People

Aaron Kraut, MD

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Aaron Kraut, MD, joined the emergency medicine faculty at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 2015 after completing his residency training at Northwestern University, where he served as a chief resident and was inducted into the Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators. He graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in biology and completed medical school at the University of Vermont Larner School of Medicine. His professional interests include resident education, feedback, and curriculum development. He is actively involved in multi-institutional education scholarship and educational leadership development.

Joshua W. Joseph, MD, MS, MBE

Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital

Dr. Joshua W. Joseph is an Emergency Physician and Clinical Informaticist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. I currently serve as the medical director for data analytics for the Mass General Brigham Emergency Medicine network. My research examines the intersection of patient throughput, clinical decision-making, and quality, through the lens of machine-learning techniques. This research encompasses how the decisions of individual physicians on-shift affect throughput in the department and hospital as a whole, and how physicians and nurses can help to mitigate structural inequalities in the delivery of care.

William E. Soares, III, MD, MS

University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate Campus

Bill Soares, MD, MS is board certified in Emergency and Addiction Medicine and an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Baystate in Springfield, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard Medical School and completed residency training at Alameda Health System in Oakland, CA. He joined Baystate in 2013 as an Emergency Medicine Research Fellow, earning a Master's Degree in Clinical and Translational Science at the Tufts Sackler School of Biomedical Science.

Bill is involved in multiple projects exploring clinical decision-making and implementation of opioid prescribing and treatment of opioid use disorder. He completed a NIDA K08 evaluating the impact of state legislation on opioid prescribing in the emergency department. Currently, he is co-PI on a NIDA R21/33 study exploring the use of virtual relatity in the ED to address bias experienced by patients with opioid use disorder. He hopes his research will improve access to treatment options for patients with substance use disorder who present to the emergency department.

Ryan D. Pappal, BS, NRP

Member-at-Large

Washington University in St. Louis

"I grew up in San Antonio, Texas and attended undergrad at Rice University and was a paramedic and a member of the leadership board of Rice Emergency Medical Services. I attended medical school at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and took an additional funded year to complete a Masters of Science in Clinical Investigation via the Pre-Doctoral TL1 Program. I am now a PGY-1 in Emergency Medicine at the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

I have served on the RAMS Research Committee for two terms and as a Medical Student Representative on the RAMS Board for two terms, and am now in my third year on the RAMS Board as a Resident Member-at-Large. My professional interests include clinical research, cardiac emergencies, and resident & trainee wellness. My hobbies center around spending time outside on hikes and camping, as well as music - ever since lockdown, I can officially say I am an amateur EDM music producer."