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Megan Ranney MD MPH

Megan Ranney MD MPH is a practicing emergency physician and researcher, focusing on the intersection between digital health, violence prevention, and public health.

She is the Director and founder of the Brown Emergency Digital Health Innovation (EDHI) program (www.brownedhi.org). She is also Chief Research Officer for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (www.affirmresearch.org), the country's only non-profit committed to reducing firearm injury through the public health approach, and a founding partner of GetUsPPE.org, dedicated to matching donors to health systems in need of protective equipment. She is a Fellow of the fifth class of the Aspen Health Innovators Fellowship Program and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

She graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in History of Science in 1997. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cote d'Ivoire prior to attending medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in NYC. She graduated with AOA status and received the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine award from the Gold Humanism Society on graduation. She completed internship, residency, and chief residency in Emergency Medicine, as well as a fellowship in Injury Prevention Research and a Master of Public Health, at Brown University.

She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital/Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is an editor for the journal Annals of Emergency Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and an elected member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Board of Directors. She has previously served as an appointed member of HIMSS' mHealth Physician Taskforce. Chair of the Research Committee for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and chair of the Firearm Injury Research Technical Advisory Group for the American College of Emergency Physicians. She has been PI or Co-I over a dozen federally funded grants, all focused on technology-based interventions for high risk populations. Her work has been featured by dozens of media outlets ranging from MSNBC to the New York Times to Fox News.

Matthew Stull, MD

Dr. Matt Stull is an EM-Intensivist and Assistant Program Director at the University Hospitals-Cleveland Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University EM Residency. He works as a cardiothoracic intensivist in addition to his time in the ED. He trained at the University of Pittsburgh for medical school, the University of Cincinnati for EM residency, and University of Michigan for critical care fellowship, as well as completing a medical education fellowship in Washington, D.C. His interests include educational innovation, leadership development, post-arrest management and mechanical circulatory support.

Lisa Maragakis, MD, MPH

Lisa Maragakis is an Associate Professor of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where she received her medical degree and post-doctoral Infectious Diseases training and a master’s degree in public health from The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She serves as Senior Director for Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Prevention for the Johns Hopkins Health System in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Maragakis is the Executive Director of the Biocontainment Unit at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She serves as Co-Chair of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and as Co-Chair for the 2020 update of the SHEA-IDSA Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare Associated Infections. Her research interests integrate infection prevention, human factors engineering, implementation science, and mathematical modeling approaches to develop new interventions to prevent the transmission of high-consequence pathogens in healthcare settings.

Leana Wen, MD, MSc

Dr. Leana Wen is a visiting professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, where she is also the distinguished fellow of the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity. Previously, she served as the Commissioner of Health for the City of Baltimore and as the President/CEO of Planned Parenthood. In 2019, Dr. Wen was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People and as Modern Healthcare’s 50 Most Influential Clinician-Executives.

Dr. Wen earned her medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine and her master’s degrees at the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She completed her residency training in emergency medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. The author of dozens of scientific articles, she has been an op-ed contributor for the Washington Post, National Public Radio, and Baltimore Sun, and is regularly featured on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC, and PBS

Kristin Ray, MD, MS

Dr. Kristin Ray is a general pediatrician at the UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, a health services researcher, and also trained in clinical informatics. She studies pediatric health care delivery systems with the goal of improving effectiveness, family-centeredness, and equity of care, and prior work has examined use of telemedicine in primary care, subspecialty, and emergency settings.

Korilyn Zachrison, MD, MSc

Kori S. Zachrison, MD, MSc is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is a health services researcher whose work focuses on systems of care and telemedicine use in emergency departments (EDs). She has led studies describing the prevalence of telemedicine use by EDs nationally, trends in adoption, barriers to use by rural EDs, and the role of policy in telemedicine implementation. She also has also been lead or co-investigator on multiple studies of telestroke use in EDs. These studies have been funded by various foundations and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Kevin Curtis, MD, MS

Dr. Curtis is the Medical Director of Connected Care and the Center for Telehealth at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health. He earned his medical degree from the Georgetown University School of Medicine and his Masters in Health Care Delivery Science from the Tuck School of Business and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. Curtis completed his Emergency Medicine Residency in 1998 at the George Washington University Medical Center followed by an Emergency Medicine Foundation Research Fellowship. Dr. Curtis has been at Dartmouth-Hitchcock since 2002 with prior roles that include co-founding the Emergency Medicine Residency and serving as its initial Program Director, acting as the Emergency Medicine Research Director and the Assistant Medical Director of Emergency Services, and serving as the Medical Director of TeleEmergency.

