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Steve Maxwell, MSM

University of Michigan Emergency Medicine

Steve Maxwell is the chief administrator for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan.

He has administrative responsibility for the research, education and clinical missions for Emergency Medicine including the Survival Flight Program.

He joined the Department of Emergency Medicine in 2014 after previously serving in the Frankel Cardiovascular Center and as the administrator for the Section of General Surgery.

Among his achievements, he played a role in developing the research infrastructure to support the #1 NIH ranking 4 of the last 6 years for departments of Emergency Medicine, coordinating the administrative support to execute the $7 million Massey Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program; was instrumental in opening the Emergency Critical Care Center in University Hospital; and spearheaded the acquisition of a new patient transport jet and three helicopters for the Survival Flight Program.

Joe-Ann Moser, MD, MS

University of Wisconsin

Dr. Joe-Ann Moser is an Associate Professor and Assistant Residency Program Director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also the current EMRA Director of Education. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry and Master of Science in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. Afterward, she spent a year researching respiratory viruses at the National Institutes of Health before starting medical school. Dr. Moser received an MD with distinction in Medical Education and Global Health from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she also completed her Emergency Medicine residency. She recently finished her Education Scholarship Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is pursuing a Master of Health Professions Education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Dr. Moser’s research interests include curriculum design, feedback using dashboards, and minimizing trainee and faculty burden to improve wellness.

Angela Jarman, MD, MPH

University of California, Davis

Angela Jarman is an Associate Professor and the Director of Sex & Gender in Emergency Medicine at UC Davis. She joined the faculty there after completed a two-year fellowship in Sex & Gender in Emergency Medicine at Brown University, where she also earned a Master of Public Health degree. Angela is a North Carolina native and majored in Gender Studies at Duke University before attending medical school at the University of Kentucky. She trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Dr. Jarman is currently a Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health scholar; her research interests include sex differences in venous thromboembolism, health disparities, LGBTQ+ health, & bias in medicine.

Taylor Giller, MD

Emory University School of Medicine

Taylor Giller is an Emergency Medicine Resident Physician at Emory University. She attended Auburn University, where she received dual undergraduate degrees in Biomedical Sciences and Spanish Language. She then went on to receive her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia where she was inducted into AOA honor society. Her interests include pre-hospital and disaster medicine and systems improvement strategies.

Hayley Rose-Inman, MD, MBA

Carilion Clinic

I am currently serving as the EMS Fellowship Program Director at Carilion Clinic. I am board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services. I am also the Operational Medical Director for Roanoke County Fire-Rescue, a career fire service based EMS agency in western Virginia and Carilion Clinic Patient Transport/Lifeguard, a hospital based EMS agency providing 911, interfacility and air medical transport services. My areas of interest are quality improvement, EMS education and medical director engagement. I attended undergrad at Pepperdine University and medical school at Jefferson Medical College before completing residency and fellowship at Carilion Clinic while obtaining an MBA at Virginia Tech. Outside of medicine I am hiking, reading or traveling with my husband, a career firefighter, and my two kids.

Kelly W. Barringer, MD

HealthPartners

Dr. Kelly Barringer is an Assistant Program Director for the Regions Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Department and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota,

Dr. Barringer has been involved with residency administration and education for over 15 years, with a specific in interest in innovative education, mentorship (especially supporting women in emergency medicine), wellness, resident evaluation and remediation, and residency administration. In her outside life, she is the parent to 4 children and an avid runner, cyclist, and traveller.

Pooja Agrawal, MD, MPH

Yale University School of Medicine

Pooja Agrawal, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University. She is a Member-at-Large of the Board of Directors of SAEM. Dr. Agrawal is a recent Past President of the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM), dedicated to enhancing the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in Emergency Medicine. Her initiatives have influenced many genres including research, education, leadership, sponsorship, wellness, and others.

Dr. Agrawal is the Associate Director of Faculty Affairs & Sponsorship and the Director of Global Health Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University. Her academic work focuses on disparities, both with a lens to gender and to displaced populations including refugees, and an emphasis on health access, disparities, and outcomes. Dr. Agrawal holds faculty appointments in the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Center for Asylum Medicine and is on the Board of Directors of Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services.

