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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.

Pavitra Parimala Krishnamani, MD, MS

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Dr. Krishnamani is a faculty member at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Department of Emergency Medicine. Having completed her residency in emergency medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and her fellowship in oncologic emergency medicine at MD Anderson, Dr. Krishnamani chose to pursue a career at the nation’s best cancer care hospital primarily because of her desire to care for and connect with patients at their most vulnerable moments. Her experiences have been shaped through her education as a fellow at both the University of Southern California’s Sidney Harman Academy of Polymathic Study and its Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics. She thrives in her career because of her ability to communicate with patients from various walks of life and build strong bonds with her patients.

Dr. Krishnamani’s career has always been one of service and, throughout her education over the past decade, she has always focused on one question: “How can I give back to my community just a percentage of what I have?” A child of South Asian immigrants, Dr. Krishnamani was raised with principles of community service and was always taught to share her resources, whether this may be time, knowledge, or skills. Having grown up straddling two very different cultures, she earned a master of science degree in global medicine from the Keck School of Medicine of USC before pursuing her MD at Thomas Jefferson University. Her degree in global medicine equipped her to work with refugees in her community throughout medical school, first volunteering at several community clinics and then being selected to serve as a community clinic director. She gained joy from the little interactions she was able to have with various refugee communities in Philadelphia and was welcomed as a friend to many refugee community events. In 2015, she was inducted into the Carson Scholar's "Twenty Under Thirty" Hall of Fame for her work with refugees and migrant populations. She has since spoken about her experiences with refugee health and the importance of seeing patients as people first in forming strong physician-patient relationships built on trust.

Before graduating with her MD, Dr. Krishnamani also completed a fellowship in healthcare innovation at Jefferson's Digital Innovation & Consumer Experience group (DICE). As a fellow at DICE, she practiced clinical design, serving as a liaison between clinical work and innovation at Jefferson. She was a consultant for several large-scale initiatives at DICE, where she provided critical input into the design process to ensure projects enhance both patients' and providers' experiences. Most notably, she co-founded Jefferson's augmented reality/virtual reality Initiative and, in this capacity, leads one of the first studies in the U.S. examining how virtual reality (VR) can affect therapy and education in outpatient cardiac rehabilitation. She also spearheaded the initiative's first venture into product design, exploring how VR can help prepare providers for high-acuity clinical situations. As a core member of several other DICE projects leveraging VR and artificial intelligence, Dr. Krishnamani has been integral in cultivating relationships and activities that help further infuse digital innovation into clinical medicine at Jefferson. This experience taught her how to lead within a clinical enterprise and use her communication skills to design innovative solutions that are focused on patient and clinician needs.

A natural academic and educator, Dr. Krishnamani is a cited author and keynote speaker. She has continued to publish, present, and give interviews on her work in healthcare innovation and global health, speaking at conferences internationally and at several major U.S. universities. Most notably, she presented at Stanford's MedX and the VR & Healthcare Symposium at Harvard in 2018, the Society for Academy Emergency Medicine annual meeting in 2021, and South by Southwest in 2023. She has also published scientific research in collaboration with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, and the Amen Clinics, and presented research posters at Jefferson, UC Berkeley, and USC. Having previously served on the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) and the The New Physician's student editor, Dr. Krishnamani is now a columnist with the American Academy for Emergency Medicine's Common Sense, where she offers first-hand insights into the life of a physician. Dr. Krishnamani continues to humanize her academic endeavors, with patient impact continuing to be at the heart of her research, writing, and presentations.

Valerie Dobiesz, MD, MPH

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Dr. Dobiesz is an associate professor and emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and core faculty at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI). Dr. Dobiesz transitioned from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago to Harvard Medical School, and has dedicated her career to medical student, resident, and faculty education as well as the advancement of women in academic medicine. Her roles included Assistant Dean of Residency Preparedness, Emergency Medicine Simulation and Medical Education Fellowship Director, Director of Education for the Center of Global Health, Associate Program Director for Emergency Medicine. Her teaching efforts were recognized by the American College of Emergency Physicians’ National Teaching Award.

