Zachary Meisel, MD, MPH, MSHP is the William G. Baxt Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, he co-directs the Penn Injury Science Center (penninjuryscience.org), a CDC funded National Center for Injury Prevention, and he also directs the Center for Emergency Care Policy and Research (penncecpr.org) and the Policy and Dissemination core for the NIDA-funded Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorder, HCV, and HIV (CHERISH). He has since served as principal investigator of major grants from the NIH, CDC, PCORI and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as well as the WT Grant Foundation, focused on the translation of evidence to providers and patients. He has published over 125 peer reviewed articles and has been continuously funded from federal agencies since 2013. He has received over 16 million dollars in extramural funding as PI or multiple PI. Zack’s research interests include narrative translation methods, injury prevention, substance use disorder, medical communication, guideline adherence, opioid use disorder, patient safety, emergency medical services, and patient centered comparative effectiveness research. He has a specific focus on using and testing persuasive narratives to promote evidence translation to patients, providers, and policy makers. Dr. Meisel has been a medical columnist for Slate and Time with expertise in dissemination translation of research results for audiences such as patients and policy makers.