UT Alamo Interprofessional Emergency Medicine Symposium | Faculty

Keynote Address | February 16, 2023

Gillian Schmitz, MD, FACEP is a board-certified Emergency Physician. She practices clinically in the Emergency Department and serves as the Vice Chair of Education at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine at USUHS and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Health San Antonio. She is currently serving as the President of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) for the 2021-2022 term.

Dr. Schmitz is an award-winning educator. She has won ACEP’s National Teaching Faculty award, EMRA’s 45 under 45 and Mentorship Award, and the National Early Career Faculty Award from the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM) to name a few. She brings a wealth of knowledge in the medicolegal background. She has served as an expert witness defending emergency physicians. She has given multiple national talks on risk management and managing litigation stress. She has practiced all over the nation and in many different practice settings (urban, suburban, government, academic, and free-standing emergency departments).

We are honored to have her open our symposium to discuss the future of emergency medicine.

Keynote Address | February 17, 2023

Salim Rezaie, MD, FACEP is a board-certified Emergency and Internal Medicine Physician. He practices clinically in a community emergency department associated with Greater San Antonio Emergency Physicians (GSEP). He serves as the Director of Clinical Education for the physicians and APPs within this organization. He is well known for being the founder of REBEL EM and REBEL Cast blog and podcast, which strives to cut down the knowledge translation time from research to patient care.

We are honored to have him with us to share his perspective on how what we do each day matters.

Mark Foster, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical
Department of Emergency Medicine
UT Health San Antonio

Benjamin Gardner, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical
Department of Emergency Medicine
UT Health San Antonio

Alexander Arena, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical
Department of Emergency Medicine
UT Health San Antonio