SAEM Foundation E-Brochure 2020

2020

At a time when the life-saving importance of emergency medicine has never been more widely understood, less than one percent of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding supports research in the specialty. The COVID-19 pandemic shines a light on the need for expert, evidence-driven care in medical crises from the everyday to the epidemic—and the quality of that care depends on the strength of the research that supports it.

The SAEM Foundation is our specialty’s leader in funding research that empowers emergency physicians, saves lives, and improves outcomes for patients everywhere. At a time of great need, we’re ready to make the largest research investment in our specialty’s history—and we need your support to make it possible.

Over the last three decades, we’ve seen the power of research in emergency medicine.

Every time we…

Use the HEART score to gauge a patient’s risk of a major cardiac event Rely on pre-hospital emergency care to preserve a patient’s best hopes for recovery Follow stroke protocol to preserve brain function when every minute counts Recognize and respond to sepsis in time to reduce mortality Prevent a suicide or save a victim of a drug overdose

we are standing on our specialty’s

…

foundation of research.

By investing in clinical, translational, and education research, we have saved lives, improved outcomes for countless patients, and supported emergency physicians who commit their careers to caring for every person, in every situation, no matter what. Our growing research base has elevated emergency medicine from an ill-defined and undervalued clinical practice to a highly valued primary board specialty. Yet we have only scratched the surface of the possibilities and demands for high-impact research in emergency medicine.

Around the clock, emergency physicians are confronted with some of the most urgent research questions across all areas of medicine, from epidemic disease and gun violence to the complexities of behavioral health and an aging population. In addition to continuing clinical and translational research, we need to invest in operational, implementation and educational research to improve care delivery and train the next generation of emergency medicine physicians and providers.

The progress of research in emergency medicine will save lives and sustain healthy generations in our communities. As the largest private foundation of research in emergency medicine, the SAEM Foundation is asking for your support to make the biggest leap forward in research funding in our specialty’s history.

Why I Give I got involved with SAEM because there was a strong emphasis on exploration and curiosity…

I connected with a PhD researcher in the emergency department and did a number of research projects on a stroke model in rats… I presented the results at an SAEM Annual Meeting, even as a resident young investigator, and won a number of awards for those projects. I’m trying to pay SAEM back for the networking and mentorship and fun that they provided me as I developed as a researcher. I really believe we have to support ourselves when we try to develop or enhance the development of new researchers.

- Michelle Biros, MD, MS

Emergency physicians count on the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) to advance the science and innovation at the heart of our specialty.

SAEM: Offers the highest quality continuing medical education in emergency medicine, including two journals and other publications, as well as the SAEM Annual Meeting.

Brings specialists across emergency medicine together through 8 academies and 30 interest groups.

Supports medical students, residents, fellows and faculty on their academic career paths in emergency medicine.

Alongside SAEM’s work to strengthen our specialty today, the SAEM Foundation supports the research and researchers who will shape our specialty The SAEM Foundation:

tomorrow.

Is the largest private foundation of research and research training in emergency medicine, with annual funding growing every year and reaching $669,000 in 2019.

Represents the gold standard in research quality, with a rigorous peer review process that prepares applicants for the National Institutes of Health.

Makes a career-defining impact on aspiring researchers by funding their work at a critical stage before they compete for NIH funding.

Drives 100 percent of donor support to clinical, translational, and education research with a singular mission focus and an efficient operation supported by SAEM.

The SAEM Foundation builds the pipeline of talented research leaders that emergency medicine needs.

At a time when early-career researchers face significant challenges finding protected time for research amid their clinical and teaching duties, SAEM Foundation grants give them time to learn research skills and develop their research projects to be competitive for NIH funding.

If you look at the research leaders in emergency medicine today, many built their careers with help from a grant from the SAEM Foundation (or its predecessor grant programs in SAEM) at a crucial early stage.

An SAEM Foundation grant at the right time doesn’t just support a one-off project— it helps launch a whole career of research impact, which often extends beyond the grantee to include the people they develop and support in their research careers.

With generous support and smart investments, the SAEM Foundation has grown its endowment of research funding to over $11 million. These funds are our specialty’s shared foundation for the future of research, and they will generate annual funding in perpetuity to support the most promising researchers and their projects.

