EMerging Leaders Academy

View the Names of the Emerging Leaders Academy Class of 2027

Angela Skinner – Emergency Care Specialists

Anthony Pape – SCP Health

Ashkan (Ash) Morim – Vituity

Ashley Gray – Relias Healthcare

Becca Thompson – Emergency Care Specialists

Darren Morris, MD – Emergency Physicians of the Rockies

Douglas Webb – ImagineSoftware

Eric LeFebvre – Wake Emergency Physicians PA

Erica Bailey, MD – Vituity

Evan Talton – Relias Healthcare

Ian Ferguson – Vituity

Jill Benson MD FACEP – Wake Emergency Physicians PA

JR Klonk – US Acute Care Solutions

Katie Bennett – Financial Designs, Inc.

Kenneth Kuper – EMSPC

Krissy Bastian – ConsensioHealth

Kyler Brady – CarePoint

Marika Kachman – US Acute Care Solutions

Nehal Naik MD FACEP – Envision Healthcare

Rachel Stuplich-Trantow – Emergency Medicine Specialists

Robert Turner – Georgia Emergency Department Services, PC

Sydney DeAngelis – USACS

Thomas Leonards – Core Clinical Partners

Tristen Brown – ApolloMD

W. Andrew Downes – Global Physician Network, LLC

Wil Baillon – Radix

Are you ready for the next level in leadership in the business of emergency medicine?

Do you want to connect with others at a similar point in their career to grow and learn together?

Then EDPMA’s EMerging Leaders Academy may be for you!

Emerging leaders will meet virtually and in person eleven times a year to learn about the business of emergency medicine and leadership skills to poise you for the next chapter of your career.

Time and Financial Commitment

Each cohort with meet monthly for a 90-minute session. Each session will feature 30 minutes of leadership discussion and 60 minutes of the related topic noted in the schedule below. To successfully graduate from the course, you must attend at least 80% of the virtual and in-person sessions (9 classes). Attendance at Solutions Summit and in-person workshops highly recommended.

Tuition for the EMerging Leader Academy will be invoiced for the year. Once admitted, class members will be invoiced by EDPMA staff.

Curriculum

Subject matter experts and leaders in emergency medicine will lead each session. The sessions will focus on both leadership skills adapted for emergency medicine, followed by core curriculum. Some of the content EMerging Leaders will cover include:

EDPMA 101
ABCs and Acronyms
Hot Topics
Billing and Coding
Federal Advocacy
State Advocacy
and more!

The class of 2027 kicked off at Solutions Summit 2026 in Isle of Palms, SC with EMerging Leader sessions on Sunday, April 26, and the EMerging Leaders Mixer on Monday, April 27.

EMerging Leaders Academy Co-Directors

Alden Cartwright – HealthWorks

Courtney Franco – ImagineSoftware

Do You Want to Be an EDPMA EMerging Leader?

Applications for the Class of 2028 are not yet open! The EDPMA Emerging Leaders Academy helps rising professionals in emergency medicine strengthen their leadership skills, connect with peers across the industry, and gain a deeper understanding of advocacy and practice management. EMerging Leaders Class of 2028 applications will open in the Fall of 2026.

Questions About the EMerging Leaders Academy?

Contact EDPMA Account Director Amanda Gaster.