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Carl Preiksaitis, MD

Clinical Instructor

Stanford University

Dr. Carl Preiksaitis is a Medical Education Fellow and Clinical Instructor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Preiksaitis completed his medical training at New York University School of Medicine and a residency in emergency medicine at Stanford. His scholarly interests include digital technology and medical education, reproductive healthcare in the emergency department, and healthcare innovation. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in medical education at the University of Cincinnati.

Sara Wattenbarger, DO

Assistant Professor

University of South Alabama

Dr. Sara Wattenbarger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of South Alabama. She completed her medical training at Midwestern University Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine and residency at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in San Bernardino County, California. Her research and educational interests include mass casualty response, leadership skills in resuscitation, and active learning techniques in medical education. She is pursuing her master’s degree in academic medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, and is currently serving on the SAEM education committee.

L. Tamara Wilson, MD

Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. Wilson, a chief resident physician in emergency medicine at Baylor College of Medicine is a fierce advocate for those at the margins of society and champion of diversity, equity, and inclusion in medical education. Dr. Wilson graduated from Duke University and received a bachelor of science in economics and a bachelor of arts in African and African-American studies. She completed her medical degree with honors in Gold Humanism at Georgetown University School of Medicine (GUSOM).

Espoused by her relentless passion for health equity, Dr. Wilson continually engages in service to communities in Houston, Texas, Washington, DC and abroad. Notably, she provided free preventive healthcare to underserved communities in the Dominican Republic through a medical student-run clinic which underscored how health literacy can improve an individual’s health agency and create better community health outcomes. She has served populations experiencing housing insecurity in Washington, DC through organizing a toiletry drive and volunteering at HOYA Clinic, a student-run free clinic, where she was recognized as a HOYA Clinic Student of the Month. She believes service to others is invaluable and has dedicated her clinical career to furthering this mission.

Prior to attending Georgetown, Dr. Wilson’s work in higher education at George Washington University sparked an interest in medical education, teaching, and mentorship. Through her role in curriculum management, she created quality educational outcomes and gained insight into the disproportionate number of underrepresented minority (URM) students and faculty in medical education. This empowered her to create solutions which improve student learning and increase representation. As a medical student, she furthered these interests as a medical education research track scholar by developing a longitudinal curriculum in diversity, equity, and inclusion. Additionally, as professional development facilitator for the Georgetown Experimental Medical Studies (GEMS) Program, a post-baccalaureate program for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, she created a curriculum which incorporates professionalism, mentoring, wellness, scholarship, and community engagement. Through this curriculum, she coaches GEMS students in their pursuit of medicine.

Dr. Wilson believes in cultivating a culture of representation, equity, and inclusion and is a leader among her peers. She created MedSTARS, a visiting clerkship program for URMs to improve institutional equity at MedStar Health and GUSOM. She served on the Office of Diversity and Inclusion Council on Diversity Affairs where she was engaged in efforts to increase the recruitment and retention of URMs. She has served in leadership positions including Georgetown’s Racial Justice Committee for Change, Taskforce on Curriculum and Student Wellbeing, and SNMA. She also chaired the ScholarRx Student Advisory Council, an international, student-led collaboration created to implement innovations in educational technology. Now she serves as chief resident of the Baylor College of Medicine Emergency Medicine Residency.

As a resident physician, Dr. Wilson is pursuing a career in emergency medicine with a health equity lens and aspires to become a dean of a medical school. While her interests are robust, her ultimate goal is to create a ripple of change by empowering institutions to challenge the way they think about health equity in medical education and healthcare delivery.

John Martindale, MD

Brown Emergency Medicine

Dr. Martindale is a PGY-4 at Brown Emergency Medicine. In his three-and-a-half years as an emergency medicine resident, Dr. Martindale has held numerous leadership roles including medical education chief resident since 2022. He has worked with multiple faculty members on design and successful implementation of both research and quality improvement projects, including a campaign of teaching faculty and fellow’s placement of peripheral ultrasound-guided intravenous lines in the adult and pediatric emergency department, patient and staff safety initiatives, multiple residency curricula designs, and interdepartmental educational initiatives. He is a frequent guest lecturer at the Brown Warren Alpert School of Medicine and a mentor to several medical students. After residency, Dr. Martindale is poised to continue his career in academic medicine in a medical education fellowship with the intention of taking part in residency and medical student curriculum design.

