Transgender Health
Retired
Vicken Totten, MD, MS, is a pioneer in emergency medicine (EM). When she started in medicine, there were ten men for everyone woman physician and there was no specialty of EM. After an internship, two years in the U.S. Public Health Service in remote rural America, she returned to a family practice residency and was "grandmothered" into EM. A few years later she was working full time in rural emergency rooms and raising children as a single mom. She has a passion for academia and started her academic career as faculty in Brooklyn, NY. After spending six months working in Sweden as their first full time emergency physician and the only American-trained board certified EP in the country, she got a degree from the University of Michigan in Research Design and Statistics. Through her career, Dr. Totten has had the experience of helping residents get excited about projects. She finally retired in 2018 but remains engaged in the EM community.