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Andrew A. Herring, MD

Highland Hospital - Alameda Health System

Dr. Andrew A Herring graduated Bowdoin College and graduated from Harvard Medical School then completed residency in emergency medicine at Highland General Hospital—Alameda Health System in Oakland, CA where he is Chief of Addiction Medicine overseeing inpatient addiction services, emergency department based services, an outpatient addiction medicine clinic and a regional substance use disorder telemedicine hotline. Dr. Herring is board certified in Pain Medicine and the past Medical Director of the Alameda Health System Functional Restoration Pain Clinic. Dr Herring has led national efforts to transform hospital-based care for substance use disorders and his work has been featured in local and national press including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio. Dr. Herring co-founded CA BRIDGE and the Bridge Center at the Public Health Institute. Dr. Herring’s research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and has been published in numerous journals including JAMA Open and Annals of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Herring leads several NIDA supported clinical trials and is principal investigator for the Public Health Institute CA Bridge Outcomes Study. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Central America focused on supporting migrant health and co-founded the Street Level Health Project in Oakland, California that is dedicated to supporting undocumented day laborers. Dr. Herring is board-certified in Emergency Medicine, and Addiction Medicine, and Pain Medicine and is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco.

Andra Blomkalns, MD, MBA

Member-at-Large

Stanford University School of Medicine

Andra Blomkalns, MD, MBA serves as Chair of Emergency Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2018, Andra was at UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX as Vice Chair of Academic Affairs and Business Development. She trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati where she was Residency Program Director and Vice Chair of Education. Her research has spanned clinical cardiovascular research as well as basic science research on obesity and the gut microbiome. As a past-President of SAEM (2016), Andra continues as the SAEM Wellness Committee Chair. In her personal time, Andra enjoys spending time with her dog, Sansa, as a Neocaridina hobbyist, and attempting to garden.

Alice Mitchell, MD

Indiana University

Alice Mitchell, MD is currently an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine with Indiana University School of Medicine. She is also the Chief of Emergency Medicine at the Indianapolis VA Medical Center. Her research focus is contrast-induced nephropathy, which she studies because she is interested in issues that directly affect both the health of our patients and the direct practice of emergency medicine. She is especially interested in how we as emergency physicians utilize our resources and how we interact with other services and our medical systems at large.

Alice Chen, MD

Cleveland Clinic Akron General

Alice Chen, MD is a Staff Physician and Clinical Instructor at Cleveland Clinic Akron General and Northeast Ohio Medical University. She received her MS in Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University and has worked several years as an IRB specialist at Roswell Cancer Research Institute in Buffalo, NY. Her research interest is mainly in improvement of sepsis diagnosis.

Adrian Cotarelo, MD, MHS

Adrian Cotarelo is a PGY-1 at St. John's Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, NY and RAMS board member-at-large. He graduated from Alpert Medical School at Brown University, and attended Johns Hopkins University for both his undergraduate degree, and master’s degree in Epidemiology. His academic interests include Medical Education, EMS, and Research. Outside of medicine, he enjoys Escape Rooms, cooking, and hiking.

Aditi Joshi, MD, Msc

Dr. Aditi U. Joshi is an experienced Emergency Medicine Physician and Telehealth expert working on improving healthcare and equity through technology. Through over 7 years of working in Telemedicine and digital health on both a startup and academic hospital, she has a keen interest in making technology palatable and effective for both patients, providers, and health care systems. Her position at TJUH is multi-faceted in Telehealth and tele-intake: working in operations, quality assurance, provider training, resident and medical education and implementing new programs and use cases for Telehealth. She runs a Telehealth fellowship aimed at training future physicians interested in leading virtual care.

She is also co-director of the Digital Health Scholarly Inquiry Track at Sidney Kimmel Medical College teaching both medical students and residents about telemedicine, digital health and health innovation with both practical and research components, helping to hone how the future physicians think about how technology will change medical practice.

Nationally, she serves at the Chair-Elect for the Telehealth committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians, helping expand the role of Telehealth within the specialty. She is part of ATA's research review committee, and UMMC's tel-emergency summit. She regularly contributes articles on issues of merging provider and patient needs to digital health and innovation. She speaks on the future of health, consults with startups, and works on strategizing how to bridge the gap between the two worlds.

Aaron Martin

Aaron serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Officer, Providence and Managing General Partner of PV. He is responsible for leading Providence to become more consumer-focused and technology-enabled in a new world of healthcare. Aaron has more than 20 years of experience in strategy and technology. Prior to joining Providence, he worked at Amazon and led the team that transitioned traditional publishers from a physical books business to Kindle. Prior to that, Martin served in executive and board positions with a number of successful start-ups, one of which he co-founded. He worked in healthcare for most of his early career. At McKinsey & Company’s healthcare practice, he advised senior executives in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry on mergers and acquisitions and post-merger integration. Aaron holds a Master’s of Business Administration in finance and healthcare management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Taylor Bowen

Peer Review Coordinator

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Tami Craig

Journal Manager

Jeffrey Kline, MD

AEM Editor-In-Chief

Wayne State University School of Medicine