Prior to his time in Rhode Island, Dr. Martindale attended medical school at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, during which he was awarded the ACEP/EMRA National Outstanding Medical Student Award. In his spare time, Dr. Martindale enjoys all things outdoors, from gardening to dog training to backpacking and boating.

Marina Gaeta Gazzola, MD

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Dr. Gazzola is a resident physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at NYU Langone Health/Bellevue Hospital Center in New York and a post-doctoral research associate at the APT Foundation Inc., a not-for-profit, low-barrier opioid treatment program based in New Haven, Connecticut. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Medicine and Cornell University. Her scholarship examines areas for intervention to address the worsening overdose crisis in the United States and improving experience and engagement in medication for opioid use disorder treatment for people with opioid use disorder. She has broad experience in conducting patient-centered, mixed methods research ranging from individual qualitative interviews to prospective survey studies to large quantitative studies using national datasets and electronic medical record data. She is particularly interested in emergency-department interventions that reduce the harms associated with substance use and improve treatment engagement and outcomes for people with addiction with high levels of social vulnerability, such as those experiencing homelessness or with criminal-legal system involvement.

Since 2019, Dr. Gazzola has held a first author/project management role for over a dozen addiction-focused research projects spanning medical school and residency (resulting in 16 published peer review articles, 2 book chapters, over 30 abstracts, and several workshop/didactic level speaking engagements and invited talks at national conferences); led a number of clinical initiatives to improve access to harm reduction tools at the institution level across NYU Langone Health sites; mentored other trainees in addiction research; and led educational initiatives surrounding addiction and vulnerable populations for her residency program. She has given poster and oral presentations at many addiction-focused conferences, including the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and the Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance Use and Addiction, and presented her research on emergency department-based harm reduction interventions at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting last year. In September 2023, she gave an hour-long invited talk at the annual meeting of the International Society of Addiction Journal Editors to disseminate the results of multiple first-authored research projects studying patient preferences for substance use terminology. She has also been recognized locally and nationally, including being awarded the “Best Abstract: Resident” award at the 2023 American Society of Addiction Medicine annual meeting, the 2024 Ruth Fox Scholarship by the American Society of Addiction Medicine to attend the 2024 annual meeting and pre-conference didactics sponsored by the society, and winning “best abstract” at her residency program’s 2023 research day as an intern. In medical school, she spent a dedicated research year examining the intersection of social determinants of health and methadone treatment, culminating in her MD thesis, “Housing as Healthcare: The role of homelessness in patient characteristics and retention in outpatient medication for opioid use disorder treatment,” for which she was awarded the Peter F. Curran graduation prize for an outstanding thesis at the Yale School of Medicine. Since starting residency in July 2022, Dr. Gazzola has conducted research examining emergency department harm reduction interventions and emergency clinician knowledge of overdose prevention tools. She has also joined several pre-existing projects surrounding overdose prevention and addiction treatment run by faculty at her institution.

Mohamad Ali Cheaito, MD

University of Toledo

Dr. Cheaito is a dedicated third-year emergency medicine resident at the University of Toledo. Dr. Cheaito laid the foundation for his medical career at the American University of Beirut, where he successfully completed his medical degree. Currently serving as the academic chief resident, he plays a pivotal role in shaping the educational landscape of the program, extending his dedication beyond residency as the vice chair of the Education Committee for the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA). Additionally, Dr. Cheaito's significant scholarly impact is underscored by his extensive publication record, coupled with his roles as the managing editor of The Mediterranean Journal of Emergency Medicine & Acute Care and a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. As Dr. Cheaito continues to progress in his residency and academic career, it is evident that his passion for emergency medicine and commitment to education will leave a lasting mark on the field.

Cole Ettingoff, MPH

Trinity School of Medicine

Mr. Ettingoff is a medical student at Trinity School of Medicine, though completed the first two years of medical school at Tel Aviv University. He has been active nationally in emergency medicine since the start of his medical education, holding multiple leadership roles at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), and the National Association of EMS Physicians. His service in these roles is unprecedented as none of the roles were intended to be student roles.

