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Masashi Okubo, MD, MS

University of Pittsburgh

The overarching goal of this SAEMF Research Large Project Grant is to identify and measure prehospital resuscitation culture that contributes to variations in survival and functional outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) across emergency medical services (EMS) agencies in the United States. OHCA is a major public health problem worldwide, annually affecting over 356,000 Americans with substantial regional variation in survival and functional recovery.

Karin Rhodes, MD, MS

Chief Implementation Officer

Agency for Healthcare Research& Quality (AHRQ)

Karin Rhodes, MD MS is Chief Implementation Officer at the Agency for Healthcare Research& Quality (AHRQ), leading a strategic plan for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund investments and contributing to AHRQ’s practice improvement efforts. Karin completed an emergency medicine residency and the RWJF Clinical Scholar’s Program at the University of Chicago. At Penn, she was inaugural Chair of the Center for Emergency Care and Policy Research, where she led research teams testing ED innovations in screening/intervening for health-related social risks, improving transitions in care, and led a national team tracking the impact of ACA insurance expansions on access to primary care in 10 diverse states. As VP for Care Management at the Northwell Health, she designed and evaluated innovations to address the complex care needs and social determinants of patients across the continuum of care. After a year in DC as a RWJF Health Policy Fellow in both the Senate and House, she served as director of public health for the state of New Mexico, giving her experience with both federal and state legislation and policy making. During the COVID-19 pandemic in NYC, Karin worked with Health & Hospital’s ED COVID-19 Action Team on public health messaging and convened regional EM leadership to develop a set of ethical principles for equitable allocation of resuscitation resources. With support from RWJF, she engaged a human-centered design firm, organized and co-chaired Emergency Medicine All Threats (EMAT), an informal network of NYC-area emergency medicine leaders seeking to break down silos across competing health systems, share regional knowledge and actionable data, and improve health equity and public health preparedness. As AHRQ’s first ever Chief Implementation Officer, she hopes to build on these experiences and support federal cross-agency teams to generate, synthesize, disseminate, and integrate evidence into clinical care and give patients a voice in the complex process of health system change.

Joneigh S. Khaldun, MD, MPH

Chief Medical Executive and Chief Deputy Director for Health

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS)

Joneigh S. Khaldun, MD, MPH is the Chief Medical Executive and Chief Deputy Director for Health in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). In those roles, she provides overall medical guidance for the State of Michigan and oversees public health, Medicaid, behavioral health, and aging services for MDHHS. She leads the state’s public health response to COVID-19. Prior to her role at MDHHS, she was the Director of the Detroit Health Department, where she led a robust community health assessment, established a comprehensive reproductive health network, and led Detroit’s response to the largest Hepatitis A outbreak in modern U.S. history. Previously, Dr. Khaldun was the Baltimore City Health Department’s Chief Medical Officer and the Founder and Director of the Fellowship in Health Policy in the University of Maryland Department of Emergency Medicine. She is currently a member of the National Advisory Board for the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the University of Michigan, the Health and Medicine Committee of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and the Board of Directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit. Dr. Khaldun is the recipient of several awards, including the National Minority Quality Forum 40 Under 40 Leaders in Minority Health Award, the deBeaumont Foundation 40 Under 40 Leaders in Public Health Award, the Kresge Emerging Leaders in Public Health Fellowship, the George Washington University Milkin Institute School of Public Health Dean’s 950 Award, 2020 Crain’s Detroit Notable Women in Health, and Crain’s Detroit 2020 Newsmaker of the Year. Dr. Khaldun obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, MPH in Health Policy from George Washington University, and completed residency in emergency medicine at SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY, where she was elected chief resident in her final year. She is a board-certified emergency medicine physician and practices part-time at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Renee Hsia, MD, MSc

Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy

University of California San Francisco

Renee Y. Hsia, MD, MSc, is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy at the University of California San Francisco. She is Associate Chair of Health Services Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine, and also a member of the Philip R. Lee Institute of Health Policy Studies, UCSF Global Health Economics Consortium, and UCSF Center for Healthcare Value. Dr. Hsia is a national leader in research focusing on access to emergency care, especially for vulnerable populations; emergency department and trauma center utilization; the effect of service availability on patient outcomes; regionalization of care; and the wide variation in the costs and charges in healthcare. She has had over 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and her pioneering work has been highlighted in print media such as the New York Times, national radio such as NPR, and network television. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; and the American Heart Association. Dr. Hsia has received numerous awards, including the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine Early Career Faculty Award, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Young Investigator Award, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholars Award, and a Fulbright-Schuman Award from the U.S. Department of State and European Union. She has been invited on visiting professorships to multiple universities. She has mentored more than 40 trainees ranging from pre-medical students to junior faculty on projects, the majority of which have resulted in publications as well as oral and poster presentations at national meetings. Dr. Hsia works clinically at the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, and speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, and French. She received her undergraduate degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; her medical degree from Harvard Medical School; her master’s training in health policy, planning, and financing at the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; and her residency training in emergency medicine at Stanford University.

