SAEM Leadership Forum (AACEM Sponsored)

This is a ticketed event. This forum is designed for all levels of aspiring leaders who are interested in improving their leadership skills. The session will provide exposure to core leadership topics with an emphasis on experiential learning and practical application. Presenters are recognized experts with extensive leadership experience. The agenda includes segments on career changes, innovation, strategies for successful leadership, increasing visibility, and managing conflict.

Presenters:

  • Neha P. Raukar, MD MS CAQSM
  • Brian Zink, MD
  • Susan A. Stern, MD
  • Jennifer L. Wiler, MD MBA
  • Andra L. Blomkalns, MD, MBA
  • James J. McCarthy, MD, MHA
  • Alyson McGregor, MD MA FACEP
  • Ben Bassin, MD
  • Steve Maxwell, MSM
  • David W. Wright, MD
  • Deborah B. Diercks, MD, MSc, MBA
  • Sandra Schneider, MD
  • Andrew Ulrich, MD
Authors

  • Neha P. Raukar, MD MS CAQSM

    Mayo Clinic & Mayo Clinic Health System

    Dr. Raukar is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Advancement and Faculty Development within the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic Rochester. She is actively involved in the teaching and supervision of medical students and residents and is also interested in resident and faculty education, development, wellness, burnout and resilience. She is particularly interested in finding solutions unique to women in medicine. As a grant funded researcher in these areas, she has presented at several national meetings on these topics and especially the use of coaching to enhance physician and learner engagement.
    Her areas of scholarship are in sports and emergency medicine and has served on national committees creating policies to ensure the health and safety of athletes. Her sideline experiences include caring for athletes of all levels and ages including high school, college, professional, masters, Olympic, and extreme athletes. She has worked with the US Ski and Snowboard Team, the UCI BMX team, the Winter Dew Tour, the Women's US Golf Tour, and mass participation events. Her primary areas of research focus are innovations to mitigate life threatening injuries in athletes. She was a member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Science Committee on Sports Related Concussion in Youth and served on the Sports Medicine Advisory Committee for the National Federation of State High School Associations.

  • Brian Zink, MD

    University of Michgan

    Brian J. Zink, MD is Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. His career in academic medicine spans over three and half decades in variety of leadership and service roles. He started his career as a researcher in alcohol effects in trauma. He wrote the first comprehensive history of US emergency medicine – Anyone, Anything, Anytime – (2nd edition, 2018). He served as Associate Dean for Student Programs at the University of Michigan Medical School, and then became the inaugural Chair of Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University (2006-2018). He returned to Michigan Medicine in 2018 to serve as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Faculty Development and was the interim Executive Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in 2020-21.

    Dr. Zink is Past-President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine (AACEM). He founded and has served as Co-Director of the AACEM Chair Development Program since 2014. Dr. Zink completed the University of Michigan Executive Coach Training program. He has coached deans, department chairs, and other healthcare professionals and administrators. He provides consultation services to medical schools and academic departments across the US. He formed a coaching and consulting business in 2024.

  • Susan A. Stern, MD

    University of Washington

    Susan A. Stern, M.D. is Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, WA. Dr. Stern received her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1987. She completed an Emergency Medicine Residency in 1987 and a Research Fellowship focused in Resuscitation Science in 1991, both at the University of Cincinnati. Following completion of fellowship, she took a faculty position at the University of Michigan (1993-2009) in the Department of Emergency Medicine. At the University of Michigan, she continued her research efforts to develop and evaluate alternative novel resuscitation strategies in the very early period following traumatic hemorrhagic shock. Her laboratory was among the first to establish a large animal polytrauma model of combined TBI and uncontrolled hemorrhage, which several other laboratories have since adopted or used as a framework for investigation. Dr. Stern spent several months as a Visiting Professor at the Naval Medical Research Center in MD and during that time assisted the NMRC research team in the development of a novel model of combined TBI and blunt liver trauma, which they continue to use. While at the University of Michigan, she also served as the Associate Chair for Education (2004-2009), Chair of the University of Michigan Institution Animal Use and Care Committee (IACUC), and completed the University of Michigan Health Center / Ross School of Business - Healthcare Leadership Development Program.

    Dr. Stern moved to the UW in 2009 where she has led the development of the Department of Emergency Medicine. During her tenure at the University of Washington she has overseen the growth and development of the department from 12 to over 90 full- and part- time faculty to include four thriving Sections, the development of the University of Washington Emergency Medicine Residency program and several fellowship programs, as well as a thriving research program. Her laboratory team continues its research focus on resuscitation from hemorrhagic shock.

