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Robert Turer, MD, MSE, MSACI

Assistant Professor

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Robert Turer, MD, MSE, MSACI is an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

After completing his undergraduate degree in computer engineering and a Masters degree in biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan, Dr. Turer attended the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He completed residency in emergency medicine at the University of Michigan, where he served as a chief resident. He pursued fellowship training and a Masters degree in clinical informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center before joining the faculty at UT Southwestern in 2021.

At UT Southwestern, Dr. Turer serves as a core faculty member within the Clinical Informatics Center, program director for the clinical informatics fellowship, and Deputy Chief Medical Informatics Officer (DCMIO) for analytics. As a researcher, he studies patient-facing technologies, including patient portals. Dr. Turer, along with Dr. Robin Higashi, was awarded a Texas health resources clinical scholars grant to study language-related disparities in patient portal enrollment and use among Spanish-speaking patients in Dallas.

Robert Ehrman, MD, MS

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Wayne State University

Dr. Robert Ehrman is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and a Fellowship in Emergency Ultrasound at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, IL. In 2019, he received a Master of Science in biostatistics and research design from the University of Michigan. He is the Director of Emergency Ultrasound Research at Detroit Medical Center, a member of the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design group at Wayne State University, and a methods and statistics editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. Dr. Ehrman’s research focuses on the use of heart and lung ultrasound, in combination with biomarkers, to optimize fluid resuscitation in sepsis. As a principal investigator, he has received research funding from NIGMS, SAEMF, and multiple industry contracts. He has collaborated on multiple studies involving echocardiography and lung ultrasound in acute heart failure, with funding from NHLBI, NIMHD, and EMF.

Eric D. Isaacs, MD

University of California (San Francisco)/San Francisco General Hospital

Eric Isaacs is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at UCSF and an emergency physician practicing at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital for over 30 years. He is a founding faculty member for the EMTalk course, focused on teaching communication skills around serious illness to emergency providers. He is also the Medical Director for the Age-Friendly Emergency Department at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Eric Isaacs also serves as the site director at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital for the UCSF medical student coaching program