Justin Myers, DO

Hello! My name is Justin Myers. I’m an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina, where I serve as Co-Chief of the Division of Global and Population Emergency Care and Fellowship Director for Global Emergency Medicine. I trained in Emergency Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, completed a Global EM Fellowship at UNC, and earned an MPH from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

My global health work focuses on developing people and systems that strengthen emergency care. I’ve helped implement triage practices, ED POCUS and the WHO’s Basic Emergency Care course, through partnerships in Kenya. At my home institution, I lead our department’s professional coaching and faculty development initiatives.

SAEM’s Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA) has been an important community for me to connect with colleagues (ie: getting mentored!), strengthen global health skills, and promote scholarly collaboration. I hope to serve on the GEMA Executive Committee this year as your Member-at-Large. In this role, I would work to advance GEMA’s efforts to support members professionally and to deepen engagement with our global health partners.

I am particularly interested in exploring ways to integrate professional coaching within GEMA, both to support our members’ academic and leadership development, and to extend these opportunities to our international collaborators. Coaching can be a powerful tool for growth, reflection, and partnership, and I believe it has great potential to enhance the impact of our global emergency medicine community.