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Richard A. Taylor, MD, MHS

Vice Chair, Research and Innovation

UVA Health

Richard Andrew Taylor, MD, MHS, is an international leader in digital health and artificial intelligence (AI), specializing in the integration of emerging technologies into clinical practice. His research spans interdisciplinary domains, addressing not only the technical aspects of AI-driven clinical decision support but also the ethical, social, and implementation challenges that shape the future of digital health. At UVA, he aims to build collaborative initiatives that bridge medicine, data science, and policy to drive responsible and impactful innovation in emergency care and beyond.

Elizabeth S. Temin, MD, MPH

Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital

I am an Emergency Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). I completed my Emergency Medicine Residency at Boston Medical Center in 2004. I then went on to complete a fellowship in Emergency Medical Services at Boston EMS in 2006, during which I obtained my MPH from Boston University School of Public Health. I joined the faculty at MGH in July 2006 where I provide clinical care, supervise trainees including residents, medical students and advanced practice providers (APPs), conduct research, and provide administrative leadership for my department as the first Division Chief for Advanced Practice Provider Affair.

I have been the medical director for APPs in the MGH Emergency Department (ED) since 2009. I currently supervise over 70 APPs including hiring, training, direct observation, chart review, didactic and simulation teaching, bedside teaching and ongoing quality assessment. I have created multiple educational opportunities for our APPs including simulation, didactic and ultrasound teaching at each stage of their careers, including onboarding, work in the Acute area of the ED, the pediatric area of the ED, and the ED observation unit, as well as continuing education with monthly simulation sessions and procedural training. I have published on this work, including papers on best practices, educational and integrational initiatives, In 2016 I started the interest group at SAEM for Medical Directors of Advanced Practice Providers, since combined with the SAEM Operations interest group, and sat on the SAEM APP task force which published a national survey of all academic ED chairs and program directors on their views and use of APPs in 2021. In 2021 I became chief of the first national Division of APP Affairs in an academic ED. In this role I lead our staff in research, national leadership positions, educational initiatives and clinical care. Many of the APPs I have trained have gone on to start and lead clinical programs in other EDs, to sit on national organization boards, and teach in national and international ultrasound programs and to publish in national journals.
In other areas of interest I spent 10 years as the assistant director for Quality and Safety in our department, spearheading initiatives on patient and staff safety, leading simulation session on implicit bias, and taking the lead to write a code of conduct for patients and visitors. I also co-lead the MGH ED women's group and have initiated a salary and leadership role review by gender of our department.
During my years at MGH I have strived for excellence in my clinical care, research, teaching and department administration to contribute to the intellectual pursuits of the MGH.

Christopher R. Carpenter, MD, MSc

Member-at-Large

Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

As a specialty, emergency medicine arose by necessity 50 years ago as pockets of physicians around the United States envisioned a world in which the first hours of life-threatening illness or injury were managed and coordinated by medical professionals with the requisite training to identify and treat emergencies. The forefathers of emergency medicine provided a broad foundation upon which to build our specialty with the support of more established surgical and medical teams, but also carving a uniquely indelible niche in the House of Medicine. As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded over the last two years, our world reaped the benefits of a specialty ready to provide care for anyone for anything at anytime — often despite threats to personal safety and emotional well-being. Through the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, academicians also contributed essential methodological expertise to combat the pandemic using our foundational expertise in rapid problem-solving, Bayesian diagnostics, and implementation science.

As a member of the SAEM Board of Directors throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, I am extremely proud to have navigated the logistical and financial challenges to our society and membership amidst the uncertainties of a polymorphous threat to global health. I leveraged the Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) Evidence Based Diagnostics series that I created to publish one of the earliest diagnostic accuracy reviews for each element of history, physical exam, labs, and imaging necessary to diagnose COVID-19 at the bedside. I subsequently collaborated with medical educators via the AEM Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine podcast series that I helped to create to efficiently disseminate these COVID-19 lessons globally. Concurrently, I created and lead SAEM’s Guidelines for Reasonable and Appropriate Care in Emergency Medicine (GRACE) at the Board’s direction so that our specialty can finally produce clinical practice guidelines using the GRADE methods utilized by most other specialty societies. On behalf of the Board, I also organized and led the Advanced Practice Provider’s Task Force, ultimately co-authoring a manuscript summarizing the penetration of nurse practitioners and physician assistants across academic emergency departments. My term as SAEM Board Member-at-Large has highlighted the knowable obstacles ahead for emergency medicine’s sustainable future, including workforce uncertainties and sustainable research funding. As an educator, mentor, funded researcher, and clinician, I am committed to representing the entire membership of SAEM as secretary-treasurer on the SAEM Executive Committee by leveraging innovation with a commitment to excellence in the spirit of my previous efforts within our society.

Joseph Miller, MD, MS

Clinical Associate Professor

Henry Ford Health / Michigan State University Health Sciences

I am a Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Henry Ford Health and Michigan State University. I lead the SAEM ARMED course and frequently speaks on statistical methods. My research focuses on the intersection of neurological and cardiovascular emergencies, and I am a principal investigator for a R01 ancillary study to the BOOST-3 trial.

Tracy Madsen, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Emergency Medicine

Brown University

Dr. Tracy Madsen is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at Brown University, the Vice-Chair of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine, and serves as the Interim Director of the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Madsen received her MD from the Boston University School of Medicine and completed a residency (with last year as Chief Resident) at Brown University before completing a research fellowship in the Division of Sex and Gender Medicine at Brown University. She completed a Master’s Degree in Clinical and Translational Research (2014) and a PhD in Epidemiology (2021), both at the Brown University School of Public Health. Dr. Madsen has expertise in sex and gender based medicine, acute cerebrovascular disease, stroke epidemiology and prevention, and disparities in the healthcare system and in the emergency medicine workforce. She is funded by the NHLBI, has over 100 peer reviewed publications, speaks nationally and internationally on topics including stroke in women, health inequities in stroke, and disparities in the academic EM workforce, and is regarded as an expert in the field of stroke in women. She is currently serving as the 2021 National Academy of Medicine/ ABEM Fellow.

Alyson McGregor, MD MA FACEP

University of South Carolina

Alyson J. McGregor, MD MA FACEP is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and currently serves as Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Development at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. Dr. McGregor was the co-founder and Director of the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications on biological sex differences and their impact on women’s health and was recently awarded an Honorary Degree in Science by the University of New Hampshire for her life’s work.
Dr. McGregor currently serves as a member of the Advisory Committee Research on Women’s Health for the Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health. She is a Co-Founder of the national organization Sex and Gender Health Collaborative and serves on the Advisory Council to the Sex and Gender Health Education Summit series which is designed to establish an integrative sex and gender curriculum for current and future health professionals. In her new role at the School of Medicine Greenville, Dr. McGregor is responsible for the development of over 1300 clinical faculty for which she has established novel programs for Emerging Leaders, a Clinical Educator Teaching Academy, and recently was awarded an NIH R25 Grant for the project Sex and Gender Curricular Assessment and Revision (SG-CAR).
Dr. McGregor’s TEDx talk, “Why Medicine Often Has Dangerous Side Effects for Women,” currently has over 2 million views, and her award-winning book “Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What We Can Do About It”. Dr. McGregor is excited to have recently published her second book entitled “Why Women Aren’t Winning at Health (But Can)” Published by WorldChangers Media.

Cori Poffenberger, MD