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Lauren Westafer, DO, MPH, MS (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate and Director of the Emergency Medicine Research Fellowship. Dr. Westafer completed an Emergency Medicine Research fellowship, during which she completed a Masters in Clinical and Translational Science through Tufts University School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences. She is a clinician-investigator with a focus on implementation science, de-implementation of low-value care, and pulmonary embolism. She completed a K12 as a Massachusetts Consortium for Cardiopulmonary Implementation Science Scholar and is currently funded by a K23 through the NHLBI, “De-implementaiton of Low-Value Evaluation of PE (DELVE-PE).”. Dr. Westafer is co-founder of the Emergency Medicine podcast, FOAMcast, that provides a critical appraisal of relevant topics and has had over 3 million independent downloads. She lectures internationally on knowledge translation, pulmonary embolism (PE), alcohol withdrawal, and quality of care for LGBTQIA+ patients. In addition, she serves as the Social Media Editor and a research methodology editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine.