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Luan Lawson, MD, MAEd

Virginia Commonwealth University

Dr. Luan E. Lawson serves as the Senior Associate Dean of Medical Education and Student Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. She earned her medical degree and completed her residency training at East Carolina University. Her academic interests have focused on undergraduate education with particular expertise in curriculum development, assessment, accreditation, and team training.

During Dr. Lawson’s tenure as Director of Undergraduate Medical Education in Emergency Medicine, she developed and established an Emergency Medicine clerkship for fourth year medical students featuring a simulation-based curriculum. Dr. Lawson also collaborated in developing the National Clinical Assessment Tool in Emergency Medicine, a standardized assessment tool utilized in clerkships across the country. Dr. Lawson served on the National Board of Medical Examiners Emergency Medicine Advanced Clinical Exam Task Force and is a past-president of the Clerkship Directors of Emergency Medicine.

Sweta Giri, MBBS, MD

Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan

Dr. Sweta Giri is an Emergency Physician based in Thimphu, the capital city of Bhutan. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka. Dr. Sweta worked as a medical doctor in the Emergency Department for 3 years when she realized that emergency medicine was her calling and went on to pursue a Master's Degree in Emergency Medicine from the Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan. She graduated in 2023, becoming the country’s second female emergency physician.

Recognised for her dedication and commitment to the field of Emergency Medicine, she was appointed as the Program Director for the Emergency Medicine residency program shortly after completing her training. Dr. Sweta is additionally a Senior Lecturer at the medical university, works as a flight physician for the Bhutan Emergency Aeromedical Services and also serves as the Managing Editor of Bhutan's only medical journal, the Bhutan Health Journal.

Her professional interests include critical care, simulation education, research and quality improvement.

Xiang Yun Yang, MB, BCH, BAO, MMED, LLM

Sarikei Hospital

Dr. Xiang Yun Yang is an esteemed Emergency Physician and the Head of the Emergency and Trauma Department at Sarikei Hospital, Sarawak. She graduated with an MB BCh BAO from Penang Medical College, National University of Ireland and later completed a Master of Medicine in Emergency Medicine at Universiti Sains Malaysia. With a career deeply rooted in rural medicine, Dr. Yang has made significant contributions to interfacility patient transfer, aeromedical, and water emergency medical services (EMS). Her expertise in aquatic life support stems from her experiences medical rescue in her flood-prone homestate. Dr. Yang has co-founded the Basic Transport Medicine Course and contributed to healthcare policy, earning recognition for her pioneering work in improving patient safety and care in remote areas. Additionally, with a Master’s in Healthcare and Medical Law, she has contributed to shaping healthcare policies and local protocols for patient transfer in Sarawak, Malaysia. She is currently working on her PhD on Medical Education at the University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS).

Jeff Baker, MD, AEMUS-FPD

University of Louisville

Anthony R. Rosania, III, MD, MS, MSHI

Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School

Dr. Rosania is a board-certified emergency physician and clinical informatician at Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School where he serves as the Vice Chair for Clinical Operations and Chief of the Division of Operations, Quality, and Informatics.

Kristin Dwyer, MD MPH

Brown Emergency Medicine

Dr. Dwyer is an Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She works as the Director of both the Emergency Ultrasound Division and the EUFAC accredited Advanced Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship at Brown Emergency Medicine. She completed a two-year POCUS fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA after her residency at Boston Medical Center. During fellowship she also obtained her MPH in Quantitative Methods at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has served on the executive committee for both SCUF and SAEM AEUS in the past, and was the finance section director for SCUF. She is currently serving on the EUFAC accredidation council. She enjoys collaborating with residents and fellows on education, research and quality projects in addition to growing and strengthening her division as the director.

Suchismita Datta, MD

NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine

Suchismita [Suchi] Datta, MD is an emergency medicine attending physician at NYU Long Island Hospital. She is core faculty for the residency there, and also serves as the Director for Emergency Medicine Research. Dr Datta in interested in medical education innovations and research, particularly in medical humanities. Her other interests include gender equity and wellness. Dr Datta obtained her medical degree and did her residency training at SUNY Stony Brook.

Christopher R. Carpenter, MD

Mayo Clinic, Rochester

Dr. Christopher Carpenter is residency trained in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine and Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair of Implementation and Innovation at Mayo Clinic-Rochester. He served on the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Board of Directors from 2019-2022 and continues to serve on the American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Policy Committee. His research interests include diagnostics, geriatric emergency medicine, clinical practice guidelines, and implementation science. Dr. Carpenter is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Academic Emergency Medicine, as well as Associate Editor for both the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and Annals of Internal Medicine's ACP Journal Club. He co-authored the Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research (EQUATOR) Network's Standards for Reporting of Implementation Research (StaRI) reporting guidelines. Dr. Carpenter serves on the National Institute of Aging Clinician-Scientists Transdisciplinary Aging Research Leadership Core (https://clin-star.org/) and also developed and leads the SAEM Guidelines for Reasonable and Appropriate Care in Emergency Departments (GRACE, see https://www.saem.org/publications/academic-emergency-medicine/grace) clinical practice guidelines. He is a co-Investigator and Implementation Science Core Lead for the Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research Network (GEAR, see https://gearnetwork.org/) and Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative (https://gedcollaborative.com/), and he chairs the American College of Emergency Physician's Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Advisory Board (https://www.acep.org/geda/). He is the recipient of multiple national awards including the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association Excellence in Teaching, as well as the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine's (AGEM) Gerson-Sanders Award, the AGEM Mentorship Award, and the AGEM Pioneer Award.