The problem we confront today is that our research needs—and promising research ideas—are far greater than we can currently pursue. Inspired by the success of previous grantees, the number and quality of Foundation grant applications has grown considerably. Every year, the SAEM Foundation now receives more high-quality applications than it can fund and has to say no to projects that deserve a yes. We also see that the size of our grants often falls short of the full support that projects need to move forward at full speed and scope.

This means we are falling short of the pace at which we could be advancing research with the power to save lives, improve outcomes, and support emergency physicians. It’s time to invest on a far greater scale to build the research future our specialty needs.

That’s why the SAEM Foundation needs your support now more than ever.

In particular, it will empower the SAEM Foundation to support:

More Research Grants To Launch More Careers Today, the SAEM Foundation is able to fund roughly 20 grants per year, supporting rising researchers at nearly that many institutions. Yet it is not uncommon for the Foundation to have to turn down 10 to 15 additional highquality applicants. A greater research fund will, first and foremost, allow the Foundation to say yes to more qualified applicants, supporting more talented physicians as they work to build research careers in support of our field, and launching more research projects with the power to change lives.

Larger Grants To Support the Full Demands Of Research SAEM Foundation grants range in size from $500 to $300,000, the largest being Research Training Grants that provide two years of support for an aspiring researcher to intensively develop their research abilities and project plans. With greater funding, the Foundation will be able to increase the sizes of awards and fund more large grants to accelerate the development of talented researchers and support their work on a larger scale. This might include supporting more established researchers advancing more ambitious research designs to answer larger questions. We would also consider adding a loan repayment supplement to encourage young physicians with significant debt to stay on the research path.

New Programs And Partnerships In Our Areas Of Greatest Need Beyond increasing the scope and scale of existing grants, the SAEM Foundation has regular opportunities to launch new programs and partnerships around some of the most pressing issues in our specialty today—from geriatrics and gun violence to toxicology and domestic abuse and far beyond. Many other medical research foundations have built significant programs with funders and partner organizations, and prospective partners have reached out to SAEM Foundation in the past. We have not lacked for promising opportunities—only for the resources to support and sustain them. With stronger funding, the SAEM Foundation would be able to step forward as an expert partner in coalitions tackling important issues that transcend emergency medicine, amplifying our expert voice to far greater impact beyond our membership.

Conclusion At a time when our specialty is in the spotlight, we see the extraordinary progress we have made over the past three decades—building a robust and ever-growing base of clinical and translational research, a vibrant academic community, and a position of leadership and influence within the house of medicine.

Yet our commitment to our patients and communities calls us to reach far higher: to respond to new challenges, bring new expertise and knowledge to pressing questions that span the breadth of emergency medicine, and to save lives and improve outcomes for everyone who comes through our doors. Our best investment is our foundation of research and the talented physicians who commit their careers to building it.

Join us today to build the future of emergency medicine.

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Why I Give I donate to the SAEM Foundation because giving to SAEM Foundation is a very tangible and effective way to support other academic emergency physicians. For me, and many other academic EPs, a grant from the SAEM Foundation was a pivotal element toward our long-term career success. It’s important for me to give to SAEMF so that they can continue to provide these truly important grants.

Additionally, I give because I want to “put my money where my mouth is”: I frequently advocate for the federal government and non-EM foundations to increase their support of EM research and education; it is only right that I should support it monetarily, too!

- Megan Ranney, MD, MPH

SAEMF Dinner Events Dr. Andy Jagoda hosts fabulous dinners at Michelin star restaurants to support SAEM Foundation. Attend an upcoming dinner to network with colleagues in your area or request a dinner in your city by contacting foundation@saem.org.

Legacy Society

The SAEM Foundation offers charitable giving opportunities to help you achieve your financial and estate planning goals. Thank you for your interest in including the SAEM Foundation in your estate planning.

Founding Members

Paul S. Auerbach, MD, MS

Cherri D. Hobgood, MD

David P. Sklar, MD

Robert S. Hockberger, MD

Brian J. Zink, MD

If you have also included the SAEM Foundation in your estate planning, please let us know. Contact foundation@saem.org.