Mr. Ettingoff has been active nationally in public health since before medical school and views his work in emergency medicine (EM) as a continuation of that interest and has fueled his passion for social EM, in particular. He has served in health departments on both the east and west coasts supporting a wide range of projects related to health equity, access to care, health communications, and building health systems more responsive to the needs of the public. He continues to consult on a number of projects around the country. He has and continues to serve in numerous leadership roles in the American Public Health Association and is currently standing for election to be chair of the APHA Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section.

Mr. Ettingoff views emergency medicine as the ultimate safety net and perhaps the key intersection of medicine and public health. He has written about, spoken about, and worked on a number of topics related to social EM and EMS, particularly EMS-based mobile integrated health and community paramedicine programs. He has also served as an abstract and manuscript reviewer for these topics for several journals and conferences. With a particularly close relationship with Medical Care journal, he successfully launched a junior peer reviewer program introducing more than two hundred medical and graduate students to academic peer review and is working with the journal to develop a special issue for next year.

Even as a student, Mr. Ettingoff has initiated and led several national projects including the 2021 APHA Symposium on Health and Medical Misinformation which featured more than 700 participants and was instrumental in the emergence of several projects related to health misinformation. He has proposed and has championed the development of the first ever standards of care for health-related social needs in the emergency department and has championed the inclusion of social EM and EMS-based mobile integrated health in both emergency medicine and public health research and policy. He has also written several articles for SAEM Pulse, a chapter of EMRA’s Advocacy Handbook, and is in the process of writing a book for APHA Press.

Within SAEM Mr. Ettingoff has also led several research committee subcommittees on topics ranging from diversity and inclusion in research to reinvigorating how we showcase exceptional research, often bridging the gap between the research committee and the virtual presence committee where he leads the podcast working group. He has previously served on the SAEM program and ethics committees and has organized several sessions of the SAEM Research Learning Series, BioSketch podcast, and Who’s Who in Academic EM Podcast.

Despite his many involvements, Mr. Ettingoff has been very successful in the classroom, as well. Beginning with a bachelors in geography and emergency health systems, cum laude from George Washington, he continued on to complete his MPH while working in public health, a post-baccalaureate program at UC Berkeley, and complete his first two years of medical school at Tel Aviv University. While at TAU, Mr. Ettingoff served as class secretary for the first two years of medical school, during some extremely challenging adaptations to both COVID and conflict in the Middle East, completed a Certificate in Healthcare Quality and Safety from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and a Certificate in Business of Healthcare from the Wharton School/Penn Medicine, while also maintaining a 3.91 GPA and receiving several honors marks.

Mr. Ettingoff brings to his academic work a wealth of operational experience both tactically and strategically as an EMT, firefighter, rescue diver, aerial photographer, pilot, and incident management team planner and commander. He has led teams ranging from two to 2,000 on incidents ranging from simple medical emergencies to multistate hurricane responses and fires to national security special events. Mr. Ettingoff looks forward to completing his medical degree in the United States and hopes to continue into an emergency medicine residency and a career where he can serve clinically, operationally in public health and EMS, and continue to conduct research which furthers the interface of emergency medicine and public health. In the shorter term, he looks forward to continuing to champion minimum standards of care for social EM, to leading the development of “gold standards” for social EM, advocating for the expansion of EMS mobile integrated health programs, public health projects related to the implications of social media, and continuing his involvement with SAEM’s passionate committees and interest groups.

David Yang, MD, MHS

Yale University

Dr. Yang is a Yale Emergency Scholar (Research) and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Fellow in the Yale University, Department of Emergency Medicine. He earned his BS in biomedical engineering and BSAS in electrical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, his MD from LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, and his MHS from Yale University. He recently completed his emergency medicine residency through the Yale Emergency Scholars Program.

Nationally, Dr. Yang has served as Mental Health Co-Chair for the Asian American Pacific Medical Students Association (APAMSA) and on the Equity and Inclusion Committee with the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). At the local level, he works closely with the sexual assault forensics committee and as an Interprofessional Longitudinal Clinical Experience (ILCE) mentor.

Dr. Yang's current research focuses on addressing disparities of care in three domains. First, he examines the discrimination that healthcare workers face in the clinical setting with a particular focus on Asian Americans. Second, he focuses on improving the quality of care that survivors experience after a sexual assault. Third, he examines health outcomes and prehospital service utilization among patients presenting with behavioral emergencies.

