Cherri Hobgood, MD

Cherri D. Hobgood, MD is the founder of the Center for Leadership Life, a research and data repository for leadership in academic medicine. Throughout her career as an academic leader, she attained the rank of tenured full professor and held a range of leadership roles, including Associate Dean and Department Chair. Her national organizational leadership includes tenures as the President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), Chair of the Board for the SAEM Foundation (SAEMF), and Chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Board of Directors. She currently serves as an executive board leader of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM). She has been honored for my contributions by SAEM with the John Marx Leadership award and IFEM with the Order of the IFEM.