In this episode, we interview Dana Grueser about her experiences with Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE), including the 764 Network, as well as the red flags that physicians should look out for.

Dana Grueser is a parent advocate and public speaker who nearly lost her son after algorithms drove him to Nihilistic Violent Extremism networks that groom minors toward violence and self-harm. After fighting to get her son the help he needed — and encountering professionals who missed the warning signs — she now speaks and writes to help parents, educators, and frontline providers to recognize the behavioral and digital red flags of online radicalization and exploitation before they escalate to crisis. She also advocates at the state and federal level for stronger child online safety legislation.

Dana Grueser's Substack: https://substack.com/@slowtechrevolution

Resources:

1. Letgrow.org
2. www.protectyoungeyes.com
3. Smartphonefreechildhood.org
4. Wearemama.org

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In this episode, we discuss the concept of narrative warfare and how it pertains to military providers with Dr. Ajit Maan. 

Ajit Maan, Ph.D. specializes in Narrative Warfare and Strategic Influence in large scale conflict.

She is currently:
-Professor of Practice, Master’s Program, Politics and Global Security, Arizona State University
- Faculty, Future Security Initiative, Arizona State University
- Adjunct Professor, Joint Special Operations University
- Founder, Narrative Strategies LLC
- President, Military Writers Guild
- Editorial Adviser, PRISM, Irregular Warfare Center, United States Department of War
- Chair, Narrative Strategies Vertical, Homeland Security Today

She is the author of five books:
1. Internarrative Identity
2. Internarrative Identity: Placing the Self
3. Counter-Terrorism: Narrative Strategies
4. Plato’s Fear
5. Narrative Warfare

And Editor of two books:
1. Soft Power on Hard Problems: Strategic Influence in Irregular Warfare
2. Dangerous Narratives: Warfare, Strategy, Statecraft

In addition to her books, Dr. Maan’s articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, Homeland Security Today, Special Operations Forces News, Real Clear Defense, The Strategy Bridge, Small Wars Journal, Defense and Intelligence Norway, Stars and Stripes, The Indian Defense Review, The Indian Military Review, Narrative and Conflict: Explorations in Theory and Practice, Philosophical Practice, and other academic and military strategy journals world-wide.

Awards:
2019 Most innovative Campaign to Forward Mission, Homeland Security Today
2025 Trailblazer Award, Homeland Security Today

Dr. Maan's Amazon page can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001KH6DOY/allbooks?ingress=0&visitId=4fb388cf-7fc4-4f99-9131-25ac1e0ed318&ref_

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In this episode, we interview Dr. Dominique Wong, an expert in the intersection of homeland security and emergency medicine. 

Dominique Wong M.D. is an emergency physician with expertise in disaster, event and tactical medicine, and a particular interest in the nexus of medicine and homeland security. She serves as chair of her hospital's Medical Readiness Committee, works extensively in hospital disaster preparedness and mass casualty planning, and has experience as a tactical physician and law enforcement high threat medicine educator.
Dr. Wong is active nationally in disaster and tactical and law enforcement medicine and also contributes to public health and biodefense initiatives as a consultant for wastewater surveillance for biothreat detection. She is a co-facilitator and speaker for the Naval Postgraduate School, Center for Homeland Defense and Security and holds degrees from Cornell University and The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

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In this episode, we interview Dr. Brian Strickland, a current EM physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and an expert in wilderness medicine, about his experiences in austere environments such as Ukraine. 

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In this episode, we interview Heidi Beirich, Ph.D, founder of the Global Project against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE), which monitors and counters increasingly transnational hate movements. Today, we discuss the increasing danger of online extremist movements, including Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE), the 764 Movement, and the increasingly dangerous True Crime Community (TCC). 

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In this episode, we interview Lt. Cmdr. Jesse Wang, a Navy EM physician of Explosive Ordinance Group 1, who served as the lead for the dive medical team tasked with the Artemis II recovery on April 10, 2026. 

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In this episode, we interview Dr. Stuart Harris. Dr. Harris is the founder and Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Wilderness Medicine, and the Director of the MGH Wilderness Medicine Fellowship. He is a full-time attending physician in the MGH Emergency Department and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency in 2003. He has been conducting research with the Himalayan Rescue Association in the Mt. Everest region since 1999 and the U.S. Army’s Research Institute for Environmental Medicine since 2004, and is currently working on the next edition of Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine . 

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In these two lectures from the GSACEP 2025 Conference, we discuss AI and the future of battlefield medicine, as well as the subject of prisoner rights in the ED. 

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In this episode, we interview science and tech journalist Tereza Pultarova on her work with drone warfare in the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian War.

More of Tereza's work can be found here: 

https://spectrum.ieee.org/autonomous-drone-warfare

https://x.com/TerezaPultarova

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In this episode of the GS ACEP podcast, guest host Dr. Anne Long interviews Dr. Katrina (“Kat”) Landa, an emergency physician and former Navy officer, about mass-casualty management in combat settings—focusing on her experience during the Abbey Gate bombing in Kabul in August 2021. Drawing on her roles as mass casualty coordinatorat the NATO Role 3 hospital in Kandahar (2018–2019) and later as officer in charge of a Shock Trauma Platoon during the Afghanistan withdrawal, Dr. Landa describes how deliberate training, a shared mental model, and well-prepared corpsmen shaped her team’s response under extreme chaos.

They discuss practical frameworks for mass-casualty triage, pre-hospital damage-control resuscitation, the realities of operating in an austere environment with limited supplies, and the critical importance of communications, logistics, and integrated trainingwith line units. Dr. Landa also reflects on leadership, moral injury, and what junior military physicians and commands can do now to better prepare for future high-acuity, low-frequency events.

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