Daren M. Beam, MD

I am honored to have been nominated for the position of member-at-large on the SAEM Board of Directors. I first dove into emergency medicine in 2004, when I was hired at Carolinas Medical Center (now Atrium Healthcare) as one of three research coordinators. A year and half later I was starting medical school at East Carolina University and knew on day one I wanted to go into emergency medicine. My path in medical school led to an SAEM Medical Student Grant, more SAEM presentations and publications, and landing back at CMC for residency. Residency continued to allow me to grow as a physician and person. Instead of just submitting abstracts, I started my service to SAEM by joining the ethics committee my second year and reviewing abstracts as well. I have reviewed abstracts for our annual meeting every year since. Since joining the faculty at Indiana University in 2012, as their first research fellow, I have built an established relationship with SAEM, being chair of the SAEM Midwest Regional Meeting in 2016, to being the SAEM Program Chair for 2021, and 2022. I want to bring my diverse background in emergency medicine to the SAEM Board. I have participated at every level of SAEM available to me so far, but I want to do more. My vision is to increase our membership by engaging community physicians who still seek out the newest evidence based medicine and bring them into our society. I want to continue to advance emergency medicine research and gain more funding for our members who are actively publishing. I want to help bring the best and brightest medical students into our specialty and encourage more residents to enter academic medicine and clinical teaching.