    Dr. Stern has been active within SAEM since 1994, serving as Chair of the Program Committee from 1998 -2000, as a member of the Board of Directors from 2000-2005, and currently serves as Co-Director of the AACEM Chair Development Program with Dr. Brian Zink. She is also a Past President of the Washington Chapter of the American College of Emergency Medicine (ACEP).

  • Jennifer L. Wiler, MD, MBA

    University of Colorado, Denver

    Jennifer L. Wiler, MD, MBA (@DrJenniferWiler) is Professor and Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Professor at the University of Colorado School of Business. She is also Co-Founder and Executive Medical Director of the UCHealth CARE Innovation Center.

    Dr. Wiler has authored over 45 peer-reviewed papers on the topics of acute care operations, payment models, care transitions, quality and safety. She co-authored the book “Value and Quality Innovations in Acute and Emergency Care” (Cambridge Press, 2017). Dr. Wiler has served in numerous state and national leadership positions, including an appointment to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC), and is a former ACEP EM Practice Committee Chair for the American College of Emergency Physicians, American Medical Association Women Physicians Congress Chair and Colorado Medical Society Board Member.

    Dr. Wiler is also a founding faculty member of the Institute for Quality, Safety and Efficiency, a partnership of the University of Colorado Hospital and School Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Colorado and CU Medicine Inc., and has been an invited expert for the National Academy of Science.

  • Andra L. Blomkalns, MD, MBA

    Stanford University

    Andra L. Blomkalns, MD, MBA, Stanford Medicine Professor in Emergency Medicine and the Redlich Family Professor, Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine

    Dr. Andra Blomkalns is a national leader and an innovation advocate who promotes that the best patient-centered programs depend upon clinical practice innovation, continuous data-driven improvement, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Prior to Stanford, Dr. Blomkalns served as Division Chief of General Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and Business Development at University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Department of Emergency Medicine. Reflecting her dual passions for patient care and innovation, she also served on the Intellectual Property Advisory Committee and was the clinical liaison to the Office for Technology Development. Prior to UTSW, Dr. Blomkalns served as Program Director and later Vice Chair of Education where she trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. She earned her undergraduate degree from Rice University, medical degree from Louisiana State Health Sciences Center, and also holds a Master’s in Business Administration specializing in innovation and entrepreneurship from the University of Texas.

  • James J. McCarthy, MD, MHA

    Memorial Hermann Health System

    Dr. James “Jamie” McCarthy currently serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Physician Executive for the Memorial Hermann Health System. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the physician organization and further establishing Memorial Hermann’s goal to build a physician-centric, integrated network of care. He has executive oversight and responsibility for MHMD, Memorial Hermann’s clinically-integrated physician network, the Memorial Hermann Medical Group, as well as Population Health Services, Care and Case Management, Hospital-Based Physicians, Credentialing, Quality and Safety. He also serves as the senior physician leader of Clinical Care Redesign, a sweeping revamp of Memorial Hermann’s care delivery model.

    Prior to joining MHH, Dr. McCarthy served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at McGovern Medical School. Dr. McCarthy was also Chief of Emergency Medical Services for Memorial Hermann-TMC, home to the Red Duke Trauma Institute, the nation’s busiest Level I trauma center, as well as Memorial Hermann Life Flight®, the system’s signature air ambulance service. Under his leadership, the Department has been recognized regionally and nationally for Trauma, Stroke and Cardiac Care.

    Dr. McCarthy completed his medical degree at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, his internship and residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and his Masters in Health Care Administration at the University of Providence. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services.

    On a local and state level, Dr. McCarthy has been an advocate for emergency services, serving as a member of the Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council (SETRAC), where he is the medical director of the SETRAC Cardiac Care Committee. He is also serving as Chair of the Governor’s EMS and Trauma Advisory Council’s Cardiac Care Committee under the Texas Department of State Health Services.

    In addition to his professional commitments, Dr. McCarthy serves as EMS Medical Director for the West University Place Fire Department and as an un-affiliated neurotrauma consultant for the National Football League.

  • Alyson McGregor, MD MA FACEP

    University of South Carolina

    Alyson J. McGregor, MD MA FACEP is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and currently serves as Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Development at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. Dr. McGregor was the co-founder and Director of the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications on biological sex differences and their impact on women’s health and was recently awarded an Honorary Degree in Science by the University of New Hampshire for her life’s work.
    Dr. McGregor currently serves as a member of the Advisory Committee Research on Women’s Health for the Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health. She is a Co-Founder of the national organization Sex and Gender Health Collaborative and serves on the Advisory Council to the Sex and Gender Health Education Summit series which is designed to establish an integrative sex and gender curriculum for current and future health professionals. In her new role at the School of Medicine Greenville, Dr. McGregor is responsible for the development of over 1300 clinical faculty for which she has established novel programs for Emerging Leaders, a Clinical Educator Teaching Academy, and recently was awarded an NIH R25 Grant for the project Sex and Gender Curricular Assessment and Revision (SG-CAR).
    Dr. McGregor’s TEDx talk, “Why Medicine Often Has Dangerous Side Effects for Women,” currently has over 2 million views, and her award-winning book “Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What We Can Do About It”. Dr. McGregor is excited to have recently published her second book entitled “Why Women Aren’t Winning at Health (But Can)” Published by WorldChangers Media.

