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Latha Ganti, MD, MS, MBA

Orlando College of Osteopathic Medicine

Dr. Ganti is Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Orlando College of Osteopathic Medicine and Associate Medical Director for Polk County Fire Rescue. Dr. Ganti has published extensively in neurologic emergencies, with high impact. Her Google scholar citations reveal an H index of 29, with more than 2,600 citations to her work just in the last few years and over 380 published manuscripts and abstracts.

Dr. Ganti’s expertise is in harnessing the power of data to solve clinical problems such as hospital re-admissions, practice inconsistencies, delays in hospital discharges, suboptimal emergency department throughput, low patient satisfaction scores, and lack of community awareness of medical emergencies. By approaching the operational issue from a scholarly perspective, her work is published, and thus affords better buy in from stakeholders. Throughout her career, Dr. Ganti continually paired her boots on the ground work experience with formal training. A few years after teaching herself how to data mine clinical information, she obtained a Masters in Clinical and Translational Research from the Mayo Graduate School. As her research became central to improving operational inefficiencies in the healthcare systems where she worked, she was sponsored to undertake the executive MBA at the Kellogg School of Management.

Dr. Ganti has a track record of leadership. She was the first Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, a charter member of the Mayo Clinic Center for Translational Science, and the inaugural Chair for the Division of Emergency Medicine Research, which she founded. Under her leadership, research productivity soared by 420%, and at one time, her research group showcased the maximum number of research presentations (3 out of only 8 oral and 17 out of 400 posters) at the ACEP Scientific Assembly. Her contributions to developing research enterprises have been recognized by the Mayo Clinic Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions in EM Research, and the Toral Family Foundation Endowed Professorship in Traumatic Brain injury.

Dr. Ganti is also a gifted teacher, as evidenced by her many teaching awards. She is the author of numerous books, including the First Aid Clerkship series, which are the num
ber one best sellers amongst medical students. Indeed, one of the talks she frequently is invited to give is titled: “Get Published Now!”
Dr. Ganti has won over 18 national awards, including the EMRA Academic Excellence award, ACEP National Faculty Teaching award, AMA William Beaumont Award, the first EMRA Mentorship Award and was celebrated as one of ACEP's “Heroes in Emergency Medicine”. She won the AMA YPS Award for Community Service, for her work on stroke research, education, and outreach- a program she titled BEST for “Better Early Stroke Treatment.” Dr. Ganti was also honored as a Fulbright Scholar for her project “Strategy & Innovation in Clinical Research for the Global Health Era.” Most recently, she was bestowed the AMA Excellence in Leadership Award and the Women Physicians’ Section “Inspirational Physician Award,” for her work mentoring women physicians.

Stephen W. Hargarten, MD, MPH

Medical College of Wisconsin

Emergency Medicine clinical practice for over 35 years
Injury Prevention/Research scientist for over 30 years.
Current focus on firearm related research including gun safety patents and wounding ballistics

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.