Dr. Tintinalli is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is the founding chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health, as well as in Medical Journalism in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. She acted as the founding president of the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors. Currently, she is editor-in-chief of the world’s best-selling Emergency Medicine textbook, Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Suter, a Professor of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern, is the current president for the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians. He previously served as president of both the American College of Emergency Physicians and the International Federation for Emergency Medicine, as well as president of the Emergency Medicine Residents Association. Dr. Suter completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at Brooke Army-Wilford Hall USAF Medical Centers in San Antonio, Texas.

Presently, Dr. Suter is a General in the U.S. Army Reserve and has a long history of service to Emergency Medicine on a state, national, and international level. He was the physician co-chair of the federal project, EMS Agenda for the Future. Dr. Suter’s awards are the highest in the field of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Mulligan is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and was the Director of the University of Maryland International EM Program for 10 years. Prof Mulligan is also a Visiting Professor in China, South Africa, India and Ireland. He is a Board Member of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM), and the Vice President of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM). Prof Mulligan is double-board certified / double-residency trained, with a Masters in Public Health, 4 subspecialty fellowships, and graduate work towards a Masters in Health Economics, Policy and Law. Dr Mulligan has lived and worked in over 50 countries in the last 20 years, working on multiple levels of emergency medicine, trauma and acute care systems development in low-, middle- and high-income countries. He is the recipient of multiple awards for excellence in EM and in EM education, has published over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, chapters, abstracts and other articles, and has delivered over 1000 lectures at conferences, symposia, courses and workshops in over 50 countries.

Dr. Bean is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She is a member of the departmental Division of Ultrasound and Assistant Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship. Further, she is the Associate Course Director for the Global Health and Service Honors Tract for Medical Students. In addition to leading medical service trips to Latin America, she is actively involved in international medicine though delivering emergency medicine lectures and workshops in countries spanning 5 continents. Dr. Bean has received the American Academy of Emergency Medicine Amin Kazzi International Emergency Medicine Leadership Award and has been recognized as a Fellow of four medical organizations: the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the Academy of Wilderness Medicine and the International Federation for Emergency Medicine. She is the current Chair of AAEM’s International Committee.

Camilo E. Gutierrez is an internationally recognized Pediatric Emergency Physician, with a broad range of experience as a clinician, educator, and expert in international pediatric emergency care. Currently Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences to lead the Global Health initiatives of the Emergency Medicine Division at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC where he continues his clinical work in the Pediatric Emergency Department.

Dr. Gutierrez is a key opinion leader at the advisory level in the development of acute care systems at the local, country and regional level globally, with emphasis in development of pediatric acute and emergency care systems.

For the prior 10 years, Camilo was Attending Physician in the Pediatric Emergency Division, education director for the clinical rotation of the Harvard & BU Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics, liaison to Trauma and Boston EMS programs, and Pediatric Incident Commander for Boston University‘s affiliated hospital, Boston Medical Center. Was recognized by the Department of Public Health Commissioner for his tenure as Chair and Medical Director of the Emergency Medicine for Children’s Advisory Committee for Massachusetts, and by the Massachusetts Chapter of ACEP for his efforts to augment the care for children at the state level as Co-Chair of the MACEP Pediatric EM Section.

At the national level, he is current Chair-Elect for the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) International EM Section, and active in the Ambassador Committee as Deputy for Colombia and Lead Ambassador for Costa Rica. He has also occupied leadership roles in the board of the Global Emergency Medicine Academy of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), and through the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) International Committee has been involved in collaborating with scientific committees in leading Pediatric EM topics and speakers for their international conferences.

At the international level he is Chair of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Special Interest Group (PEMSIG) of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine (IFEM), and member of the Clinical Practice and Education and Curriculum Committees. He is Founding and Board Member of the first Latin American Pediatric EM Society (SLEPE) established in the fall of 2016.

Dr. Gutierrez is a recognized speaker both locally and in over a dozen countries where he has presented over 90 lectures in the last 10 years and has authored over 40 publications. His interests are education with emphasis on International and Global Health care arenas, development of pediatric acute care systems, pediatric trauma and critical care in the ED, ultrasound, shock, difficult airway management and procedural sedation.

Dr. Darryl Macias has extensive experience working in limited-resource environments. After participating in Himalayan expeditions, he developed a wilderness medicine rotation at the University of New Mexico, which has turned into the International Mountain Medicine Center (IMMC), where a dedicated cadre of emergency physicians and paramedics teach various wilderness medicine courses. He has also taught medical care to mountain guides in the Himalayas. He also works as a mountain guide. He is the co-founder of PACE in Mexico, and has worked in Latin America to help develop emergency medicine in Argentina and France, having been ACEP ambassador to these countries. He served as chair to the International Section, and has been recognized by ACEP with the “Augustine D’Orta” award, several section awards, and the “Hero of Emergency Medicine award.” He often lectures nationally and internationally on wilderness and disaster medicine, emergency ultrasound in the backcountry, and stress desensitization. He currently hosts the popular “Wilderness and Environmental Medicine Live!” podcast.

Jeff Solheim is a Registered Nurse from Portland Oregon. He has served as a staff nurse, charge nurse, nursing administrator, flight nurse, nursing educator and nurse entrepreneur in his career, mainly in the emergency and trauma setting. Jeff is also the founder and emeritus executive director of Project Helping Hands, a not-for-profit medical organization that deploys medical teams to underserviced areas of the world. Jeff speaks on a variety of motivational and clinical topics all over the world and has authored over 25 books on various emergency and trauma related topics.

Widely recognized as a leader in emergency medicine and injury control, Dr. Gregory Luke Larkin is the University of Auckland’s (New Zealand) inaugural Professor and Lion Foundation Chair of Emergency Medicine. Immediately prior to that, Dr. Larkin was also the inaugural Professor and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, USA. An advisor to ministries of health, public health organizations and academics in many parts of the world, Professor Larkin has trained emergency professionals and practiced in over a dozen countries. He served as an advisor for the Blair government while an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy in Whitehall. Furthermore, Dr. Larkin has over two decades of frontline ED experience as a Board-certified clinician. He has advanced training in bioengineering, biostatistics, engineering and public health. Additionally, he has conducted international research and has been a prolific publisher of more than 200 scholarly papers.

Dr. Gregory Luke Larkin’s work has been published in the American Journal of Public Health, Toxicology, NEJM, JAMA, Consumer Policy Review, the Annals of Emergency Medicine, and the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. Some of his most recent work includes studies on rapidly-acting antidepressants, the mental health causes and consequences of trauma, interpersonal violence, bio-informatics/health IT, and suicide prevention. He has been one of the first emergency physicians to define the link between regular ED visits and inadequate pain management, ED visits and partner violence, and ED visits and co-morbid mental health problems including suicide ideation, anxiety and depression.

In recent years, Dr. Gregory Luke Larkin was an on-the-ground advisor during disasters in Haiti, Iraq, Pakistan and Rwanda. He is a consultant to the National Center on Injury Prevention and Control at the CDC. He has also served as consultant to SAMHSA, NIMH and the World Health Organization on priority matters such as trauma, mental health and injury prevention.

Dr. Larkin has been a sought-after Visiting Professor in over twenty countrie

Dr. Justin Myers is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. He is the Director of the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship and an Associate Director for the UNC Office of Global Health and Education, where he actively supports the global health learning experiences of medical students, residents and fellows. His research encompasses the areas of ED operations, epidemiology, medical education and implementation science. He is interested in research as a catalyst for Emergency Medicine development.