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  • Krystin Miller, MD

    The Ohio State University

    Krystin Miller, MD is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Ohio State University, where she serves as an Assistant Residency Program Director. She is a graduate of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Ohio State and completed a Medical Education Fellowship and the MERC at CORD Scholars Program. She is the current Director of Resident Didactics, as well as the Director of Rotating Residents and Fellows at Ohio State. Krystin has a passion for curriculum design, bedside teaching and graduate medical education. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband Brady and their three children on the family farm.


  • Brian Yun, MD, MBA, MPH

    Boston Medical Center

    Brian J. Yun, MD, MBA, MPH serves as the Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center. In this role, he oversees the clinical operations and quality and patient safety programs of the emergency department, which cares for more than 130,000 patients each year. Prior to this role, he was the Director of Clinical Operations of the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Department of Emergency Medicine.

    Dr. Yun graduated with a MD and MBA from Tufts University School of Medicine, where he was also named to the AOA Honor Society. He has an MPH in Clinical Effectiveness from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. After finishing his residency in emergency medicine at the combined Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Dr. Yun completed an Emergency Department Administration Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.

  • 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.


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    Elizabeth A. Samuels, MD, MPH, MHS

    Associate Professor

    UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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