Colin C. Rorrie, Jr, PhD Award for Excellence in Health Policy

Susan M. Nedza, MD, MBA, FACEP

Dr. Nedza is a graduate of Loyola Stritch School of Medicine and completed her emergency medicine residency at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois. She is a past president of the Illinois College of Emergency Physicians and is the EMS medical consultant to the Illinois Department of Public Health. She has served ACEP as a committee, section, and task force chair and as a member of the Board of Directors.

After completing her master’s of business administration from Northwestern University, she was named a regional chief medical officer for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. She later served as the vice president of quality and patient safety at the American Medical Association.

Pamela P. Bensen Trailblazer Award

Rita A. Manfredi-Shutler, MD, FACEP

Dr. Manfredi is professor of clinical emergency medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C. She received her MD from Brown University in Providence. After a Navy tour, she completed an emergency medicine residency at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester.

She completed a fellowship in health and spirituality at the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health and recently became board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine after fellowship training.

Dr. Manfredi served as the past national chair for the ACEP Well-Being Committee and a member and subcommittee chair. She has been a member of the Legislative and Regulatory Committee and served as one of the early board members of the American Association of Women Emergency Physicians before it was designated a section. She is a member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Wellness Committee.  In 2020, Dr. Manfredi received the ACEP Wellness Section’s Outstanding Director of Wellness Award.

Judith E. Tintinalli Award for Outstanding Contribution in Education

Michael S. Beeson, MD, FACEP

Dr. Beeson is a graduate of The Ohio State University College of Medicine, having completed his emergency medicine residency training at Akron City Hospital. He also earned an MBA from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He became a residency director in 1994, a position he continues to hold. He developed online questions and testing for Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD) and SAEM that were in use for more than 15 years by the majority of residencies and clerkships.

Dr. Beeson is the current Editor in Chief for ACEP’s Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine. He has been honored to serve as CORD President and has served on the Residency Review Committee for Emergency Medicine, both Milestones working groups, three Model of the Clinical Practice of EM task forces, and most recently on the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) Board of Directors.