Meet the editors

Dr. Stanislaw P. Stawicki is Professor of Surgery and chair of the Department of Research and Innovation, St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A specialist in general surgery, surgical critical care and neurocritical care, he co-authored more than 650 scholarly works, including more than 20 books. In addition to local, national, and international medical leadership roles, Dr. Stawicki is a member of numerous

editorial boards. His areas of expertise are diverse and include health security, medical information security, blockchain technology, patient safety, academic leadership, mentorship and leadership development, traumatology, surgical critical care, and sonography.

Dr. Thomas J. Papadimos is Professor of Anesthesiology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC), Columbus, Ohio, USA. At OSUWMC he has served as the Critical Care Fellowship Director, Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, and is currently the Anesthesiology Clinical Research Fellowship Director. He has also been an associate dean at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, Ohio,

USA. Dr. Papadimos was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to teach and mentor at the 2nd Department of Anesthesiology in October–December 2021 at the University of Athens, Greece. He is a retired US Navy Medical Officer and has authored or co-authored more than 400 papers, book chapters, books, and abstracts.

Sagar C. Galwankar, MBBS, DNB, MPH, MBA, FAAEM, FAIM, graduated with an MBBS and MD from Pune University, India. He is residency trained and board-certified in internal medicine and emergency medicine in India and the United States, respectively. He holds prestigious fellowships from the Royal College of Physicians, UK, the American College of Academic International Medicine, and the Academic College of Emergency Experts,

India. He additionally obtained an MPH and MBA in the United States. His academic career over the last two decades is studded with remarkable achievements resulting from innovative strategies that led to the creation of organizations, publication of landmark papers, and commendations with prestigious citations and honors for his works that have impacted the academic medicine community globally. He has played a defining role in founding and building internationally recognized, interdisciplinary indexed journals. He championed the establishment and growth of academic emergency medicine in India which is a benchmark in the history of developing emergency medicine in the world's largest and most diverse democracy in the world. He is the CEO of the INDUSEM Health and Medicine Collaborative and heads the World Academic Council of Emergency Medicine (WACEM). Additionally, he serves as the Global Executive Director for the American College of Academic International Medicine (ACAIM). He is Founding Director for Research in Emergency Medicine at Florida State University (FSU) and serves as a core faculty for the FSU Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Florida.

Dr. Andrew C. Miller obtained a BS from St. Louis University, Missouri, an MD from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, and is currently pursuing an MSc at Southeast Missouri State University. He completed residencies in emergency medicine and internal medicine at the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Health Sciences University where he also served as chief resident. He then completed fellowships in pul-

monary diseases at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and Critical Care Medicine at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. He currently practices academic emergency medicine, has a track record of publishing original research in high-impact journals, and has been the recipient of numerous local, regional, and national awards.

Dr. Michael S. Firstenberg is a thoracic surgeon at the St. Elizabeth Medical Center (Ascension), Appleton, Wisconsin. He attended Case Western Reserve University Medical School, Cleveland, OH, received his general surgery training at University Hospitals in Cleveland, and completed thoracic surgery fellowships at The Ohio State University and The Cleveland Clinic. He is an active member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS),

American Association of Thoracic Surgeons (AATS), American College of Cardiology (ACC), and American College of Academic International Medicine (ACAIM), for which he served as president in 2021–2022. He has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters and has edited several textbooks and lectured worldwide on topics ranging from medical leadership, COVID-19, endocarditis, and extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
