Dr. Marina Del Rios joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago in September of 2011 as Assistant Professor, Emergency Ultrasound Faculty, and Health Disparities Research Director. She completed her residency at St. Luke’s – Roosevelt Hospital Center. She completed her Emergency Ultrasound fellowship training in New York Methodist Hospital and a Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research Fellowship in Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Dr. Del Rios is an active member of the Science Subcommittee of the Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee and Advocacy Ambassador of the Council on Cardiopulmonary, Critical Care, Perioperative and Resuscitation of the American Heart Association (AHA). She is also member of the Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), the National Medical Association (NMA), and the American Public Health Association (APHA). Locally, she is a member of the Puerto Rican Agenda, an organization of local Puerto Rican leaders that seek to influence policy for the advancement of the Puerto Rican community in Chicago and member of MOLA, the Chicago Medical Organization for Latino Advancement. She is also the Director of Community Engagement of the Illinois Heart Rescue Project, a state-wide QA/QI project tasked with more than doubling neurologically intact survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims, and is a member of the physician leadership team of the CHAMPIONS NETWork, a health careers pipeline program that trains high school juniors and seniors to be health advocates in their own communities. She has extensive experience with community engagement, CPR education, and cardiovascular health promotion in high-risk populations and has organized more than 500 community CPR training events in the state of Illinois. She was a member of the Committee on the Treatment of Cardiac Arrest of the Health Division of the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (formerly known as the Institute of Medicine) and is co-author on the 2015 Report “Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival: A Time To Act”. She is site co-investigator for the NIH-sponsored Mid-America CTSA Consortium of SIREN (Strategies to Innovate EmeRgENcy Care Clinical Trials Network). She is the principal investigator and was awarded competitive funding from the American Heart Association for her study Measuring disparities in the chain of survival in Latino Communities. Her commitment to diversity, inclusion, and health justice led to her recognition by ADIEM as Outstanding Academician of 2017.