NUBE 2025

Dr. Billina Shaw is a Senior Medical Advisor within the Center for Mental Health Services at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). She is triple board certified in the areas of child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry and addiction medicine and is... Read More →

Rachel Glick is a Clinical Professor Emerita at University of Michigan Medical School where she practiced emergency psychiatry for almost 30 years and was Medical Director of Psychiatric Emergency Services. She is a past president of AAEP and served as chair of AAEP’s education... Read More →

Michael H. Allen, MD, DFAPA is a professor at the University of Colorado in Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine and medical director for the Colorado 988 crisis line. A past president of AAEP, he led the Expert Consensus Guideline for Behavioral Emergencies and served as PI for STEP-BD... Read More →

Annelise Bederman graduated from Emory Medical School in 2020. She then completed her General Psychiatry Residency at Washington University in Saint Louis in 2024. She is currently a Clinical Instructor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and an Emergency Psychiatrist at Bellevue... Read More →

Dr. Chuck Browning is the CMO of Recovery Innovations and Behavioral Health Link. He is an active member of the National Council for Wellbeing Medical Director Institute with a focus on their Crisis Committee. He promotes several thought leadership initiatives, including SAMHSA’s... Read More →

Scott Zeller, MD is Vice President for Acute Psychiatry at the multistate multispecialty physician group partnership Vituity; Assistant Professor at University of California-Riverside School of Medicine; Past President of the AAEP; Past Chair of the Coalition on Psychiatric Emergencies... Read More →

Following 29 years in private practice, Dr Busch joined the faculty of University of Hawaii after obtaining his MPH. He was Director of Medical Education and Patient Care at the Queens Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Department from 2020-2024, focusing on curriculum development. He... Read More →

Dr. Im is a board-certified emergency physician serving as the Director of Quality and Safety for Mass General Brigham (MGB) Enterprise Emergency Medicine, comprised of 10 emergency departments. In her role as the Director of Behavioral Health, she oversees the Behavioral Health Observation... Read More →

Margie Balfour, MD is a psychiatrist and national leader in quality improvement and behavioral health crisis services. She is the Chief of Quality and Clinical Innovation at Connections Health Solutions and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona.  An AAEP... Read More →

An expert in data mining and predictive modeling, Dr. Rosen has more than 20 years’ experience in statistics and data analysis in fields ranging from autos to health care informatics. Dr. Rosen has himself been a behavioral health patient in the emergency department and along with... Read More →