Advancing Health Equity in Emergency Medicine Through Community Based Participatory Research
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Edgardo Ordonez
Immediate Past President
Dr. Ordonez received his medical and public health degrees from the UMDNJ- New Jersey Medical School and School of Public Health. He then completed a combined emergency medicine and internal medicine residency at Christiana Care in Newark, Delaware. After completion of residency, Dr. Ordonez obtained an academic appointment at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, TX, where he has been in practice for 7 years. He currently practices both emergency medicine and internal medicine and has several leadership roles within the college and health system. He is an assistant program director of the BCM EM residency, Medical Director of Utilization Management at Ben Taub Hospital, and is on the BCM Admissions Committee. His interests include diversity, inclusion, equity, & social justice, healthcare delivery, social determinants of health, and mentorship. -
Payal Modi, MD, MSc
Co-Chair-Social EM and Population Health Interest Group
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Italo Brown, MD, MPH
Stanford University School of Medicine
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Vidya Eswaran, MD
Washington University in St. Louis
Vidya Eswaran completed her MD at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. and residency training at the Northwestern University Emergency Medicine Residency Program (NUEM) based in Chicago, IL. She then moved to San Francisco, CA for a fellowship in the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP, formerly Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program) where she obtained a Masters Degree in Clinical Research. She has held a number of leadership positions in the Emergency Medicine Residents Associations as well as the American College of Emergency Physicians' Social Emergency Medicine Section, and serves as Managing Editor for Policy Prescriptions, a health policy blog. Her research interest lies in topics related to Social Emergency Medicine and health equity, with a specific focus on behavioral health and care for incarcerated, and recently incarcerated, populations. She believes strongly in community engagement and trainee mentorship throughout the research process. -
Mackensie Yore, MD
VA/UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program
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Christine Ngaruiya, MD, MSc, DTM&H
Stanford University
Dr. Ngaruiya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at Stanford University, and the Population and Global Health Research Director for the Department. She completed fellowship in Global Health in the Yale Department of Emergency Medicine in 2015, matriculating with an MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health, and DTM&H from LSHTM, then joined the faculty at Yale for several years prior to joining the Stanford faculty. She is also a graduate of the NIH Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH) program, which she was competitively selected for from a national pool of applicants for the 2019-2020 cohort. Her research centers on: Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs), barriers to care, and community-based interventions with a particular focus on Africa. Her past professional work focused on health disparities among underserved populations in the U.S. and Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR). This work has been funded by Yale University, NIH, USAID, the World Bank, Gates Foundation, and others. In 2021 and 2022, she was among the top 100 federally funded researchers in EM.
Some past honors include: the Emergency Medicine Resident’s Association (EMRA) Augustine D’Orta Award for outstanding community and grassroots involvement, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate and the 2014 Harambe Pfizer Fellow Award for social entrepreneurship, the 2016 University of Nebraska Outstanding International Alumnus award, the 2018 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Global Emergency Medicine Academy Young Physician award, and the 2019 Yale School of Medicine Leonard Tow Humanism award. In 2020, she was selected as 1 of 24 women nationally as part of the Stanford-affiliated, Gates Foundation funded WomenLift Health Leadership Cohort.
She has held several national and international leadership positions including with: the SAEM Global Emergency Medicine Academy, the Women Leaders in Global Health (WLGH) conference committee and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Research Committee. She was also a founding member of the Yale Network for Global Noncommunicable Disease (NGN), which acts as a hub for global NCD work involving the Yale community. Additionally, she served on the research pre-symposium committee for the African Conference on Emergency Medicine in 2014, on the Scientific Committee in 2016, and as the chair for the research pre-symposium committee in 2020. She has sat on a number of NIH panels related to global NCD topics, and has lectured both nationally and internationally on the same.