James H. Paxton, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAHA
Research Forum 2027 Chair
Dr. Paxton is an Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Research for Detroit Receiving Hospital / Wayne State University Department of Emergency Medicine, and has served as core academic faculty for the EM residencies at both Sinai-Grace Hospital and Detroit Receiving Hospital since 2011. He earned his MD and MBA from the University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH) and completed EM residency training at Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit, MI). He is an active clinical researcher and has served as PI for numerous industry- and publicly funded trials. He is the editor of several books on emergency medicine topics and is a recognized expert and invited speaker for many regional, national, and international lectures on emergent vascular access, stroke, cardiac arrest, and other resuscitation topics.
Patrick Maher, MD, MS, FACEP
Research Forum 2028 Chair
Patrick Maher, MD, MS, is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, NY. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, and his Medical Degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. He then went on to complete his Emergency Medicine specialty training at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he also completed a Critical Care Medicine fellowship. After his clinical fellowship, Dr. Maher joined the faculty at Mount Sinai through the EM Research T32 program funded by the NIH / NHLBI. As part of this program, he obtained a Master of Science in Biostatistics from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. At Mount Sinai, he co-chaired the hospital CPR Committee and served as head of the Mount Sinai Hospital EM-CCM Division, leading a group of attendings with similar fellowship training in Critical Care Medicine. He currently works in both Emergency and Intensive Care in San Jose, CA.
Peter Pruitt, MD, MS, FACEP
Research Forum 2026 Chair
Dr. Pruitt is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the University of Maryland, a Master of Science from Northwestern University, and completed residency training at the Brigham and Women's/Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR). This was followed by an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)-sponsored T32 fellowship in health services and outcomes research at Northwestern University.
Dr. Pruitt’s research focuses on improving processes of care for emergency department patients, especially those with neurologic emergencies. He has a related area of interest in patient risk stratification, especially the creation and validation of clinical decision tools. In 2018, Dr. Pruitt received the SAEM Foundation Research Training Grant for his work to create a clinical decision tool for patients with subdural hematoma and preserved consciousness. He currently studies the interhospital transfer process with support from AHRQ.
