Cherri Hobgood, MD, FACEP

Dr. Hobgood is a tenured Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and a graduate of the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine and Emergency Medicine residency. Her scholarship has produced multiple interventions, educational content, and interactive training programs on leadership and effective medical communication widely incorporated into inter-professional curricula worldwide. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed contributions to the medical literature. Her current research focuses on the lived experiences of women leaders in academic medicine.

Dr. Hobgood's academic leadership includes roles as the UNC Associate Dean for Curriculum and Educational Development and Director of the Office of Educational Development and Clinical Skills Center and a decade-long tenure as the Rolly McGrath Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine at IU. Her national leadership has spanned tenures as the President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), Board Chair of SAEM-Foundation, and executive board leadership of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM). She was the first woman to chair the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Board of Directors.

She is the recipient of the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, the ACEP National Faculty Teaching Award, the AMA-Women Physician's Mentor Recognition Award, the ACEP Judith Tintinalli Outstanding Contribution in Education Award, the SAEM Advancement of Women in Academic EM Award, and the International Federation for Emergency Medicine Order of the IFEM. In 2019, her alma mater, the UNC School of Medicine, named her a Distinguished Alumna, and in 2021 SAEM honored her contributions with the John Marx Leadership Award. She is completing her training for certification as a professional executive coach with a special focus on advancing leaders in academic medicine.