Gregory Guldner, MD, MS, FACEP is the Vice President of Academic Affairs for HCA GME, a role he entered July 1, 2022, most recently serving as DIO at HCA Healthcare Riverside in Riverside CA. Before joining HCA Healthcare, Dr. Guldner served as the Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center, as well as an Associate Professor of both Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at Loma Linda University. Dr. Guldner served with the U.S. Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, including serving as Brigade Surgeon for the 420th Engineer Brigade in Sharana, Afghanistan. He holds a Commission as Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps.

Jason T. Siegel (PhD) is a Professor of Social Psychology at Claremont Graduate University, where he is the director of the Depression and Persuasion Research Lab. Dr. Siegel's scholarship examines the intersection between message features and the cognitive profile of people with depression to develop messages to maximize help-seeking among this population. He also investigates message approaches for increasing the social support received by people with depression. Dr. Siegel has been the principal investigator or co-investigator for over $25 million of grants and contracts. He is currently working on a federally funded grant to increase help-seeking among military members. HCA Healthcare also sponsors Dr. Siegel to conduct research to improve the well-being of their medical residents. He has served or is currently serving on editorial boards of journals, including Health Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Health Communication. Dr. Siegel is co-editor of Wiley’s Handbook of Mental Health Communication and co-editing a special issue for Stigma and Health on unintended effects of anti-stigma campaigns.

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