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.