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  • Christopher R. Carpenter, MD, MSc, FACEP, AGSF
  • Stefanie S. Sebok-Syer, PhD
  • Joseph Pare, MD

    Director of Ultrasound Research

    Brown University & Lifespan Hospital System

    Dr. Joseph R. Pare, MD, MHS, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and serves as the director of ultrasound research for his department. Dr. Pare received his medical degree in emergency medicine from the University of Vermont College of Medicine and a Master of Health Science degree from Yale University. Dr. Pare completed residency at Boston University Medical Center followed by a two-year combined research and ultrasound fellowship at Yale University. 

    Dr. Pare has been awarded several institutional and foundation grants to conduct research on point-of-care ultrasound and has published numerous original research manuscripts in his field of expertise. He is a previous recipient of the Academy of Emergency Ultrasound (AEUS) Rising Star in Research Award and is the co-chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) EUS Research Subcommittee.

  • Hannah Janeway, MD, MSPH

    University of California, Los Angeles

    Dr. Hannah Janeway MD, MSPH is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California Los Angeles and the co-founder and co-director of Refugee Health Alliance. They are the Enhanced Care Management clinical lead for UCLA’s Homeless Healthcare Collaborative, a street medicine project. In addition to serving the unhoused throughout Los Angeles, they also work clinically at White Memorial Medical Center, the West Los Angeles VA and at RHA’s clinics. Their work focuses on reestablishing communities as guardians of their own health, border health and border abolition, and re-envisioning healthcare spaces to serve the people who visit them including freeing them from carceral forces and infra/structural barriers.

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    Christian Rose, MD

    Assistant Professor Department of Emergency Medicine

    Stanford University School of Medicine

    Dr. Christian Rose is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. As a dual-boarded emergency physician and clinical informaticist, he operates at the intersection of clinical medicine, informatics, and innovation. He began to study the effect of technology on medicine during his undergraduate years, obtaining his degree in Physics as well as Science, Technology, and Society. He continued this pursuit in medical school at Columbia University and residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he engaged in various human-centered informatics projects like gene discovery, decision support, and alert fatigue. He completed his informatics fellowship training at Stanford University, where he began his research in deep learning and AI. Dr. Rose strives to improve both patient and physician experiences in medicine, focusing on how information technologies can enhance clinical practice and patient outcomes without losing sight of the essential human aspects of healthcare. 

  • Sarah Bezek, MD
  • Bernard Weigel, MD
  • Don Melady, MD
  • Leah Bright, DO
  • Andreia B. Alexander, MD, PHD, MPH
  • Landon R. Mueller, MD


  • Christy Angerhofer
  • Andrew Fried, MD
  • Michael S. Pulia, MD
  • Elizabeth M. Schoenfeld, MD, MS

    UMass Chan - Baystate

    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.

  • Christine Ngaruiya, MD, MSc, DTM&H

    Stanford University

    Dr. Ngaruiya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at Stanford University, and the Population and Global Health Research Director for the Department. She completed fellowship in Global Health in the Yale Department of Emergency Medicine in 2015, matriculating with an MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health, and DTM&H from LSHTM, then joined the faculty at Yale for several years prior to joining the Stanford faculty. She is also a graduate of the NIH Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH) program, which she was competitively selected for from a national pool of applicants for the 2019-2020 cohort. Her research centers on: Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs), barriers to care, and community-based interventions with a particular focus on Africa. Her past professional work focused on health disparities among underserved populations in the U.S. and Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR). This work has been funded by Yale University, NIH, USAID, the World Bank, Gates Foundation, and others. In 2021 and 2022, she was among the top 100 federally funded researchers in EM.

    Some past honors include: the Emergency Medicine Resident’s Association (EMRA) Augustine D’Orta Award for outstanding community and grassroots involvement, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate and the 2014 Harambe Pfizer Fellow Award for social entrepreneurship, the 2016 University of Nebraska Outstanding International Alumnus award, the 2018 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Global Emergency Medicine Academy Young Physician award, and the 2019 Yale School of Medicine Leonard Tow Humanism award. In 2020, she was selected as 1 of 24 women nationally as part of the Stanford-affiliated, Gates Foundation funded WomenLift Health Leadership Cohort.

    She has held several national and international leadership positions including with: the SAEM Global Emergency Medicine Academy, the Women Leaders in Global Health (WLGH) conference committee and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Research Committee. She was also a founding member of the Yale Network for Global Noncommunicable Disease (NGN), which acts as a hub for global NCD work involving the Yale community. Additionally, she served on the research pre-symposium committee for the African Conference on Emergency Medicine in 2014, on the Scientific Committee in 2016, and as the chair for the research pre-symposium committee in 2020. She has sat on a number of NIH panels related to global NCD topics, and has lectured both nationally and internationally on the same.


  • Christopher S. Kiefer, MD
  • Jennifer Purcell, DO
  • Cori M. Poffenberger, MD
  • Thomas K. Swoboda, MD, MS, CPE

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