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Kendall McKenzie, MD

University of Mississippi Medical Center

Kendall McKenzie, MD is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and serves as Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He is the Executive Director of the TelEmergency Program at UMMC. Dr. McKenzie has fellowship training in EMS and Disaster Medicine. He recently completed a 25-year career with the US Army. His ultimate position was that of State Surgeon for the MSARNG.

Joselyn Miller, DO

University of Connecticut

Joselyn Miller, DO is a PGY3 resident at the University of Connecticut Emergency Medicine Residency and incoming fellow of Emergency Medical Services at The University of Mississippi Medical Center. After recognizing the important role of telehealth in bridging the gap of communities that were traditionally underserved, she started to pursue academic opportunities to prepare and education trainees for the workforce needs. While continuing her pursuit of medical education, she has gained an immense passion for mentoring youth, serving the underserved, advocating for health equity/wellbeing, and prehospital care.

Christine M. Shaw, MD, DTMH

University of Alabama

Dr. Christine Shaw MD, DTMH, is a Global and Social EM fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the Department of Emergency Medicine. She completed her residency training at Louisiana State University at Shreveport, LA, and is currently working on her MSPH at UAB. Throughout medical school and residency Dr. Shaw has focused on providing care for people experiencing homelessness, including founding various outreach programs, starting a flu shot clinic, and establishing a free mobile bus clinic to improve access to care. As a fellow, Dr. Shaw continues to focus research on addressing health inequities within this population.

Ronny Otero, MD, MSHA

Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin

Dr. Otero is Professor and Vice-Chair Clinical Operations at the Froedtert Hospital Emergency Department. He is also Director of the Health Executive Administrative Leadership (HEAL) Fellowship. Dr. Otero oversee directions and leadership for operations of all clinical practices in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Otero has experience in both academic and community emergency department settings.

Gillian Schmitz, MD

Uniformed Services University

Dr Schmitz serves as the Immediate President of the American College of Emergency Physicians. She has had an extensive career in academics and has practiced across the country as her husband was serving his military commitment in the Air Force. She served as academic faculty at Wilford Hall Medical Center, Washington Hospital Center / Georgetown University, University of California at San Diego, University of Texas San Antonio and Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC). She is currently a practicing emergency physician and Vice Chair of Education at BAMC in San Antonio, TX and an Associate Professor at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD.

Dr. Schmitz brings many years of clinical experience in urban, suburban, government, academic and free-standing emergency practice settings. She has also been involved with emergency medicine research and is a former EMF grant recipient, published author, and reviewer for several medical journals. She has been an advocate for residency training and has served as a speaker at national meetings for ACEP, EMRA, CORD and SAEM. Dr. Schmitz has received several awards for her leadership roles including the National Early Career Faculty Award from the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM), EMRA’s 45 under 45 and Mentorship Award, and ACEP’s National Teaching Faculty award.

Christopher L. Bennett, MD, MSc, MA

Stanford University Department of Emergency Medicine

Christopher Bennett, MD, MSc, MA, is a physician scientist in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. He is a fellow of both the American College of Emergency Physicians (FACEP) and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (FAAEM). His primary research interests are in better understanding American's changing access to both emergency departments and emergency physician care.

Dr. Bennett completed residency training at Harvard Medical School's program in Emergency Medicine based at Massachusetts General Hospital. Bennett holds an undergraduate degree from Winthrop University (BS in Biology), a graduate degree from Duke University (MA in Genetics and Genomics), a medical degree (MD) from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine, and a graduate degree from Stanford University (MSc in Epidemiology). In addition to his formal graduate training, Bennett was previously a scientist with the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and a researcher with the Emergency Medicine Network based at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Lars K. Beattie, MS MD

University of Florida

Lars K. Beattie M.S., M.D., FACEP is the Residency Program Director at the the University of Florida Health Science Center Department of Emergency Medicine (EM) in Gainesville, Florida. He is a nationally recognized speaker and leader in EM education and has been a board-certified EM physician for the last 20 years. In 2005, he co-founded the Libertas Center for Human Rights at Elmhurst Hospital, Queens, New York. Since graduating residency, he has spent 19 years immersed in EM resident and student education. His role as a clinician and resident educator involves identifying evidence-based clinical practices, translating them into teaching strategies for learners, who ultimately bring that to patient care.

