Maria E. Moreira, MD, FACEP is the Medical Director of Continuing Education & Simulation at Denver Health and Hospital Authority in the Office of Education, Director of Professional Development and Wellbeing for the Denver Health Emergency Department, and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Moreira received her medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed her Emergency Medicine Residency at Denver Health and Hospital Authority. From 2010 to 2018, she served as the Program Director of the Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine. She is an active member of several national Emergency Medicine organizations including ACEP (American College of Emergency Physicians), SAEM (Society of Academic Emergency Medicine), and CORD (Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine), serving on multiple different committees. She served as President of CORD from 2019-2020. Additionally, she is the Section Editor for Adult Trauma for UpToDate, co-editor for Communication in Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medicine Secrets, and Editor-in-Chief of PEERcert+. She has received local, regional and national teaching awards including the John Marx Education Award from the CO ACEP Chapter, the ACEP National Emergency Medicine Faculty Teaching Award, the Michael P. Wainscott Program Director Award, the Denver Health Medical Staff Outstanding Teacher Award, the Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine Jeffrey Druck Legacy Teaching Award, the 2024 Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine Outstanding Medical Student Educator Award, and was nominated in 2018 for the ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award. She has authored multiple book chapters and peer-reviewed publications, lectures locally, regionally, and nationally on various clinical and educational topics, and has developed and implemented several curriculums. Areas of academic interest include curriculum development, procedure education, trauma care, communication, simulation and leadership development.