Dr. Dobiesz has presented over 200 national and 100 international invited lectures on emergency medicine, medical education and simulation, global health, women’s health, and wilderness and expedition medicine. She has co-edited a book on pediatric emergency medicine and co-authored over 60 book chapters and 40 peer reviewed publications. Dr. Dobiesz’s research focus is on improving care for maternal health and obstetrical emergencies. She is the principal inventor and is actively testing an obstetrical medical device designed by a multidisciplinary team to auto transfuse women suffering life threatening postpartum hemorrhage in low resource settings. She is also working to improve emergency obstetrical care provided by emergency physicians by standardizing training and enhancing continuing medical education activities. She recently served as the President of the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM) and leads research on the persistent gender inequities in the promotion and advancement of women and URiM in academic emergency medicine. Dr. Dobiesz currently she serves as the Director of the Frontline Indigenous Partners (FLIP) Program at BWH and HHI. The goals of this program are to improve Native American health through educational, clinical, and administrative partnerships. In this capacity she collaborates with tribal leaders developing multiple pathway programs for Indigenous youth to pursue healthcare careers to mitigate the current paucity of Native American healthcare providers and address persistent health disparities and health inequities.

Ugo Ezenkwele, MD

Mount Sinai Health System

Dr. Ezenkwele is Chief of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai Queens and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is the Emergency Medicine System Vice-Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. He received both his degree in medicine and in public health from John Hopkins University School of Medicine. Subsequently, he was granted a William J. Fulbright award which ultimately led to the development of trauma and injury surveillance systems in the Caribbean. He then went on to complete a residency program in emergency medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

In addition to direct patient care, his clinical interests include emergency medicine management systems, diversity, equity in medicine and health care information technology. He is passionate about optimizing the delivery of care to acutely ill patients and improving the experience of patients in the emergency room. Prior to joining Mount Sinai, he oversaw emergency room clinical operations which led to improvements in patient satisfaction, a decrease in the time to be seen by a provider, and a decrease in the percent of patients leaving the emergency room before being seen by a provider. He has found that improved patient care can be achieved through technology, including electronic health records, as well as through educating patients, hospital staff, and community physicians. Dr. Ezenkwele is committed to the goal of helping to create a system of seamless coordinated and integrated care for patients.

Dr. Ezenkwele is engaging with members of the Queens community and educating them in regards to various topics such as injury prevention. He is also interested in issues surrounding sensitivity in health care delivery to the culturally diverse population in Queens. He hopes that patient and community physician engagement will optimize the integration of patient care on both campuses of the hospital.

In 2021, Dr. Ezenkwele was recognized by Crains New York as a Notable Black Leader and Executive (https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/notable-black-leaders-and-executives-2021). He also received the Vituity Award in Executive Leadership.

Additionally, Dr. Ezenkwele has been the recipient of a number of other awards and recognition including the National Medical Association Excellence in Service Award, (2012 – 2014) and the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Visionary Educator Award. He has authored several publications and has lectured on topics including injury prevention, health disparities and diversity in medical education. He is the past president of the Emergency Medicine section of the National Medical Association. He was also president of the Diversity Interest Group (DIG) and ultimately, the vice chairman of the Academy of Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine (ADIEM) of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). In both these roles, he was dedicated to making policy and educational changes that have a lasting effect on the next generation of physician leaders and the communities they serve.

Dr. Ezenkwele is a councilor of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and an oral board examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM). He is currently the chair of the ACEP Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee. As councilor and committee chair, he has authored several resolutions advancing health equity and increasing anti-racism sentiments including the creation of awareness around the detrimental effects of race-based science, education of vaccine efficacy in communities of color and the hazards of chokeholds by law enforcement. Dr. Ezenkwele is passionate about equity in emergency medicine and is now working to make our professional organizations more inclusive.

Karen Jubanyik, MD

Yale University

Dr. Jubanyik is associate professor and attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale University. She completed her undergraduate education at Brown University in psychology and completed a Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Health Program at University of Pennsylvania, prior to enrolling in Yale School of Medicine. She has always had an interest in education, beginning with patient education. As a resident, she worked with C. Everett Koop, the former surgeon general of the United States, to develop novel ways of providing accessible patient education materials for a wide variety of public health issues, including hypercholesterolemia, diabetes mellitus, back pain, obesity and hypertension. In the COVID-19 era, she wrote and published a book for lay-people about the public health implications of the new virus, including the importance of testing, masking, and contact tracing.

