Bernard Chang is the Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University. Trained as a psychologist and an emergency physician, he has become a national leader on patient and clinician mental health. He past research has looked at the management of neurological emergencies (e.g., stroke), and the development of long-term neuropsychiatric sequalae following acute cerebrovascular events. As an investigator, he has also pioneered the relationships between psychological health and physical health, publishing on the impact of clinician burnout on cardiovascular health in providers. His research on clinician mental health has been supported at the institutional, state, and federal level, and he is currently the Principal Investigator of one of the nation’s largest longitudinal studies on emergency clinician long-term psychological and physical health. As Vice Chair of Research, he oversees a research division currently ranked among the top 10 in the United States for NIH funding, with over 50 faculty, research staff, and administrative staff. He has had a longstanding interest in mentoring early career investigators and resident led projects.  He received his PhD from Harvard in psychology, his MD from Stanford and completed his Emergency Medicine residency training at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Prior to going to medical school, he served as a professional sailboat captain and crew doing yacht deliveries internationally.

Dr. Junaid Razzak is Vice Chair of Research at Weill Cornell Drpt. of Emergency Medicine.  He has a wealth of research experience in emergency medicine, medical informatics and public health. Dr. Razzak received his medical degree from the Aga Khan University Medical College, and completed his residency at Yale New Haven Hospital. He also received a PhD from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Dr. Razzak is one of the few NIH funded researchers in the area of global medicine, and has worked at the NIH as a visiting scientist. He also led the NIH’s Collaborative on Emergency Care Research (CLEER) in low-income and middle-income countries. 

As part of his current focus on global health, he is working with Aga Khan University to establish the Center of Excellence in Trauma and Emergencies. Over his career, Dr. Razzak has published more than 130 peer reviewed manuscripts and served in several prominent leadership roles. He was the founding chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Aga Khan University, director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Emergency Medicine and Trauma in the Eastern Mediterranean region, and founder of the emergency medicine services for the City of Karachi, Pakistan, which has a population of more than 20 million. 

Dr. Marc Probst is Director of General Emergency Medicine Research at Columbia University Medical Center. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree and medical degree (MD) from McGill University in Montreal, Canada before moving to Los Angeles to pursue residency training at LA-County USC Medical Center. He then went on to complete a research fellowship at the UCLA Medical Center obtaining a Master of Science degree in Health Policy and Management from the UCLA School of Public Health. Dr. Probst is currently funded through an R01 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study syncope risk-stratification. His research focuses on shared decision-making and syncope in the Emergency Department.