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Susan A. Stern, MD

Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Washington

Sue Stern, MD, is the head of the Department of Emergency Medicine (EM) that includes the Harborview and University of Washington Medical Center Emergency Departments. She is also an active researcher in the area of resuscitation science, specifically evaluating novel therapeutic strategies in the early phases following traumatic injury with hemorrhagic shock.

Dr. Stern earned her bachelor's degree from Tufts University and her M.D. from Case Western Reserve University. She completed her residency in EM at the University of Cincinnati, followed by a research fellowship in resuscitation science. After 17 years as faculty at the University of Michigan, she moved to the University of Washington in 2009 to lead the Department of Emergency Medicine.

She is board certified in EM and has served on the board of directors of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM).

Denise A. Dickerson, JD

Sutter O'Connell

Marilena DiSilvio, JD

Elk and Elk Co., LTD

Andrew King, MD, MAEd, FACEP, FAAEM

Associate Residency Program Director, Medical Education Fellowship Director

The Ohio State University

Andrew King, MD, MAEd, FACEP, FAAEM is the Associate Residency Program Director and Medical Education Fellowship Director at The Ohio State University. His professional interests include graduate medical education, curriculum design, assessment, program evaluation, and professional development. He has been the recipient of The Ohio State University Faculty Teacher of the Year, Ohio ACEP Medical Education Award, the CORD Faculty Teaching Award, and the CORD Academy for Scholars Award.

Elizabeth Samuels, MD, MPH, MHS

Associate Professor

UCLA

Elizabeth Samuels, MD, MPH, MHS, is an emergency medicine physician, health services trained researcher, and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at UCLA. She completed her emergency medicine training at the Brown Emergency Medicine Residency Program, a health service research and health policy fellowship at the Yale National Clinician Scholars Program, and is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Addiction Medicine. Her work focuses on social emergency medicine and health equity initiatives, specifically community health worker/peer recovery programs, harm reduction services, low barrier substance use disorder treatment, care of transgender and gender nonbinary people, health care workforce diversity, and emergency department programs to address health related social needs. A leader in EM research, Dr. Samuels received the SAEM Early Investigator Award in 2023 and the ACEP Research Forum Young Investigator Award in 2022, among numerous other honors.

Corrie Chumpitazi, MD, MS

Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. Corrie Chumpitazi is an associate professor of pediatrics, board certified in pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. She is associate chief of research at Texas Children’s Hospital with a passion for pediatric pain management and procedural sedation research, education, and quality improvement. She serves as Sedation Oversight Committee chair and Pain Care Process Team Assessment co-lead at Texas Children’s Hospital.

She has served as the site principal investigator (PI) for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) for several pain-related clinical trials, where she serves on the PECARN Pain and Sedation Sub-Committee. She is part of the executive core and a site PI for the Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Innovation and Improvement Center with focus on Knowledge Management and Research. Similarly she is funded on the HRSA Center for Pediatric Everyday Readiness where she serves as co-lead for the Knowledge Managment, Education and Communication Domain. She is co-chair of the national EMSC Scholar Development Program, and serves on the executive board of the AAP Section of Emergency Medicine Women in PEM subcommittee. She has written several pain and sedation textbook chapters, evidence-based guidelines, and research articles.

Dr. Chumpitazi received a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry from DePauw University, medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, completed her pediatric residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and her pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine. She additionally received a Master of Science degree in Clinical Research from the University of Texas Health Science Center.

Federico Vaca, MD, MPH

University of California, Irvine

Dr. Vaca is Professor and Executive Vice Chair at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine. He began his career at UCI in 1996; in 2009, he moved on to the Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine, where he was Professor, Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs, and instrumental in creating the department’s academic appointments and promotion process. In 2022, Dr. Vaca returned to UC Irvine. His career as an academic emergency medicine physician led him along the trajectory of navigating fellowship training programs, development of post-doctoral fellowships, establishment of department-based mentoring programs, establishment of injury science research centers, a visiting scholar appointment at the NIH, and NIH funding since 2007. Having navigated the academic waters in a multitude of domains over several decades, his wide breath of knowledge and experience directly related to the hidden curriculum in faculty development and advancing through the of world academia is highly aligned with the proposed SAEM didactic session. Further, as the didactic session moderator, his experience and insights will intentionally serve to identify and probe unique and more nuanced facet of the hidden curriculum to educate session attendees.