Adrian D. Haimovich, MD, PhD

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School

Dr. Adrian Haimovich is Director of Geriatric Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research is at the intersection between data science, electronic health records, and geriatric acute care.

Madeline H. Renny, MD, MS

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Madeline H. Renny, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, and Population Health Science and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is a physician-scientist whose research focuses on pediatric and adolescent drug overdose prevention and emergency department-based interventions for youth with substance use.

Stephen Sandelich, MD

Penn State University

I am a pediatric emergency medicine physician specializing in substance abuse disorders and adolescent mental health. My medical journey has deeply acquainted me with the challenges and nuances of pediatric emergencies arising from substance abuse and mental health crises. Before my current academic position, I was primarily working in community practice. In this role, I focused on honing my clinical acumen and, through exposure to teens and adolescents with substance use disorder, became an expert in the emergency department treatment of these patients. This expertise manifested in developing and implementing an emergency department-based medicated assisted treatment program for adolescents with substance use disorder presenting in withdrawal.

Sean Schnarr, MD

New York University

Dr. Schnarr is on the faculty at NYU Langone's Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine where he serves as associate program director for the EM residency. He completed his residency training at the John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, and received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His academic interests include bedside teaching and FOAMed applications, as well as health disparities and social emergency medicine.

Linda A. Regan, MD, MEd

Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Linda Regan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins, where she serves as the Vice Chair for Education and the director of the Medical Education Fellowship. Dr. Regan served on the program committee for both SAEM and CORD for many years, including three years as a track chair for the CORD Best Practices track. She served for four years as a member of the Board of Directors of CORD and is a well-known national speaker on a wide array of educational topics, having spoken at ACEP, CORD, SAEM, ACGME, and AMEE. She is the current Chair of the ACGME’s Residency Review Committee in EM. Dr. Regan is well known at Johns Hopkins for her work as an educational program builder and 13 years spent as the program director for the Emergency Medicine residency. She obtained her Masters in Education for the Health Professions from the Johns Hopkins School of Education, with a focus on educational research. Dr. Regan’s educational research interests lay mainly in the applications of adult learning theories and conceptual models to postgraduate education, in particular as they pertain to the development of adaptive expertise for learners, as well as how to best teach and represent yourself as an educator.

McKenzie Warshel, DO, MEd

Johns Hopkins Hospital

McKenzie is currently a PGY3 in the combined Emergency Medicine and Anesthesia residency at Johns Hopkins. She enjoys blending the two specialties and their unique crossover such as resuscitation, regional anesthesia, and procedural sedation. She has a particular interest in medical education as she completed her Masters in Medical Education while she was a medical student at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. Her thesis focus was on educating faculty on techniques to keep medical students more engaged. While at Hopkins, she has worked on curriculum development implementations for the interns. She has a passion for wellness and mental health advocacy in residency training.

Prior to medical school, McKenzie was a domestic violence counselor with an emphasis on children in Johnstown, PA. She spent years developing and implementing trauma-informed group counseling program in the carceral system. She attended conferences and workshops around the country on working in the carceral system, group counseling, and trauma-informed care. She created a longitudinal curriculum for incarcerated patients focusing on coping mechanisms, communication skills, healthy relationships, and accountability. She ran all group counseling sessions weekly for men and women at Cambria County Prison for two years. Prior to medical school matriculation, was awarded funding and expanded her Empowerment Program to the three correctional facilities in her local area.

Kirlos N. Haroun, MD

Johns Hopkins University

I was born in Egypt to an incredibly supportive farming family before moving to Miami, Florida with my parents and my three siblings, where I grew up. I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Miami, attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, and finished my residency at the University of Chicago. Currently, I am learning and growing as a Clinical Instructor and Medical Education Fellow at Johns Hopkins, focusing on the development of wellness-minded medical professionals. This upcoming July, 2025 I will be gratefully stepping in as the Assistant Program Director of the Johns Hopkins Emergency Medicine Residency!

Lauren A. Walter, MD, MSPH

University of Alabama Medical Center (Birmingham)

Dr. Walter is a 2005 graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School. She completed her emergency medicine residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2009 where she currently remains as an Associate Professor and Associate Vice Chair. In addition, Dr. Walter is currently the Social Emergency Medicine & Population Health Fellowship Director at UAB. Dr. Walter is a clinical researcher with a focus on social emergency medicine and population health. She is PD/PI for several socially-based, funded clinical research programs in her department, including universal HIV and HCV screening as well as opioid use disorder identification and engagement programs. Finally, Dr. Walter is also the current Research Editor for SocialEMpact.com.