Imikomobong (Micky) Ibia, MD

Boston Children’s Hospital

Dr. Ibia is a Nigerian-born, American-raised, emergency medicine trained physician who specializes in the care of adult and pediatric patients in the emergency department. After completing his training in general emergency medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR) at Mass General Brigham, he began his pediatric emergency medicine fellowship training at Boston Children’s Hospital, while serving as a moonlighting attending at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In all of these capacities, he provides clinical care, supervises trainees, conducts research, and strives to innovate to improve the care of pediatric patients in all emergency department settings.

Dr. Ibia's clinical interests and expertise revolve around pediatric emergency medicine infrastructure development in Southeastern Nigeria/Haiti and building tools to assist the general emergency medicine provider in caring for pediatric patients. Since his childhood, Dr. Ibia and his father (a pediatric infectious disease physician) have strived to build upon the marginal pediatric medical systems of their homeland. To this end, after his father's passing, Dr. Ibia created a non-profit organization in his father's honor called the Ekopimo Ibia Foundation, which focuses on promoting the provision of basic health services to the children of Southeastern Nigeria. Since its inception, the foundation has raised over $50,000 and provided the HPV vaccine to more than 300 young women in Calabar, Nigeria. Further, since the beginning of residency, Dr. Ibia has created tools to improve the care of pediatric patients in emergency department settings. These include being a significant contributor to an AHA-sponsored Pediatric Advanced Life Support smartphone app, co-creating a digital repository of Mass General Brigham Emergency Medicine protocols for life-threatening pediatric illnesses called Emergency Medicine Protocols, and becoming the web developer/content editor for Emergency Department SmartPhrases that can be accessed at https://medphrases.com.

Dr. Ibia has been actively involved in the on-shift teaching and supervision of medical students and residents since his senior years of residency, and this contribution has only increased since beginning fellowship and taking on moonlighting attending roles. He also regularly lectures the HAEMR residents on electronic medical record documentation optimization and pediatric specific topics with a general emergency medicine lens. Perhaps most importantly, Dr. Ibia has an inherent passion and commitment to sponsor ethnical underrepresented in medicine learners (especially Black men) to pursue careers in science and medicine. This is rooted in his belief that he would not be where he is today if he wasn’t blessed with similar mentorship during his early years. To this end, since his undergraduate years, he has served in multiple capacities including as a recess volunteer, afterschool mentor, tutor, teacher, invited speaker, and mentor. Many of Dr. Ibia's mentees have gone on to medical school and residency. He has also been privileged enough to be the co-founder of the residency diversity recruitment initiative that strives to create an environment where everyone can thrive, including the creation of the HAEMR Roots Bio-Book, a packet of brief biographies that highlight why many of the Black, Latinx, Women, LGBTQI+, and socioeconomically disadvantaged residents chose HAEMR for residency training. This initiative has been well-received throughout the Mass General Brigham system, resulting in a publication in the Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians’ EM Advocate Newsletter in March 2019.

Since completing his training in general emergency medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR) at Mass General Brigham, Dr. Ibia has endeavored to provide excellent clinical care, careful administrative oversight, adaptable teaching, and tender mentorship, while striving to innovate to improve the care of pediatric patients in all emergency department settings. He is humbled and honored to have a career that allows him to combine these deeply ingrained passions.

Xiao Chi (Tony) Zhang, MD, MS

Thomas Jefferson University

Dr. Zhang is the assistant professor and clerkship director of emergency medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Zhang is a triple graduate of Tufts University, where he received a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering, masters in biomedical engineering, as well as a medical doctorate degree within nine years of rigorous and interdisciplinary training. He completed his residency at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where he was an active leader and contributing member to both undergraduate and graduate medical education. During residency, Dr. Zhang was elected as the chair of the EMRA Simulation Committee and created lasting grant opportunities.

Dr. Zhang received his master of health professions education (MHPE) in 2023 and he has been consistently and substantively involved with education and teaching and distinguished himself among his peers with his curricular developments, teaching opportunities, community service, innovative medical inventions, publications, scholarships, awards, and national presence. He was elected as the co-chair of the Council of Program Directors in Emergency Medicine Advising Student Committee (CORD ASCEM) based on his leadership, experience, and research in student advising. His academic interests include gamification, implicit bias, simulation, medical student advising, and interprofessional education.

