Kensaku Kawamoto serves as the Dr. Helmuth F. Orthner Endowed Professor and vice chair for clinical AI and informatics for the University of Utah Department of Biomedical Informatics. He also serves as associate chief medical information officer of University of Utah Health. Kawamoto directs University of Utah Health’s Innovation Laboratory, which leverages AI to advance the clinical, research and education missions of the health care enterprise. Kawamoto is also co-senior director of the University of Utah Digital Health Initiative.

Beyond the University of Utah, Kawamoto is a long-standing leader in health IT interoperability. He has served for nearly two decades as co-chair of the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Work Group of Health Level Seven International, the premier standards development organization for health IT globally. He also helped lead federal public-private initiatives sponsored by the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to harmonize and validate CDS and electronic clinical quality measurement interoperability standards, directly informing how health care quality is measured and incentivized nationwide.

Kawamoto also founded and directs OpenCDS, a standards-based, open-source CDS initiative whose software is used in all 50 states and by over 40,000 health care facilities. He also founded and directs the ReImagine EHR initiative, which has leveraged over $60 million in external funding to develop, evaluate and disseminate interoperable digital health innovations integrated with the electronic health record (EHR) and implemented across diverse clinical care settings.

Beyond systems and standards, Kawamoto’s scholarship has shaped professional practice through highly influential, widely cited evidence. His seminal work on CDS success factors has been cited over 3,000 times, fundamentally informing how CDS is leveraged to improve health and health care.

Paul Reeve is the Simmons Chair of Mormon Studies at the University of Utah, where he teaches courses on Utah history, Mormon history and the history of the U.S. West. He is the project manager and general editor of an award-winning digital database, Century of Black Mormons, designed to name and identify all known Black Latter-day Saints baptized into the faith between 1830 and 1930. His book, "Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness," received three best book awards. He is also the author of "Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood." With Christopher Rich Jr. and LaJean Purcell Carruth, he is the author of the multiple award-winning "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah."

He is the recipient of the Utah Council for the Social Studies’ University Teacher of the Year award, the University of Utah’s Early Career Teaching Award and the College of Humanities’ Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities.

Susanna R. Cohen is an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, a practicing midwife, and founder and director of the LIFT Simulation Design Lab within the ASCENT Center for Sexual and Reproductive Health. She is a national and global leader in simulation, experiential learning and implementation science focused on advancing the quality, equity and experience of pregnancy and birth care.

For more than 20 years, she has partnered with patients, clinicians, health systems and communities across the rural United States, Latin America, Africa and South Asia to ensure that evidence-based simulation and team training are accessible, affordable and scalable. She co-founded PRONTO International and invented the PartoPants, a low-cost hybrid birth simulator that has supported the training of more than 15,000 providers in 22 countries. Through participatory design and experiential learning, she creates spaces where providers can practice difficult conversations, confront bias and strengthen collaboration across disciplines. Her work has contributed to measurable improvements in teamwork, respectful maternity care and neonatal outcomes in resource-limited settings.

Her NIH-funded research develops and evaluates interventions designed to reduce stigma and strengthen care for pregnant patients with HIV and substance use disorder. In Utah, she collaborates with statewide quality initiatives, EMS systems and hospital teams to redesign care processes, enhance interprofessional communication and improve maternal health outcomes.

Cohen’s work centers on the human dimensions of care—recognizing that when providers are supported, prepared and connected, patients receive safer, more equitable and more compassionate care. She continues to practice as a midwife at U of U Health, where her clinical work informs her teaching, research and systems-level partnerships.

Amos N. Guiora is a professor (lecturer) at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, where he directs the Bystander Initiative. His scholarship focuses on bystanders and enablers, resulting in a number of books including "The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust," "Armies of Enablers: Survivor Stories of Complicity and Betrayal in Sexual Assaults," "The Complicity of Silence: Confronting Ecosystems of Child Sexual Abuse in Schools" and the forthcoming "Enablers: Normalizing the Unimaginable," which is the third book in the American Bar Association series "Guiora on Enablers and Bystanders."

In addition, Guiora has authored numerous law review articles on this issue, is widely interviewed by local, national and international media, and has testified both in the U.S. and abroad, calling for the criminalization of bystanders and enablers. Drawing on his late parents’ experiences, Guiora speaks to junior high students on the bystander in the Holocaust and the importance of acting on behalf of vulnerable classmates.

Guiora is also a member of the Board of Advisors for S.E.S.A.M.E., a member of the Advisory Committee of the Lauren McCluskey Foundation, Member Consultant Group, Holocaust Claims Commission, was the inaugural chair of the University of Utah Independent Review Committee and chaired the Gymnastics Canada Task Force on Assault.

Michael H. Morgan is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Utah and a deeply committed educator, clinician and advocate for patients at the margins of society. A dedicated and passionate teacher, he strives to develop students and residents into exceptional physicians while steadfastly maintaining humanity, compassion and humility in clinical care.

His primary clinical and academic focus is advancing care for underserved populations. As medical director of the 4th Street Clinic Student-Led Clinic, he works in close partnership with 4th Street Clinic to introduce medical students and residents to street medicine and the care of individuals experiencing homelessness and housing instability. Through this sustained collaboration, he has helped integrate harm reduction, substance use disorder treatment and human rights-centered care into the formal curriculum of the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine and residency training programs.

Morgan’s scholarly work centers on substance use disorder, harm reduction and systems-based approaches to caring for vulnerable populations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he led institutional and community collaborations to create safer discharge and quarantine pathways for unhoused patients, bridging hospital systems with public health agencies and community partners.

Clinically, he practices at the University of Utah Hospital Emergency Department, 4th Street Clinic, Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, New Mexico and the Snowbird Ski Clinic. He has also actively engaged in global emergency medicine education initiatives in Vietnam, Peru, Mongolia, Morocco and Syria, working to strengthen emergency care systems through sustainable partnerships and longitudinal training.

Across his clinical, educational, and scholarly work, Morgan is committed to building systems of care and training that prepare physicians to meet suffering with skill, courage and enduring compassion.