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PATRICK GREIFFENSTEIN, MD Patrick Greiffenstein, MD, has been with UMC since the beginning of 2015. He is a professor of clinical surgery at LSU and an adjunct professor of clinical surgery at Tulane University. Greiffenstein is board certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. He is a well-respected leader, receiving many awards and being published in various academic journals. Greiffenstein is extremely integrated into the hospital, serving as the medical staff president at UMC, and being a part of several internal advisory groups including the Mortality Review Committee, Medical Executive Committee, Credentials Committee, Advisory Board member, Obstetrical Emergency Care Committee, Ketamine Task Force Leader, Consent Task Force, and the Pain Clinic Task Force. ELIZABETH LACY Elizabeth "Liz" Lacy is the EMS outreach coordinator for University Medical Center (UMC). She has nearly two decades in EMS, functioning as an EMT and paramedic in both rural and urban settings with various prehospital agencies across Southeast Louisiana. Liz completed undergraduate education focusing on interdisciplinary studies from the University of New Orleans in 2018. Upon completion, she began sharing her knowledge of the prehospital healthcare system with hospitals in the New Orleans region, becoming the region’s first EMS outreach coordinator — a role focused on the continual quality improvement of the prehospital healthcare system. In 2021, she received a Master of Professional Studies in emergency management from Tulane University in New Orleans, and in 2023, she completed a Master of Healthcare Administration with LSU Shreveport. MEGHAN MASLANKA, MD Meghan Maslanka, MD, is an emergency medicine physician at LSU New Orleans, where she works as full- time academic faculty and serves as the associate director of EMS/disaster medicine for the Emergency Medicine residency program. Maslanka is the medical director of emergency management for UMC and works extensively on mass casualty planning and hurricane preparedness and response for the hospital. In addition, she serves as a deputy medical director for New Orleans EMS and as medical director for the Louisiana Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue team. HEALTHCARE JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS I  MAR / APR 2025 21