Through the construct of the Mt Sinai EM and the University of Florida Department EM Journal Club, he has coached residents and faculty in the principles of evidence-based medicine and its application in the assessment of the current medical literature. He has served on national, state, and local medical education committees including the society of Academic Emergency Medicine Simulation Academy. He has given over 25 international and national presentations and is an experienced simulation educator. He has developed over 14 cases presented in international and national conferences for the Emergency Medicine Residency Association SIMWars. He is an editor of 4 books and has authored 12 education related publications. He has been awarded 2 grants including a Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement Grant for direct services to survivors of torture at Elmhurst Hospital Libertas Center Survivors of Torture Services Project.

Rebekah Cole, PhD, M.Ed.

Uniformed Services University

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.

Michelle D. Hughes, MD

University of Wisconsin

Dr. Michelle Hughes grew up on the East Coast and completed medical school at the University of Maryland. She moved to the Midwest for her emergency medicine residency at the University of Chicago Medical Center and stayed in Chicago to complete a simulation fellowship with the Rush/Cook County Hospital System. Her medical interests include simulation-based education for residents and simulation-based, inter-professional education.

Dr. Hughes serves as Director of Medical Simulation in charge of the resident simulation education at the University of Wisconsin Department of Emergency Medicine. She also serves as the director of the simulation fellowship program.

Nationally, Dr. Hughes is actively involved in simulation organizations and is currently a board member in the Emergency Medicine Section of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), as well as the Simulation Academy of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). She currently serves as Secretary on the SAEM Simulation Academy Executive Board and the immediate past SSH Emergency Medicine Section. She hopes to continue to build the simulation program at the University of Wisconsin and add to the medical education of the students and residents.

Jessica C. Schoen, MS, MD

Mayo Clinic, Rochester

I completed my residency training in Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN (2014), then completed fellowship training in Medical Simulation at the Lifespan Medical Simulation Center of Brown University, Providence RI (2015). I currently work in academic Emergency Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN and in community Emergency Medicine at the Mayo Clinic Health System Southeast Minnesota region. I am the Director of the Mayo Clinic Health System Emergency Medicine Community Simulation Program, which provides team-training and education for our nurses and providers through the health system via on-site in situ multidisciplinary simulations. This program also facilitates patient safety, quality of care, and process improvement throughout the Mayo Clinic Health System.

I am a Fellow member of the Mayo Clinic Academy of Educational Excellence (2021) and received the SAEM Simulation Academy's Young Educator of the Year Award (2020).

My areas of interest include Systems Integration, Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, and Obstetric Emergencies.

Amy F. Hildreth, MD, MHPE

Uniformed Services University

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.

Tiffany Moadel, MD

Northwell Health, North Shore University Hospital

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.

Tina Chen, MD

Saint Louis University

Tina Chen is the Associate Dean of Simulation and Clinical Skills for Saint Louis University School of Medicine, as well as the Director of Emergency Medicine Simulation for the Saint Louis University Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She completed Medical Simulation fellowship at the Center for Education, Simulation, and Innovation at Hartford Hospital.

Rachel McFadden, MPH BSN RN CEN

Prevention Point / Penn Medicine

Rachel McFadden, BSN RN CEN is a nurse in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Emergency Department and at Prevention Point Philadelphia, and a Bloomberg Fellow in Addiction & Overdose at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. The foundation of her clinical philosophy and practice is harm reduction – a social justice movement as well as a practical approach to reducing the negative consequences of substance use. Her work centers on reducing stigma, strengthening the hospital's capacity to respond to the substance use crisis through the integration of harm reduction, and bridging Penn’s medical services to community-based and public health efforts.

