Ashley Kochanek Weisman grew up in the house of medicine with parents who dedicated their careers to improving pediatric care through science and clinical practice. She got excited about rural EM as a HAEMR resident, thanks to two rural rotations and two rural EM focused co-residents. She developed her relentless enthusiasm for rural EM after practicing in remote Alaska,, completing a rural EM focused fellowship at MGH, and then joining the unique, rural-academic faculty at University of Vermont Health Network.

Skyler Lentz is an EM intensivist and educator.  He is leading the charge to bring critical care to critical access hospitals. He is an emergency physician and intensivist at the University of Vermont Health Network and co-leader of the critical care transition team, a unique in situ tele-ICU service that brings critical care expertise to the bedside of the sickest rural patients, supporting and teaching rural clinical teams during their toughest cases.

Rich Bounds is an EM educator and leader. He is the program director of the University of Vermont Medical Center emergency medicine residency,  chair of the UVM medical group practice council,  and a dogged supporter of rural emergency medicine education and rural academic partnerships. He is a dedicated mentor to the rural EM resource team. He is also a next level endurance athlete. Don’t challenge him to a bike race.

Joe Kennedy is an emergency physician,  board certified toxicologist, black cloud, and educator who simply must teach anyone in earshot. He jumped into rural practice in the Adirondacks after an urban residency and fellowship programs where he rarely worked with limited resources and had only transferred two patients. Hundreds of transfers, thousands of tox calls from rural sites, and a few speedy ambulance rides later, and Joe is a rural EM entusiast, expert in managing the critically ill poisoned patent with limited resources, and a testament to the fact that great docs, from strong residencies, with a love of lifelong learning make the best rural ER docs. Join his Tox rounds every Tuesday at 9:30 EST for a taste of this awesomeness. 

Ramsey Herrington is the visionary for rural-academic emergency medicine integration across the University of Vermont Health Network. His drive to improve rural healthcare and create a happy and clinically excellent team required demolishing a few brick walls and building bridges to rural communities across the Green Mountains and Adirondacks. He is now the interim COO and EM Department Chair of the UVM Health Network. In his ample free time, he is an accomplished farmer with chickens, turkeys, pigs, sheep, a bounty of produce, and 4 kids. He can fix your tractor and your rural ER over house made honey, figs, and burrata.

Julie Vieth is a rural EM force of nature. She is an experience rural EM physician and medical director, EM RAP rural EM segment contributor,  and now University of Vermont Medical Center ED Medical Director.  Her passion in rural EM is tackling our hardest and scariest problem: Rural OB Emergencies. She can also help you blaze a trail through any rural EM system conundrum/transfer nightmare . . . in bright pink shoes. She’s basically a doctor, an educator, an admin, and a super hero.