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Emily Gundert, MD

Jennifer Hoffmann, MD, MS

Ashley A. Foster, MD

Lois K. Lee, MD, MPH

Dana D. Im, MD, MPP, MPhil

Mass General Brigham Enterprise Emergency Medicine; Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School

Dr. Im is a board-certified emergency physician who serves as the Director of Quality and Safety for Mass General Brigham (MGB) Enterprise Emergency Medicine. She chairs the MGB Emergency Medicine Quality and Safety Council and also holds the position of Director of Quality and Safety in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. In these capacities, she leads emergency medicine-related quality improvement and patient safety initiatives across MGB Enterprise Emergency Medicine, which consists of 9 emergency departments. As the Director of Behavioral Health, she oversees the Behavioral Health Observation Unit—a specialized observation area for behavioral health patients awaiting evaluation, treatment, and disposition in the ED at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Dr. Im's grant-funded work involves conducting qualitative analyses of patient and staff perceptions of behavioral health emergency care within the ED setting, developing systems-level de-escalation strategies, and implementing antiracism and trauma-informed simulation-based interdisciplinary de-escalation training programs across multiple EDs. Moreover, her research interests focus on implementing interventions to convert boarding time into treatment time for patients with behavioral health emergencies.

Nicholas E. Harrison, MD, MSc

Clinical Physician

IUH Methodist Hospital

Dr. Harrison was born in Dearborn, MI, and raised in the suburbs of Detroit. He graduated from Michigan State University for both his undergraduate and medical school degrees, in 2008 and 2012, respectively. While at the MSU College of Human Medicine he spent two years at the Flint MI MSU Clinical Campus and two months living abroad in Peru, completing the school's MD Leadership in Medicine for the Underserved certificate program. He completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine / William Beaumont Hospital Emergency Medicine Program, where he served as Chief Resident in his final year. Upon completing his residency in 2019, Dr. Harrison entered a two-year Fellowship in Clinical Research, studying heart failure and cardiovascular imaging under the mentorship of Dr. Phillip Levy at Wayne State University. He concurrently entered the Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis MSc program for clinician-scientists at the University of Michigan's Department of Biostatistics. He graduated both his research fellowship and his MSc in 2021, at which time he took his first full-time faculty position as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at IUSM in Indianapolis.

Dr. Harrison works clinically at IUH Methodist Hospital, while continuing the translational and health services research he began during his fellowship, in acute heart failure and non-invasive cardiovascular imaging. Starting in 2022, and ending in 2024, he received a KL2 Career Development Award funded by the National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NIH NCATS) through the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute.

Alex Croft, MD

Derek L. Monette, MD, MHPE

Matthew Frederick

Ivette Motola, MD, MPH

University of Miami Gordon Center

Dr. Motola is Professor of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine and Professor of Medical Education at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Associate Director of the Gordon Center for Simulation and Innovation in Medical Education and has served as its Director of the Prehospital and Emergency Training Division for the past 18 years.
Dr. Motola has a special interest and expertise in developing and implementing curricula for prehospital and hospital‐based healthcare professionals and the application of simulation and other technologies to emergency medical education. She has led quality improvement initiatives at the health system level in response to emergencies by implementing rapid response team training and in‐situ simulation. She also has expertise in interprofessional education and team training. Dr. Motola has served as PI or Co‐PI on multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Florida Department of Health, and several foundations. Her research interests include effective use of simulation and technology for skills acquisition and retention, team training, interprofessional education, medical decision‐making in crisis situations, program evaluation, and assessment.
Dr. Motola received her undergraduate degree from Columbia University and received her medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in 2000. She completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital) in 2004. She received an M.P.H. in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2005 as a Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellow in Health Policy and Health Disparities.
Dr. Motola is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Society for Simulation in Healthcare.

Kwame Tuffuor

Bryan A. Stenson, MD

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Dr. Bryan Stenson is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the Associate Director of Operations at both Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Beth Israel Deaconess - Needham. He completed his medical school at University of Connecticut, and his emergency medicine residency and Operations and Administration fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His operational research interests include physician staffing models and departmental throughput, with a focus on radiology bottlenecks.

Peter S. Antkowiak

Ronald V. Hall, Jr., MD

Derek Lubetkin, MD

Mindi J. Guptill, MD

Alicia E. Genisca, MD

Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Dr. Alicia Genisca is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, and Teaching Scholar at Brown University.

Amer Z. Aldeen

Kim Stanford, MD, MPH

University of Chicago

Kimberly Stanford, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago and the Director of ED HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Screening at the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination (CCHE). A nationally recognized expert on screening for syphilis and HIV in the ED, Dr. Stanford is an NIH-funded implementation scientist whose research focuses on leveraging the emergency department visit as a key point of contact with the healthcare system for patients who might otherwise have limited access to care, creating opportunities for critical public health interventions related to infectious and chronic diseases and social determinants of health.

Nina Entcheva, Undergraduate Student

University of Michigan

Nina Entcheva is an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and has been a part of the working group to standardize the ethical conduct of global emergency medicine research.