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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.

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).