Where Are They Now? SAEM Consensus Conference Edition (Research Committee and Telehealth Interest Group Sponsored)

Dr. Lam is board certified in emergency medicine and fellowship trained in pediatric emergency medicine, emergency ultrasound, and research. He is currently the Emergency Ultrasound Co-Director at the Children’s Hospital Colorado Section of Emergency Medicine, and Professor of Pediatrics-Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Lam is actively involved in emergency ultrasound research, and has led and participated in several multi-institutional point-of care ultrasound (POCUS) studies that have been published in peer review journals. He is currently the chair of the Consensus Conference Subcommittee under the SAEM Research Committee.

Emily M. Hayden, MD, MHPE is an attending physician and Director of Telehealth in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Director of the Emergency Medicine Telehealth Research Lab, Division of Health Services Research, Mass General Brigham. She co-founded the Mobile Response Program and Virtual Observation Unit which utilizes telehealth and community paramedicine provide acute, unscheduled care to patients in their homes. Dr. Hayden is the founding Chair of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Telehealth Interest Group, Chair of the SAEM 2020 Consensus Conference on Telehealth in Emergency Medicine, Chair of the Education Subcommittee on the recent American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Telehealth Task Force, and the Chair of both the ACEP Emergency Telehealth Section and the ACEP Health Innovations Technology Committee. She is a member of the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) Telehealth Advisory Committee that developed the AAMC Telehealth Competencies. She is the Course Director for a self-paced online interprofessional telehealth course, “Telehealth Foundations: Applications Across the Professions”. Dr. Hayden’s research focuses on telehealth in emergency medicine, from the use of telehealth nationally for transfer coordination to the comparison of telehealth to in-person physical examinations. Prior to her work in telehealth, Dr. Hayden spent a decade in healthcare simulation and developed the TeleSimulation program at MGH Learning Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Matthew Strehlow is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University and currently serves as the Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine. He is a Fellow at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health and serves as Director of Stanford’s WHO Collaborating Center on Learning During Health Emergencies. He also advises Stanford’s Digital Medic initiative and contributes to Stanford Health Care’s Sustainability Steering Committee, where he collaborates across campus to advance the university’s mission of improving health, sustainability, and education worldwide. Dr. Strehlow has played a key role in in-service training of healthcare workers, partnering with OpenWHO to research effective strategies for information dissemination during health emergencies. A recognized educator nationally and internationally, his work focuses on emergency care in low-resource settings, knowledge transfer to remote and rural locations, and the intersection of human and planetary health.

James H. Paxton, MD, MBA, is an associate professor and the Director of Clinical Research for Detroit Receiving Hospital / Wayne State University (WSU) Department of Emergency Medicine, and previously served as Chairman of the WSU MP2 Institutional Review Board (2015-2020). He is a senior member of multiple national emergency medicine research committees, and recently served as Chairman of the SAEM research committee (2021-2024). Dr. Paxton received both his MD and MBA from the University of Cincinnati and completed EM residency training at Henry Ford Hospital. He has been core academic faculty for the EM residencies at both Sinai-Grace Hospital and Detroit Receiving Hospital since 2011, and has mentored hundreds of medical students and residents at WSU during that time. He is an active clinical researcher and has served as PI for dozens of industry- and publicly-funded trials.