Kiran Faryar, MD, MPH

Kiran Faryar, MD, MPH, attended medical school at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. Her residency in Emergency Medicine was at the University of Louisville. She completed a one-year Research Fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is currently an Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and works as the Director of Research for the Department of Emergency Medicine at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.

Jack Palmer, MD, MS

Jack Palmer, MD, MS, attended medical school at Upstate Medical University and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. He is an Associate Professor at both Creighton University School of Medicine and University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix and is part-time faculty at District Medical Group. He previously held the position of Medical Director of the Emergency Department at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Lesley Miller, MD, FACP

Lesley Miller, MD, FACP is a Professor of Medicine in Emory University’s Division of General Internal Medicine. She is the Medical Director of the Grady Liver Clinic, a primary care-based hepatitis C clinic for underserved patients at Grady Health System in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Miller leads nationally recognized HCV screening and linkage to care programs and has been recognized as a Hepatitis Elimination Champion by the Task Force for Global Health.

Elissa M Schechter-Perkins MD, MPH, DTMH

Elissa M Schechter-Perkins MD, MPH, DTMH, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Vice Chair of EM Research at Boston University School of Medicine/Boston University School of Medicine. She is also the Director of Emergency Medicine Infectious Disease Management. She is the immediate past co-Chair of the SAEM Interest Group Emergency Medicine Transmissible Infectious Diseases and Epidemics, a network of academic emergency departments focused on research, practice, and policy on emerging and transmissible infectious diseases. Dr Perkins earned a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University, and completed her Doctorate of Medicine at Columbia University. She did her Emergency Medicine residency training at Yale New Haven Hospital, and then completed an International EM fellowship at Los Angeles County, University of Southern California, during which time she earned an MPH from UCLA and a diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Gorgas Clinical Course in Tropical Medicine in Lima, Peru. Dr. Perkins has spent her career working with vulnerable populations, primarily in inner city EDs. Her academic area of expertise focuses on the intersection of infectious diseases, public health, and the ED, with a particular interest in healthcare disparities. She has developed programs and evaluated methods to enhance both ED and hospital-wide screening and treatment of infectious diseases that have public health consequences.

Kimberly Stanford, MD, MPH

Kimberly Stanford, MD, MPH attended medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and did her internship at Massachusetts General Hospital. She completed her residency at Harvard University. She is now an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of Chicago.

Jason Zucker, MD

Jason Zucker, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Columbia University Medical Center and Assistant Medical Director of the New York City STD Prevention Training Center. Dr. Zucker trained as a combined adult and pediatric infectious diseases physician and is an experienced HIV, HIV prevention, and sexual health care provider. His research focuses on ways to optimize engagement in the sexual health cascade of care.

Erica Kaufman West, MD

Erica Kaufman West, MD, completed her undergraduate degrees at Valparaiso University in Indiana. She received her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine. She finished her Internal Medicine residency and her chief resident year at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She stayed to complete her fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the West LA VA/Cedars-Sinai/Olive View-UCLA Medical Center program. She has been working in the Midwest since then, focusing on acute inpatient as well as outpatient care in HIV, Hepatitis C and wound care. She now works as the AMA’s Director of Infectious Diseases while maintaining her clinical practice.