Rachel Michelle Skains, MD, MSPH

University of Alabama Medical Center (Birmingham)

Dr. Rachel Michelle Skains, MD, MSPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine (EM) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) with a joint faculty position at the Birmingham VA Medical Center (BVAMC). After graduating from Wake Forest School of Medicine (2016), she completed her EM residency at UAB (2019) followed by a Clinical Research Fellowship focused on Geriatric EM while pursuing a Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH) in Clinical and Translational Science from the UAB School of Public Health (2021). Dr. Skains was awarded the AHRQ NRSA T32 Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship in the UAB Health Services Research Training Program (2020-2022), in addition to funding through the UAB Integrative Center for Aging Research (ICAR) and Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research (GEAR) 1.0 pilot grant programs. She has recently been awarded two NIA awards: Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists' Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR) R03 (2023-2025) and Exploratory/ Developmental Grant R21 (2023-2025), in addition to the GEMSSTAR for EM Supplemental Funding Program through SAEMF/EMF and UAB Health Services Foundation General Endowment Fund (HSF-GEF) grants. These studies examined the risk of adverse health outcomes, such as delirium, with potentially inappropriate medication use among older adults in the ED. In addition, Dr. Skains was an ED physician champion for the UAB – Highlands and BVAMC Geriatric ED Committees, which received Level 1 (2021) and Level 3 (2023) accreditations respectively, completed the UAB Geriatric Scholar Interprofessional Program (2019-2021), updated the Geriatric ED Guidelines 2.0 in Medication Safety, published the first expert consensus-based list of high-risk prescriptions to avoid for older ED patients (GEMS-Rx), and serves as Member-at-Large for the SAEM Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM) (2024-2026).

Jonathan D. Rupp, PhD

Emory University

Dr. Jonathan Rupp is the Vice Chair for Innovation and Discovery, and a Professor in Emory University School of Medicine's Department of Emergency Medicine. He holds a secondary appointment as a Professor in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, and an Adjunct Research Professor appointment at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute in the UofM College of Engineering. Dr. Rupp’s role at IPRCE involves providing administrative, scientific, and financial oversight of the Center, including its daily functioning, progress towards the center’s mission and specific aims, management of IPRCE faculty leading each Core, and funding Center initiatives and pilot grants. Dr. Rupp provides vision and guidance for the Center’s Outreach, Research, and Training activities and our Task Forces. He represents the Center in communications with external partners and stakeholders. He also chairs the Steering Committee and the Task Force Leaders Committee.

Dr. Rupp has been extramurally funded for over 20 years. His past research has supported the development of new federal regulations, test procedures, and test devices to improve safety for occupants in motor vehicle crashes and in military vehicle exposed to under-body blast. He has collected and analyzed data on crashes and crash injury to identify risk and protective factors, developing tools for assessing the ability of vehicles to mitigate the potential for injury crashes, and statistical modeling to estimate the benefits of injury prevention technologies. His current work includes studies aimed at developing new methods for investigating pedestrian injury crashes, assessing how to most effectively counsel patients on firearm injury prevention in the ED, and characterizing factors influencing micro mobility device injuries.

He also is a member of the Georgia Crash Outcomes Data Evaluation System (CODES) Board of Directors, the Georgia Violent Death Reporting System’s Advisory Committee, the Rollins—Spark (Program on Substance Use Disorders) Advisory Board, the Georgia State University Center for Alcohol and Violence Research External Advisory Board, and the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center External Advisory Board.

Douglas Wiebe, PhD

University of Michigan

Dr. Wiebe is a Professor at the University of Michigan with appointments in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology (School of Public Health). He is Director of the U-M Injury Prevention Center, one of 11 centers funded by the CDC, and is PI of the Ivy League-Big Ten Epidemiology of Concussion Study.

Myron Q. Love, CHPA, CPP, PSP, PCI

Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin

Myron Q. Love, CHPA, CPP, PSP, PCI is Director of Safety, Security, Emergency Management and Business Continuity with Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin. As a practitioner, he has over twenty years of experience leading physical security and campus safety programs for several of the nation’s top-ranked pediatric and regional adult academic medical centers. He supports his industry as a healthcare security thought-leader, serving as a member of the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety (IAHSS) Council on Guidelines, Director of the ASIS International Processional Certification Board, and Chair of the IAHSS Greater Milwaukee Chapter. He is Chair Emeritus of the ASIS International Healthcare Security Council.

He is a board-certified subject matter expert, having earned the Certified Healthcare Protection Administrator (CHPA) credential in addition to the ASIS International “Triple-Crown” as a Certified Protection Professional (CPP), Physical Security Professional (PSP), and Professional Certified Investigator (PCI).

His expertise includes the design and implementation of policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure accreditation compliance, emergency preparedness, and incident response. He has successfully led physical security risk assessment, design, and systems teams working towards activation of new Level 1 Trauma emergency departments, inpatient behavioral health units, and was a contributing SME of the IAHSS Workplace Violence Prevention certification program.