Abra Fant, MD, MS

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Dr. Fant is a remarkably accomplished early career clinician educator and leader who is advancing the fields of both medical education and quality improvement. Since completing her residency and medical education fellowship, Dr. Fant has quickly become a highly successful assistant, associate, and now residency program director. Dr. Fant has likewise been successful in diverse leadership roles locally and nationally at every level of medical education, earning several prestigious awards along the way. Building on her masters in patient safety and quality improvement, Dr. Fant has simultaneously rapidly ascended to leadership roles at the department, hospital, and national level with her pioneering spirit and tireless effort. In both unique fields, Dr. Fant consistently mentors other young leaders while consistently publishing her efforts in high-profile medical journals to help advance medical education and quality improvement across the country and the globe.

Ellen Duncan, MD, PhD

NYU Langone Health

Dr. Duncan is a physician in the field of pediatric emergency medicine (PEM). In her clinical work, she strives to deliver compassionate and evidence-based care to pediatric patients in the emergency department. She is deeply committed to patient- and family-centered care, as evidenced by her work to develop and implement a novel curriculum designed to train interdisciplinary care teams to provide support for patients and their families during pediatric resuscitations. Dr. Duncan's commitment to medical education is also reflected in her roles as former Rotation Director for Resident Education in PEM, as well as currently as an Associate Program Director for the PEM Fellowship at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where she coordinates simulation activities, contributes innovative educational content, and engages in teaching and mentoring of medical students, residents, and fellows. In addition, she is actively involved in a number of institutional and professional service committees, in keeping with her strong interest in advancing healthcare education and practice.

Dr. Duncan's expertise includes curriculum development and educational innovations. In this context, she spearheaded such initiatives as a novel virtual EKG curriculum and a teaching and learning theory elective during the COVID-19 pandemic. She was recognized with a teaching award during her residency and has presented her educational initiatives both locally and nationally. Dr. Duncan's dedication to education in emergency medicine is further reflected in her publications, as well as her participation in conferences and presentations at the national and international levels. She is eager to serve as a leader in shaping the future of PEM education and practice.

Christian D. Pulcini, MD, MEd, MPH

University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine

Dr. Pulcini is a pediatric emergency physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center and UVM Children’s Hospital, as well as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. He attended Tufts University School of Medicine followed by pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. He then completed pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He also holds an M.Ed. in secondary education from Loyola Marymount University (former Teach for America corps member) and an M.P.H. in maternal and child health from Boston University School of Public Health. His current areas of research focus are emergency care of children with medical complexity, firearm injury, and acute mental health. He is currently funded by an NIH K23 Career Development Award entitled “Optimization and Implementation Trial of a User-Centered Emergency Care Planning Tool for Infants with Medical Complexity” of which he aims to become an expert in implementation science and clinical trials while focusing his research and transition to research independence on improving emergency care of this particularly vulnerable population. Beyond the focus of the K23 award, he also has a passion in closing both the evidence-to-policy and evidence-to-practice gap as it pertains to firearm injuries and acute mental health for children in the US.

Cameron J. Gettel, MD, MHS

Yale University

Dr. Gettel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and a Clinical Investigator at the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE). Dr. Gettel aims to advance the understanding of emergency department care transitions in the growing geriatric population through the identification and development of patient- and caregiver-reported outcome measures and then to design, implement, and validate innovative care transition strategies and interventions to improve clinical outcomes. At CORE, Dr. Gettel leads work funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to develop the next generation of performance measures across multiple care settings. His work has also been funded by the NIH/NIA GEMSSTAR R03 mechanism, the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory, the Alzheimer's Association, the Emergency Medicine Foundation, and the Yale OAIC Pepper Center.

Dr. Gettel earned his undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Elizabethtown College and his doctor of medicine from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. Most recently, he completed emergency medicine residency at Brown University, where he served as chief resident, and the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale University.

Katherine H. Buck, MD, MPH

The Ohio State University

Dr. Buck is a highly successful emergency medicine clinical researcher with over 40 peer reviewed publications and multiple NIH funded grants. She began her involvement in emergency medicine as an undergraduate student when she served as a research assistant and then study coordinator for emergency medicine research at the University of North Carolina. She completed medical school at the University of Virginia and during medical school, she was selected for the highly competitive Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) Program. She completed emergency medicine residency at The Ohio State University (OSU) where she served as chief resident and obtained an Emergency Medicine Foundation / Emergency Medicine Resident Research Grant. Prior to graduating from residency, Dr. Buck submitted her first NIH grant and received the NIA’s R03 Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists’ Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR) Grant. She completed the SAEM-Approved Research Fellowship at OSU with an emphasis in clinical research for geriatric patients.