Why I Give I decided to dedicate a portion of my estate to the SAEM Foundation to support our future researchers as they develop scholarly expertise and continue to build our specialty. I hope many of you will join me in supporting our specialty and our future through building the endowment of the SAEM Foundation.

- David P. Sklar, MD, Founding Member of the SAEMF Legacy Society

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Wills A gift by will or revocable trust can be simple to make and provides tax benefits for your estate.

Bequest And/Or Trust Language I give, devise, and bequeath to The SAEM Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization having its principal offices in Des Plaines, Illinois: the sum of $_____ or _____ percent of my estate. [or all (or _____ percentage of) the rest, residue and remainder of my estate.]

This gift is to be used to further the charitable purposes of The SAEM Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, at the discretion of the foundation’s board of trustees.

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Why I Give During the 25 years I served as department chair at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center I had numerous faculty (including Jim Niemann, Roger Lewis, Wendy Coates, Marianne GauscheHill, Diane Birnbaumer and Amy Kaji) whose careers benefited greatly from their involvement in SAEM. My annual donations to the SAEM Foundation are my thank you to the organization and my contribution to its future success.

- Robert S. Hockberger, MD, SAEMF Board of Trustees

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Charitable Remainder Trusts With a charitable remainder trust, you or other named individuals, can receive income for life or a period not exceeding 20 years from assets you give to the trust you create. By designating the SAEM Foundation as a beneficiary, you are helping to secure the future of SAEM Foundation.

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Success Stories James F. Holmes, Jr., MD, MPH 2020–2021 SAEM President Professor and Vice Chair for Research Department of Emergency Medicine University of California, Davis

“The first external grant I received was the SAEM Research Training Grant. This grant allowed me to develop my research skills including obtaining a master’s degree focused on Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Perhaps more importantly, the SAEM grant allowed me to obtain preliminary data that led to multiple federal grants including a $1.3 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a $900,000 grant from the Emergency Medical Services for Children. My current NIH R01 is the line of work initially supported by SAEM. The SAEM grant not only provided protected time to develop research skills and preliminary data but also gave me the confidence that I could be successful competing for future grants. The grant essentially launched my research career.”

Subsequently, after completing his SAEM Research Training Grant, Dr. Holmes developed a research fellowship at the University of California, Davis. He was granted the 2010 Institutional Research Training Grant from SAEMF to support this fellowship.

“We have now parlayed SAEM’s support of our research fellowship to apply for several NIH research training grants to train future researchers in emergency medicine and trauma.”

Success Stories Robert Neumar, MD, PhD Professor and Chair, Emergency Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine University of Michigan Medical School

“The SAEM Institutional Training Grant has enabled us to provide a stable infrastructure for training young investigators in emergency care research. The return on investment has been high in terms of subsequent research funding. Our first fellow received a Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award (K08) from the NIH, and our second fellow received an AHA Fellow-to-Faculty Development Award. The research fellowship opportunities provided by SAEM Foundation are critical to the career development of young scientists within our specialty.�

Grant Programs Research Training Grant (RTG) $300,000 ($150K/year over two years) The Research Training Grant is intended to provide funding to support the development of a scientist in emergency medicine.

Education Research Grant (ERG) - $100,000 ($50K/year over 2 years) The mission of the grant is to develop the academic potential of the selected fellow by providing support for a dedicated two-year training period, including pursuit and preferably completion of an advanced degree in education.

GEMSSTAR for Emergency Medicine Supplemental Funding Program - $25,000 A matching grant program for recipients of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) R03 award: Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Subspecialists’ Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR) Program. Funding provided

by SAEM Foundation (SAEMF) and the Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF).

Academy of Emergency Ultrasound Research Grant $10,000 Provides support for research proposals that evaluate the impact of point-of-care ultrasound on clinical practice or characterize point-ofcare ultrasound learning curves.

SAEMF/Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA) Research Pilot Grant - $10,000 Provides financial support for a junior researcher in the field of international emergency medicine to enter a mentored project.

Research Large Project Grant - $150,000 ($75K/year over two years) Supports an emergency medicine faculty member to conduct a large-scale research project to advance his/her career and subsequently obtain federal funding by developing pilot data.

Education Project Grant (EPG) - $20,000 The mission of the grant is to provide support for a medical education research project.

