Editors

Dr. Kate Douglass is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Global Health at George Washington University.  She completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine at Drexel University in 2005, then came to GWU to complete fellowship training in International Emergency Medicine as well as a Master of Public Health.  She has served as the director of the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship at GWU, and she is currently the Departmental Section Chief of Global Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Douglass is specifically interested in international emergency medical systems development with a focus on sustainability, cost-effectiveness, and effective educational interventions. She also focuses on the global impact of road traffic injuries, and implications for emergency medical system's development. She has worked extensively with international medical programs and policy initiatives, including projects in India, Saudi Arabia, Zambia, Turkey, Ethiopia and Peru.   She currently directs ten post-graduate EM education programs across the nation of India, graduating trained and qualified Emergency Physicians to address India’s severe Emergency Medicine Human Resource shortage and injury epidemic.  She has worked over her career with consensus groups at the national and international level to develop guidelines for trainees embarking on global health experiences.

Dr. Douglass also served as a Senior Technical Clinical advisor for FHI360 from 2021 to 2023 as part of the global COVID response team. In this role, she supported a robust profile of countries in their pandemic response planning, providing technical expertise. Her passion for global EM systems development has been bolstered by the COVID pandemic, a crisis that further clarifies the universal need for effective emergency and acute care.

Aubrie Ford, DO is a global emergency medicine fellow at George Washington University pursuing her Master’s in Public Health. She completed medical school at TouroCOM and residency at Northwell Health in New York. Her research interests include gender issues, workplace safety and quality improvement, global capacity building and education.

Marcee E. Wilder, MD, MS, MPH is a board-certified emergency physician, NIH-funded clinician-scientist, and Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, jointly appointed in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Institute for Health Equity Research. Her research focuses on how neighborhood-level and individual social determinants shape hypertension control, cardiovascular risk, and emergency care utilization. As a Mount Sinai FIRST Faculty Scholar, she leads equity-centered, community-engaged studies, including interventions to improve hypertension outcomes for high-risk emergency department patients.

Dr. Wilder has published extensively on structural inequities, cardiovascular risk, and emergency care disparities, with recent work in JACEP Open, Current Hypertension Reports, and Circulation Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes. She is a national leader in organized medicine, serving as Chair of the ACEP Access, Belonging, and Community Committee and as Research Chair for the National Medical Association Emergency Medicine Section.

She is also an invited speaker at national conferences, an active mentor to diverse trainees, and a committed advocate for building a more inclusive emergency medicine clinician-scientist workforce.