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Robert Rodriguez, MD

Professor, Emergency Medicine

UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Robert Rodriguez is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Vice Chair of Research at the UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine. After the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Medical School, he completed a combined Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine residency at UCLA and a Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Stanford.

Dr. Rodriguez has served as Principal Investigator on multiple RO1 and U grants, leading national teams examining issues in trauma, public health, and critical care. Recognizing the pivotal role that emergency departments play as the “safety net of the safety net”, much of Dr. Rodriguez’s research centers on emergency healthcare access for underserved populations. He has published over 155 peer-reviewed original research articles in high impact journals, including 40 articles in Annals of Emergency Medicine and Academic Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Rodriguez considers his services as a research mentor to be his most important contribution to research. With a "Sí, se puede" attitude and a particular focus on under-represented in medicine trainees, he has mentored over 210 students, residents, fellows and junior faculty over the past 25 years. He is proud that 54 of his research mentees have garnered research funding, all of his undergraduate mentees have continued to medical school or other health professional training programs, and many of his advisees have continued onto careers in academic medicine. He has received multiple mentoring awards, including the UCSF CTSI Mentor of the Year, the Unidos US Xcellence in Leadership Award, and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award, given to a UCSF faculty who best exemplifies the late leader’s commitment to diversity.
Dr. Rodriguez served as an advisor to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the only emergency physician on the Biden/Harris COVID-19 Transition Advisory team. He co-authored the book Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report.

Jennifer L. Wiler, MD, MBA

University of Colorado, Denver

Jennifer L. Wiler, MD, MBA (@DrJenniferWiler) is Professor and Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Professor at the University of Colorado School of Business. She is also Co-Founder and Executive Medical Director of the UCHealth CARE Innovation Center.

Dr. Wiler has authored over 45 peer-reviewed papers on the topics of acute care operations, payment models, care transitions, quality and safety. She co-authored the book “Value and Quality Innovations in Acute and Emergency Care” (Cambridge Press, 2017). Dr. Wiler has served in numerous state and national leadership positions, including an appointment to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC), and is a former ACEP EM Practice Committee Chair for the American College of Emergency Physicians, American Medical Association Women Physicians Congress Chair and Colorado Medical Society Board Member.

Dr. Wiler is also a founding faculty member of the Institute for Quality, Safety and Efficiency, a partnership of the University of Colorado Hospital and School Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Colorado and CU Medicine Inc., and has been an invited expert for the National Academy of Science.