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Bryan G. Kane, Professor of Medicine, MD, PhD

Melissa Smith, MD

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Melissa Smith, MD, is an assistant professor and Assistant Program Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. She completed her emergency medicine (EM) residency training at Lincoln Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, where she discovered a passion for medical education. Since returning to Texas, Dr. Smith has been dedicated to advancing resident education and quality improvement through her academic and leadership roles at UT Southwestern.

Jonathan Brewer, MD

Edward J. Durant, MD

Kaiser Permanente Central Valley

Ed is an emergency medicine physician at the Kaiser Permanente Modesto Medical Center in Modesto and a clinical assistant professor for the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine. He is an associate investigator and site lead for the Clinical Research on Emergency Services and Treatments (CREST) Network, local research chair for the Central Valley, and research director for the emergency medicine residency program. He received his Masters in Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley and his medical doctorate from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He completed his EM residency at Alameda Health System (Highland Hospital) and his ultrasound fellowship at Oregon Health & Sciences University.

Daniel Theodoro, MD, MSCI