Faculty

Sarab Sodhi, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and currently serves as Division Head of Emergency Ultrasound and Fellowship Director at Cooper University Hospital. He is also Director of Undergraduate Ultrasound, where he oversees a longitudinal, four-year integrated ultrasound curriculum spanning the medical school.

Dr. Sodhi earned his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine, where he also completed a master’s in urban bioethics. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at Cooper University Hospital, followed by fellowship in emergency ultrasound as Cooper’s inaugural fellow. Since 2019, he has served as core ultrasound and clinical faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Sodhi has a passion for all things ultrasound and for both graduate and undergraduate medical education. He has lectured frequently at the local, regional, and national level, and has built and operationalized ultrasound education across the continuum of medical training. He developed a four-year, vertically integrated ultrasound curriculum for CMSRU- that he now manages with Dr. Alyse Volino.

While a recalcitrant researcher, he maintains an active and growing scholarly portfolio focused on ultrasound education, residency and medical student training, and emerging applications such as prehospital ultrasound. He is particularly interested in program development, competency-based education, and expanding the role of ultrasound in clinical and educational settings.

Dr. Sodhi has received multiple teaching and humanism awards, including the 2019 Gold Humanism Award at CMSRU, 2020 & 2025 Golden Apple Awards for clinical faculty, and induction into the Gold Humanism Honor Society as junior faculty in 2024.

Joshua Rempell, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and Director of the emergency ultrasound fellowship. He completed medical school at Harvard Medical School and received a master's of public health degree at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Rempell completed his emergency medicine residency training in the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program (HAEMR) at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he served as chief resident. Following residency, Dr. Rempell completed an ultrasound fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior to joining Cooper, he was faculty and ultrasound fellowship director at Brigham and Women's Hospital as well as Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  

Dr. Rempell has lectured extensively nationally and internationally on emergency ultrasound as well as published more than 20 peer-reviewed articles on emergency ultrasound. He truly enjoys teaching clinical emergency medicine, often with an ultrasound at the bedside.  ‚Äã

Lisa Filippone, MD, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. She graduated from the University of Maryland cum laude with a degree in biology, after which she attended Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.  Upon receiving her medical degree she completed her residency in emergency medicine at Cooper University Hospital. After residency, she worked as an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Drexel University until she returned to Cooper in 2007.

Dr. Filippone is passionate about resident education with a particular focus on cardiology and ultrasound. She is a member of the EM Ultrasound division and, together with the core US faculty, provides one-on-one instruction during the US rotation. While Dr. Filippone is involved in a wide range of cardiology activities at Cooper, she is particularly enthusiastic with her weekly ECG conferences.  

Alyse Volino, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. After completing her undergraduate degree at The College of New Jersey, she earned her medical degree at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She then completed her residency in emergency medicine at Cooper University Hospital, serving as chief resident in her final year. After residency, Dr. Volino completed a fellowship in emergency ultrasound at Cooper University Hospital. 

In addition to working in the Emergency Department, Dr. Volino is the Associate Director of Undergraduate Ultrasound at CMSRU. In this role, she contributes to the design and implementation of the undergraduate ultrasound curriculum, serves as a faculty advisor for CMSRU's Ultrasound Interest Group, and is one of the clerkship directors for the Emergency Ultrasound elective for medical students.