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R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD

Director of Clinical Research

University of Maryland School of Medicine

R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, is the Director of Clinical Research and Assistant Residency Program Director at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), Department of Emergency Medicine. He also serves as the clinical leader of the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) Multidisciplinary Adult Sickle Cell Disease Program. He is the co-chair of the UMMC Opioid Safety Council and chair of the Maryland state chapter of the Naloxone Project, a nonprofit that works to increase distribution of naloxone. He is the Deputy Editor of the Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine journal. In 2015, Dr. Wilkerson received the Outstanding Teacher Award from the UMEM Residency Program. In 2016, he was chosen as a National Foundation Emergency Medicine (NFEM) Scholar. He was awarded Clinician of the Year in 2019 by the Maryland chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). In 2021, he was named an NFEM Mentor, and he now serves as the Director of the Mentor-Scholars Program for NFEM. Dr. Wilkerson's research focuses on improving access to new diagnostic tools and therapeutic agents for emergent medical conditions.

Teresa Y. Smith, MD, MSEd

Alfredo Tirado, MD

Program Director, Associate Professor Emergency Medicine Residency

HCA FL Healthcare/USF Morsani College of Medicine GME: Oak Hill Hospital Program

Original from Puerto Rico, he finished his Medical School and Emergency Medicine Residency Program in the University of Puerto Rico, where he served as Academic Chief Resident on his Senior year. After completion of his Emergency Medicine Residency Program, he went to Providence, Rhode Island, and finished an Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship with the University Emergency Foundation associated with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He originally started his career as Ultrasound Director for FL Hospital (current Advent Health) EM Residency Program from its inception in 2007 and practice there until 2018. Within this time he helped implement a robust Ultrasound Curriculum for Residents and Faculty, as well as a Credentialing Process. He also founded the FL Hospital (Advent Health) Ultrasound Fellowship and was Fellowship Director from 2013-2018. From 2009-2018, Dr. Tirado, served as Associate Professor for the College of Medicine of the University of Central Florida, where he helped develop and implement an Ultrasound curriculum for Medical Students for all four years of education. In 2018, he was offered the opportunity, to once again help start a New EM Residency program, with HCA Healthcare sponsored by USF Morsani College of Medicine, and he currently serves as Program Director for this program. He has been appointed Associate Professor for the College of Medicine HCA Healthcare/ USF Morsani College of Medicine GME for which he practices.

Dr. Tirado, has presented in the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly (ACEP), American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) and the World Congress on Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care. He has also contributed to the specialty with research on Bedside Ultrasound for the Non-Invasive Estimation of Central Venous Pressure in Critically Ill Adult ED Patients, as well as has a passion for ultrasound procedures in emergency medicine and Ultrasound Management. Dr. Tirado is also an active member at AIUM, AAEM, SAEM and ACEP, where he has served in different Committees at the Ultrasound Section such as the EUS reporting guidelines and former Committee Chair and Course Director for the Emergency Ultrasound Management Course (EUMC).

Brian Travis Rice, MDCM, MSc, DTM&H

Stanford University

I hope to advocate for GEMAs role in coordinating research processes and agendas. I think that GEMA can serve a critical role by helping to provide structure and coordination from a top-down level, as well as set priorities/agendas for the medium and long-term. I have worked clinically globally since 2007 and been an active researcher in global health since 2012, having won the EMF International Grant in 2015. There is an abundance of energy and enthusiasm is global EM efforts, but this same resource can lead to a lot of atomized efforts that don't clearly further an overall research or development agendas. As a researcher in global health over the last decade, it has become increasingly clear to me that GEMA could serve a role to advocate and coordinate scattered academic EM efforts into a more coherent role that would allow us to interface with larger governmental and non-governmental agencies to create a greater impact. Helping to create lasting structures to provide overarching support and direction for educational, research and advocacy efforts (including methods support, quality control, ethical considerations, etc.) will help unite more senior and junior members to allow them to benefit from each other. Specifically, I think that with the rapid expansion of emergency medicine in sub-Saharan Africa, there is room for GEMA to assist with development (e.g., quality indicators) and research (e.g., standardized data collection and ED registry efforts across regions).

Marcia A. Perry, MD

University of Michigan

Dr. Marcia Perry is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Department of Emergency Medicine. She completed her Emergency Medicine training at the University of Michigan and stayed on as faculty. She is a former Assistant Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program and provides clinical care and teaching at the University of Michigan Health System.
Dr. Perry is the Director of House Officer Programs, the Director of the Health Equity Visiting Clerkship, and the Director of the Health Equity and Quality Scholars Program in the Office for Health Equity and Inclusion at Michigan Medicine.
Dr. Perry describes her career in Emergency Medicine as a mission to serve with compassion, grace, and humility. She strives to do this through the lens of equity and social Justice. In medical education she developed two healthcare disparities curriculums that empower house officer to self- reflect, self-critique and hold their institution accountable for equitable care for all. In the clinical and research domains she strives to identify opportunities to improve healthcare equity for all.