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Nancy Kwon, MD, MPA

Vice Chair, Emergency Medicine

Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Dr. Nancy Kwon is the Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and a Professor at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Most recently, Dr. Kwon became the Central Region Medical Director of Health Equity for Northwell Health under Northwell's Center for Equity of Care.

She has been an active member of SAEM since residency, and is currently. the Chair of the SAEM Faculty Development Committee, and is an active member of the Equity and Inclusion, and Research Committees, and was elected in the past to be a member of the Nominating Committee.

Dr. Kwon has many years of experience in academics and has served in the past as the Associate Chair of Academics and Research in Emergency Medicine. She created and was the faculty advisor for new courses and rotations, including a for credit course: Hofstra Clinical Research Course in Emergency Medicine for Hofstra Undergraduate Students, which she developed and initiated in 2016. She has collaborated and taught at Hofstra Northwell’s School of Medicine in the area of SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment) for substance abuse disorders, for which she has performed research and was the Co-Principal Investigator of the NYSBIRT II Project, and is currently part of an NIH grant regarding the utilization of text messaging for patients with substance use disorders. She has served as a committee member on the Appointments and Promotions Committee at Hofstra Northwell’s School of Medicine. Dr. Kwon has been a recipient of Northwell's President’s Award for Teamwork in 2014., the Emergency Medicine Service Line Guttenberg Award in 2017 for her work in Emergency Medicine, and was one of five finalists for Northwell Health System's Truly Leadership award, and is currently a finalist for the Truly Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award. She has a focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Population Health, developing and implementing programs for vulnerable and underrepresented patient populations, faculty development, and mentorship.

Dr. Kwon received her Bachelor of Science from Brown University, and her Doctorate of Medicine from The University of Rochester. She completed her Residency in Emergency Medicine at NYU Langone School of Medicine/Bellevue Hospital Center, and stayed on as faculty until 2013. She received a Masters in Public Administration from The NYU Wagner School of Public Service. She became a part of The Northwell Health team in 2013.

Kristen Huntley, PhD

NIH/NIDA/CCTN

Kristen Huntley, Ph.D., is the Associate Director and Addiction Medicine Team Leader in the Center for the Clinical Trials Network (CCTN), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Huntley also serves as a Scientific Officer for multi-site clinical research projects studying the effectiveness and implementation of interventions for the treatment of substance use disorders. She provides leadership for selected projects conducted through the NIDA CTN Dissemination Initiative, and is the NIDA CCTN contact for research conducted in emergency medicine settings. During her tenure at NIH Dr. Huntley has served as a Scientific Review Officer at NIDA and as a Program Director at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) where she managed a portfolio of pain management research grants and led efforts to build collaborations with other federal agencies to encourage research on the use of integrative approaches and models of care for pain management in military and veteran populations. Prior to working at NIH, Dr. Huntley was on the faculty of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, a project director at a market research firm, and worked as a clinical psychologist in a variety of community and medical settings. Dr. Huntley has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and over 30 years of experience in government, academic, research, and clinical settings.