholarship, and has been listed in the registry of the prestigious “Marquis: Who’s Who in America”. Dr. Pradhan has been an invited speaker nationally and internationally, and has widely published his evidence-based research and clinical work. In addition to being a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), Dr. Pradhan serves as an executive member of the prestigious Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) and the APA’s National Caucus on Integrative Psychiatry.