  • Benjamin Bassin, MD

    University of Michigan

    Dr. Benjamin Bassin, MD, FACEP, EDAC is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director of the Emergency Critical Care Center, Director of Intellectual Property and Technology Development at the University of Michigan and the Vice President and Innovation Fellow at CannonDesign. He received his B.S. and M.D. degrees from the University of Michigan and completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, where he served as chief resident. He has served in a number of process improvement, healthcare facility design and administrative leadership roles at the department and institutional levels. Prior to joining Blue Cottage of CannonDesign as its inaugural Innovation Fellow, he served as the Director of the Emergency Critical Care Center (EC3), the first and largest ED-ICU in the U.S. Additionally, he has been an advisor and the chief medical officer of a number of medical device start-up companies and founded his own consulting company focused on providing expertise at the intersection of clinical care delivery and optimized healthcare design. He is recognized as an international expert in emergency critical care delivery design and has been invited to consult and lecture around the world on healthcare design, device innovation as well as serve on many national and international task forces on emergency critical care delivery.
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    Steve Maxwell, MSM

    University of Michigan Emergency Medicine

    Steve Maxwell is the chief administrator for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan.

    He has administrative responsibility for the research, education and clinical missions for Emergency Medicine including the Survival Flight Program.

    He joined the Department of Emergency Medicine in 2014 after previously serving in the Frankel Cardiovascular Center and as the administrator for the Section of General Surgery.

    Among his achievements, he played a role in developing the research infrastructure to support the #1 NIH ranking 4 of the last 6 years for departments of Emergency Medicine, coordinating the administrative support to execute the $7 million Massey Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program; was instrumental in opening the Emergency Critical Care Center in University Hospital; and spearheaded the acquisition of a new patient transport jet and three helicopters for the Survival Flight Program.

  • David W. Wright, MD

    Emory University

    Dr. Wright, is the tenured Professor & Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. He directs the Center for Innovation and Discovery in the Acute and Emergent Sciences (IDEAS) and the Emergency Neurosciences Clinical Laboratory in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He was the former Director of the Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory and Grady from 2014-2018. He is a board certified emergency medicine physician practicing at Emory affiliated hospitals and Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta’s premier Level 1 Trauma Center. He is actively involved in both the preclinical and clinical assessments of traumatic brain injury, stroke and other acute neurological conditions. He is holds adjunct appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Rollins School of Public Health, and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing.

  • Deborah B. Diercks, MD, MSc, MBA

    UT Southwestern

    Deborah Diercks, M.D., 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. 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.

  • Sandra Schneider, MD

    American College of Emergency Physicians

    Sandra M. Schneider, MD, FACEP, is currently the Senior Vice President for Clinical Affairs at ACEP and Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She was the founding Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Rochester. After leaving Rochester, she was a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and Senior Research Director for the North Shore LIJ Department of Emergency Medicine.

    Dr. Schneider is a past president of ACEP, SAEM, and AACEM. She is also a past chair of the Residency Review Committee for Emergency Medicine and the Emergency Medicine Foundation, and served on the Executive Committee of the NAEMSP . She is the author of over 100 peer reviewed manuscripts, as well as multiple other articles and chapters. Dr. Schneider has won multiple awards, including the Leadership Award from the SAEM, the Lifetime Service Award from AACEM and the Wiegenstein Award from the ACEP. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and certified by ABEM and ABIM.

  • Andrew Ulrich, MD

    Yale School of Medicine

    Dr. Ulrich is Professor of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. He is a senior leader in the field of Emergency Medicine, who has advanced clinical practice and education. He completed a residency Boston City Hospital. He is currently the Vice Chair of Operations for the Yale Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Ulrich is highly respected nationally for contributions to resident training and emergency department operations. He has a history of one of the longest standing Residency Directors in EM at Boston City Hospital which transitioned to Boston Medical Center spanning 1996-2008 and receiving the EMRA Residency Director of the Year Award in 2000. He also serves as an oral board examiner for ABEM for the past 15 years. Dr. Ulrich is a leader in the emerging science of quality care delivery; developing and implementing innovative ideas with practical applications for educational and operational models.

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