Taneisha Wilson, MD, SCM

Brown University / Rhode Island Hospital

Michael Lyons, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

University of Cincinnati

Michael S. Lyons, MD, MPH has been a transformative and nationally recognized leader at the intersection of emergency medicine and public health for nearly 20 years, most predominantly in the areas of transmissible infectious diseases and substance use disorders. After completing his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University, he attended Duke Medical School with election to AOA and then served as Resident and Chief Resident at the University of Cincinnati (UC), where he is now Associate Professor. As faculty, Dr. Lyons completed a Master of Public Health degree at Emory University and has headed the Division of Public Health and Health Services Research since 2002. Dr. Lyons has worked tirelessly to reduce fragmentation that divides emergency medicine from public health and other healthcare entities. In particular, he leads the UC Early Intervention Program (EIP), an ever-expanding array of clinical prevention services continuously funded for two decades by a variety of public health, community, healthcare, and industry sponsors. The EIP was the first and most notable example of health departments directly funding prevention programs in EDs and innovates operational changes to advance public health practice in healthcare settings that do not require external funding. EIP is also active in the community, most recently operating a massive $multi-million countywide COVID screening effort. Over 100 nurses, physicians, researchers, and other allied health professionals began their careers as EIP service providers, and Dr. Lyons has directly mentored countless others in projects and clinical practice. This body of clinical, educational, and administrative work directly informs Dr. Lyons’ research, which has been variously funded by NIH, CDC, AHRQ, EMF, and SAMHSA and required leadership of multi-disciplinary collaborations involving infectious diseases, gastroenterology, virology, addiction and mental health, communications, sociology, economics, healthcare informatics, and operations simulation. Dr. Lyons has authored multiple seminal papers involving ED screening and linkageto-care practices, led the planning and evaluation of the nation’s largest per capita regional naloxone distribution effort, and is currently honored to serve as co-lead of Ohio’s “Intervention Operations Core” in the unprecedented $350 million NIH/SAMHSA HEALing Communities Study, promoting multisector system and practice change to substantially reduce opioid overdose deaths. He has also played a leading role in development of the EM Transmissible Infectious Diseases and Epidemics (EMTIDE) SAEM interest group, served as an invited co-editor for special supplement issues to Annals of Emergency Medicine and Public Health Reports, and was an invited speaker for an American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) Congressional Briefing on the role medical colleges can play in community health. 

Michelle P. Lin, MD, MPH, MS

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Michelle Lin, MD, MPH, MS, FACEP is an emergency physician and health services researcher whose goal is to improve the value, equity and patient-centeredness of emergency care. Dr. Lin is the recipient of a five-year grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI/ NIH) to validate a novel instrument to assess patient-reported outcomes after adult ED asthma visits and evaluate the association with subsequent acute care utilization, after adjusting for geospatially coded environmental & social risk factors. Her prior work has been funded by the Emergency Medicine Foundation and American Board of Medical Specialties and examines variation in ED outcomes and the influence of alternative payment models on acute care delivery and payment. Dr. Lin is engaged in research and implementation projects on career development to enhance diversity and equity; actively mentors several fellows, residents, and medical students. She holds leadership roles on multiple national committees, including the National Quality Forum, the American College of Emergency Physicians Quality Committee, and Academy of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine. Dr. Lin completed a fellowship in Health Policy Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and completed residency at Bellevue Hospital and NYU Medical Center.

Bernard P. Chang, MD

Vice Chair of Research and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Columbia University

Elizabeth M. Goldberg, MD, ScM

University of Colorado, Denver

Dr. Liz Goldberg is a practicing emergency physician and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. After her residency, she completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in gerontology and epidemiology at Brown University. Dr. Goldberg is the recipient of the prestigious Paul B. Beeson Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging which funds a fall prevention trial using the Apple Watch to track cognition and fitness. Her research focus is creating effective interventions to improve emergency care for geriatric patients, and using digital tools to help older adults age in place. Dr. Goldberg is the past President of the Academy for Geriatric Emergency Medicine for the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. In this capacity she led the research and education efforts of over 300 academic clinicians to improve geriatric emergency care in the US.

