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Jeffrey P. Feden, MD, FACEP, FAMSSM

Brown University

Dr. Feden is an academic emergency physician with Brown Emergency Medicine in Providence, RI. He is fellowship-trained in primary care sports medicine and serves as a team physician at the NCAA Division I and Division III levels. He additionally serves as Associate Medical Director for the Anderson Emergency Center at Rhode Island Hospital.

Charles R. Wira, MD

Yale University School of Medicine

Dr. Wira is board certified in Internal and Emergency Medicine with specialization in Stroke and Emergency Critical Care. He provides clinical care in the Yale Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) and also for the Division of Vascular Neurology in the Department of Neurology. He has held volunatary leadership positions with the AHA/ASA, inclusive of serving on the Leadership Committee of the Stroke Council, and past served as Chair of the State of Connecticut Stroke Task Force at the CT Department of Health. Dr. Wira performs research in the areas of stroke, sepsis, and cardiac arrest, and helps operate the Yale SIREN Hub, implementing phase II/III clinical trials of the NIH funded SIREN network.

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.