Dr. Nikolla is core faculty and the director of research at the Saint Vincent Emergency Medicine Residency in Erie, Pa.

Dr. Beeson is a professor of emergency medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, Ohio.

Dr. Pines is the chief of clinical innovation at US Acute Care Solutions and a professor of emergency medicine at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

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