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Jacqueline A. Ward-Gaines, MD

University of Colorado, Denver

Dr. Jacqueline Ward-Gaines is director of the Diversity & Inclusion Committee, Denver Health Emergency Medicine Residency. She uses her DEI training as a faculty physician in the CU Department of Emergency Medicine to serve as the educational lead for DEI efforts. She is a graduate of Cambridge Heath Alliance Center for Health Equity, Education, and Advocacy 2021 Health Equity Scholars Program. She has served as the chair of the education committee of the Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine as well as a member at large.

Tai Donovan, MBA, NREMT

Windsor University School of Medicine

Tai Donovan is a fourth-year medical student at Windsor University School of Medicine and a nationally certified EMT with five years of service in the NYC 911 system. A graduate of Howard University, she is passionate about advancing equity in emergency medicine and community health. She co-founded The Nest, a grassroots initiative delivering health education and essential resources to unhoused and underserved communities in New York City. Tai also serves on the Board for MedCEEP and Project Impact 180—two Chicago-based nonprofits that support underrepresented youth through mentorship, emergency preparedness, and healthcare career exploration. She holds a Master’s degree in Healthcare Management and Administration.

Adetoriola Odetunde, MD, MPH

University of Chicago

Dr. Odetunde is a second-year resident at the University of Chicago emergency medicine program. She received her MPH from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center and her medical degree from St. Georges University SOM. Her professional interests include social EM, administration, and medical education. She currently serves as the RSA representative for the AAEM JEDI section.

William Mundo, MD

Denver Health Medical Center

Dr. William Mundo is an emergency medicine resident physician at Denver Health Medical Center in Denver, Colorado. He completed his medical degree at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and was awarded a full-tuition scholarship. In addition, Dr. Mundo holds a Master’s in Public Health with a concentration in Global Health Systems Management and Policy from the Colorado School of Public Health, along with bachelor’s degrees in Public Health and Ethnic Studies from CU Denver. His expertise centers on integrating health equity concepts with public health and medicine to identify and implement solutions that address and reduce health inequities at both the individual and systemic levels. Dr. Mundo has led grant-funded initiatives in these areas, serving as principal investigator and co-investigator, and his research has been published in several esteemed journals. Recently, his efforts have focused on developing simulation sessions to enhance communication skills with medical interpreters and to promote accountable behavior among healthcare professionals. He has received numerous honors and accolades throughout his career, including various scholarships, the CU Presidents Diversity Award, the Cesar Chavez Peace and Justice Award, and the Rosa Parks Diversity Award. Dr. Mundo is also the author of “From Margins to Medicine,” in which he shares his journey to medicine as the son of Mexican immigrants and a first-generation Latino. Above all, he is a devoted father of two young girls and a loving husband.

Marc Kanter, MD, FACEP

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center

Dr. Marc Kanter is currently the Chair of Emergency Medicine at Lincoln Medicine Center in the Bronx NY. He if formerly the Associate and Residency Program Director at Lincoln. Dr. Kanter has a background in EMS as a prehospital provider and completed medical school at NY Medical College. He went on to complete a year of Internal Medicine residency training in CT followed by Emergency Medicine residency training at Lincoln Medical Center, the busiest ED in NY State. He is an assistant professor of clinical Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a fellow at the New York Medical College, Center for Disaster Medicine. He is a current member of the board of directors of the NY chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is a long time member of the Trauma Interest group of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. He is an associate member of the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine. He is the NYC Health + Hospitals system representative for the NYC Regional EMS Advisory Committee.

Matthew Chinn, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin

Matthew Chinn, MD, FAEMS, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) where he serves as the Senior Medical Director for the Froedtert Hospital Emergency Department and Co-Medical Director of the Froedtert Hospital Observation Unit. He received his Bachelor of Science at Texas A&M University and his Doctor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He completed his Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Cincinnati and his EMS Medicine fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin. In addition to his hospital roles, he currently serves as an EMS Medical Director for a local fire department and has previously worked as a flight physician. He is a core faculty member in the EMS Medicine fellowship and the Health Executive Administrative Leadership (HEAL) fellowship programs at MCW. His academic interests are in hospital and emergency department operations, EMS, and teaching.

Kathleen Williams, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin

Kathleen Williams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she currently serves as the residency program director. She received her undergraduate degree from Indiana University and her medical degree from Rush Medical College of Rush University in Chicago, Illinois. She completed her residency training in at the Medical College of Wisconsin and has completed both the ACEP teaching fellowship and the CORD Residency Administrative Fellowship.
Throughout her time as faculty at MCW, she has served the resident trainees in various capacities. She developed the institutional use of video-taped resuscitation for resident resuscitation training starting in 2015. She has interest in GME curriculum development and design, character development in GME training, and use of novel methods for physician coaching and team based training in resuscitation leadership.
She is an award winning educator, receiving numerous departmental, institutional and national awards for her programmatic developments and bedside education.

Michael P. Jones, MD

Albert Einstein / Jacobi + Montefiore

Dr. Michael P. Jones is a Professor and Vice Chair for Education and the Residency Program Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Jacobi and Montefiore Medical Centers in the Bronx, New York. He received his bachelor’s degree specializing in Biological Sciences, with a focus on vertebrate morphology and physiology, at Columbia University, his medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed his emergency medicine residency training at Jacobi and Montefiore Medical Centers, where he was Chief Resident. He has been an Adjunct Instructor at Columbia University and is currently an Adjunct Instructor in Anatomy and Structural Biology and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein.

