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Joshua Goldstein, MD, PhD

Vice Chair, Faculty Affairs, Department of Emergency Medicine

Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr. Goldstein is a highly accomplished emergency physician focusing on neurologic emergencies. He is the Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and Co-Director of the Center for Neurologic Emergencies in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Goldstein has been continually NIH funded since 2009 and currently serves as the hub PI for the New England SIREN group. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Stroke, Neurology, and Lancet and co-edited the textbook Neurologic Emergencies. Dr. Goldstein is a sought-after speaker and directs CME courses on Neurologic Emergencies that draw participants worldwide.

Stephen Miller, DO

Program Director, Medical Education Fellowship Program

Virginia Commonwealth University

Dr. Miller graduated from Virginia Tech for his undergraduate degree and completed medical school at the University of North Texas. After finishing his residency training at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), he stayed on as core faculty and in 2015 became the emergency medicine residency assistant program director. Dr. Miller completed the ACEP Teach Fellowship and McMaster's Evidence Based Medicine course in 2016 and has developed and taught evidence-based medicine curriculum including residency and fellow journal club since 2017. He helped develop and start the Medical Education Fellowship program at VCU in 2021 and currently serves as the Program Director. He is currently completing a masters of biostatistics with concentration in clinical research at VCU. He has published in areas of resuscitation, shock, and sepsis, and is grant funded in medical education research. Dr. Miller's primary statistical interests are Bayesian statistical methods, methods of causal inference for observational data, and finding inventive ways to teach statistical concepts to those that are scared of them.

Melissa White, MD, MPH

Director of Alumni Relations and Engagement

Emory University School of Medicine

Dr. White received her medical degree in 2002. She completed her Emergency Medicine Residency training in 2005 and a Fellowship in Prehospital and Disaster Medicine in 2006 from Emory University School of Medicine. She holds an MPH from the Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. White was involved in resident education since 2008, initially as an APD and later as the PD for Emory Emergency Medicine. She has held many Medical Directorships in the Prehospital arena and is currently the Medical Director of a Technical School. She is the inaugural Director of Alumni Relations and Engagement at Emory University for the Department of Emergency Medicine.

Julie Welch, MD

Indiana University School of Medicine

Dr. Julie Welch is Professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) and Vice Chair (VC) of Faculty Affairs and Development in the Department of EM at Indiana University School Medicine (IUSM). She completed a Faculty Fellowship in Mentoring with the IUSM Office of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development where she served as an Assistant Dean overseeing centralize mentoring initiatives and Programs for Women in Medicine and Science (2013-2015). She was appointed Director of Mentoring Training for the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (ICTSI) where she served for a decade. As a founding member of the IUPUI Mentoring Academy, she continues to serve as the faculty mentoring liaison for IUSM. Dr. Welch studies and champions issues surrounding physician wellness, faculty development, mentoring, work-life policies, and women in medicine. She currently divides her time between academic EM at IU Health Methodist Hospital and initiatives at the local and national levels. She has been recognized with the IUSM Clinical Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Award, IU Trustee Teaching Award, EMRA National Mentorship Award, IUPUI Outstanding Women Leader Award, and AMA Inspirational Physician Honoree. In addition, under her VC leadership, the department received the 2021 ACEP Emergency Medicine Wellness Center of Excellence Award.

Katie Pettit, MD

Indiana University

Dr. Pettit is an Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. She current serves as the Vice Chair of Education for the Department of Emergency Medicine. She has been a member of the faculty since 2009. Prior to serving as Vice Chair of Education, she was a member of the residency leadership team for seven years. She has a special interest in medical education, wellness, gender equity, communication, and biases in medicine. She currently serves as a mentor to multiple faculty involved in medical education, educational research, gender equity, and wellness. She has been recognized for her role in the above areas with several awards including the Trustees Teaching Award, the Resident Teacher of the Year for Emergency Medicine, the Emergency Medicine residency Impact Award and the IUPUI Women's History Month Recognition Award.