Dr. Jubanyik has held multiple educational leadership roles in the department, including Associate Residency Program Director, Clerkship and Elective Director and since 2008, has been one of six academic advisors in the medical school, responsible for providing longitudinal support, advising, and career counseling to approximately 100 medical students. She is a co-leader for the first year Professional Responsibility course. She also teaches dozens of workshops to medical students every year, as well as simulation at all levels of the curriculum. As a faculty member, she developed additional training and expertise in palliative and end-of-life care, as well as professional ethics. She also serves on the Yale-New Haven Hospital Bioethics committee. Collaborating with others in the medical school and hospital, she participated in creating a triage protocol and led a team to evaluate whether the protocol would result in disparities based on race, ethnicity, or payer status as well as a mixed methods study to investigate provider attitudes and experience with the protocol.

With medical students and residents, as well as junior faculty, she has worked on numerous community-based participatory research groups to develop and evaluate programs to improve the care of vulnerable patients. She has led programs for emergency department identification of intimate partner violence and to improve the care of sexual assault survivors who present to the emergency department. She was co-investigator in a study funded by NIA/NIH, using community-based participation to develop a novel program to encourage elderly persons to report elder mistreatment using an ipad-based education program. And she has worked with a former Yale resident, now junior faculty member, to work with local stakeholders to improve the identification of homeless patients, assist in their care while in the department and improve continuity of care after their visit.

James F. Holmes, MD, MPH

UC Davis

Dr. Holmes is a Professor and Executive Vice Chair in the UC Davis Department of Emergency Medicine. He is an emergency medicine physician and clinical researcher. His research is primarily focused on the initial evaluation of injured patients with a special focus on injured children. His research has been highly cited and published in high impact journals including JAMA, The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Holmes has additionally devoted much of his career to mentoring junior investigators. In 2006, he started the UC Davis Emergency Medicine Research Fellowship. He was Co-Director of the UC Davis Emergency Medicine K12 Research Training Program and in 2013 he became the Director of the UC Davis Clinical Translational Science Center’s KL2 Research Training Program. Over his career he has received $20 million in NIH grant funding as principal investigator for both his studies on injured children and research training programs that he directs. Finally, Dr. Holmes has been heavily involved in the Society for Academic Emergency (SAEM) during his career. He has served on both the SAEM Research and Grants Committees (Chair 2011-2013). Finally, he served on the SAEM Board of Directors from 2013 – 2022, including as SAEM President from 2020-2021.

Nathan Kuppermann, MD, MPH

UC Davis

Dr. Kuppermann is a Distinguished Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, and the Bo Tomas Brofeldt Endowed Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis, and the Associate Dean for Global Health at UC Davis Health. He is a pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) physician and clinical epidemiologist, and a leader in emergency medical services for children, particularly in multicenter research. His focus is on clinical trials and clinical prediction rules using large cohorts of acutely ill and injured children. He has published works in all three focus areas in high-impact journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, BMJ, and The Lancet. Dr. Kuppermann has received more than $50 million in federal grants and contracts as a principal investigator (PI) or co-PI and has published 310 peer-reviewed research publications (Hirsch Index 75) in addition to many chapters and other publications. He has been a leader in multicenter research in PEM, starting by chairing the first U.S. research network in PEM (the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee of the AAP) from 1996-2000. He then became the founding Chair of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) since its inception in 2001 until late in 2008 and remains one of the seven network PIs. He completed a four-year term as Chair of the Executive Committee of the (global) Pediatric Emergency Research Network (PERN) and continues as a leader in PERN.

Dr. Kuppermann has been recognized nationally and internationally for his research and mentorship with many awards. In 2017, a PEM Scientific Research Mentoring award was named after him at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), and in 2020 he was awarded the UC Davis Hibbard Williams Extraordinary Achievement Award and the Faculty Distinguished Research Award, the most prestigious awards at UC Davis. He was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in the U.K. and in 2010 was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. In 2022, he was the recipient of the Maureen Andrew Mentor Award from the Society for Pediatric Research.

University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Emergency Medicine

UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine is a living and breathing example of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice interwoven into all aspects of the departmental operations. DEI is our true north and informs the way that we approach leadership, clinical service, education, research, and community outreach. We have made great efforts to make structural changes and focused investments to advance diversity, equity, inclusion and justice.