Is Evidence Based Medicine Dead? Exploring the Evolution of a Philosophical Paradigm (Evidence Based Healthcare & Implementation and Research Directors Interest Group Sponsored)

Chris Carpenter, MD, MSc, is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair of Implementation & Innovation at Mayo Clinic. He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Academic Emergency Medicine, Associate Editor of both Annals of Internal Medicine’s ACP Journal Club and the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. He is former Chair of the EBHI Interest Group and co-authored the Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research (EQUATOR) Network Standards for Reporting of Implementation Research (StaRI) reporting guidelines. He designed and led the Washington University in St. Louis Emergency Medicine Journal Club format and website and serves as faculty for multiple secondary peer-review resources. He was also faculty for the McMaster Evidence Based Clinical Practice Workshop and serves as Content Editor for the American Board of Emergency Medicine’s MyEMCert Key Advances.

Lars K. Beattie M.S., M.D., FACEP is the Residency Program Director at the the University of Florida Health Science Center Department of Emergency Medicine (EM) in Gainesville, Florida. He is a nationally recognized speaker and leader in EM education and has been a board-certified EM physician for the last 20 years. In 2005, he co-founded the Libertas Center for Human Rights at Elmhurst Hospital, Queens, New York. Since graduating residency, he has spent 19 years immersed in EM resident and student education. His role as a clinician and resident educator involves identifying evidence-based clinical practices, translating them into teaching strategies for learners, who ultimately bring that to patient care.

Through the construct of the Mt Sinai EM and the University of Florida Department EM Journal Club, he has coached residents and faculty in the principles of evidence-based medicine and its application in the assessment of the current medical literature. He has served on national, state, and local medical education committees including the society of Academic Emergency Medicine Simulation Academy. He has given over 25 international and national presentations and is an experienced simulation educator. He has developed over 14 cases presented in international and national conferences for the Emergency Medicine Residency Association SIMWars. He is an editor of 4 books and has authored 12 education related publications. He has been awarded 2 grants including a Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement Grant for direct services to survivors of torture at Elmhurst Hospital Libertas Center Survivors of Torture Services Project.

Bryan Kane, MD is a Professor of Medicine with the University of South Florida. His teaching and research abilities were recognized with induction to the University's Academy of Distinguished Educators and to the Robert A. Good Honor Society. At Lehigh Valley Health Network, he is the Associate Program Director (Research) for the Emergency Medicine Residency. Currently the President of the Medical Staff, he has previously served on the Institutional Review Board as the Vice-Chair. A past Chair of SAEM's Evidence Based Healthcare Improvement IG, he led a consensus effort to evaluate the resident Scholarly Requirement. He currently serves on SAEM's Workforce Taskforce. He is active in CORD, having served as the Research Track Chair and on the COVID Taskforce. Within ACEP, he has authored textbook chapters, is on the PACEP Research Committee, and was named "PACEP Physician of the Year". He received his undergraduate degree at Yale, completed medical school at UPenn, and trained in Emergency Medicine at Yale. His educational passions are around Evidence Based Medicine, where he has designed a Journal Club tied to a validated EBM metric.

Dr. Wyer is the founder and chair of the Section on Evidence Based Healthcare of The New York Academy of Medicine and is Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center in NYS. He is a leading author and educator in the area of evidence-based health care. He was a member of the McMaster based Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group and a substantial contributor to the Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature series published by JAMA. He has originated and edited innovative educational series on EBM in leading journals including Canadian Medical Association Journal, Journal of General Internal Medicine and Annals of Emergency Medicine. He is currently Associate Editor at the latter journal. He was a recipient of an award from the Stemmler Fund of the National Board of Medical Examiners to develop and validate assessment tools for the ACGME practice-based learning and improvement competency and has received support from AHRQ for programs based at the New York Academy of Medicine. He was founder and first Chair of the SAEM Evidence Based Healthcare and Implementation Interest Group.