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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.

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.