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Michael Cassara

Medical Director

Northwell Health Center for Learning and Innovation

Dr. Cassara is an academic emergency medicine physician with subspecialty expertise in healthcare simulation, health professions education, and educational scholarship. He serves as the Vice President for Interprofessional Education, Research, and Practice and Medical Director for the Northwell Health Center for Learning and Innovation. At Hofstra University, Dr. Cassara is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Science Education at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine with joint appointments at the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies at the Hofstra University School of Health Professions and Human Services. He has received multiple national and local awards for his teaching and editorial work in health professions education and healthcare simulation.

Gail D'Onofrio, MD, MS

Albert E. Kent Professor of Emergency Medicine

Yale University

Gail D’Onofrio, MD, MS is the Albert E. Kent Professor of Emergency Medicine and Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Yale University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. She has extensive experience as a leader, researcher, mentor, and educator, internationally known for her work in substance use disorders. As a physician-scientist she has had continual NIH-funding for over two decades, designing and conducting clinical trials that have changed clinical practice. In addition, she was one of the founding members of the Board of Addiction Medicine, that became recognized as a ABMS approved subspecialty in 2016, sponsored by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. Dr. D’Onofrio is the MPI of the New England Consortium Node for the NIDA Clinical Trials Network and is the MPI of both a NIDA-funded and NINDS funded K12 training program. She is committed to preparing young faculty to become independent investigators advancing the science of Emergency and Addiction Medicine. 

Bidisha Nath, MBBS MPH

Yale University

Bidisha Nath, MBBS, MPH - is an Associate Research Scientist and Health Services Researcher in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine.

Dr Nath has a background in Medicine, Public Health and Psychiatry. Her research focuses on patient centered approaches of improving Mental Health Outcomes in the Emergency Department and includes innovative healthcare delivery models, use of trauma informed care in the ED, and quality improvement and measure development towards improving staff safety, patient experience and outcomes for patients with mental health outcomes in the ED. She works closely with dr Ambrose Wong, MD and his lab across multiple projects that focus on patient centreded way of management of Behavioral Health Crisis in the ED.

At SAEM 2024, she will be presenting with Drs Wong, Im and others on "Current Best Practices for Managing Agitation and Workplace Violence: Mastering Coordinated Responses, De-escalation Strategies, and Medication Proficiency"

Contact/Email: bidisha.nath@yale.edu