Editors

Abdullah Alruwaili, PhD, completed his doctoral studies at the School of Health and Medicine in the University of New England, Australia. Currently, he holds prominent roles as Program Director, Consultant, and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medical Services at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. In addition, he serves as an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of New England.

Dr. Alruwaili's dedication to his research is reflected in his diverse interests, focusing on pivotal areas such as Disaster Preparedness, Prehospital Care, Burnout, Emergency Medical Services, and Evidence-Based Practice.

Venkataraman Anantharaman, MBBS, FRCP Edin, FAMS, FRCSEd (A&E), is Senior Consultant at the Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Clinical Professor at the National University of Singapore and Adjunct Professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. He is Past President of the College of Emergency Physicians, Singapore, and Founder President of both the Society for Emergency Medicine in Singapore (1992-2003) and the Asian Society for Emergency Medicine (1998-2001).

Rafael Castro, MD, PhD, is an EMS physician with over 20 years of clinical experience in prehospital care within the Health Service of Asturias, Spain. Currently, he serves as the Coordinator of the Prehospital Care and Disasters Research Group at the Health Research Institute of Asturias. Additionally, he holds a full-time professorship at the Department of Medicine of Oviedo University. His primary areas of expertise include prehospital care, mass casualty incidents, triage systems, and disaster management.

Nana Owusu Mensah Essel, MD MSc MPH, trained as a physician at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana and went on to graduate with a Master of Public Health (MPH) from University of Liverpool (UK) and Master of Applied Statistics from KNUST. He currently works as a Research Associate with the Emergency Medicine Research Group (EMeRG), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, led by Dr. Brian Rowe, which aims to promote evidence-based medicine by narrowing the gap between clinical research and clinical practice. On a voluntary basis, he also serves as a Research Statistician and Epidemiologist with the Cervical Cancer Prevention and Training Centre, Battor, Ghana where the team works to unearth critical insights into disease patterns, risk factors, policies, and interventions, making a substantial contribution to healthcare practices in his homeland, Ghana.

Joshua Goldstein, MD PhD, is an emergency physician with expertise in neurologic and hematologic emergencies. He is a Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Center for Neurologic Emergencies at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Peter Wagoner Greenwald, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and a board certified emergency medicine physician. He is a graduate of SUNY Downstate Health Science Center Brooklyn, residency trained at  at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, and received a masters degree in biostatistics and research design from the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health in New York. Dr Greenwald is Emergency Medicine Telehealth Services Co-Director and Director of Emergency Medicine Telehealth Quality Assurance at NewYork Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Shayne Gue, MD, earned his medical degree from the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University and a Master's in Medical Education from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. He serves as the Director of Education and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine.  His research interests center on interactive educational strategies, including: gamification, team-based learning, simulation, the introduction of artificial intelligence, and the development of novel strategies to motivate the next generation of adult learners.

Derrick Huang, MD, is an emergency physician with a strong interest in point-of-care ultrasound and quality improvement research. He earned his medical degree at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine and is completing his residency at Ocala Hospital in affiliation with the University of Central Florida. Dr Huang leads numerous academic projects focused on ultrasound and quality improvement. He works closely with Dr Leon, the ultrasound director at Ocala Hospital, to teach ultrasound and investigate novel sonographic techniques.

Toshiaki Iba, MD, is a Professor of Emergency and Disaster Medicine at Juntendo University, Japan. He is a Councilor for several academic societies on emergency medicine and thrombosis/hemostasis. He previously acted as Chairman of the DIC Scientific Standardization Committee for the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Professor Iba is an Associate Editor for several scientific journals, and he has co-authored more than 290 peer-reviewed articles. Specific Interests: sepsis, organ dysfunction, disseminated intravascular coagulation, thrombosis, anticoagulants, microcirculation, innate immune system, heatstroke, COVID-19.

Richard Lappin, MD PhD, is an emergency physician with a special interest in neurological and neurovascular emergencies. He is a graduate of the Cornell-Rockefeller M.D.-Ph.D. program, where he researched the development of nerve-muscle synapses. He is currently Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Attending Physician and Stroke Medical Director in the Emergency Department at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. 

James Neuenschwander, MD, FACEP, FASAM, is an emergency medicine physician. He is active at the Ohio State University as an Adjunct Associate Professor with resident teaching and research collaboration. He received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, completed his residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and has been in practice for more than 25 years. His research background in cardiovascular has focused on pacemakers and ICD interrogation in the emergency department as well as anti coagulation and cardiac markers.  He has also investigated substance use disorders and has studied antibiotic stewardship.

Kaushal Shah, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and a board certified emergency medicine physician.  He is a graduate of Brown University, Dartmouth Medical School, and residency trained at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.  Dr. Shah is the Vice Chair of Education at NewYork Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center.  He serves on the ACEP Clinical Policies Committee, EAST Practice Management Guidelines Committee and the SAEM Trauma Interest Group.  He is the editor-in-chief of the Essential Emergency Trauma textbook. 

Itai Shavit, MD, is a Full Clinical Professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and Division Chair of Pediatrics at Hadassah Medical Center. His research focuses on procedural pain and sedation in children, emergency care simulation, and epidemiology of pediatric emergencies. Prof. Shavit is the Lead Researcher of the Israel Pediatric Emergency Research Network (ISPERN).