Demystifying the SAEM Foundation Grant Review Process (Grants Committee Sponsored)

Elizabeth Burner, MD, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor, Clinical Emergency Medicine

University of Southern California / Los Angeles General Medical Center

Elizabeth Burner, MD, MPH, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Research Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine, and a Faculty Instructor with the SC-CTSI Workforce Development core. In 2013, Dr. Burner joined the faculty at the Keck School and has worked clinically in the emergency department at the LAC+USC hospital, the Jail Urgent Care based in the LA County Twin Towers Correctional Facility, as well as several community hospitals in the Los Angeles area. Dr. Burner's research interests center on investigating emergent health communication tools to reach health disparity groups, and directing patients to chronic care and medical homes as appropriate. She is committed to engaging patients in healthier lifestyles. She conducts mixed methods research to better understand the viewpoints of marginalized populations, particularly urban Latino immigrants. Her work has been supported by several NIH, institutional, and local grants.

Bryn Mumma, MD, MAS

Member-at-Large

University of California, Davis

I am honored to be considered for re-election to the SAEM Board of Directors. During my first year on the Board, I have developed an even greater respect for SAEM and our collective achievements, and I am eager to contribute more deeply to this outstanding organization.

I am faculty at UC Davis, where I also serve as Director of the Women in Medicine and Health Sciences program for the School of Medicine and lead our EM Data Curation Unit. Most recently, I helped to launch our Health Sciences Educators’ Academy for Learning to support the professional development of faculty educators. Before joining the faculty, I completed medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, residency at the University of Pittsburgh, and a research fellowship at UC Davis.

SAEM has been essential to my career, providing mentorship, networking, research, and leadership opportunities. My previous SAEM leadership roles include Chair of the Grants Committee, Chair of the Bylaws Committee, and member of the SAEM Foundation Board of Trustees. I have also served on several other committees and as faculty for the SAEM/EMF Grantee Workshop, Grant Writing Workshop, Research Learning Series, Resident Research Curriculum, ARMED Course, and SAEM Webinar Series.

Emergency medicine faces a rapidly evolving landscape marked by ACGME changes to residency training, shifting federal funding priorities, unprecedented patient volumes, and the integration of artificial intelligence technology. SAEM is critical to shaping our specialty’s future. As a board member, I will actively seek ideas and feedback from all members and ensure that our community remains strong and resilient.

I am committed to helping SAEM cultivate an inclusive community, engage the next generation of emergency medicine physicians, and drive research that advances patient care. I appreciate your support and am excited to give back to SAEM by serving on the Board of Directors.

Sophie Terp, MD

Taylor McCormick, MD, MSc

Denver Health

Colin Greineder, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

University of Michigan

Colin Greineder, MD, PhD, attended the Yale School of Medicine and completed Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Michigan. After a year working in the community, he returned to academia to pursue a PhD in Pharmacology and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Throughout this long period of scientific training, Dr. Greineder continued to work as an attending in a variety of academic and community ERs, including UPenn, Thomas Jefferson, Geisinger Medical Center, and the Crozer-Keystone Health System. He was awarded a K08 Career Development award from the NHLBI and returned to Michigan Medicine in 2018 as a tenure track faculty in Emergency Medicine and Pharmacology. Dr. Greineder’s laboratory focuses on development of novel pharmacologic therapies for the treatment of emergent ischemic, thrombotic, and inflammatory disorders. The primary focus is affinity ligand delivery of biotherapeutics to endothelial cells as a means of restoring their homeostatic functions and elucidating their role in disease pathogenesis. Additional interests include pharmacokinetic modeling, coagulofibrinolytic changes in critical illness, and risk stratification and management of venous thromboembolism.