Davin T. Combs, MD

Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Davin Combs is a PGY-2 emergency medicine resident at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, VA. He has a strong interest in EMS and disaster medicine particularly as it relates to training, capacity building and MCI preparedness. Before medical school he spent six years in the military and worked as a Congressional staffer in Washington, DC. He obtained his BS in public health from George Washington University and his medical degree from Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. His work throughout residency has focused on improving the medical capacity of law enforcement officers and improving deficiencies within active threat MCI response from both a clinical and operational perspective. He has a particular passion for systems engineering and design as it relates to complex pre-hospital problem-sets. When not working, he can be found spending time with his wife and three sons, or coaching lacrosse and football.

Carolyn Geraci, MD Carolyn Geraci, MD

Hennepin County Medical Center

Carolyn Geraci, MD. Chief Resident (PGY3) and Incoming Medical Education Fellow at Hennepin County Emergency Medicine.

Deepa Patel, MD Deepa Patel, MD

Emory University School of Medicine

Deepa Patel, MD is an emergency physician at Grady Memorial Hospital and an intensivist working in the Cardiovascular and Surgical/Transplant Intensive Care Units at Emory University Hospital. She completed both her residency in Emergency Medicine and fellowship in Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) at Emory. Currently, she’s an Associate Program Director for the ACCM fellowship, Co-Director of Multi-Professional Education for the Emory Critical Care Center and is the Director of the newly minted Critical Care Section within the Department of EM. Her interests include critical care education with a focus on mechanical ventilation and improving the care of critically ill patients in the Emergency Department

Elizebeth Dubey, MD, FACEP

Wayne State University

Elizebeth Dubey, MD serves as the Program Director of Emergency Medicine at Detroit Receiving Hospital, where she teaches and trains the next generation of emergency physicians. She spends most of her time balancing clinical work and teaching. Yet she also has interests in research with a focus on medical education. She also has interests in both bias in medicine and discordance in patient care. Last year she authored a chapter in Urban Emergency Medicine titled, “Linguistic, Racial and Cultural Discordance”. She is part of national Emergency Medicine committees serving in a variety of roles on a national level. She represented the American Academy of Women Emergency Physicians (AAWEP) as a Councilor fort the annual American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Council meeting for seven years. In addition, she serves on Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) committees, including the Education Committee and the Equity & Inclusion Committee. When not working, she spends time with her spouse and three energetic girls.

Steven M. Hochman, MD

Dept of Emergency Medicine, St Joseph’s Health

Core Faculty for the past 20 years, Research Director and lead faculty for Journal Club for the past 10 years.

Kevin J. Mercer, PharmD, MPH

The University of Texas at Austin

Kevin Mercer, PharmD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy. He earned a Doctor of Pharmacy and Master of Public Health from the University of Kentucky followed by completing pharmacy residency training at The University of Chicago Medicine. Dr. Mercer is passionate about teaching and mentoring trainees in emergency medicine. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling and cultivating house plants.

Mary Beth Phelan, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin

Dr. Mary Beth Phelan is a Full Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). She is a leader in faculty development and promotions and founded the chairs the EM Faculty Development and Promotions Committee and serves as Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Advancement. She is Chief of the Division of Ultrasound and Director of the Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship. Numerous awards include MCW Outstanding Faculty Service Award, the MCW Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award and the 2024 MCW Professionalism Award.

Amy E. Zosel, MD, MSCS

Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals

Dr. Zosel is a Full Professor of Emergency Medicine. She trained in emergency medicine (residency) at Northwestern University and then in medical toxicology (fellowship) at Denver Health’s Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center before joining the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) faculty in 2010. While a fellow, she earned a Master of Science in Clinical Sciences at the University of Colorado at Denver. Dr. Zosel is Chief of the Division of Medical Toxicology. She is chair emeritus of the MCW Council for Women’s Advocacy and is the current promotions and mentorship lead for the MCW EM women’s faculty council.

Hannah Chason, MD

Brown Emergency Medicine

I am an attending physician and assistant professor with Brown Emergency Medicine in Providence, RI. I am also the coordinator of the Critically Important Peer Support (CIPS) program in our department which provides training and peer support to our residents, faculty, and APPs.

Alden Landry, MD, MPH

Dr. Landry is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Assistant Dean for the Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership; Associate Director and Advisor for William B. Castle Society; and Director of Health Equity Education at Harvard Medical School. He also serves as Senior Faculty at the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and is the founder and co-director of the non- profit organization Motivating Pathways. He strives to lead efforts for the Department of Emergency Medicine, the hospital and the medical school that will address health disparities and improve quality of care for the most disenfranchised.

