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Ray M. Crawford, Jr., PhD. is a Chief Executive for Strategic Planning and Reporting at U.S. Department of Education and is based in Washington, D.C.. He has worked as Supervisor, Administrative Services at U.S. Department of Education; Chief Of Staff, Executive Level Outreach at U.S. Department of Education; and Director, Administrative Services at U.S. Department of Education. Ray attended Howard University between 2000 and 2003, Virginia Commonwealth University between 1991 and 1995, and Howard University between 2006 and 2013.

With years of clinical leadership experience, Dr. Kevin Klauer brings valuable and innovative talents to the team. Dr. Klauer is a proven leader and brings his expertise and knowledge to the company as the chief medical officer for Emergency Medicine, chief risk officer for TeamHealth, and executive director of TeamHealth’s Patient Safety Organization. He works hard to develop cutting-edge patient safety and clinical best practices throughout the organization and directs clinical risk management. Dr. Klauer is responsible for: • risk management initiatives • clinical education • litigation support • patient safety • assistance with training medical directors • promotion of effective communication with physicians and advanced practice clinicians Concurrent with his role at TeamHealth, Dr. Klauer is an assistant clinical professor at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and serves as the medical editor-in-chief for ACEP Now, the monthly publication of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). He previously served as editor-in-chief for Emergency Physicians Monthly. Dr. Klauer has published three risk-management books, Emergency Medicine Bouncebacks: Medical and Legal, Risk Management and the Emergency Department: Executive Leadership and Protecting Patients and Hospitals, with a third, Pediatric Bouncebacks, released in March 2015. Dr. Klauer also served as a speaker of the ACEP Council. Dr. Klauer received the ACEP National Teaching Faculty Award in 2001 and the Emergency Medicine Resident's Association Robert Dougherty ACEP/Emergency Medicine Foundation Teaching Fellowship. In 2014, he was the recipient of ACEP's Honorable Mention Outstanding Speaker of the Year Award and was recognized by the Ohio Chapter of ACEP with the Bill Hall Award of Service. Dr. Klauer earned his Executive Juris Doctor with honors from Concord Law School in 2011.

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