Tony Spadaro, MD

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Anthony (Tony) Spadaro, is a fellow in Medical Toxicology and Addiction Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and New Jersey Poison Information. He completed residency in Emergency Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Kelli Robinson, MD, FAAEM

University of Maryland Department of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Kelli Y. Robinson, MD FAAEM is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency

Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. Dr. Robinson graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she developed an interest in Emergency Medicine and a passion for providing care to the underserved. She attended Morehouse School of Medicine and trained in an Emergency Medicine residency at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. She was selected and served as Chief Resident during her 3rd and final year of residency. She was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society and received the Clinical Excellence Award, within the Emergency Department, as a graduating senior resident. Dr. Robinson
subsequently completed an EMS fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine in
Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Robinson joined the University of Maryland School of Medicine faculty in 2022, where she serves as EMS faculty and a faculty mentor for the departmental Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee. Additionally, she is a member of the National Association of EMS Physicians DEI Committee. Her Emergency Medicine interests are in prehospital and disaster medicine, health equity, and education.

Jennifer Love, MD, MSCR

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dr. Love is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. After residency at the University of Pennsylvania, she completed a medical toxicology fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University. She then completed a clinical research fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine under Dr. Lynne Richardson's T32 training program in emergency care research. Her current work focuses on opioid use disorder and novel substances of misuse, specifically xylazine. She also serves as the SAEM AWAEM research committee co-chair and the VP of Education.

Sanché N. Mabins, MD

Cook County Emergency Medicine Residency

Dr. Sanché Mabins is an Emergency Medicine Resident at John H. Stroger Cook County Health in Chicago, IL. Her professional journey encompasses two years of research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, culminating in the successful completion of her Medical Doctorate at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine. Dr. Mabins has established herself as a published author, contributing to SAEM Pulse in July 2023 with her insights on "Racial Trauma: The Burden of Being Black in Medicine," and to AEM E&T, where she explored "When Screens Become Mirrors: Black Women in Medicine Finding Belonging through Social Media." She has been recognized in the ACEP Annual Report 2021, ACEP HeART of Emergency Medicine, and Academic Life in EM Graduation Art Exhibit for her exceptional talent as a watercolor artist.

In addition to her academic pursuits, Dr. Mabins exhibits a profound dedication to Social Emergency Medicine and community involvement. Currently serving as a PGY-4, she is poised to embark on a new chapter as the inaugural Social Emergency Medicine Fellow at the University of Illinois Chicago, commencing this July.

Douglas A. White, MD

Alameda Health System–Highland Hospital

Dr. Douglas White is an emergency medicine physician at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California. Since 2004, he has advocated for routine, integrated HIV, hepatitis C virus, and syphilis screening in US emergency departments through a platform of implementation science research, technical assitance, and advocacy work.

Ashlea D. Winfield, MD, MSPH

Cook County Health

Dr. Ashlea Winfield is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Associate Director of the Cook County Health Simulation Center in Chicago, IL. Dr. Winfield earned her Master of Science in Public Health from the Tulane University School of Public Health and medical doctorate from the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in New Orleans. She then went on to complete her residency at Cook County Health where she served as a chief resident, earning her the highest leadership award granted by her department to a resident physician, the Robert Simon Leadership Award. She then completed her emergency simulation fellowship at Cook County Health.
Dr. Winfield has created multiple initiatives aimed at fostering a culture of safety and equitable treatment for all individuals within her program and institution. Dr. Winfield has lectured nationally and regionally on topics related to caring for gender expansive patients, trauma informed care, racism, implicit bias, and promoting equitable processes in residency recruitment. Dr. Winfield is a member of the Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine (ADIEM) Executive Committee and co-chair of the Resident and Trainee committee. Due to her ongoing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts she was awarded the Cook County Health Physician of the Year in 2022-2023 and is a member of the National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF) 2022-2023 40 under 40.
As the Associate Director of the Cook County Simulation Center, Dr. Winfield directs simulation-based education for emergency medicine residents with a focus on procedural competency and task trainer development as well as using simulation to teach topics in diversity, equity, and inclusion. Dr. Winfield also uses her expertise in medical simulation to inspire youth to pursue careers in STEM by partnering with local high schools. She is also a board member of local non-profit; the I Am Abel Foundation which helps youth in Chicago reach their dreams by allowing exposure to careers in healthcare and providing resources to achieve their educational goals.