Dr. Alicia Mikolaycik Gonzalez has extensive leadership experience, including serving on the Board of Directors and as President of the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA) from 2015-2018, serving as chief resident at UCSF Fresno from 2016-2017, and completing Vituity’s Administrative Fellowship from 2017-2018. She has also held key leadership roles, including serving as a Medical Director at a Level 2 Trauma, STEMI, and Stroke Center on California’s central coast (2020-2023) and as the Medical Director of an FQHC-based urgent care center (2024–present). Additionally, she has contributed to numerous state and national emergency medicine-related committees and workgroups. Currently, Dr. Gonzalez serves as a member of the CalACEP Board of Directors. She is also the Director of Clinical Training and an Implementation Leader for the Bridge Program (bridgetotreatment.org), which helps establish Medication for Addiction Treatment (MAT) programs in over 280 hospitals across California, as well as an increasing number of hospitals in other states. In 2024, she also became an Implementation Coach with Bridge’s Access Bridge program, working to improve the care of women in emergency departments across the country. In these and many other roles, Alicia has driven change at the local, system, regional, and state levels—always with the same goal: shifting the culture of healthcare back toward the physician-patient relationship and bringing joy and ease to bedside practice to ensure the best physician experience and patient care possible. Alicia is an expert in change-making, medication for addiction treatment, pain management, and leadership.