SAEM24 Consensus Conference: Creating a Diverse and Sustainable Emergency Medicine Investigator Pathway

Dr. Boatright is a graduate of Morehouse College, receiving his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, and a Master in Business Administration from Rice University. Dr. Boatright is the Vice Chair of Research for the department of Emergency Medicine at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine. His research interests include diversity in the health care workforce and bias and discrimination in medical education. Dr. Boatright’s work has been funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities and by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

Robert Neumar, MD, PhD, serves as the Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan. With over three decades of research experience in cardiac arrest resuscitation, he has been a mentor to a multitude of medical students, doctoral candidates, post-doctoral fellows, and NIH K-award recipients. A leading advocate for federally funded research in emergency care, Dr. Neumar was named the inaugural Co-Chair of the ACEP/SAEM Task Force on Emergency Care Research in 2007. This task force played a pivotal role in organizing the 2009 NIH Roundtables on Emergency Care Research, establishing the first-ever NIH K12 program dedicated to emergency care research in 2011, and founding the NIH Office of Emergency Care Research, also in 2011.

Previously, Dr. Neumar led the ACEP Research Committee, the Scientific Review Committee, and the Research Section. Currently, he co-chairs the Research Workgroup of the Association of Academic Chairs in Emergency Medicine (AACEM), spearheading the development of the 2030 Strategic Goals for Emergency Medicine Research. His contributions to the field have been recognized through numerous accolades, including the 2007 ACEP Award for Outstanding Contribution in Research, the 2020 SAEM John Marx Leadership Award, and his 2015 election to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine.

Marquita S. Norman, MD, MBA is an Associate Professor and serves as the Associate Vice-Chair of Health Equity, Quality and Safety in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center.  She currently serves as chair of the SAEM Finance Committee and a member of the SAEMF Board of Trustees.  She is a past chair of the Equity and Inclusion Committee and past president of the Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine.  She completed her internship at Howard University and residency training at the University of Michigan.   She completed her MBA from the Collat School of Business at UAB.  Her work has been centered around healthcare workforce diversity and inclusion efforts involving K-16 pathways programs and development of opportunities for undergraduate and graduate medical education.  Dr. Norman’s professional and community interests include health equity, health care workforce diversity, medical education, and communication skills.

Dr. Corbin is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Rush University Medical Center. His research has focused on the urgent issues and intersection of trauma and intentional injury that contribute to recurrent injury, mental illness, chronic disease, health disparities and ultimately death. He designed and implemented a trauma-informed intervention program called Healing Hurt People-Philadelphia that recognizes the disparities in health outcomes in the population that suffer the most from intentional injury, African American and Latino men between the ages of 8 and 30 years old. The intervention has been replicated in other cities across the country. The intervention provides a resource to patients in need of deeper understanding. He has worked in the field of emergency medicine and trauma-informed intervention with a focus on African American men for more than 15 years and he strives to build a foundation for young researchers interested in the field.

Dr. Jung graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1999 and completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2002. She has been a Hopkins faculty member since that time, and is currently an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine. Her primary career focus is medical education, with a particular interest in high-acuity and critical care content, as well as simulation-based education and assessment. She was the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine for 16 years, and earned a Master’s degree in Education for the Health Professions in 2017.

She is currently the Director of Innovation in Medical Education for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in which capacity she is responsible for updating teaching and assessment methods in the medical student curriculum, as well as expanding the Hopkins footprint in the online education arena. Dr. Jung is a recognized leader in medical education, a former president of Clerkship Directors in EM, and a current member of the Board of Directors for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. She leads several educational and assessment programs at Hopkins, and has received numerous teaching awards and honors.

Dr. Callaway is Distinguished Professor, Vice-Chair, and Ronald D. Stewart Endowed Chair in Emergency Medicine Research at the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his MD and PhD in Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego, followed by residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He has conducted basic laboratory investigations about cardiac resuscitation and about brain recovery after cardiac arrest. With his partners in Pittsburgh, he developed a multidisciplinary clinical service to advance the care of patients after cardiac arrest, primarily by improving measurement and treatment of brain injury after cardiac arrest. The focus of this program has been that post-arrest patients require a multidisciplinary, multiorgan, and personalized approach. Dr. Callaway helps lead the clinical coordinating center for SIREN, an National Institutes of Health emergency research trial network of over 75 medical centers designated to conduct clinical trials in acute care. Current SIREN clinical trials test treatments for traumatic brain injury, adult and pediatric cardiac arrest. Dr. Callaway is past chair of the AHA Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee (2015-2017), and past co-chair of the ILCOR Advanced Life Support Committee (2012-2016). He has contributed to advanced cardiac life support guidelines since 2008, particularly on post-cadiac arrest care.

Linda Regan, MD, MEd, is an associate professor in the department of emergency medicine (EM) at Johns Hopkins, where she serves as the Vice Chair for Education and the director of the medical education fellowship. She served for four years as a member of the Board of Directors of CORD and is a well-known national speaker. She is the current Chair of the ACGME's Residency Review Committee in EM. Dr. Regan is well known at Johns Hopkins for her work as an educational program builder and 13 years spent as the program director for the EM residency. She obtained her masters in education for the health professions from the Johns Hopkins School of Education, with a focus on educational research. Dr. Regan's educational research interests lay mainly in the applications of adult learning theories and conceptual models to postgraduate education, in particular as they pertain to the development of adaptive expertise for learners, as well as how to best teach and represent yourself as an educator.