Dr. Jones’s primary academic interests are medical student and resident education as well as trauma resuscitation and prehospital care. He is a founding member of a regional Emergency Medicine collaborative that has created a network for education and research throughout all of New York City’s emergency medicine residencies, offering free educational opportunities to hundreds of New York City Emergency Medicine residents, the largest such consortium in the country. Additionally, he is an expert and leader in trauma resuscitation and prehospital care, serving as the co-chair of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine’s Trauma Committee and as the Vice-Chair of the NYC Regional EMS Council, the state mandated oversight body for prehospital care in New York City. Dr. Jones is also the Medical Director and Co-Chair of the Board Directors of the Central Park Medical Unit, an all volunteer ambulance corps that provides free emergency medical services in New York City's world famous Central Park.

Simanjit Mand

University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health

Simanjit K. Mand is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health. She is currently the Director of Resident Coaching and Assistant Director for the AEMUS Fellowship, and has previously held the role of Assistant Residency Program Director.

Emily S. Binstadt, MD, MPH

Regions/Health Partners

Dr Binstadt is passionate about exploring the best ways to teach residents and faculty and provide high-quality emergency care to patients. She is interested in issues of justice, equity, inclusion, and belonging, medical education using simulation, procedural skills training, experiences of women in medicine, wilderness medicine, and ethics. She also enjoys maximizing her time spent outside in natural environments, traveling, and with her family.

Brian Kwan, MD, MS

UC San Diego Health

Prior to pursuing medicine, Brian Kwan had several other careers including nine years as a high school science teacher, where he became interested in educational technology. He authored several high school science textbooks and has received teaching awards at multiple instructional levels. Brian discovered an interest in informatics while an emergency medicine resident at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA, where he also served as a chief resident. Brian subsequently completed a clinical informatics fellowship at UC San Diego in 2023. He is currently an assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and the medical director for education informatics at UC San Diego Health.

Benjamin Kinnear, MD, MEd

University of Cincinnati

Ben is an associate professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics in the Division of Hospital Medicine at University of Cincinnati Medical Center and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and is Program Director for the Med-Peds residency program and the IMSTAR Medical Education fellowship. Ben obtained his Master of Medical Education from University of Cincinnati in 2018 and is currently a PhD student at Maastricht University where he is studying validity argumentation and argumentation theory. He loves St. Louis Cardinals baseball and thinks mint-flavored ice cream is an abomination.

Michael Levine, MD

The Brooklyn Hospital Center

Jacobi/Monte for residency, NYPQ for sim fellowship, ED attending and director of ED simulation at TBHC

Daniel J. Schumacher, MD, PhD, MEd

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Tenured Professor and Research Scientist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Ashley C. Rider, MD, MEHP

Stanford University

Ashley Rider, MD MEHP is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. She completed her residency at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA and her fellowship in Simulation Education at Stanford University. She is now faculty at Stanford and serves as the Associate Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program. Her academic interests include operations data as it relates to learner development, simulation-based education at the UME/GME levels, quality improvement, and interprofessional education.

Laura R. Hopson, MD, MEd

University of Michigan

Laura R. Hopson is Professor and Associate Chair of Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine of the University of Michigan Medical School. She graduated from Yale University with a BS in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and obtained her MD from Duke University. She completed residency training at the University of Michigan, and a master’s in education through Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Hopson has been extensively involved in medical education at the undergraduate and graduate level throughout her career including 9 years as residency program director. She co-directs the University of Michigan’s GME Innovations program which is an institutional initiative to promote innovations in education and demonstrates their effectiveness through high-level learner and patient centered outcomes. Dr. Hopson has a long-standing interest in the transition between UME and GME and her scholarly work focuses on the residency selection process and optimizing learning outcomes including the implementation of competency based medical education.

Andrew C. Wong, MD, MBA

UC Davis Medical Center

Andrew Wong is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis Health. He did his residency training at the University of Michigan. He was a fellow in the UC Davis/UC Irvine Clinical Health and Wellbeing Fellowship in 2020 and currently serves as a member of the UC Davis Health's Department Wellness Champion Committee and is a peer responder in the UC Davis Support U Peer Responder Program. In addition to the roles above, he serves as the Medical Director of UC Davis Health Managed Care.

Casey Morrone, MD

Thomas Jefferson University

Casey Morrone is a second year medical education fellow and clinical instructor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. She finds her academic interests often exist at the intersection of education and wellness with a focus on mentoring, career transition points, and evaluation and feedback, and emotional intelligence in the workplace.

Daniel Boron-Brenner, DO

Thomas Jefferson University

Dual-trained emergency medicine and palliative care physician practicing at a large, urban, academic medical center in the heart of Philadelphia. I love all aspects of my work, and truly believe that in-depth training in both fields has only strengthened me as a clinician across the domains of care in which I practice. When I'm not working, I'm chasing after two kids, a geriatric poodle and my own sense of adventure.

I received a bachelors degree in History from Colorado College, a post-baccalaureate, pre-medical certificate from Columbia University in the City of New York, and a doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from AT Still University - Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. I trained in emergency medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, as well as completing a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Christina Chien, MD

Thomas Jefferson University

Christina Chien is an emergency medicine and critical care attending at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Christina has a focus on increasing access and communication to patients across a variety of settings, including virtual platforms. As Medical Director of the Urgent Care and Virtual Health service line at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Christina's goal is to improve access and quality of care, standardize and ease workflows for clinicians, and enhance patient experiences.