Zaid Altawil, MD, is an Attending physician at the Department of Emergency Medicine at Holy Family Hospital in Methuen, MA. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center in Boston, where he also founded an innovation group to lead efforts to offer technological solutions to challenges presented by the COVID pandemic. He is also the co-founder of hack/ED, a medical hackathon that focuses on innovation in Emergency Medicine. He is a strong believer in integrating equitable technological solutions in healthcare, and incorporating design thinking into medical education. Dr. Altawil received his MD from the American University of Beirut.