Research Mentoring, Sponsorship, and Coaching
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Willard A. Sharp, MD, PhD
Research Learning Series Panelist
University of Chicago
Willard W. Sharp M.D., PhD. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Section of Emergency Medicine at the University of Chicago. Dr. Sharp runs an NIH funded basic science laboratory investigating the role of mitochondrial injury and metabolism in cellular injury following cardiac arrest. Recent work has focused on the role of mitochondrial fission and fusion in mediating injury and outcomes in a murine model of cardiac arrest.
Dr. Sharp received his undergraduate degree in biology and history at Wofford College in South Carolina before pursuing his PhD at the University of South Carolina in Biomedical Science. He completed NIH funded post-doctoral work at the University of Illinois at Chicago followed by his MD degree at the University of South Carolina. During his medical training he received a Rotary International Fellowship to spend a year at the John Radcliffe Hospital and Oxford University studying gene therapy. He then completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan before obtaining a faculty appointment at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Sharp has experience in mentoring pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, residents, and junior faculty and is interested in encouraging young EM trainees to pursue research in basic science. He is co-founder of an unofficial SAEM basic science and translational science interest group for EM trainees and physicians and is a member of the SAEM and ACEP research committees
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James Paxton, MD, MBA
Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Research
Wayne State University School of Medicine (Detroit, MI)
Dr. Paxton is an Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Research for Detroit Receiving Hospital / Wayne State University Department of Emergency Medicine, and currently serves as Chairman of the SAEM Research Committee (2021-2024). He received both his MD and MBA degrees from the University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH), and completed EM residency training at Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit, MI). Dr. Paxton has served as core academic faculty for the EM residencies at both Sinai-Grace Hospital and Detroit Receiving Hospital since 2011, and has mentored hundreds of medical students and residents at Wayne State University during that time. He is an active clinical researcher and has served as PI for numerous industry- and publicly-funded trials. He is the editor of several books on emergency medicine topics, and is a recognized expert and invited speaker for many regional, national and international lectures on emergent vascular access, cardiac arrest, and emergent resuscitation, and is a past Chair of the WSU institutional review board.
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Deborah B. Diercks, MD, MSc
Immediate Past President
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Deborah Diercks is Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She holds the Audre and Bernard Rapoport Distinguished Chair in Clinical Care and Research. A nationally recognized leader in the specialty, Dr. Diercks oversees the emergency medicine programs at Parkland Memorial Hospital and UT Southwestern University Hospitals, which together constitute one of the largest emergency medicine programs in the nation.
After receiving her undergraduate degree in microbiology and immunology from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Diercks attended Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in emergency medicine at the University of Cincinnati and joined the faculty of the University of California, Davis, where she was a major contributor to the growth and development of its emergency medicine programs. She also holds a master’s degree from the Harvard University School of Public Health.
Dr. Diercks has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, among other sources, for research on early management of acute coronary syndromes, the influence of gender on symptom characteristics, and utilization of cardiac biomarkers. She is active on numerous ACEP committees. She has held numerous leadership positions within the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and was presented the Society’s 2014 Advancement of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine Award. Additionally, Dr. Diercks is a Associate Editor of the Circulation and Academic Emergency Medicine. In 2018-2021 she was included in D Magazine's Best Doctors list.
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Marcee Wilder
Research Learning Series Moderator
George Washington University
Marcee Wilder is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University. She attended medical school at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington D.C. and residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. While at Mount Sinai, Marcee participated in and developed several clinical studies examining racial disparities in emergency department care. After residency she completed a 2-year clinical research fellowship at GWU, focusing on disparities and health outcomes. During her fellowship she was awarded funding from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to examine social determinants of health and their effect on outcomes including medication adherence and emergency department visits. She also completed a master’s degree in clinical and translational research during this time. As full-time faculty, Marcee splits her time between working clinically, research, teaching, and administration. She is a health services researcher who is passionate about health equity and disparities and hopes to contribute to the field through research and education. Marcee teaches public health at the medical school and teaches a clinical research course to the undergraduates at the University. She works clinically at George Washington University Hospital, as well as DC’s last public hospital, United Medical Center. She is also the medical director for the Medical Faculty Associates group in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Walter Reed National Military Center. In her spare time, she mentors at risk female youth in DC.