Alister Martin is a practicing emergency physician and former Chief Resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He served as a former Health Policy Aide to Governor Peter Shumlin of Vermont and Congressman Raul Ruiz of California and blends state and federal policy knowledge with hands-on patient experience. He now serves as faculty at Harvard Medical School in the Center for Social Justice and Health Equity working at the intersection of public policy and medicine. He leverages his background in politics, healthcare policy, and the field of behavioral economics to use the ER as a place to build programs that serve the needs of vulnerable patients. He is the founder and Executive Director of Vot-ER (https://vot-er.org/) and the founder and National Organizing Director of Get Waivered (https://getwaivered.com/).

Dr. Aaron R. Quarles is an Emergency Medicine Physician at Northwestern Medicine and an Instructor of Emergency Medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. His primary focus is addressing the social determinants of health. He is particularly interested in aligning community resources with the healthcare system to enhance the care of patients from marginalized populations. Dr. Quarles serves as the Director of Recruitment for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program and has been recognized for mentorship of underrepresented students and trainees. Dr. Quarles teaches in healthcare quality and health equity courses at the medical school.  He  completed his residency at Northwestern, where he also served as Chief Resident. Before relocating to Chicago, Dr. Quarles was awarded the Zuckerman Fellowship by the Center for Public Leadership to pursue a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He earned his Medical Doctorate from Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Bienvenu is a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins.  He specializes in anxiety disorders, and his research employs methods of epidemiology and clinical investigation.  He is currently working on ways to reduce post-traumatic stress phenomena in survivors of critical illness and intensive care.

Lourdes Celius is a first-year Doctor of Nursing candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine specializing in family primary care. Lourdes has engaged in several community and research-oriented projects that focus on health disparities in minority women birth outcomes and medical delivery of Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for patients at higher risk of acquiring HIV. Please join us as we learn more about her journey into nursing school. 

Colin G. Walsh, MD, MA, is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine, and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is a practicing internist. He received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University and his medical degree at the University of Chicago. He completed residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. He received a degree in Biomedical informatics in postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University. He joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University in 2015. His research includes: 1) applied predictive modeling to enable behavioral health and prevention; 2) scalable phenotyping for precision medicine; and 3) population health informatics to combat the overdose crisis.

Dr. Travis Rieder is a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics where he serves as the Director of the Masters of Bioethics degree program. He holds secondary faculty appointments at the Department of Health Policy & Management and the Center for Public Health Advocacy within the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, as well as in the Department of Philosophy. Dr. Rider’s research distinctly falls into two categories: one being ethics and policy surrounding sustainability and planetary limits, and the second being on the question of responsible procreation in the era of climate change. He also works on food ethics related to climate change, as well as research ethics and policy issues surrounding America’s opioid epidemic. Outside of his research and scholarly writing, Dr. Rieder is quite popular as a public speaker with a passionate commitment to doing bioethics with the public and recently published his famous book, “In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids." 

Dr. Travis Rieder is a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics where he serves as the Director of the Masters of Bioethics degree program. He holds secondary faculty appointments at the Department of Health Policy & Management and the Center for Public Health Advocacy within the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, as well as in the Department of Philosophy. Dr. Rider’s research distinctly falls into two categories: one being ethics and policy surrounding sustainability and planetary limits, and the second being on the question of responsible procreation in the era of climate change. He also works on food ethics related to climate change, as well as research ethics and policy issues surrounding America’s opioid epidemic. Outside of his research and scholarly writing, Dr. Rieder is quite popular as a public speaker with a passionate commitment to doing bioethics with the public and recently published his famous book, “In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids.”

Dr. Namandjé Bumpus is the E.K. Marshall and Thomas H. Maren Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is the first Black woman to ever chair a department at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She joined the faculty at Hopkins in 2010. Dr. Bumpus earned a BA in biology at Occidental College in 2003. She then went on to complete a PhD in pharmacology at the University of Michigan in 2007 and a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular and experimental medicine at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA in 2010. Dr. Bumpus’ laboratory focuses on defining mechanisms that underlie inter-individual differences in drug outcomes. She is internationally recognized for her contributions to the development of drugs to treat and prevent HIV infection. Her many honors include the Leon I. Goldberg Award from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the James Gillette Award from the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics, the John J. Abel Award in Pharmacology from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers awarded by the Obama administration. 

Andrew Pekosz received his BS in Biochemistry from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Pekosz joined the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in July, 2007. He is an expert on the basic biology of influenza, coronaviruses and other emerging and zoonotic virus infections. Dr. Pekosz is the co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Excellence in Influenza Research and Surveillance (JH-CEIRS) and Director of the Center for Emerging Viral Infectious Diseases (CEVID). He has authored more than 90 scientific papers, is on the editorial board for several journals and has served on a number of National Institute of Health scientific and policy review boards focused on biosafety and biocontainment. He has been interviewed on the topics of COVID-19, influenza, biosafety, emerging infectious diseases and pandemic preparedness by a number of news agencies including National Public Radio, the Associated Press (AP), the Baltimore Sun, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Cable News Network (CNN), CSPAN, British Broadcasting Company (BBC), Bloomberg Television, France24, Voice of America, the Discovery Channel and numerous local radio and television stations.

Dr. Laura Guidry-Grimes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics with a secondary appointment in Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dr. Guidry-Grimes is a clinical ethicist, where she offers ethics education to different clinical groups and units, provides ethics consultation on an individual model, develops and revises policies, and leads projects on ethics research. She is also passionate about teaching bioethics to undergraduates, graduate students, and students across health professions. Dr. Guidry-Grimes research focuses on psychiatric ethics, disability advocacy, and how best to understand vulnerability in health care. 

To view a partial transcript of the podcast episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wAE5Ft3s2CUq-9RX1aXzNOKdnGrrdxu7T8XJoZNvbmw/edit?usp=sharing