People

Ivan Zvonar, MD

Harborview Medical Center/University of Washington Medical Center/University of Washington School of Medicine

I am currently a Medical Education Research Fellow at the University of Washington Department of Emergency Medicine. I studied at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine and completed my residency training at the Boston Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine. My interests lie primarily in graduate medical education, and my scholarship focuses on better understanding and supporting resident responses to medical error and investigating the social processes that underlie patient handoff.

Diann Krywko, MD

Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine

Medical University of South Carolina

Diann Krywko, MD, is the chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Medical University of South Carolina. She completed her undergraduate studies at Michigan State University-Lyman Briggs College of Natural Sciences in 1992 and graduated from Wayne State University School of Medicine in 1996.

Carrie Harvey, MD

University of Michigan

Dr. Carrie Harvey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and is board-certified in both Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. She completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, where she served as chief resident. She then completed a fellowship in Anesthesiology Critical Care at the University of Michigan, becoming the first emergency medicine graduate from this program. She is a former Assistant Program Director for the Emergency Medicine residency and is passionate about medical education, particularly surrounding high-stakes communication in the ED and ICU environments, for which she serves as an institutional instructor. Her clinical and research interests include delivery of palliative care in the ED and ICU, improving communication with critically ill patients and families, and the interface between ED management and ICU outcomes.

Stuart N. Harris, MD, MFA

Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Stuart is the founder and Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Wilderness Medicine, and the Director of the MGH Wilderness Medicine Fellowship. He is a full-time clinician (attending physician) in the MGH Emergency Department and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He an affiliated faculty member at the Arctic Initiative at the Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is the primary investigator of NO COV-ED, a clinical trial investigating use of inhaled nitric oxide to treat acute COVID in the emergency department.

Lara Phillips, MD

Thomas Jefferson University

Dr. Lara Phillips is a clinical Associate Professor at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital where she works as an emergency medicine physician. She is the faculty advisor of the Wilderness and Disaster Medicine Interest Group at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at TJU. She completed a fellowship in Wilderness Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. During this fellowship, she worked at Health Aid Posts in the Annapurna Mountains through the Himalayan Rescue Association and continued to volunteer with relief efforts in Kathmandu after the Nepal earthquake in spring 2015. She has also worked in rural Dillingham, Alaska through the Indian Health Service and in Guyana at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. She has a passion for teaching and service to the underserved in rural areas. Currently, she is one of the directors for the Breckenridge Wilderness and Environmental Medicine Elective for senior medical students. Her experiences have also led her to help with numerous covid initiatives, serving as part of the Regional Congregate Care Assistance Teams during the pandemic. She continues to pursue an academic career by combining patient care and teaching in traditional and non-traditional emergency medicine settings.

Luan Lawson, MD

Senior Associate Dean, Medical Education and Student Affairs

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Luan Lawson, MD, is the Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education and Student Affairs, and a professor of emergency medicine (EM), at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. She has extensive experience in undergraduate medical education, with a particular focus on curriculum development, assessment, and team-based training. Previously, as Principal Investigator of the AMA Accelerating Change in Education grant at East Carolina University, Dr. Lawson led the development and implementation of key health systems science initiatives, including the Teachers of Quality Academy faculty development program, a health system transformation and leadership distinction track, and a longitudinal curriculum.

Dr. Lawson has contributed nationally to medical education through her service on the USMLE Step # CCS Committee, National Board of Medical Examiners' EM Advanced Clinical Exam task force, and as a past president of the Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine (CDEM).

Matthew C. Tews, DO, MS, CHSE, FACEP,

Indiana University School of Medicine

Matthew Tews, DO, MS, CHSE, FACEP, is Associate Dean and Campus Director at Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) – West Lafayette and a Professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) in the IUSM Department of EM. He was previously the Associate Dean for Educational Simulation at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University where he was also the Medical Director of the Augusta University Interdisciplinary Simulation Center and a Professor of EM. Prior to that he was the Assistant Dean for Clinical Curriculum at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and served in multiple roles in the medical school and the Department of EM. He completed an Emergency Medicine internship and residency program at Michigan State University/Sparrow Health in Lansing, MI, and a fellowship in faculty development at Wright State University Department of EM in Dayton, OH. He has a master’s degree in medical education leadership from the University of New England and has focused his teaching and scholarly efforts on creating, utilizing and describing novel and interactive teaching modalities across the spectrum of medical education, such as high-fidelity simulation, standardized patients, and online educational platforms. He is board certified in emergency medicine, has practiced at four level 1 academic trauma centers, and trained medical students and residents for the last 18 years. He currently practices at Methodist Hospital Emergency Department and Trauma Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.