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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.

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Rachel B. Liu, MD

Yale University

Dr. Liu is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, where she is also the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Director and Associate Ultrasound Section Chief for the Department. For the School, she is the Director of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Education and Director of the Advanced Training Period, building ultrasound opportunities and curricula for students as well as overseeing the electives and sub-internships. She has held leadership positions within the major ultrasound sections of the emergency medicine societies including the SAEM Academy of Emergency Ultrasound and the ACEP Ultrasound Section. She has been awarded numerous teaching prizes both locally and nationally.

Henry E. Wang, MD, MS

The Ohio State University

Dr. Wang is Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Ohio State University. He is one of the world's most prolific emergency medicine scientists and is internationally recognized for his scientific work in out-of hospital airway management, resuscitation, and sepsis epidemiology. He is the Principal Investigator for the Pediatric Prehospital Airway Resuscitation Trial (Pedi-PART), and he is a co-investigator on the Pediatric Dose Optimization for Seizures in EMS (PediDOSE) study.