People

James Holmes, MD, MPH

University of California, Davis

James F. Holmes, MD, MPH is a Professor and Executive Vice Chair in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis School of Medicine. He earned his Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Alabama School of Medicine and his Master of Public Health from the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Holmes trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, where he also served as Chief Resident.

His research is focused on the initial evaluation and treatment of injured patients with a particular emphasis on injured children. He has had funding for his research from a variety of federal agencies including the CDC, EMSC and the NIH. He has additionally devoted much of his career to training junior investigators. He is the Director of both the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center’s KL2 Research Training Program and the UC Davis Emergency Medicine Research Fellowship. Finally, he has been very involved in the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and will begin his term as SAEM President at SAEM20.

Hannah Hughes, MD, MBA

Assistant Professor

University of Cincinnati

Dr. Hannah Hughes, MD, MBA is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati (UC) where she also completed residency and was a Chief Resident.  She currently serves as the Assistant Medical DIrector of UC's Center for Emergency Care and Immediate Past President of EMRA.  Hannah graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honor Society distinctions from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and earned her MBA from UCLA's Anderson School of Management.

Gail D'Onofrio, MD, MS

Yale School of Medicine

Gabe Kelen, MD

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Dr. Kelen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care. He has a joint appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also Senior Professional Staff (tenure) at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. In addition, he is also the director of the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response.

Dr. Kelen career has had an indelible effect on the development of emergency medicine for the last 35 years, particularly as it relates to academia. Dr. Kelen became world renown for seminal work on emerging infections and blood borne pathogens—influencing national public health policy and political agendas. More recently he developed scientific methods to advance the fledgling study of disaster science. Dr. Kelen has authored nearly 250 peer-review publications (including publications JAMA, NEJM, CID and Lancet), as well as several leading textbooks. He has been awarded $75 million in 50 research grants during his career, including from NIH, AHRQ, CDC, DHS and EMF.

Dr. Kelen has pioneered a number of education innovations, including a unique 4-year residency format that embeds 12 possible fellowships. The Hopkins residency and fellowships have produced about 400 graduates, a strong majority have attained leadership positions. Under Dr. Kelen’s tutelage, department has produced no less than six chairs of academic departments (five currently serving in that role).

Dr. Kelen has held a number of important leadership positions including as President of the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine, Chair of the Medical Board of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and President of STEM/SAEM. He has testified before five US congressional subcommittees related to his research and the role of emergency medicine in US healthcare. Dr. Kelen’s many contributions have been recognized through numerous awards including from the SAEM Hal Jayne Academic Excellence Award, SAEM Leadership Award, and the American College of Emergency Physicians Outstanding Contribution to Research Award. AACEM recently awarded bestowed the Distinguished Service Award. He was elected to the National Academies of Science, National Academy of Medicine (formerly IOM) in 2005.

Erica Olsen, MD

Dr. Erica Olsen is the Director for Virtual Health Services for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC). Her role includes oversight of Telehealth endeavors throughout the Department of Emergency Medicine West Campus / New York Presbyterian Hospital System: CUIMC Emergency Department, The Allen Hospital, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York, and Lawrence Hospital. Dr. Olsen joined the full-time Faculty at Columbia University Department of Emergency Medicine with previous Telehealth experience from her time at both the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA Hospital) in Western New York and Erie County Medical Center where Telehealth was utilized for the New York State Department of Corrections. Dr. Olsen currently sits on the Digital Health Governance Committee for the FPO of Columbia University and the New York Presbyterian Hospital Telehealth Steering Committee. Dr. Olsen is also the Chair-Elect for the SAEM Telehealth Interest Group.