Clerkship Directors in EM Innovation in Undergraduate EM Education Grant - $5,000 Project grant that innovatively addresses one of the six areas of the CDEM mission and can be shared across those teaching undergraduate Emergency Medicine. Areas of innovation can include teaching, assessment or faculty development, and should advance understanding or best practices of these or other areas.

Simulation Academy Novice Research Grant - $5,000 Provides seed funding to support novice investigators in emergency medicine with fewer than 5 years of simulation-based research experience who have shown promise in pushing the research boundaries of simulation-based endeavors in emergency medicine through feasible pilot studies.

SAEMF-Residents & Medical Students (RAMS) Research Grant - $2,500-$5,000 Fosters interest in research among emergency medicine trainees (medical students and residents). The focus is on self-limited research projects that are impactful in the current or future practice of emergency medicine and can be completed in a one-year time frame.

Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM) Research Grant - $5,000 Supports one early career investigator (fellow, instructor, or assistant professor during the award period) who wishes to address a research question in line with the core ideology of the Academy of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine. This award is intended to allow for preliminary data collection, analysis or collection of pilot data that will further support greater research endeavors.

Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine Research Grant - $3,000 Provides support for research that evaluates the state of diversity and inclusion in the field of Emergency Medicine, evaluates interventions to improve diversity and inclusion in Emergency Medicine, or addresses disparities in healthcare outcomes in the practice of Emergency Medicine among underrepresented or marginalized groups.

Emergency Medicine Interest Group Grant (EMIG) $500 Promotes the growth of emergency medicine education at the medical student level, identifies new educational methodologies advancing undergraduate education in emergency medicine, and supports educational endeavors of an EMIG.

Thank you to our sponsors!

American College of Medical Toxicology and Medical Toxicology Foundation National Institute on Drug Abuse National Institute on Aging Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Grant Recipients Meet the 2020 SAEM Foundation Grantees!

Gifts to the SAEM Foundation fund the most promising researchers and educators in academic emergency medicine. Here are this year’s bright stars:

Taylor McCormick, MD, MSc

Denver Health and Hospital Authority SAEMF Research Training Grant - $300,000 “Population-based Assessment of Pediatric Trauma Triage”

Danielle Miller, MD

Stanford University SAEMF Education Research Grant - $98,826 “Development of a Simulation Curriculum and Web-Based Modules to Teach Core EPA 10”

Jane Xiao, MD, MSE

Oregon Health & Science University SAEMF Education Project Grant - $19,879 “eyeTrainer: Describing the Learning Curve in Bedside Cardiac Ultrasound Interpretation”

Paul Musey, MD, MS

Indiana University SAEMF Research Large Project Grant - $150,000 “Psychological Contributors to Cardiovascular Disease Risk in ED Patients”

Dana Sacco, MD

Columbia University SAEMF/NIDA Mentor Facilitated Training Award in Substance Use Disorders Science Dissemination Solicitation - $12,000 “Increasing Provider Awareness and Prescription of Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder in a New York City Emergency Department”

Julianna West, BS

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston SAEMF/RAMS Medical Student Research Grant - $2,500 “Emergency Department Visits and Hemodialysis by Uninsured Patients in Texas”

Katherine Hunold Buck, MD

The Ohio State University GEMSSTAR for Emergency Medicine Supplemental Funding Program - $25,000 “Improving Diagnostic Accuracy for Older Emergency Department Patients with Suspected Pneumonia: The Role of Diagnostic Criteria and Novel Antimicrobial Peptides”

Phillip Moschella, MD, PhD

Prisma Health SAEMF/NIDA Mentor Facilitated Training Award in Substance Use Disorders Science Dissemination Solicitation - $12,000 “Mentored Training to Combat the Opioid Crisis: Emergency Medicine Meets Addiction Medicine”

Bayu Sutarjono, BSc

Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center SAEMF/RAMS Medical Student Research Grant - $2,500 “Serial Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter in Mid-to-Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury”

Alexis del Vecchio

University of South Carolina School of Medicine - Greenville SAEMF/RAMS Medical Student Research Grant - $2,500 “FACILITATE: A Theater-Based Course to Improve Physicians’ Communication Skills”

Grant Recipients Continued...

Eric Boccio, MD

Yale New Haven Hospital SAEMF/RAMS Resident Research Grant - $4,985 “End-Tidal Oxygen as a Measure of Preoxygenation During Rapid Sequence Intubation”

Joshua Davis, MD

The Pennsylvania State University SAEMF/RAMS Resident Research Grant - $5,000 “Aorta to IVC Ratio to Predict Severity of Pediatric Dehydration”

Patrick Ng, MD

University of Colorado, Denver MTF/SAEMF Toxicology Research Grant - $10,000 “Oral Sodium Thiosulfate for Severe Acute Oral Cyanide Exposure”

Lauren Fryling, MD

Harbor Emergency Medicine Education Foundation SAEMF/RAMS Resident Research Grant - $5,000 “Effect of SB1152 (Safe Homeless Discharge Legislation) on Emergency Department Length of Stay and Recidivism”

Youyou Duanmu, MD, MPH

Stanford University SAEMF/Academy of Emergency Ultrasound (AEUS) Research Grant $10,000 “The Effect of the Serratus Anterior Plane Block on Pain and Respiratory Function”

Kyle Schoppel, MD

Boston Medical Center SAEMF/Simulation Academy Novice Research Grant - $5,000 “Are We Optimizing Pediatric Education for Emergency Medicine Trainees?”

Ava Pierce, MD

UT Southwestern Medical Center SAEMF/Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine (ADIEM) Research Grant - $3,000 “Recruitment of URM Students in the Texas Emergency Medicine Research Associates Program”

Amy Zeidan, MD

Emory University SAEMF/Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM) Research Grant - $5,000 “Barriers to Reporting Incidents of Gender and Sexual Harassment in Training and Practice (BRIGHT)”

Joshua Silverberg, MD

Albert Einstein College of Medicine SAEMF/Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine (CDEM Innovations in Undergraduate Emergency Medicine Education Grant - $5,000 “Teddy Bear Sim: A Randomized Study of a Novel Curriculum for EM Clerkships”

Amelia Pousson, MD, MPH

Johns Hopkins University SAEMF/Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA) Research Pilot Grant - $10,000 “Are They Fit for Service? Understanding LMIC EM Residency Curricula Development”

COVID-19 Research Grant Recipients BERNARD CHANG, MD, PhD, Columbia University - SAEM Foundation COVID-19 Grant Recipient The Emergency Department is the gateway to the healthcare system, and the safety net for our society. This is not our first pandemic or disaster, and previous work has established that frontline healthcare workers (HCWs), such as emergency physicians and nurses, are vulnerable to the development of adverse behavioral and psychological sequelae, which may persist long after the disaster. Our SAEM Foundation funded study will look at the longterm development of psychological distress amongst emergency staff following the COVID-19 pandemic.The results will inform our understanding of psychological stress among frontline providers following COVID-19 and ideally lead to the development of interventions aimed at protecting the mental and physical wellbeing of our critical frontline, as we navigate this and future public health crises.

EVAN BRADLEY, MD, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School - SAEM Foundation COVID-19 Grant Recipient There may be reliable features of the nasopharyngeal microbiome that are associated with COVID-19 that may aid in the diagnosis of infection, even if standard testing is negative. The community of microorganisms that inhabit the human nasopharynx, known as the nasopharyngeal microbiome, is known to interact with respiratory viruses and influence how the host initially responds to infection and potentially influence disease course. How it interacts with SARS-nCOV2, the virus that causes COVID19 is may have important effects on the virus ability to establish a productive infection and host’s response to the virus. Through our SAEM Foundationfunded study, we will perform a prospective cohort study of patients presenting to the UMass Memorial Emergency Department under investigation for COVID19. We will perform microbiome analysis on nasopharyngeal swabs to determine the effect SARS-nCOV2 has on the nasopharyngeal microbiome, and if there are microbiome factors associated with a benign or severe clinical course.

The Impact of COVID on EM Research As we look at the effect of COVID-19 on marginalized and underrepresented populations, similar themes of disenfranchisement and a disproportionately negative impact on lower socioeconomic status (SES) groups are emerging. These themes are rooted in implicit bias and social determinants of health...We must be cognizant of the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on at-risk populations: Black and brown people are dying at much higher rates because, in the US, these populations at baseline are more impoverished, have less access to health care, and live in higher density environments. Combined with their greater reliance on public transportation in cities and a lower ability to work from home given the types of jobs they hold, they are more likely to get infected, and once infected, more likely to die. Without understanding these effects of social determinants of health and attempting to address these obvious flaws in our delivery of health care, we will always have a biased and inequitable system.

