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Jeanmarie Perrone, MD

University of Pennsylvania

Jeanmarie Perrone, MD is a Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the founding Director of the Penn Center for Addiction Medicine and Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Perrone leads a program for the treatment of Opioid Use Disorder in the emergency department (ED) and a virtual telehealth bridge clinic (CareConnect) for low barrier access to medications for opioid use disorder. She has advocated at the state and national level for enhancing equitable care for substance use. She has attended numerous FDA meetings while serving on the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee and is a lead Co-Investigator on a NIDA CTN multi-site study of ED initiated buprenorphine. She has won numerous awards for education and mentorship and is board certified in emergency medicine, medical toxicology and addiction medicine.

Tala Elia, MD

University of Massachusetts Medical School - Baystate

Tala Elia is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate Health. She has served as the Medical Director of the Advanced Practitioner Service for 4 years, as well as the Program Director of the Physician Assistant Residency from 2015 to 2018. She is dedicated to resident and ultrasound education.

Cortlyn Brown, MD, MCSO, FAAEM

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center

Dr. Cortlyn Brown is an Assistant Professor of emergency medicine at Atrium Health Carolinas in Charlotte, NC.

Dr. Brown graduated with honors from the University of Chicago and matriculated to the Yale School of Medicine where she received the Parker Prize given to the graduating student who has shown the best qualifications for a successful physician and the Grannum Prize given to an African American graduating student who has shown excellent academic achievement. She completed the NIH Howard Hughes Medical Research fellowship and received a certificate in Leadership in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) from Cornell University. She then completed her residency at the University of California San Francisco where she served as Chief Resident and was awarded the Chancellor Award for Dr. Martin Luther King, JR., one of the highest institutional honors that is given to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to the ideals of DEI. She recently completed a Masters in Clinical Operations from Harvard University School of Medicine.

Dr. Brown joined Carolinas Medical Center Atrium Health faculty in 2020 as the department’s Vice Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In addition to this role, she serves as clerkship director for the Health Disparities in Emergency Medicine rotation and Co-Leader of the Women in Emergency Medicine group.

In addition to local leadership, Dr. Brown holds several national leadership roles including Chair for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion National Section as well as Section Editor for the WestJEM. Throughout her medical education, she also held several national leadership positions including, but not limited to, Student National Medical Association National Vice President and Strategic Planning Council Member and National Chair of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine Resident and Student Association Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Her research related to DEI has been published in such journals as JAMA Internal Medicine, Annals of Emergency Medicine, and Academic Emergency Medicine.

Kristen L. Rising, MD

Assistant Professor

Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals

Dr. Rising is a clinician investigator with a primary research interest in improving the quality and capacity of the US acute care delivery system to best serve individual patient needs. She completed medical school at the University of California San Francisco (2008), emergency medicine residency training at Boston Medical Center (2012), and received a Masters of Science in Health Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania (2014). Dr. Rising is currently an Assistant Professor and the Director of Acute Care Transitions in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. Her work over the past few years has focused on exploring factors associated with Emergency Department revisits in an effort to identify systemic factors contributing to patient struggles in managing their health in the outpatient setting. Her current funding includes the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and the Emergency Medicine Foundation.