Dr. Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at Yale University and a Drug use, Addiction, and HIV prevention Research Scholar (DAHRS). Dr. Ryus’s current research combines the disciplines of community-engaged research with health services research and political epidemiology to evaluate the evidence bases for health and social policies. In their work, they examine health outcomes and service utilization among patients experiencing homelessness. Dr. Ryus leads the Yale ED Homelessness Task Force– an interdisciplinary team of community organizations, government representatives, street medics, social workers, and people with lived experience of homelessness dedicated to improving ED care among New Haven’s homeless population.  Additionally, Dr. Ryus serves as the Co-Director of the Yale Emergency Scholars Program, a five-year combined residency and research fellowship. Their research also encompasses diversity, equity, and inclusion in the healthcare workforce, addressing the importance of representation and inclusivity in medicine as a means towards achieving health equity.

Dr. Kuppermann is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, and the Bo Tomas Brofeldt Endowed Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis. He is a pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) physician and clinical epidemiologist, and a leader in emergency medical services for children, particularly in multicenter research. Research foci for which he is a leading national investigator include 1) infectious emergencies in children including the laboratory evaluation of young febrile children, 2) the evaluation of children at risk of diabetic ketoacidosis-related cerebral injury, and 3) the laboratory and radiographic evaluation of the pediatric trauma patient. 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 $30 million in federal grants and contracts as a PI over the past decade, and has published more than 230 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Kuppermann 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, and leading several investigations there. He then became one of the founding investigators and founding Chair of the Steering Committee of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) since it’s inception in 2001 until late in 2008, and remains one of the 7 network PIs. He recently completed a 4-year term as Chair of the Executive Committee of the (global) Pediatric Emergency Research Network (PERN), an international consortium of PEM research networks.

Dr. Kuppermann has been recognized nationally for his research and mentorship. In 2009, Dr. Kuppermann received the Miller-Sarkin Mentoring Award from the Academic Pediatric Association, and in 2012 received the Jim Seidel Distinguished Service Award, from the Section on Emergency Medicine of the AAP for outstanding contributions to Pediatric Emergency Medicine. In 2010 and 2011, he received national research awards from the EMSC program of HRSA, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and the American College of Emergency Physicians. In 2015, he was recognized with the American College of American Physicians EBSCO/PEMSoft Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to pediatric emergency evidence based medicine. In 2017 a PEM Scientific Research Mentoring award was named after him by the SAEM. In 2010 he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Jody A. Vogel, MD, MSc, MSW, is an Associate Professor and the inaugural Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Vogel received a Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan and a Doctor of Medicine (MD) from Wayne State University School of Medicine. She completed emergency medicine residency training as well as a clinical research fellowship at Denver Health Medical Center, and obtained a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Colorado School of Public Health. 

Dr. Vogel has been a very active member of SAEM, with ten years of dedicated service on the SAEM Program Committee including serving as Program Committee Chair for the 2019 and 2020 Annual Meetings. She has also served as a member of the Graduate Medical Education Committee, Nominating Committee, Research Committee, inaugural chair of the Resident and Student Advisory Committee.  Dr. Vogel is a current Member-at-Large and past Resident Member of the SAEM Board of Directors. Dr. Vogel currently serves on the ACEP-SAEM Federal Research Funding Work Group and served as Co-Chair for the SAEM23 Consensus Conference on Precision Emergency Medicine. She has served on task forces to improve the consensus conference, Academic Emergency Medicine, and the Leadership Forum and has been a regular participant in the Annual SAEM Strategic Planning Sessions. Dr. Vogel has led initiatives aimed at increasing federally funded emergency care research including co-leading nominations of emergency medicine physicians to the National Institutes of Health Study Sections and developing and leading novel Program Officer Sessions at the SAEM Annual Meeting. 

Dr. Vogel has devoted herself to research to improve emergency care and has a dedicated interest in underserved, at-risk populations. She is an active health services researcher with numerous publications and grant support from the National Institutes of Health and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Vogel has received many academic awards for her leadership and contributions to emergency care research.

Dr. Guadalupe Jimenez is a resident physician at New York Presbyterian Columbia & Cornell Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She first-generation Mexican American who served in the U.S. Navy as a Hospital Corpsman (medic). She subsequently obtained her Bachelor’s of Science in biology at Stony Book University. She went on to complete her Master’s of Science and her medical education at Indiana University School of Medicine. Today, Dr. Jimenez is a member of SAEM’s Equity & Inclusion Education Subcommittee. Additionally, she is a part of the Core team for MAPP to CU pipeline program at Columbia University Department of Emergency Medicine. This program mentors high school students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in medicine with the goal of supporting the students in their academic and personal development. On her free time, Dr. Jimenez volunteers at NYC’s Migrant center providing immigration assistance to asylum seekers. Dr. Jimenez is committed to creating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive field of emergency medicine.

Dr. Schoenfeld is the VC of Research at UMass Chan-Baystate. She completed her K award in 2023 (Shared Decision Making in the ED for imaging decisions in suspected renal colic) and currently serves as a mentor to several K awardees and clinician-researchers working towards K funding. She has received research funding as PI from NIDA, AHRQ, and various foundations (R03, K, and R34). She is a Decision Editor for Qualitative Methods for Academic Emergency Medicine. Current areas of research and interest include shared decision-making (SDM) with people who use drugs, building trustworthiness, SDM without shared language, supporting EM research, and harm reduction for people who use stimulants. She is more than happy to talk to you about your own research interests, your career, qualitative methods, or any place she could be helpful to you.