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  • Hillary R. Irons, MD, PhD

    UMass Chan Medicial School

    Hillary Irons, MD PhD FACEP, is an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at University of Massachusetts. She received her MD from Medical College of Georgia, PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Tech and Emory, and completed EM residency at Michigan State University/Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan. She completed a Wilderness Medicine Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital during which she spent a season working at the Himalayan Rescue Association in the Everest Region in Nepal, trip physician to the Siberian arctic, and doing multiple research projects on altitude illness. She has taught wilderness medicine for many years both with lectures, hands-on courses including AWLS, and simulation-based teaching. She is also the Expansion Race Coordinator for MedWAR (Medical Wilderness Adventure Races) which teaches and tests wilderness medicine through scenario-based adventure races since 2003. She has held national leadership positions in SAEM’s wilderness medicine interest group and ACEP wilderness medicine section. Her current research involves the cognitive deficits in hypoxic brain states specifically acute mountain illness and traumatic brain injury.


  • Brad Riley, MD
  • Eve D. Losman, MD, MHSA
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    Elizabeth A. Samuels, MD, MPH, MHS

    Associate Professor

    UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine

  • Andrew Kendle, MD
  • Lauren K. Whiteside, MD K. Whiteside, MD
  • Kamilah Walters, MD
  • Brittany A. Betham, MD

    Henry Ford Hospital

    Dr. Brittany Betham is the Associate Medical Director of Process Improvement and Performance Excellence at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI. She completed residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati and received her MBA from the University of Michigan. Her areas of interest in improving efficiency and patient throughput and utilizing data to improve patient flow.

  • Jonathan E. Davis, MD
  • Matthew J. Stull, MD
  • Emberlynn L. Liu, MD
  • Anish K. Agarwal, MD, MPH, MS

    Penn Medicine-Department of Emergency Medicine

    Dr. Agarwal is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Chief Wellness Officer at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an NIH funded physician scientist and has specific focus on clinician well-being, digital health, and patient engagement.

  • Jordan E. Dow
  • Taylor Brown, MD
  • Jessica J. Wall, EM/PEM, MPH, MSCE, FACEP, FAAP
  • Antonia Antonia Quinn, DO
  • Alexander T. Limkakeng, MD

    Duke University

    As an emergency medicine physician and researcher, I have long sought better ways to provide care for patients. Research has been my means to advance the field and improve the lives of patients. In 2009, I assumed the role of Director of Acute Care Research at Duke University’s Division of Emergency Medicine. In this position, I lead a team of clinical research coordinators and research assistants and am responsible for the Division of Emergency Medicine’s overall research mission. In this role, I have also led or been involved in multiple clinical trials and interdepartmental sponsored projects. More recently I also assumed the title of Vice Chair of Clinical Research for our department, overseeing research in many disciplines and mentoring junior faculty and trainees. I continue to be actively involved with SAEM because of the people who share my passion to improve emergency care through research and education.

  • Bradley E. Barth, MD, MSLOD
  • Jennifer Kaminsky, MD
  • Rita A. Manfredi, MD

    Professor, Clinical Emergency Medicine

    George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

    Rita A. Manfredi, MD, is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She started her career as a US Navy Flight Surgeon and completed an Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Massachusetts. She previously completed a fellowship in Health and Spirituality at the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health, recently became board-certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and is interested in integrating Palliative Medicine concepts into the care of patients in the ED. Dr. Manfredi is an active member of the SAEM Wellness Committee and has introduced a Storytelling in EM event at national SAEM conferences for the past 3 years. In 2021, Dr. Manfredi received ACEP’s Lifetime Achievement Award: The Pamela Benson Trailblazer Award for seminal contributions over time to the growth of the College and to the specialty of emergency medicine. Dr. Manfredi’s work in Wellbeing focuses on how the system or organization impacts the wellness of the individual health care provider.

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