Show Me the Money: Securing Grant Funding in Medical Education (Simulation Academy and Educational Research Interest Group Sponsored)

Dr. Rebekah Cole holds a Ph.D. in Counseling from Old Dominion University and M.Ed. from the College of William and Mary. Dr. Cole serves as an Associate Professor at the Uniformed Services University in the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine as a curriculum researcher. She conducts quantitative and qualitative field research during high-fidelity military medical simulations- Operation Bushmaster, Operation Gunpowder, and the Advanced Combat Medical Experience (ACME)- to determine their impact on military medical student readiness. With her clinical background in mental health counseling, Dr. Cole also studies the impact of mental health and wellness on performance in the operational environment. She recently recieved a Department of Defense grant to develop and evaluate a mindfulness curriculum for the prehospital environment. Throughout her career, Dr. Cole has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and has presented at more than 25 international, national, and regional conferences. She is currently chair of the Society for Academic and Emergency Medicine's (SAEM) Educational Research Interest Group.

Michael Gottlieb, MD is the Vice Chair of Research and Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Division at Rush University Medical Center. He is Past-Chair of the ACEP Ultrasound Section and Past-Chair of the AAEM Ultrasound Section. He has authored over 500 peer-reviewed publications and is an Editor for Academic Medicine, The Annals of Emergency Medicine, The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, and Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training, as well as the Social Media Editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. He is Past-Chair of the CORD Academy for Scholarship, Past-Chair of the SAEM Education Summit, Past-Chair of the CORD Education Committee, Past-Chair of the CORD Best Practices Subcommittee, and a nationally-recognized speaker and educator. His academic interests include medical education, ultrasound, infectious diseases, heart failure, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Dr. Holly Caretta-Weyer is associate residency program director and director of evaluation and assessment for the Stanford University emergency medicine residency program as well as EPA/CBME implementation lead at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Caretta-Weyer attended medical school at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where she graduated Alpha Omega Alpha with honors in research. She stayed at Wisconsin for her emergency medicine residency, where she was also chief resident. Dr. Caretta-Weyer then completed her medical education scholarship fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University and earned her master's in health professions education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is a PhD candidate at Maastricht University studying residency selection in a competency-based system.

Dr. Moadel is the Director for Simulation at North Shore University Hospital, Northwell Health and serves as the Director of the Healthcare Simulation Fellowship within the Emergency Medicine Service Line at Northwell Health. She is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Prior her current roles, Dr. Moadel completed a Medical Simulation Fellowship at the Yale School of Medicine and continued for two years as the Director for Medical Student Simulation at the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale Center for Medical Simulation. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Simulation Academy’s Young Educator Award. She currently serves on the Simulation Academy Executive Board as Treasurer and serves as the lead for the Research Consultation Service as well as a liaison to the CORD Simulation Community of Practice on their joint Simulation Consult Service. Dr. Moadel's research interests include a grant-funded project utilizing simulation for microaggressions training, and utilizing simulation for novel applications in medical education.

Thomas Yang, MD, MEdHP, MS, is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician and the medical director for Froedtert Hospital Simulation Center. Besides, he currently holds the rank of Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he is a co-director of simulation focusing on scholarship and research. He is also an assistant program director for the Emergency Medicine residency. He went to Chicago Medical School, graduated in 2016, and completed Emergency Medicine Residency at Aventura Hospital, where he graduated as the Academic Chief. From then, he went to Yale School of Medicine, conducted the Medical Simulation Fellowship, led in-situ simulation for neonatal resuscitation, and taught medical students to use medical simulation. His passion is education and research is finding the association between healthcare professionals' well-being or mental health in team dynamics during resuscitation and the patient outcome.

Dr. Wong is a physician-scientist in the Department of Emergency Medicine, with a focus on teamwork, patient safety, behavioral health, and healthcare disparities. He is the Research Director and Associate Fellowship Director at the Yale Center for Medical Simulation. He also has expertise in qualitative and mixed-methods techniques for health services research.

He received his Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia in Microbiology & Immunology in Vancouver, Canada and attended Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Ambrose obtained his Emergency Medicine residency training at NYU & Bellevue Hospitals Center in New York City, serving as chief resident physician in his final year. He subsequently completed a medical simulation fellowship at NYU School of Medicine & New York Simulation Center for the Health Sciences. He received a Master of Science in Health Professions Education at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions.

Dr. Wong applies healthcare simulation technology to address workplace violence and improve behavioral care in the emergency setting. He has authored 25 peer-reviewed publications on behavioral emergency care and received an NIH NCATS KL2 & YCCI Scholar Award to implement an agitation code team response intervention. He is the current recipient of multiple federal awards to investigate the use of health IT and patient-centered methods to improve the care of agitation management while maintaining safety of staff and healthcare workers.

Annemarie Cardell is an emergency medicine physician in Atlanta, GA., and mom to a 2-year-old daughter, Magnolia. She is also an educator who specializes in teaching through simulation and developing new and novel ways to educate others. She currently works at Emory School of Medicine where she serves as the Assistant Program Director. Previous research has included building large scale simulation to facilitate MCI education on responding to an active shooter, how clinical workflow is impacted by burnout, developing a next generation intubation trainer using 3D printing, and revamping clinical documentation curriculum to facilitate increased RVUs/ Pt for resident physicians.

Amy Follmer Hildreth, MD, MHPE, FACEP, is the Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. She attended the University of Maryland, and was selected for the Navy Health Professions Scholarship Program to obtain her medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is board certified in Emergency Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Hildreth has an extensive background in simulation and education, she completed her Masters in Health Professions Education at the Uniformed Services University in 2023.