Good Sam Wins the PEER Ultimate Championship at ACEP25!

For the second year in a row, Good Samaritan University Hospital (New York) won the PEER Ultimate Championship at ACEP25 in Salt Lake City.

The semifinals and finals of the PEER Challenge, an annual single elimination tournament where residency programs face off in a showdown of clinical knowledge, were held live at the Battle Docs Arena in the Exhibit Hall at ACEP25 in September.

Both rounds of the competition were hosted by emergency physician and six-time Jeopardy! winner Amy Hummel, MD.

In the semifinals, Vanderbilt University Medical Center beat Jefferson Health Northeast to advance to the finals, while Good Samaritan University Hospital beat University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas to advance to the finals.

Congratulations to the members of the Good Samaritan team — Christopher DiNicola, DO; Sunil Shah, MD, MBA; Sherif Shehata, MD; and Arthur Speziale, DO — and to their program director David Levy, DO, FACEP. As the grand prize winners, Good Samaritan will receive a full year of complimentary PEERprep for Programs for the 2026-27 academic year.

Thank you to all the participants of this year’s PEER Challenge. We hope to see you again next year at ACEP26 in Chicago!