Amy Beresheim received her PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She joined the Rush University Faculty as an Assistant Professor in August 2020, after first serving as the Anatomy Laboratory Specialist at Des Moines University. At Rush, she teaches gross anatomy to medical, nursing, and allied health students. Her research utilizes a histological approach to examine life history and skeletal health in past human populations. She is a member of the American Association for Anatomy, the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, and the Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology.

Michelle A. Carroll Turpin, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Assistant Dean of Admissions at the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. She earned her PhD in the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Neuroscience at LSU Health Sciences Center – Shreveport in 2015. Upon graduation from LSUHSC-S, she was hired as an assistant professor of pharmacology and served as co-director and director of the pre-clerkship curriculum of the LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine, before joining the Tilman J Fertitta Family College of Medicine in 2019. She is experienced in medical school instruction, course and module directorship, curriculum development, accreditation, and medical school admissions. Her teaching expertise includes general principles of pharmacology, introductory toxicology and pharmacology specific to all organ systems, with particular interest in adrenergic, cardiovascular and respiratory pharmacology.

Dr. Teresa Chan is an associate professor and Associate Dean of Continuing Professional Development at McMaster University. Dr. Chan is very well known for her scholarship in faculty development and online education research. She is one of the founding members of the METRIQ Study group. She is the Chief Strategic Officer for the CanadiEM digital community of practice. She is a Senior Advisor of the international Faculty Incubator program for the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) group. For ALiEM, she has also served on their Editorial Board and was a lead of the Medical Education in Cases Series (www.aliem.com/medic). Dr. Chan is also interested in developing medical education innovations (and evaluating them!). For instance, she has co-developed and is evaluating a serious game about emergency department flow called GridlockED (www.gridlockedgame.com)!

Dr. Michael Cosimini (twitter:@MichaelCosimini) is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Oregon Health and Science University. His work focuses on educational scholarship in the areas of podcasting and serious games for health professionals education. He is the designer of Empiric Game which is a widely distributed card game used to teach the antibiotic management of common and important infections.

Dr Sarah Edwards is a Senior Emergency Medicine Resident in the United Kingdom. She has completed a Masters in Medical Education and has completed one in Paediatric Emergency Medicine. she has education interests in serious games for medical education, social media medical education and qualitative medical education research.

Eric Gantwerker, MD, MS, MMSc(MedEd), FACS, AFAMEE is a Pediatric Otolaryngologist at Cohen Children's Hospital at Northwell Health/Hofstra, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He holds a Master of Medical Science (MMSc) in Medical Education with a special focus on educational technology, educational research, cognitive science of learning, and curriculum development from Harvard Medical School and a Master of Science in Physiology and Biophysics from Georgetown University.

He has a special interest in faculty development and has been a speaker, conference panelist, or faculty at over 50 local, 20 regional, 100 national, and 22 international workshops, courses, and conferences. He is also an active blogger and podcaster for several organizations including the Harvard Macy Institute (HMI), Harvard Medical School CME Online, BackTable Innovations and several others. He has contributed to over 30 blogs and podcasts. He has been featured in the news in print and through live interviews over 25 times including USA Today, Businesswire, The Washington Post, Nature Medicine, Fox News, and KevinMD.

He also works as the medical director of a medical video game company, Level Ex, that utilizes game technology and psychology to create interactive educational experiences for healthcare professionals. He oversees all the medical and educational functions of the company including strategy, design and development, and efficacy studies.

Through all his endeavors, he is recognized nationally and internationally as an up-and-coming expert on the implementation of educational technologies and gaming, motivational theory, the cognitive psychology of learning, and putting theory into practice for health professions education. In recognition, he was awarded Associate Membership in the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Academy of Master Surgeon Educators program and is an Associate Fellow of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE).

Janniko Georgiadis graduated as a human movement scientist, and did a PhD in systems neuroscience. The title of his thesis “The orgasmic brain exposed” suggests that his research topic was quite exciting. He has been studying the neurobiology and neuropsychology of human sexual behavior ever since, but has also shifted his attention to other, completely different, areas where motivation through positive affect is thought to be of significance. One such area is game-based learning in academia. Janniko heads the Section Anatomy & Medical Physiology at his institution, and until recently was one of the course directors of UMCG medical school. He is responsible for the UMCG body donation program, and for two main teaching and training facilities: Dissection Room and Medical Physiology Lab. Furthermore, Janniko is actively involved in the design and development of digital educational innovations for anatomy and physiology.

Dr. Thammasitboon is a pediatric intensivist at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. In his role as a director of the Center for Research, Innovation and Scholarship (CRIS) of a large department of multidisciplinary faculty across three hospital campuses, he has fostered and established communities of scholars who pursuit scholarship in in Health Professions Education. His areas of research include clinical reasoning, assessment instrument development and validation, competency-based education, educational games, technology enhanced learning among many others. He also directs the BEME International Collaborating Center and Health Professions Education Certificate program at Texas Children’s Hospital.

Jeremey Walker is an assistant professor in infectious diseases at the University of Alabama in Birmingham with clinical interest in transplant and infection prevention. He has the privilege of working with medical students as co-director of the Microbiology block in first year and as longitudinal learning community mentor. His interest in gamification developed through his work in microbiology and has now blossomed to applications outside of a classroom setting including an international game focused on ID fellows (twitter handle: @IDFellowscup) and clinically within the realm of infection prevention.

Adam Wilson is an associate professor at Rush University and the Director of Anatomy Education. He received his PhD in anatomy and cell biology, with a doctoral minor in education, from Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Wilson has experience administrating and teaching anatomy to a wide range of health professions students. He conducts educational measurement and evaluation research with a focus on psychometrics and meta-analyses.