Benjamin S. Abella, MD, MPhil is an emergency medicine practitioner, internist, academic and researcher. He is a Professor and Vice Chair of Research at University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Emergency Medicine. He directs the Center for Resuscitation Science and the Penn Acute Research Collaboration at the University. He has participated in developing international CPR guidelines. Dr. Abella has published over 200 scholarly papers regarding cardiac arrest, myocardial perfusion, therapeutic hypothermia, CPR delivery and resuscitation. He is a fellow of the European Resuscitation Council.

Nick Johnson, MD, is a physician in the medical intensive care unit, trauma intensive care unit, ECMO team, and emergency department at Harborview. He is also the UW’s associate program director for the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and a UW assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. Dr. Johnson is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American Heart Association. Dr. Johnson has been cited over 4000 times for his scholarly work in cardiac arrest, emergency medicine among other areas.

Dr. Wahlster, MD, obtained her medical degree at the Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, followed by a post-doc in Epigenetics of Neurodegenerative Disease at Harvard Medical School. She completed neurology residency and neurocritical care fellowship at MassGeneral/Brigham in Boston. She is now the fellowship director and the section head of Neurocritical Care in the Department of Neurology at University of Washington. Her academic interests include Mechanical Ventilation in Acute Brain Injury, Extubation and Tracheostomy Decisions in the NeuroICU, Long-Term Outcomes of Patients and their Families After Severe Acute Brain Injury, Neuroprognostication after Cardiac Arrest, Neurological Care in Resource-Limited Settings, and Medical Education.