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Jim Miner, MD

Dr. Miner is research director and chief of the department of emergency medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center.  He has done extensive research in acute pain management and sedation, monitoring during resuscitation, and in health care delivery.  Dr. Miner is the senior editor for electronic publications for Academic Emergency Medicine journal and is the author of a textbook entitled "Emergency Sedation and Pain Management."

Lauren Westafer, DO, MPH, MS

Assistant Professor

University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate

Lauren Westafer, DO, MPH, MS (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate and Director of the Emergency Medicine Research Fellowship. Dr. Westafer completed an Emergency Medicine Research fellowship, during which she completed a Masters in Clinical and Translational Science through Tufts University School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences. She is a clinician-investigator with a focus on implementation science, de-implementation of low-value care, and pulmonary embolism. She completed a K12 as a Massachusetts Consortium for Cardiopulmonary Implementation Science Scholar and is currently funded by a K23 through the NHLBI, “De-implementaiton of Low-Value Evaluation of PE (DELVE-PE).”. Dr. Westafer is co-founder of the Emergency Medicine podcast, FOAMcast, that provides a critical appraisal of relevant topics and has had over 3 million independent downloads. She lectures internationally on knowledge translation, pulmonary embolism (PE), alcohol withdrawal, and quality of care for LGBTQIA+ patients. In addition, she serves as the Social Media Editor and a research methodology editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine.