SPOTLIGHT
Harrison Alter, MD, MS is the founding director of the Andrew Levitt Center for Social Emergency Medicine and the Associate Chair for Research at Highland Hospital – Alameda Health System. Follow him on Twitter @alterdoctor
Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, is an expert in firearm injury prevention, an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Brown University, and the co-founder of AFFIRM, the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine. Follow her on twitter @meganranney
Steve Brown, MSW, is a nationally recognized expert on housing and health. He is the Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago, and the Director of Better Health Through Housing.
Breena Taira, MD, MPH, is the Director of Research for the Olive-View UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine. She is the US Director of Project SEMILLA, an organization focused on growing emergency medicine education in Latin America. Dr. Taira is also the Director of IDHEAL, the UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine section of health equity.
Rebecca Cunningham is a Professor in the University of Michigan Department of Emergency Medicine, and the Interim Vice President for Research in the U-M Office of Research. She is the director of CDC funded University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center, and the principal investigator of the Firearm Safety Among Children and Teens Consortium (FACTS).
Chad Holmes, DO, FACEP
Chad Holmes is a member of the emergency medicine faculty at John Peter Smith Hospital in Forth Worth Texas, and is the director of the newly created street medicine fellowship. In this interview he discusses details of the fellowship, the clinical experience, and life in Fort Worth, TX.
Marina Del Rios, MD MS
Marina Del Rios is a researcher and advocate focused on achieving health equity. She is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, the Community Sphere Physician Leader of the Illinois Heart Rescue Project and an active member of Illinois Unidos, an organization focused on eliminating the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on the health of Latinx communities.
Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Founding Director, Comprehensive Injury Center
Senior Science and Policy Advisor
Medical College of Wisconsin