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Andrew C. Meltzer, MD, MS

George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Andrew C. Meltzer, MD MS FACEP is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Chief of the Clinical Research Section at the George Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Meltzer completed his MD at SUNY Downstate, residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland and R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, and his fellowship in Clinical Research at the University of Maryland. He is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and member of the ACEP Clinical Policies Committee and the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Research Committee. He was an author of the GRACE-2 Guidelines for Abdominal Pan and served as a member of the External Oversight Board for the SIREN research network. As part of an international team, he developed guidelines for the acute management of gastrointestinal bleeding. He was the principal investigator on the NIH-funded multi-center randomized control trial on medical expulsive therapy for renal colic. In addition, he was the PI on a multi-center trial examining novel way to diagnose gastrointestinal hemorrhage, the site PI on the CDC Recover grant, and the overall PI for the HYPERACT trial examining acute management of patients with respiratory distress. He has experience working with two successful technology companies as a chief medical officer. As of this writing, Dr. Meltzer had over 60 peer-reviewed authorships indexed in PubMed with over 1500 citations.

Todd Clark, MD, MBA

Gretchen Fuller, MD, FACEP, FACH

UT Austin Dell Medical School

Gretchen Fuller, MD, FACEP, FACH is a dual-boarded Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician. Gretchen completed medical school at Harvard University, Emergency Medicine residency and Chief Residency at University of California, San Francisco and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School and teaches communication skills across the undergraduate, medical student, resident, fellow, faculty continuum. She was the recipient of the 2024 Dell Medical School Compassion and Character Faculty Award and several Dell Medical School Graduate Medical Education Clinical Learning Environment Awards. Her professional focus is interpersonal and team communication and how these skills can foster human connection and improve the lives of healthcare professionals and patients.

She is a member of the Faculty and Board of Directors of the Academy of Communication in Healthcare and facilitates workshops locally, nationally and internationally on individual and team communication skills, conflict, inclusion, coaching, feedback and leading teams. Gretchen is a certified Physician Development Coach through the International Coaching Federation-accredited Physician Coaching Institute. She previously served as National Director of Patient Experience for US Acute Care Solutions, an acute care contracting company with over 5,000 clinicians caring for over 9 million patients annually. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and 3 children.

Lauren Evans, MD

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Lauren Evans, MD is currently an Assistant Professor and the Residency Program Director at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). She graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and completed her Emergency Medicine residency at UAMS. She has previously held both the APD and Clerkship Director positions at UAMS before transitioning into the Program Director position. Her interests include mentorship, resident remediation, curriculum design, and advising EM bound students. She is an active member of the Council of Residency Directors (CORD), the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), holding leadership positions and serving on various committees.

David E. Manthey, MD

Jason J. Lewis, MD

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Dr. Jason Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and attending physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Lewis completed his residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency in 2014 followed by a fellowship in Medical Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2015. He currently serves as the director of the Emergency Bootcamp and associate clerkship director. He is passionate about medical education, with a particular focus on undergraduate medical education.

IV Mirus, MD, MPH

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. IV Mirus is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern and a recognized leader in the Deaf community. He also serves as Vice Chair of Ethics at Parkland Hospital. Born a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) with American Sign Language (ASL) as his first language, Dr. Mirus studied public health and health equity and has dedicated his career to bridging communication barriers for linguistic minorities. Prior to medicine, he worked as a professional medical interpreter, developing firsthand insight into the challenges Deaf patients face in a hearing-centric healthcare system. Today, Dr. Mirus continues to serve as both a researcher and advocate, holding board positions with Deaf Action Center and Partners in Deaf Health, exemplifying his unwavering commitment to advancing equitable healthcare for the Deaf community.

Peter C. Hou, MD

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Peter Hou, MD, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine (EM) at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is dual-boarded in EM and critical care medicine, practicing in both the emergency department (ED) and intensive care unit (ICU). His clinical research interests include sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, COVID-19, and quality improvement processes focused on the care of patients being admitted from the ED to the ICU. He was site-PI for the Protocolized Care for Early Septic Shock (ProCESS) Trial and multiple NIH-sponsored ProCESS ancillary studies evaluating the microcirculation and long-term outcomes of acute kidney injury and host immune response. He currently serves as Co-Lead for the Acute Lung Injury of New England Clinical Center, is a Steering Committee member for the NIH-sponsored Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury network, and the site-PI for the PETAL network trials.

Molly E.W Thiessen

Joseph B. House, MD

Director of Medical Student Education

University of Michigan Department of Emergency Medicine

Joseph House, MD, completed his undergraduate work at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He attended medical school at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. He completed an Emergency Medicine Residency at Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He then returned to Michigan and completed Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at University of Michigan, after which he joined the faculty in 2010. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics and Communicable Disease. He currently serves as the Director of Medical Student Education for the Department of Emergency Medicine. 

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