Cherri Hobgood, MD

Member-at-Large

Indiana University

Cherri D. Hobgood, MD is the founder of the Center for Leadership Life, a research and data repository for leadership in academic medicine. Throughout her career as an academic leader, she attained the rank of tenured full professor and held a range of leadership roles, including Associate Dean and Department Chair. Her national organizational leadership includes tenures as the President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), Chair of the Board for the SAEM Foundation (SAEMF), and Chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Board of Directors. She currently serves as an executive board leader of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM). She has been honored for my contributions by SAEM with the John Marx Leadership award and IFEM with the Order of the IFEM.

Robert Silbergleit, MD

Professor with Tenure

University of Michigan

Robert Silbergleit MD is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of Michigan. He graduated from MIT and the University of Michigan Medical School, completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and trained as a research fellow at the George Washington University. Past research involved preclinical models of traumatic and ischemic injury, and clinical investigations in acute stroke care. His current research focuses on confirmatory phase clinical trials of acute interventions for neurological and cardiac emergencies. He is currently a Principal Investigator of the Clinical Coordinating Center for the NIH (NINDS. NHLBI, and NCATS) funded SIREN Emergency Clinical Trials network, as well as a PI for ICECAP, a national multicenter adaptive clinical trial of hypothermia duration in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest. He has also been a PI for RAMPART and ESETT, two national multicenter large randomized controlled clinical trials of treatments for acute status epilepticus. Dr. Silbergleit also currently contributes to the leadership of the ongoing BOOST, HOBIT, and C3PO clinical trials. He has served in the leadership of several other large trials including ProTECT and ATACH, and the Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials (NETT) network, the predecessor of SIREN. Dr. Silbergleit is dedicated to improving the structure and efficiency of the clinical trial enterprise. He has been a co-investigator on a regulatory science grant from the NIH and FDA to investigate adaptive clinical trial methods in confirmatory phase trials. He also has expertise in clinical and research ethics. He is vice-chair of the Michigan Medicine Research Ethics Committee, and a long-standing member of the Clinical Ethics Committee. He has written and presented extensively on the ethics and regulation of planned emergency research. He is the Principal Investigator on an NIH funded empirical ethics research project to study local context review by individual and centralized Institutional Review Boards, and an NIH funded supplement on paramedic, investigator, and patient family experiences in emergency research and clinical care. He has served as an editor or reviewer for numerous journals. He has served on several NIH study sections and special emphasis panels, and has served as a reviewer, advisor, or participant for numerous other FDA, NIH, and other Federal review panels, advisory groups, or workshops. He has authored over 100 peer reviewed articles and commentaries, and 17 book chapters.

Marie-Carmelle Elie, MD, FACEP, FCCM, FAAEM, RDMS

University of Alabama Birmingham

Dr. Elie is an Endowed Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Elie is triple board-certified in emergency medicine, critical care and hospice and palliative care medicine.

Deborah B. Diercks, MD, MSc

Immediate Past President

UT Southwestern Medical Center

 

Ian B. K. Martin, MD, MBA

President-Elect

Medical College of Wisconsin

Dr. Ian Martin is System Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) Medical School and Emergency Physician-in-Chief for Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin Health System. At MCW, he holds appointments as Eminent Scholar and Professor with Tenure of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine. Dr. Martin is also Professor in the Institute for Health and Equity. Before this, he served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at West Virginia University School of Medicine as well as Emergency Physician-in-Chief for West Virginia University Health System.

Before his election to the AACEM Board, Dr. Martin completed terms as Immediate Past-President, President, President-Elect, Secretary-Treasurer, and an At-Large Member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) – the premier association representing researchers and educators in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Martin is also the founder and a Past-President of SAEM’s Global Emergency Medicine Academy. In 2020, he was appointed by the Mayor of Milwaukee to the City of Milwaukee Board of Health for an indefinite term. The same year, he was also appointed to the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment External Board (the Consortium on Public and Community Health), also for an indefinite term. Finally, in 2021, Dr. Martin was appointed to the Milwaukee Tennis and Education Foundation Board of Directors.