Dr. Buck is currently an Assistant Professor of emergency medicine at The Ohio State University. She is currently funded by an NIA K76 Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging. She has been recognized at every stage of her career with local and national research awards including but not limited to the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s (SAEM) Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM) Excellence in Geriatric Emergency Medicine Research Award (2014), SAEM Resident Researcher of the Year (2019), SAEM’s AGEM Early Career Achievement Award for Excellence in Research (2021) and OSU’s Faculty Research of the Year (2023). She has established herself as an expert in geriatric emergency medicine through her research as demonstrated by her service to SAEM as AGEM President-Elect and selection for the Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Board of Governors.

Brian Gilberti, MD

NYU Langone Health

Dr. Gilberti's trajectory in emergency medicine education has been marked by a series of progressive and influential educational roles, beginning with his time as a resident at Jacobi/Montefiore Medical Center. As an intern, Dr. Gilberti laid the groundwork for his educational path by founding the Jacobi/Montefiore Medical Center's educational website, a resource that has since become integral to the residency program. His innovative approach to curriculum development and active role in structuring resident education led to his appointment as Chief Resident, wherein he played a pivotal role in substantially enhancing the program's curriculum.

During the early stages of Dr. Gilberti's career at the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine, he demonstrated an unwavering commitment to medical education, serving as Associate Program Director and leading the resident didactic conference programming. During this time, Dr. Gilberti became a Co-Editor-in-Chief of our department’s FOAMEd site (CoreEM), contributing heavily to both written and digital content, the latter of which is his current focus. Due to his exceptional efforts and productivity, CoreEM was recently cited as one of the most influential emergency medicine and critical care FOAMEd sites by digital impact factor (Lin M, Phipps M, Chan TM, Thoma B, Nash CJ, Yilmaz Y, Chen D, He S, Gisondi MA. Digital Impact Factor: A Quality Index for Educational Blogs and Podcasts in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care. Ann Emerg Med. 2023 Jul;82(1):55-65).

In his current work with Core EM, Dr. Gilberti continues to make an indelible mark on the field through the creation of compelling podcasts and video content. The podcast averages 45,000 monthly downloads in over 175 countries, while the CoreEM YouTube channel has attracted more than 4 million lifetime views from over 100 countries.

Kori Sauser Zachrison, MD, MSc

Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Dr. Zachrison is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, an emergency physician and Endowed Scholar in Emergency Medicine Research at Massachusets General Hospital (MGH), and Chief of the Division of Health Services Research in the Mass General Brigham Department of Emergency Medicine. She completed undergraduate studies in biochemical sciences cum laude at Harvard University, earned an MD from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in 2008, and completed residency in emergency medicine at Northwestern University in 2012. Following residency, she completed a fellowship in health services research at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Michigan, and then joined MGH.

Dr. Zachrison has been conducting clinical and health services research on the delivery of time-critical emergency care for stroke, a time-sensitive condition with significant disparities in access and outcomes, since 2012. She has received funding from the American Heart Association (AHA), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institute for Neurological Diseases and Stroke and the National Institute on Aging, as well as from a number of foundations (e.g., Emergency Medicine Foundation, SAEM Foundation). She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles, and is currently Chair of a scientific statement writing group for the AHA focused on identifying best practices for improving the acute evaluation and management of stroke in lower-resourced setings. She also leads the E-QUAL Stroke Initiative, a national quality improvement collaborative through the American College of Emergency Physicians, focused on improving stroke care delivery in emergency departments nationally.

Danielle M. McCarthy, MD MS

Northwestern University

Dr. McCarthy is a highly accomplished mid-career investigator whose tireless and pioneering work has already made a significant positive impact within emergency medicine (EM). Since finishing her research fellowship in 2012, Dr. McCarthy's well-funded research has focused primarily on patient communication related to the challenging topics of both opiate misuse and diagnostic uncertainty. Dr. McCarthy is a highly respected clinician educator on shift, a remarkably successful mentor as a Vice Chair of Research and now fellowship director herself, and a celebrated servant leader within the national research community. With an exceptionally rigorous yet always curious mindset, Dr. McCarthy continues to redefine the practice of EM while creating the next generation of leaders in clinical research.