Emily Hayden, MD, MHPE

Massachusetts General Hospital

Emily M. Hayden, MD, MHPE is an attending physician and Director of Telehealth in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Director of the Emergency Medicine Telehealth Research Lab, Division of Health Services Research, Mass General Brigham. She co-founded the Mobile Response Program and Virtual Observation Unit which utilizes telehealth and community paramedicine provide acute, unscheduled care to patients in their homes. Dr. Hayden is the founding Chair of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Telehealth Interest Group, Chair of the SAEM 2020 Consensus Conference on Telehealth in Emergency Medicine, Chair of the Education Subcommittee on the recent American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Telehealth Task Force, and the Chair of both the ACEP Emergency Telehealth Section and the ACEP Health Innovations Technology Committee. She is a member of the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) Telehealth Advisory Committee that developed the AAMC Telehealth Competencies. She is the Course Director for a self-paced online interprofessional telehealth course, “Telehealth Foundations: Applications Across the Professions”. Dr. Hayden’s research focuses on telehealth in emergency medicine, from the use of telehealth nationally for transfer coordination to the comparison of telehealth to in-person physical examinations. Prior to her work in telehealth, Dr. Hayden spent a decade in healthcare simulation and developed the TeleSimulation program at MGH Learning Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Elizabeth Schoenfeld, MD, MS

Assistant Professor

University of Massachusetts Medical School - Baystate

Elizabeth M. Schoenfeld, MD, MS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School - Baystate Medical Center and a Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Delivery and Population Science, also at the University of Massachusetts Medical School- Baystate. Dr. Schoenfeld completed an Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship received a Masters in Clinical and Translational Science at the graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University. Dr. Schoenfeld’s research focuses on the use of Shared Decision-Making in the Emergency Department. She received an R03 from AHRQ in 2015 to study Emergency Physicians’ perspectives of Shared Decision-Making and has published extensively regarding SDM in the ED. Dr. Schoenfeld is currently funded by a Career Development Award (K08) from AHRQ to study and promote Shared Decision-Making in the context of diagnostic decision-making. Her other areas of interest include improving the ability of Emergency Departments to address patients’ social needs, decreasing unnecessary advanced imaging, and improving the patient experience.

Elizabeth Krupinski, PhD

Professor & Vice Chair for Research Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences Emory University

Dr. Krupinski is Professor and Vice-Chair for Research at Emory University in the Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences and subject matter expert for the Emory Telehealth Program. She received her BA from Cornell, MA from Montclair State and PhD from Temple, all in Experimental Psychology. Her interests are in medical image perception, observer performance, decision making, and human factors. She is Associate Director of Evaluation for the Arizona Telemedicine Program and co-Director of the Southwest Telehealth Resource Center. She is Past President of ATA, Past Chair of Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, Past Chair of the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, and President of the Medical Image Perception Society. She is Co-Editor of the Journal of Telemedicine & Telecare and on the Editorial Board of the Telemedicine & E-Health Journal.

Dennis Hsieh, MD, JD

Director of Social Medicine and Community Health, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Dennis Hsieh is an assistant professor of emergency medicine and the Director for Social Medicine and Community Health for Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, which is part of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. He focuses on access to care and the social determinants of health (SDOH), including SDOH screening and interventions across clinical settings, hospital-based violence intervention programs, medical-legal community partnerships (MLCPs) and re-entry from jail. He is the former medical director the Whole Person Care Jail re-entry program. Dennis has a special interest in addressing SDOH such as violence, food, housing, and financial strain to improve health. He co-founded the hospital-based violence intervention program at Harbor-UCLA and is now co-leading the development of a trauma recovery center at Harbor-UCLA. Dennis is a founding member of the UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine’s Section on International and Domestic Health Equity (IdHEAL, www.idheal.org); ACEP’s Social Emergency Medicine Section and is the section’s chair elect; and SAEM’s Social Emergency Medicine and Population Health Interest Group. Dennis earned his A.B. in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard, J.D. from Yale and M.D. from UC San Francisco.

David Snow, MD

Dr. Snow completed his residency training at the University of Cincinnati's Emergency Medicine residency, serving as a Chief Resident from 2012-2013. From there he came to Chicago as the APD at UIC's EM Residency, serving in this role for 5 years. He is currently the Program Director for the EM residency program at Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois.

