Gabriel Wardi, MD, MPH

Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego, Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

Gabriel Wardi, MD, MPH completed his undergraduate and graduate education in Atlanta. He moved to San Diego for his residency in Emergency Medicine where he served as the Education Chief Resident during his final year of residency. He is the first graduate of the joint Critical Care Medicine fellowship offered by the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care and Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Wardi joined the faculty in July 2017 at UC San Diego, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and attends in both the emergency department and the ICUs. Dr. Wardi’s research interests include sepsis, the ED-ICU interface, resuscitation, cardiac arrest management, and development of novel educational curriculum. He is currently funded by the NIH to study how big data can be used to develop clinically actionable sepsis phenotypes and to reduce sepsis readmissions. He is the Medical Director for Hospital Sepsis at UC San Diego and has been recognized as a "Top Doctor" in Critical Care in San Diego.

Kathy Bowles, PhD, FAAN, FACMI

Professor and van Ameringen Chair in Nursing Excellence, Biobehavioral and Health Sciences, I-TRANSFER, University Of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Kathy Bowles, PhD, FAAN, FACMI is a Professor of Nursing and the van Ameringen Chair in Nursing Excellence at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She is the Vice President and Director of the Center for Home Care Policy & Research at Visiting Nurse Service (VNS) Health. Her program of research in clinical decision support and implementation science for discharge planning, transitions in care, and home care with vulnerable older adults has been continuously funded for 25 years.

She has served on many national committees and workgroups to advance the care of older Americans such as the National Quality Forum, the Care Coordination Steering Committee, and the Heath Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) Care Coordination Committee. She was an invited expert consultant on the Centers for Medicare Services (CMS) Technical Expert Panel on the Post-Acute Care Assessment instrument (CARE tool) and two other expert panels to develop measures for transitions in care and continuity of care.

Dr. Bowles co-founded RightCare Solutions, a software company based on her team's research on decision support for post-acute care referrals. She was appointed to the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) Advisory Council and delivered the 2016 NINR Director's Lecture. She was invited by the National Academy of Medicine and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to discuss optimizing strategies for clinical decision support.

She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the American College of Medical Informatics, a member of the American Nurses Association (ANA), and Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society, where she was inducted into the International Nursing Research Hall of Fame.