David Cook is Professor of Medicine and Medical Education in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; Director of Education Science in the Mayo Office of Applied Scholarship and Education Science; Research Chair for the Mayo Multidisciplinary Simulation Center; a practicing physician specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of complex medicine problems; a Deputy Editor for the journal Medical Education; and an Editorial board member for the journal Simulation in Healthcare. He received a B.S. in chemistry from Utah State University and an M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He then came to the Mayo Clinic for residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in General Internal Medicine, and joined the staff in 2004. He also completed a Master degree in Health Professions Education through the University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Medical Education.

Dr. Cook's research interests include the theory and design of online learning and other educational technologies, the quality of medical education research methods and reporting, clinical reasoning, and assessment of clinical performance. He has developed and studied multiple online courses for residents and medical students, conducted numerous systematic reviews, and published over 230 journal articles and book chapters on medical education topics. His h-index is 85 (meaning he has published 85 papers that have each been cited 85 times).

Honors include the Mayo Clinic "Distinguished Educator Award" (Mayo's highest award in education; 2021) and the Society of Simulation in Healthcare "Researcher of the Year Award" (2023). He serves as executive secretary to regional leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He and his wife Jennifer are the parents of 5 incredibly wonderful children.

Patricia S. O’Sullivan is a Professor of Medicine and Surgery and Director, Research and Development in Medical Education, at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. She holds the Endowed Chair in Surgical Education. At UCSF she co-directs the Teaching Scholars Program and oversees the advanced degree programs in health professions education as well as leads efforts in facilitating educational research. Her educational research studies have collaborators from medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and health related professions. The UCSF faculty development program that she led received the international ASPIRE for Excellence Award. Dr. O’Sullivan has led the Research in Medical Education Section of the AAMC, the RIME Program Planning Committee and the Division for Professions Education of the American Educational Research Association. She is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and recipient of the Merrill Flair Award from the GEA, of the Outstanding Career Achievements in Medical Education from the Society of General Internal Medicine and the UCSF Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award. In 2022 she received the Harmen Tiddens Medal from University Medical Center Utrecht The Netherland

Dr. Bailey is an Associate Professor and serves as the Associate Dean for Faculty Development at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. She holds a Ph.D. in Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education and a M.A. in College and University Administration from Michigan State University. She has experience serving as an adjunct and full-time faculty member, in dean-level positions including chief academic officer at the community college level, and as director, assistant, and associate dean responsible for faculty development at two medical schools. Her research interests include teaching and learning, medical education scholarship, faculty and gender roles in higher education, reflection and mindfulness, and work/life navigation.

At Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), Christopher Kenneally develops programs covering issues facing scholarly publishing and the research community. Kenneally is host of CCC’s weekly podcast series, Velocity of Content, and produces CCC’s Town Hall series on LinkedIn Live.

As a freelance journalist, Kenneally has reported for The New York Times and The Boston Globe, among many other publications, as well as for WBUR-FM (Boston), National Public Radio, and WGBH-TV (PBS-Boston). He is the author of “Massachusetts 101” (Applewood Books), a history of the state “from Redcoats to Red Sox.”

Dr. Beth Bierer is professor of medicine and director of assessment and evaluation at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine (CCLCM) of Case Western Reserve University. In this role, she oversees CCLCM’s portfolio-based assessment system and program evaluation activities. She also teaches graduate-level courses in research methods and facilitates professional development seminars and workshops. Dr. Bierer served as national and regional chair of the AAMC’s Medical Education Scholarship, Research, and Evaluation (MESRE) section and received the medical education Laureaute Award from the AAMC’s Central Group on Educational Affairs. Her research interests focus on competency-based education, programmatic assessment, outcomes evaluation, and educator development.  

Adrienne Griffen, MPP, is the Executive Director of Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance (mmhla.org), a nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the mental health of mothers and childbearing people in the United States with a focus on national policy and health equity. 

MMHLA advocates for improved maternal mental health care and serves as a clearinghouse of information related to maternal mental health. MMHLA's advocacy efforts have led to almost $200 million in federal funding for maternal mental health programs at the national and state levels. 

Adrienne serves on the Boards of Directors of the Marce Society of North America and the Mental Health Liaison Group.   She also founded Postpartum Support Virginia (postpartumva.org), which she led for ten years (2009-2019), building a statewide network of support groups and maternal mental health coalitions which have helped thousands of new mothers.

Adrienne graduated from the US Naval Academy and has a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She lives in Arlington VA with her husband and three young adult children.

Aminat Balogun is a passionate maternal health advocate and Program Manager for the Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance. In this role, she  assists senior staff with managing a variety of programs and initiatives, including supporting the Board of Advisors and the Screening Project. She joined MMHLA in October 2020 as a graduate school intern when she was studying for her Masters in Public Health at the George Washington University, specializing in Maternal & Child Health. Aminat’s professional interests include patient-centered reproductive health care, community-based perinatal care, and improving pregnancy and childbirth experiences for Black women in the United States. Aminat lives in Arlington, VA.

Larry Gruppen is Professor in the Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School, where he directed the competency-based Master in Health Professions Education program. His research interests center around the development of expertise, knowledge and performance assessment, self-regulated learning, and educational leadership development. He has held the offices of president of the Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education and chair of the Association of American Medical College’s (AAMC) Central Group on Educational Affairs. He was also the founding Chair of the AAMC’s Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) program. He has over 200 peer-reviewed publications on a variety of topics in medical education and presents regularly at national and international professional meetings. He was recognized for career productivity by the AAMC’s Central Group for Educational Affairs’ Medical Education Laureate Award, the John P. Hubbard Award from the National Board of Medical Examiners, the Merrel Flair Award from the AAMC Group on Educational Affairs, and University of Michigan Medical School’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Education

Larry Gruppen is Professor in the Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School, where he directed the competency-based Master in Health Professions Education program. His research interests center around the development of expertise, knowledge and performance assessment, self-regulated learning, and educational leadership development. He has held the offices of president of the Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education and chair of the Association of American Medical College’s (AAMC) Central Group on Educational Affairs. He was also the founding Chair of the AAMC’s Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) program. He has over 200 peer-reviewed publications on a variety of topics in medical education and presents regularly at national and international professional meetings. He was recognized for career productivity by the AAMC’s Central Group for Educational Affairs’ Medical Education Laureate Award, the John P. Hubbard Award from the National Board of Medical Examiners, the Merrel Flair Award from the AAMC Group on Educational Affairs, and University of Michigan Medical School’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Education

Judy Spak, MLS is Head of Academic Research and Education at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale School of Medicine. She regularly collaborates with educators on evidence and knowledge syntheses projects across the continuum of med ed, providing expert searching and methodological expertise.

Ms. Spak is faculty in several medical education fellowships as well as the Master of Health Science - Medical Education Pathway Degree Program. Her personal research focuses on the role of librarians in teaching and assessing the evidence-based information seeking skills of health professions trainees.