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David Yang, MD

Research and EMS Fellow

Yale University

David Yang, MD, is a Research and EMS Fellow in the Yale Department of Emergency Medicine. He earned his BS in Biomedical Engineering and BSAS in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, MD from LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, and his MHS from Yale University. He recently completed his emergency medicine residency at Yale Department of Emergency Medicine. Nationally, he has served on the Equity and Inclusion Committee with SAEM. At the local level, he works closely with the sexual assault forensics committee and as an Interprofessional Longitudinal Clinical Experience (ILCE) mentor. His current research focuses on addressing disparities of care in three domains: discrimination that healthcare workers face in the clinical setting, disparities in care for survivors of sexual assault, and prehospital disparities in care for behavioral emergencies.

Allison Cator, MD, PhD

University of Michigan

A native of Canada, Allison completed her MD/PhD training at the Chicago Medical School. She then moved to Ann Arbor where she completed pediatric residency and PEM fellowship at the University of Michigan and stayed on as faculty where she is currently an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics. Allison's clinical interests include developing clinical care guidelines according to available evidence, stewardship of medical resources, and provision of equitable patient-centered care. Her research interests include multi-center prospective studies, and best practices for care of pediatric patients with infectious diseases.