Rebecca Smith-Coggins, MD

Stanford University

Dr. Smith-Coggins graduated from Cornell University with a BA, University of Pennsylvania with an MD and Northwestern University with board certifications in emergency medicine and internal medicine. She has been on the faculty of Stanford University from 1987 to present and has focused her efforts on medical education. In 1990, she wrote a successful ACGME application for an emergency medicine residency and served as the first residency program director at Stanford for 12 years. Dr. Smith-Coggins has mentored over 100 EM residents, continuing the relationship into their junior and even senior faculty years for several individuals. She was one of the first members of the SAEM Council of Residency Directors (1990) and remained an active member for 25 years. She often mentored other program directors and served on several committees. Through this work, she was nominated for and served on the ACGME Emergency Medicine Residency Review Committee from 2001-2007. They were able to successfully usher in duty hours regulations and mandatory sleep rooms or rides home for EM residencies during this time. Dr. Smith-Coggins was nominated and became a member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Emergency Medicine from 2007-2015 and is now a senior director. This role enables her to help ensure a high standard of care throughout the nation. She started the Stanford Simulation Fellowship in 2007 and served as the fellowship director mentoring nine fellows from 2007-2017. She also started the Physician Wellness Fellowship for Emergency Medicine in 2018 and has graduated two fellows since then. Dr. Smith-Coggins shifted to undergraduate medical education as her leadership focus and served as associate dean for Medical Student Life Advising at Stanford from 2006 to 2023. She started the Office of Medical Student Wellness with two full-time staff members in 2009, which was one of the first of its kind in the nation. She also started the Stanford School of Medicine Mental Health Team on the medical school campus with a psychiatrist and four therapists in 2019, which is also quite unique. They developed many programs including Ears for Peers which is a peer mentoring program.

Dr. Smith-Coggins’ research focus throughout her career has been on physician wellness. She initially studied the effect of night shifts on EM physician’s sleep, performance, and mood. After a decade of grant writing, researching and writing on this, she moved to other topics including resident duty hours, simulation of crises management training, chaplains’ support, return to work policy for resident parents, among other topics. Dr. Smith-Coggins has spent the last decade researching mistreatment of residents and medical students. She  started and chaired the Stanford Respectful Educator and Mistreatment Committee to raise awareness of mistreatment in our medical communities and create an avenue for residents and students to report mistreatment in a way that will help avoid fear of retaliation. She created a curriculum on this, tested it, published it and presented the results at the Association of American Medical Colleges national meeting. Dr. Smith-Coggins has trained 17 mistreatment coaches from many departments to be able to mentor individuals in their departments who have been identified by students and residents to have offensive behavior or language. She has been an advisor to other institutions including Johns Hopkins, that are setting up mistreatment programs, as well. For 35 years, Dr. Smith-Coggins has been advocating for physician wellness from a time when it was often met with eye-rolling until now when it is recognized nationally as a key topic in medicine. She finds it very rewarding to have been a small part of this movement.

Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH

Yale School of Public Health

Dr. Ranney is an emergency physician, researcher, and national advocate for innovative approaches to public health. In July 2023, she joined Yale University as Dean of the Yale School of Public Health, where she is also the C. E. A. Winslow Professor of Public Health and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. Her research focuses on developing, testing, and disseminating digital health interventions to prevent violence and related behavioral health problems, and on COVID-related risk reduction. She has held multiple national leadership roles, including as co-founder of GetUsPPE during the COVID-19 pandemic and senior strategic advisor to AFFIRM at the Aspen Institute, focused on ending gun violence through a non-partisan public health approach. She was previously the Warren Alpert Endowed Professor of Emergency Medicine, Deputy Dean of the School of Public Health, and Founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health at Brown University. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, a Fellow of the Aspen Health Innovators’ Fellowship, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She earned her bachelor's degree in history of science, graduating summa cum laude from Harvard University; her medical doctorate, graduating Alpha Omega Alpha, from Columbia University; and her master’s degree in public health from Brown University. She completed her residency in emergency medicine and a fellowship in injury prevention research at Brown University.