Vanessa Cardy, MD | Ken Bernard, MD | Erin Board, DO, MPH | Jeanie Ringelberg, MD, MPH | Dan Schnorr, MD, MPH | Emily Bartlett, MD

Vanessa Cardy, MD, is a general practitioner who has spent her career working in rural and remote parts of Canada. She is a deputy editor of EM:RAP and associate managing editor of RightOnPrime. Her passion for rural medicine has led to speaking invitations from around the world, helping her in her mission of shining a light on the work and contributions of rural practitioners everywhere.

Jeanie Ringelberg, MD, MPH, is an emergency medicine physician and current ED Director at Northern Navajo Medical Center, an Indian Health Service hospital in Shiprock, NM. After college and prior to medical school, Jeanie ski bummed in Colorado and then started working for a community-based nonprofit dedicated to public health initiatives and prevention, eventually becoming its executive director. She obtained her M.D. from Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and MPH from The Dartmouth Institute. She completed emergency medicine residency at Dartmouth as well as two rotations on the Navajo Nation in Tuba City, AZ and Fort Defiance, AZ. She completed emergency ultrasound fellowship in Tucson at Banner University Medical Center. Jeanie currently lives in Dolores, CO with her husband and two Rez dogs Yazzie and Sid. She and her husband recently started Zuma Bike Ranch, a unique space for mountain bike enthusiasts to gather, explore southwest Colorado’s amazing trail networks, and enhance riding ability through professional mountain bike skills instruction and clinics.

Dan Schnorr, MD, MPH is a board-certified emergency physician who has served as Emergency Medical Director for the San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation since 2021. Dr. Schnorr received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame and M.D. from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons before completing residency at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. He later completed a fellowship in Global Emergency Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital while earning a MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr Schnorr has worked various community and academic hospitals, including rural critical access and urban trauma centers while also completing assignments with the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders in Sudan, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mediterranean, Ukraine and Haiti. His research interests include infectious disease epidemics and health disparities. He lives in Phoenix with his wife, two daughters, dog and cat.

Emily Bartlett, MD, currently works as an emergency medicine physician at Gallup Indian Medical Center, an Indian Health Services (IHS) site. She completed her MD at the University of Chicago and residency in emergency medicine at the University of Washington / Harborview program in June 2020, where she completed the population health track and served as chief resident. Within the Indian Health Service, Dr. Bartlett co-chairs the GIMC emergency department’s operations committee, with work focused on COVID pandemic response and beyond. At the hospital level, she leads initiatives to improve institutional readiness for pediatric and obstetric emergencies, and to improve care for patients with substance use disorders. She is also a member of the national IHS Emergency Medicine Chief Clinical Consultant Core Group. In addition to her work with the IHS, she holds an academic affiliation with the University of New Mexico department of emergency medicine. She has published in JAMA Health Forum and presented to the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine on the topic of health inequities for Indigenous and rural communities arising from inadequate systems for coordinating transfers of critically ill patients. Internationally, she has served longitudinally as faculty for the first emergency medicine residency to be established in Guatemala. She was also the lead for a project developed by the International Federation of Emergency Medicine’s critical care special interest group to review and characterize models for delivery of critical care interventions and services in low- and low-middle income country settings. Throughout the breadth of her work, she is deeply committed to applying quality improvement methods and evidence-based medicine to strengthen systems of emergency care in low-resource settings to improve patient outcomes and advance health equity.

Ken Bernard, MD is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa (Anishinaabe), emergency medicine physician, acute care quality researcher and advocate, and entrepreneur. Currently, he serves as Chairman of Emergency Medicine at the Prince William Medical Center in Northern, Virginia and System Medical Director for UVA Community Health. Prior to moving to Virginia, he started his career in the Navajo IHS service area and was a founding partner of the Pinnacle Emergency Medical Group. He also was one of the founding members of the Native American Emergency Medicine Consortium, now Emergency Medicine for Rural and Indigenous Communities (emRIC) consortium. He currently lives in Northern Virginia with his family. In addition to clinical practice, he enjoys breaking a sweat, getting out by the water, and golfing (poorly).

Erin Board, DO, MPH, is a family medicine trained doctor who focuses on providing care to underserved communities in limited resource environments. She started her career with a masters in public health prior to pursuing her medical degree at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. Following that she completed her family medicine residency training with a program that primarily served refugee and immigrant populations outside of Seattle, Washington. During the course of her career she spent time doing policy focused work in Haiti during the cholera outbreak of 2010-11 as well as spending time in the US Senate working on health policy issues relating to underserved rural Appalachian populations. Clinically she has spent time working alongside national medics with rural communities in Uganda and Peru. For the past several years she has discovered the joys of providing emergency medicine care to Alaskan Natives in remote locations, while providing medical direction to the arctic EMS unit of Kotzebue and the Alaska Mountain Rescue Group in Anchorage, AK.