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Namita Jayaprakash, MB Bch BAO, MRCEM, FACEP

Henry Ford Health/Henry Ford Hospital

Dr. Jayaprakash is an EM-CCM dual board certified physician's in the United States. She is currently based in Detroit, MI where her academic and clinical focus is on the delivery of early interventions in critical illness. Her vision is delivered through clinical practice in emergency medicine and medical intensive care; her commitment to process improvement; and her research. Along these lines she is passionate about enhancing sepsis care and leads the Henry Ford Health system sepsis program and serves as the Associate Medical Director for Quality and Patient Safety in the Emergency Department at Henry Ford Hospital.

Graduating from University College Dublin in the Republic of Ireland, Dr. Jayaprakash completed a basic specialist training scheme in the Republic of Ireland and gained a competitive and esteemed Membership (by examination) to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine for the UK and Ireland. Following this, she completed an emergency medicine residency at Henry Ford Hospital and then a critical care fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine and Medicine at Michigan State University and a Clinical Assistant Professor in Emerency Medicine at Wayne State University.

Demian Szyld, MD, EdM

Boston Medical Center

Demian Szyld (pronounced “shield”), is an Attending Physician at Boston Medical Center where he cares for acutely ill and injured and enjoys being on high-performance teams and teaching at the bedside. He is the Director of Innovation in Education and Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs.

Demian trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and was the first Simulation and Education Fellow at the STRATUS Simulation Center at BWH. During that time he completed a Master’s in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

His academic and scholarly focuses on evidence based approaches to teaching and assessing clinical skills and more recently on bringing the techniques of reflection and debriefing to the clinical setting. His current focus is Debriefing in the Clinical Environment and Faculty Development.

Demian grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina until the age of 14. His mother, grandmother and other extended family still live there. Demian currently lives in Cambridge, MA with his family who speak Spanish, English and Bengali.