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Charles Lei, MD

Hennepin County Medical Center

Dr. Charles Lei received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed his residency training at the Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency Program, where he served as Chief Resident. He then completed a fellowship in Emergency Medicine Simulation at Stanford. Dr. Lei currently serves as the Medical Director of the Interdisciplinary Simulation and Education Center at Hennepin County Medical Center. His academic interests include healthcare simulation, medical education at all stages, curriculum development, teamwork training, and quality improvement.

Ernesto J. Romo, MD

Washington University Department of Emergency Medicine

Ernesto Romo, MD, currently works at Washington University School of Medicine at Saint Louis in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He completed an emergency medicine residency at Cook County Hospital inChicago. He also completed a simulation fellowship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He is the director of diversity, equity and inclusion and the director of simulation for the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Romo also serves as a coach for medical students at Washington University. Dr. Romo was previously an assistant program director. He is father to the most magnificent daughters and these days enjoys discovering the universe alongside them.

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

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Marilena DiSilvio, JD

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