David Persing, MD, PhD

David (Dave) Persing, MD, Ph.D., is Chief Medical and Technology Officer at Cepheid, and in 2017 was appointed Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) for the Danaher Diagnostics Platform. He has spent most of his 25-year career in biomarker discovery, translational medicine and innovation in the diagnostics space. As CSO, Danaher Diagnostics Platform, he has the responsibility for providing scientific, medical and strategic input to the Diagnostics' Operating Companies and Platform leadership. He also has the responsibility for development of new clinical processes, technologies or products that advance patient care, innovation and competitive position of the Danaher Diagnostics group of operating companies. Dave joined Cepheid in 2005 and has focused on the enablement of molecular diagnostic technology to meet global needs in infectious diseases and oncology. He conducted his scientific and medical training with Don Ganem and Nobel laureate Harold Varmus at the University of California, San Francisco. Since completing his residency training in clinical pathology at Yale University, he has held leadership roles in academia and industry starting in the early 1990s with the design, implementation, and operation of the first PCR reference laboratory at the Mayo Clinic. His interest in the democratization of molecular diagnostic methods has been longstanding, starting in 1993 with his publication of the first widely adopted textbook to include PCR protocols and guidelines for laboratory operations. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and reviews, including multiple articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, Science, and PNAS, and has served as Editor in Chief for five highly regarded textbooks, the most recent of which was published in 2016. To maintain a connection with the latest trends in translational medicine, Dave also serves as Consulting Professor of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He obtained his MD and PhD degrees from UCSF in 1988.

David Kessler, MD, MSc

Dr. Kessler is the Vice Chair of Innovation & Strategic Initiatives in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University where he oversees virtual health and helps implement innovative solutions to complex system issues.

He is a graduate of Princeton University and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he completed his pediatric residency on the global health track. Dr. Kessler completed his Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship and Emergency Ultrasound training at Bellevue Hospital and his Master of Science in Clinical Investigation at New York University.

As an Associate Medical Director for the Mary & Michael Jaharis Simulation Center, Dr. Kessler helps other departments start new safety-driven simulation programs.

As a founder and co-director for INSPIRE, (International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research, and Education), Dr. Kessler has helped to grow a community of practice dedicated to collaboration and mentorship among investigators committed to scholarship in simulation

Colin Greineder, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

University of Michigan

Colin Greineder, MD, PhD, attended the Yale School of Medicine and completed Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Michigan. After a year working in the community, he returned to academia to pursue a PhD in Pharmacology and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Throughout this long period of scientific training, Dr. Greineder continued to work as an attending in a variety of academic and community ERs, including UPenn, Thomas Jefferson, Geisinger Medical Center, and the Crozer-Keystone Health System. He was awarded a K08 Career Development award from the NHLBI and returned to Michigan Medicine in 2018 as a tenure track faculty in Emergency Medicine and Pharmacology. Dr. Greineder’s laboratory focuses on development of novel pharmacologic therapies for the treatment of emergent ischemic, thrombotic, and inflammatory disorders. The primary focus is affinity ligand delivery of biotherapeutics to endothelial cells as a means of restoring their homeostatic functions and elucidating their role in disease pathogenesis. Additional interests include pharmacokinetic modeling, coagulofibrinolytic changes in critical illness, and risk stratification and management of venous thromboembolism.

Christopher Davis, MD

Chris Davis attended medical school at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine (UCDSOM). He completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at Denver Health in 2011. After residency, Dr. Davis completed a fellowship in Wilderness Medicine in Colorado where he also earned a Diploma in Tropical Medicine. His clinical expertise lies in providing medical care in austere and resource-limited environments. Dr. Davis received his start in telemedicine when he was selected to provide medical direction for NSF research teams in Greenland and the surrounding Arctic. His research interests include developing novel care delivery models using telemedicine, and the provision of telemedicine support in extreme environments. In 2016 Dr. Davis was appointed medical director for Virtual Health for UCHealth. His primary focus now is expanding capacity for virtual health across the health system.