Kathryn Hawk, MD, MHS

Yale School of Medicine

Kathryn Hawk, MD, MHS is an attending physician in the Yale New Haven Hospital Emergency Department and an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, the Yale School of Public Health and the Program in Addiction Medicine. She was a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) K12 sponsored Drug use, Addiction and HIV Research (DAHRS) Scholar, and is board certified in emergency and addiction medicine. She completed her residency training and research fellowship in the Yale University Department of Emergency Medicine. Her research primarily focuses on the design, testing and implementation of evidence based-care for ED patients with substance use disorders, with an emphasis on initiating medications for opioid and alcohol use disorder in the ED and maximizing effective linkage to ongoing treatment using innovative strategies. Her research on quality improvement and reducing opioid-associated mortality through data linkages, implementation-facilitation ED-initiated buprenorphine for opioid use disorder, initiating treatment for alcohol use disorder in the ED and the dissemination of evidence-based best practices for care of patients with addiction has been funded by NIDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF), Foundation for Opioid Response (FORE), and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

Karen Rheuban

Dr. Rheuban is Professor of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine; Director, Center for Telehealth, University of Virginia; Dean for Continuing Education and External Affairs, University of Virginia; Past President of the American Telemedicine Association; Board Chair, Virginia Telehealth Network. Dr. Rheuban is a past President of the American Telemedicine Association, a board member of the Center for Telehealth and e-Health Law, and the board chair of the Virginia Telehealth Network. She is a trustee of the Swinfen Charitable Trust, an international telemedicine charity and a member of the Virginia Board of Medicine ad-hoc working group on telemedicine. Dr. Rheuban is the co-editor of the 2017 McGraw Hill textbook, Understanding Telehealth. Dr. Rheuban has previously presented Congressional testimony regarding telehealth to six committees within the US House of Representatives and the US Senate. Dr. Rheuban is the PI on the HRSA funded Mid Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center grant serving 8 states and the District of Columbia. In 2012, she chaired the Institute of Medicine Workshop on Telehealth. Dr. Rheuban currently serves on the AMA Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group.

Joshua Sharfstein, MD

Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein is Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement and Professor of the Practice in Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Previously, Dr. Sharfstein served as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, as Principal Deputy Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and as Commissioner of Health for Baltimore City. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Public Administration.

He is the author of the Public Health Crisis Survival Guide: Leadership and Management in Trying Times (2018). He is also the co-author of the book, The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know (2019), both from Oxford University Press.

Jonathan Sherbino, MD, MEd

Jonathan Sherbino is the assistant dean, health professions education research, faculty of health sciences, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. He is also a professor of medicine at McMaster University. Dr. Sherbino is the past chair of the Specialty Committee for Emergency Medicine, Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada. He is a clinician educator, coeditor of the CanMEDS 2015 Framework and cohost of the KeyLIME (Key Literature in Medical Education) podcast. He has published more than 135 papers and five books. Jonathan is an award-winning teacher whose accolades include the national 2018 Canadian Emergency Medicine teacher of the year. His research focuses on competency-based medical education.

Dr. Sherbino’s presentation will focus on evidence-informed techniques to improve learning efficiency. By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

Explain key learning theories, including modal model of memory, constructivism, and mastery learning, among others.
Adopt in their home program key learning techniques, including spaced repetition, spiral curricula, and concept mapping, among others

Jonathan Berkowitz, MD

Dr. Berkowitz is the Medical Director for Northwell's Centralized Transfer Center and Northwell's EMS Agency, CEMS. He is a board certified EMS Physician and his role at Northwell includes advancing transfer systems of care, healthcare command centers, and expanding the scope of prehospital care into the future of medicine. Dr. Berkowitz is an avid technophile with interests in secure clinical collaboration, artificial intelligence, and virtual and augmented reality. When he is not collaborating with his team on exciting projects he spends time with his family who are quarantining themselves in their 200 year old farm house in the Catskills region of NY.

Jon Davis, MD

Jon Davis, MD, is an attending emergency medicine physician at MedStar Washington Hospital Center (MWHC) and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (MGUH). He serves as Professor & Academic Chair of Emergency Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine and for MedStar Emergency Physicians.

His health system roles include work as Physician Chair of the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Committee for the MedStar Health GME Consortium. The Consortium consists of nearly 100 training programs, representing a wide array of medical specialties, and nearly 1,200 residents and fellows.

Dr. Davis is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM). He has received several national honors, including the National Faculty Teaching Award from ACEP. He was also selected as the National Emergency Medicine Program Director of the Year by AAEM in 2011.

Dr. Davis is active in several professional societies. He was selected to serve as Chair for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s National Graduate Medical Education Committee. He also was selected to serve on the Educational Committee/Scientific Assembly Planning Committee for ACEP, including work as the Planning Committee Chair. Dr. Davis is certified in Emergency Medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.

He is frequently invited to speak at meetings of professional societies. His lecture topics have ranged from hematologic, oncologic, allergic and genitourinary emergencies to academic and clinical advancement and leadership.

Dr. Davis is a peer reviewer for several publications. His scholarly works have been published in major scientific journals in the field, including Annals of Emergency Medicine, Journal of Emergency Medicine, American Journal of Emergency Medicine, and Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America. He has authored numerous chapters in leading textbooks, and he currently serves as an Associate Editor for Rosen’s Emergency Medicine, which is among the most frequently referenced resources in the specialty both nationally and internationally.

He received his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine Summa Cum Laude. He completed residency training in emergency medicine at Stanford University Medical Center, where he was selected to receive the Award for Clinical Excellence at the time of graduation.