– AVA PIERCE, MD, UT Southwestern - Mentor Donor The recent outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has placed immense pressure on our global health care system. In the United States, the current crisis has been compounded by limited hospital capacity and equipment, diminished staff workforce, budgetary constrictions, and scant personal protective gear — all of which has made an already devastating pandemic even more alarming. Globally, women account for almost 70 percent of health care workers, who usually serve, in some capacity, on the front lines.

Recent data show that in the United States, just over one-third of all physicians are women.

In addition, women still primarily bear the burden of care at home. While many households have outsourced some of these added responsibilities (e.g. childcare and the daily operations of the home); during this current pandemic, many of these duties have largely fallen disproportionately on the shoulders of women.

– MICHELLE LALL, MD, MHS, Emory University - SAEMF Advocate Donor Due to the rush of critically ill patients suffering from complications of COVID-19 presenting to hospitals, the healthcare system’s capacity to care for such patients is being threatened daily. For older adults with serious, life-limiting illness (i.e., terminal illness with less than one-year prognosis), the decision to initiate critical care/intubation is complex and emotional. Since 75 percent of older adults (≥65years) visit the emergency department (ED) in the last six months of life, and up to 99 percent of such patients lack advance directives, emergency physicians are tasked to complete the hardest conversations and shareddecision making regarding life-saving and scarce resources during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Emergency physicians must recognize that the best possible outcome after survival may be “worse than death.”

–K EI OUCHI, MD, MPH, The Brigham and Women’s Hospital - SAEM Foundation GEMSSTAR Supplemental Grant Recipient While emergency medicine providers are caring for the rising number of COVID-19 positive patients across the country, public health officials advocate for social distancing and shelter-in-place mandates in order to flatten the curve of this pandemic; however, individuals living homeless offer a unique challenge to disease containment. Individuals living homeless are not only more vulnerable to this disease because of their high incidence of comorbid conditions, they also serve as important vectors in the disease’s rapid spread because of their exposure to crowded shelters, day centers, and other congregant spaces where they receive essential services.

–C ALLAN E FOCKELE MD, MS, University of Washington School of Medicine - SAEM Foundation/NIDA Mentored Scientist Grant Recipient

The SAEM Foundation President

Gregory A. Volturo, MD

Secretary-Treasurer Joseph Adrian Tyndall, MD, MPH

President-Elect Brian J. Zink, MD

Immediate Past President Michelle Blanda, MD

University of Massachusetts Medical School

University of Michigan Medical School

University of Florida

Northeast Ohio Medical University, Western Reserve Hospital, Academic and Community Emergency Specialists

Member-at-Large Steven L. Bernstein, MD

Member-at-Large Roland C. Merchant, MD, MPH, ScD

Member-at-Large Cherri D. Hobgood, MD

Member-at-Large Susan B. Promes, MD, MBA

Member-at-Large Robert S. Hockberger, MD

Member-at-Large Manish N. Shah, MD, MPH

Yale School of Medicine

Indiana University

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Member-at-Large James J. McCarthy, MD

Memorial Hermann Health System

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Penn State Health

University of Wisconsin

Board of Trustees Member-at-Large David P. Sklar, MD

Member-at-Large J. Scott VanEpps, MD, PhD

SAEM Grants Committee Chair Nicholas M. Mohr, MD, MS

SAEM President-Elect Amy H. Kaji, MD, PhD

SAEM Finance Committee Chair Kevin Kotkowski, MD

SAEM Secretary-Treasurer Angela M. Mills, MD

SAEM President James F. Holmes, Jr., MD, MPH

SAEM Immediate Past President Ian B.K. Martin, MD, MBA

Arizona State University and University of New Mexico

University of Iowa

University of Massachusetts Medical School

University of California, Davis

University of Michigan

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Medical College of Wisconsin

Together with SAEM, the SAEM Foundation has awarded over $8 million to more than 400 academicians.

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