Christina Olson, MD

Telehealth Medical Director | Children’s Hospital Colorado Assistant Professor | Pediatric Hospital Medicine

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Dr. Christina Olson is a hospitalist at Children's Hospital Colorado and assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado. She additionally works as Telehealth Medical Director for Children's Colorado, with a focus on leveraging technology to optimize patient care across the continuum of health care. Her other interests include patient safety, global health and education. As a co-founder and executive committee member of SPROUT (Supporting Pediatric Research on Outcomes and Utilization of Telehealth), she advocates for multicenter research that can be used to expand pediatric telehealth programs in an evidence-based fashion. Dr. Olson attended the University of Michigan Medical School, did residency training at Naval Medical Center San Diego, and is currently mobilized with the Navy Reserve in support of COVID19 operations.

Bryn E. Mumma, MD, MAS

Grants Committee Chair

University of California, Davis, School of Medicine

Dr. Mumma, is an associate professor in the department of emergency medicine at the University of California at Davis. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh Affiliated Residency Program. Prior to joining the UC Davis faculty, she completed a research fellowship (which included completion of the Mentored Clinical Research Training Program) and earned her Master of Applied Science degree in clinical research. This was followed by completion of the NHLBI K12 Research Career Development Program in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Mumma's research focuses broadly on outcomes and systems of care in cardiovascular emergencies, with particular interest in high-sensitivity troponin, myocardial injury and infarction, and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. 

An active SAEM member, Dr. Mumma has chaired the SAEM Bylaws Committee and the SAEM Grants Committee. As chair of the Grants Committee, she also served on the SAEM Foundation Board of Trustees. In addition, she has participated as faculty for SAEM’s Grant Writing Workshop, Research Learning Series, and ARMED Course. Dr. Mumma is the recipient of numerous awards, including both the Early Investigator Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the American Heart Association Resuscitation Science Symposium Young Investigator Award.

Brittany Betham, MD

Dr. Betham hails from the great state of Michigan. She attended medical school at the University of Chicago and completed her residency at the University of Cincinnati Residency in Emergency Medicine where she served as Chief Resident from 2016-2017. She currently resides in Detroit, MI and is a Senior Staff Physician in the Emergency Department at Henry Ford Hospital. Her areas of interest include airway management, clinical operations, scheduling, and administration. She is currently pursuing an MBA at the University of Michigan.

Bo Burns, DO

Oklahoma University School of Community Medicine

Dr. Burns is the George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair of Emergency Medicine as the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine in Tulsa Oklahoma. He is privileged to serve as a Member at Large for the CORD Board of Directors and is fortunate enough to work with the EMRA leadership on a regular basis. He has been the Chair at OU for five years now. In addition, he is born and raised in the great state of Oklahoma and is in no way related to the Tiger King.

Anne Libby, PhD

University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine

Anne Libby, PhD is Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado. Dr. Libby is a national expert in mentored research training and leadership and a strong advocate for women’s career advancement through mentoring and career building. She was awarded the CU System Elizabeth D. Gee Memorial Lectureship Award for outstanding work on women's issues and a concerted effort to advance women in the academy, interdisciplinary scholarly contributions, and distinguished teaching. She is senior faculty for the CU Center for Women’s Health Research and the CU Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women’s Health program. She is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, alumna of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program, and an inducted member of the CU School of Medicine Academy of Medical Educators. She earned her PhD in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and postdoctoral fellowship in public health at the University of California Berkeley. Since joining CU’s Anschutz Medical Campus in 2000, she built a national reputation studying the organization and financing of health care systems, particularly on behavioral health and underserved populations. She has led project and training grants and has an active externally funded research portfolio from philanthropic foundations and federal sources.

Andrew Monte, MD, PhD

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Andrew is trained as a medical toxicologist and has a PhD in Clinical Sciences with a focus in Genetics. He does research on novel psychoactive substances and precision medicine. He is the Director of the University of Colorado Emergency Medicine Specimen Bank which collects biologic samples from ED patients with a goal of improving emergency therapies through genomic and metabolomic methodologies. He is funded by institutional grants, NIGMS, the DoD, and NIDA.