Joe Miller, MD

Henry Ford Hospital

Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency and Internal Medicine at Wayne State University and Henry Ford Hospital, Program Director for combined EM/IM/Critical Care program, SAEM ARMED Course Director, research interests lie in cardiovascular and neurological emergencies.

Jeremy Brown, MD

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Jeremy Brown, MD, Jeremy Brown is Director of the Office of Emergency Care Research, part of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health. He trained as an emergency physician in Boston, and prior to joining the NIH he worked in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University in Washington DC, where he was also the research director, and received R01 funding from the NIH. He is the author of over fifty peer reviewed papers and three books, including two textbooks of emergency medicine, all published by Oxford University Press. His books include Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History, published by Simon and Schuster in 2018.

Jean Sun Scofi, MD

Dr. Jean Sun Scofi is the Assistant Medical Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and an Executive MBA candidate at the Yale School of Management. Dr. Scofi is a member of the YNHH Emergency Medicine COVID-19 Task Force and editor of the YNHH Emergency Department Operational Handbook for COVID-19. She also serves as a Research Fellow for the ACEP Emergency Quality Network (E-QUAL) and Co-Chair of the Didactics Subcommittee for the SAEM20 Annual Meeting. Her research interests include quality improvement, physician audit and feedback, administrative education, and healthcare operations.

Jason Lowe, DO

Jason Lowe is an Assistant Clinical Professor and Pediatric Emergency Medicine attending in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. One of his roles at Stanford and its sister, Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, involves dragging his colleagues into the adoption of telemedicine. From Facetime, to Jabber, to Zoom and WebEx, his pain is one of chronic adaptation. Additionally, he consults with a consumer based telemedicine company. A technophile since birth, he also dabbles in the use of 360 Virtual Reality as a training platform. He is the current Councilor and Past Chair of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Section of the American College of Emergency Physicians. In his free time, he runs a ten day summer residential summer program for high school students interested in emergency medicine. He is the recently elected secretary of the Telehealth Interest Group of SAEM and is excited to have met such a large group of like minded individuals.

Jason Goldwater, MA, MPA

Jason C. Goldwater has been in the field of health information technology (health IT) for 16 years and has led a number of projects on the utilization of health IT for improved health care delivery. He has been involved in the field of telehealth for the past seven years, having initially evaluated telehealth services across large urban and rural health networks as part of a peer-review panel for the Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCN) sponsored by the Health Care Resources and Services Administration. Mr. Goldwater also served as a Principal Investigator for a grant funded by the California HealthCare Foundation on the use of telehealth modalities for chronic disease care and care coordination. He also served as a Principal Investigator for a Commonwealth Fund grant exploring the various ways different health care entities, including payers, hospitals, long-term care networks and others used technology-driven solutions, such as health care, to drive value-based care and chronic disease management. Mr. Goldwater has written extensively in the area of telehealth, and how it can impact populations such as the homeless and the chronically ill. He also serves as a peer reviewer for article on telehealth for journals such as Health Affairs and the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. Currently, he served as the Project Director for the development of a measurement framework that provides a foundation for the development of objective measures to assess the value of telehealth and its impact on clinical care.

Mr. Goldwater has also served as a Health IT Project Manager for NORC at the University of Chicago, where he served as the Principal Investigator for a number of projects, including an evaluation of the Strategic Health Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program and a Study and Report on the Use of Open-Source Health information Technologies for Safety-Net Populations. Mr. Goldwater also worked for SRA International, a systems integrator based in Fairfax, VA, where he led a project to examine the use of clinical decision support systems within the Veterans Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VisTA) EHR system. Mr. Goldwater also spent a decade with the Federal Government, design software applications to assess the quality of care for older adults in nursing homes and hospitals; examining how State Medicaid data could be used for public health; and how to incorporate public health initiatives, such as immunizations, into State Medicaid programs. Mr. Goldwater has both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Emerson College and a Master’s of Public Administration degree from Suffolk University.

Jared Ditkowsky, MD

Jared Ditkowsky is currently a Pgy3 incoming Chief Resident at The Mount Sinai Hospital/Elmhurst Hospital Center’s Department of Emergency Medicine. After attaining his undergraduate degree from McGill University in Montreal, he pursued his medical degree at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. Subsequently, he began his residency in Emergency Medicine at The Mount Sinai Hospital. While enrolled in medical school, he developed a research interest in cost-effective analysis of public health programs, which he recently merged with a career interest in ED-operations. This year he was chosen as an Assistant Vice Chair on EMRA’s Administration and Operations Committee, a role he hopes will allow him to expand his research and career interests both personally, and to other residents.

James Marcin, MD, MPH

Dr. Marcin is Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pediatrics at the UC Davis School of Medicine and Director of the Center for Health and Technology at UC Davis Health. He completed medical school at UC San Diego, pediatric residency at UCSF, and pediatric critical care fellowship at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC. In addition to his clinical work in the Pediatric ICU, he conducts research and advocacy in telehealth related to access and quality of care, particularly as it relates to children with special healthcare needs and acutely ill and injured children in rural communities.