Dr. Martin is the 2018 recipient of the Marcus L. Martin, M.D. Leadership in Diversity and Inclusion Award by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Dr. Martin was recently named recipient of the 2020 Drexel University College of Medicine Distinguished Alumnus Award as well as of the 2020 Georges Benjamin, M.D. Award for excellence in education, service, and research by the National Medical Association’s Emergency Medicine Section. Lastly, in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Martin was named recipient of a “Notable Heroes in Health Care” Award by BizTimes Milwaukee. Recently, members of the Class of 2023 Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) MCW-beta Chapter selected him to join them as an inductee into the prestigious AOA national honor society. In 2023, Milwaukee County honored Dr. Martin with a citation for launching Wisconsin’s first opt-out, universal, emergency department-based HIV testing program.

Breena Taira, MD, MPH

Director, Section of International and Domestic Health Equity and Leadership (IDHEAL), UCLA

Olive View-UCLA Medical Center

Dr. Taira is an emergency physician and the Director of Research for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Olive View- UCLA Medical Center. In 2016, she became director of the Section of International and Domestic Health Equity and Leadership (IDHEAL) for the UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine whose mission is to define and promote the role that academic emergency medicine can play in the promotion of health equity and elimination of health disparities locally, nationally and globally. (www.idheal.org) Her research focuses on improving quality of care and health outcomes for patients with limited English proficiency. She speaks locally and nationally on language justice and communication in health care.

Phillip C. Moschella, MD, PhD

Prisma Health – Upstate (South Carolina)

Dr. Moschella is a board-certified Emergency Physician Scientist (MD/PhD) with an extensive background in cellular signaling. He is a full-time clinician, associate professor and the assistant research director for the Department of Emergency Medicine for Prisma Health-Upstate. He manages all the research projects within the department of over 70 physicians and 30 resident physicians. His primary research emphasis surrounds HIV and HCV recognition, and linkage to care from the emergency department (ED), with several publications in top-tier emergency medicine journals. He has expanded his research interests into substance use disorders and specifically opioids. He is the PI on a large ($1.5 million over 3 years) grant from SAMHSA to evaluate the use of Alternatives to Opioids in the ED. He has recently published an exciting systematic review on the effects of peer-recovery services in the ED and on his alternatives to opioids project. His mix of clinical experience and basic science allowed him to advance medical design to solve real-world clinical problems. His collaboration with engineers at Clemson University, have produced publications on a novel portable negative pressure environment for treatment of COVID-19 and a novel pH sensing peritoneal dialysis catheter to aid in early detection of infection in top-tier engineering journals.

Aasim Padela, MD, MSc

Associate Professor

Medical College of Wisconsin

Dr. Padela is a clinician-researcher with scholarship foci at the intersections of religious identity, healthcare, and bioethics.

His empirical work focuses on developing tailored community-based interventions tacking Muslim health disparities, and his normative scholarship focused on the ethics of cultural accommodations of provider and patient identities in the halls of medicine. He also studies the impact of discrimination on Muslim patient and providers.

Jason Rotoli, MD

Secretary-Treasurer

University of Rochester

I believe in the inclusive mission of ADIEM and want to serve as more than a committee chair and general member. In the treasurer/secretary position, I am immersed in the conversations, strategic planning, and decision-making that guides the future development of this amazing organization. I truly enjoy the collaborative creation that occurs during our monthly meetings. Additionally, I was the Treasurer/Secretary for the 2022-23 year and fulfilled my duties to the best of my abilities with honor and integrity. I would like to leverage this experience to further contribute to the group by serving in this position again.

Dara Kass, MD

Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

Columbia University Department of Emergency Medicine

Michael Gottlieb, MD

Rush University Medical Center

Michael Gottlieb, MD is the Vice Chair of Research and Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Division at Rush University Medical Center. He is Past-Chair of the ACEP Ultrasound Section and Past-Chair of the AAEM Ultrasound Section. He has authored over 500 peer-reviewed publications and is an Editor for Academic Medicine, The Annals of Emergency Medicine, The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, and Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training, as well as the Social Media Editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. He is Past-Chair of the CORD Academy for Scholarship, Past-Chair of the SAEM Education Summit, Past-Chair of the CORD Education Committee, Past-Chair of the CORD Best Practices Subcommittee, and a nationally-recognized speaker and educator. His academic interests include medical education, ultrasound, infectious diseases, heart failure, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.