In addition to his clinical interests, Dr. Landry is involved in research on Emergency Department utilization trends, disparities in care and quality of care. He also co-instructs a course at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and teaches cultural competency to residents and physicians. Dr. Landry promotes careers in the health professions to under-represented minorities and mentors, scores of pre-medical students, medical students, residents, fellows and junior faculty. Dr. Landry also leads the Tour for Diversity in Medicine, (www.tour4diversity.org) an effort to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in medicine, dentistry, and other biomedical careers.

Dr. Landry has been recognized by his peers and colleagues as a leader in health equity and social justice. He has received numerous awards for his public health work and efforts to promote health care workforce diversity. He was recently awarded the Outstanding Academician Award by the Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine of the Society of Academic Emergency medicine and the Albert Frechette Award from the Massachusetts Public Health Association.

Dr. Landry received his Bachelor of Science degree from Prairie View A&M University in 2002 and his medical degree from the University of Alabama in 2006. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2009. In 2010, he earned a Master’s in Public Health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and completed the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University. He received the Disparities Solutions Center/Aetna Fellow in Health Disparities award in 2010-2011.

Laura McPeake, MD, MSc.

University of Vermont, Department of Emergency Medicine

Laura McPeake, MD, MSc is an associate professor of emergency medicine. She is the Director for Physician Well-being and Organizational Culture for the Department of Emergency Medicine at UVM after serving in a similar role at Warren Alpert School of Brown University until 2020. She attended medical school at SUNY Downstate Medical School in Brooklyn and did her emergency medicine residency at Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI. She worked in community emergency medicine in Urbana, IL for 2 years before returning to an academic position at Brown where she developed her work in physician wellness. She has worked nationally within multiple emergency medicine national organizations to forward wellness initiatives on a national and practice group policy level. She completed Master’s Degree in Social and Behavioral Health Sciences at Brown School of Public Health as part of a faculty development grant through the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brown to evaluate and implement and evaluate physician wellness programs. Her interest in physician wellness came from over 30 years of experience practicing and teaching meditation. She is particularly interested in applying empathy training and mindfulness/self-awareness techniques as an antidote for burnout and dissatisfaction in emergency medicine and as way to be more present for patients and colleagues. She presents locally and nationally on the topic of physician and emergency medicine wellness including lectures and workshops. She has also taught in the medical school in the preclinical years as both a small group leader and clinical mentor in order

Trenika J. Williams, MD, MS

Harvard Medical School

Trenika J. Williams, MD MS completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center in 2024. She has consistently led efforts in advocacy and community programming for the advancement of health equity, primarily focusing on mentorship, pipeline programming, community health education, and violence intervention. Dr. Williams has a particular interest in prehospital medicine and emergency medical services. She aims to work within an urban academic medical center providing care for underserved populations, disenfranchised youth, and those most greatly impacted by systemic inequities. She aspires to equip her community with both knowledge and systemic change through needed policy implementation that will result in increased health in the community as a whole. Dr. Williams was elected to the Gold Humanism Honor Society at the Geisel School of Medicine in 2021 and inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 2022. She was selected as a Community Champion by the University of Chicago’s Urban Health Initiative in 2022 on basis of her proven record of leadership in community engagement and honored with the University of Chicago Emergency Medicine’s Community Engagement Award in 2024. Dr. Williams served on the National Board of Directors of the Student National Medical Association as a Regional Director. She currently serves on the board of the MedCEEP (Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency Preparedness) Initiative, a community-based nonprofit designed to increase the number of youth on the South Side of Chicago who possess lifesaving health emergency response skills. Dr. Williams earned her medical degree from Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College in 2021.

Tanesha Beckford, MD

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Tanesha Beckford is an instructor at Harvard Medical School, and Emergency Medicine faculty at the Massachusetts General Brigham, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is currently a Presidential Scholar in Health Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a member of the City of Boston’s youth civic engagement council at Spark Boston. She completed residency at Boston Medical Center (BMC), where she served as Chair of the Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee. She is the immediate past Chair- Elect of the EMRA Diversity & Inclusion Committee, and the co-founder of the Annual Health Justice Conference at her medical alma mater. Her research background includes shared decision making, professional advancement amongst diverse physicians, implementing violence prevention and intervention practices, and improving patient outcomes through equitable healthcare pathways. Her interests include mentorship, community outreach, social justice and creating inclusive spaces that amplify the voices of the underrepresented.