James F. Holmes, MD, MPH is a Professor and Interim Chair in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis School of Medicine. He earned his Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Alabama School of Medicine and his Master of Public Health from the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Holmes trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, where he also served as Chief Resident (1996 – 1997). He is a clinical epidemiologist with a focus on deriving and validating clinical prediction rules and conducting clinical trials. His research is primarily focused on the initial evaluation and treatment of injured patients with a particular emphasis on injured children. His research has been highly cited and published in high impact journals including JAMA, The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine. He has had funding for his research from a variety of federal agencies including the CDC, EMSC and the NIH. He has additionally devoted much of his career to training junior investigators. In 2006, he started the UC Davis Emergency Medicine Research Fellowship. He was Co-Director of the UC Davis Emergency Medicine K12 Research Training Program and in 2013 he became the Director of the UC Davis Clinical Translational Science Center’s KL2 Research Training Program. Finally, Dr. Holmes has been heavily involved in the Society for Academic Emergency (SAEM) during his entire career. He served on the SAEM Board of Directors from 2013 – 2022, including SAEM President from 2020-2021. During his one-year term as SAEM President, he successfully led the organization through the COVID-19 pandemic.