Building the Pipeline: Identifying Best Practices in Developing and Advancing Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM and Faculty Development Committee)

Building the Pipeline: Identifying Best Practices in Developing and Advancing Women in Academic Emergency Medicine” is an interactive didactic session utilizing a panel of leaders in the field of emergency medicine. The goal of the didactic is to highlight career paths of women leaders in academic emergency medicine to encourage and support women faculty in the pursuit of leadership roles and highlight the influence of the organizational culture on their career paths. Despite experiencing expanded women leadership in academic emergency medicine, recent research shows that almost 40% of women physicians chose to leave medicine or transition to part-time within six years of completion of their residency training. The expert panel will discuss their individual pathways towards leadership, provide advice on how to gain requisite leadership skills and experiences to support leadership development, and the role of female leaders in developing mentorship and institutional cultures supportive of women in clinical academic medicine. The panel will discuss the impact of departmental and institutional culture on gender inequities in compensation and promotion. The didactic will allow audience participation through an interactive Q&A session from the expert panel throughout the entire session.

Presenters:

  • Nancy Kwon, MD MPA
  • Sanjey Gupta, MD MBA
  • Luan Lawson, MD, MAEd
  • Deborah B. Diercks, MD, MSc, MBA
  • Kat Ogle, MD
  • Marquita S. Norman, MD, MBA
  • Leigh A. Patterson, MD, MAEd
Authors
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    Nancy Kwon, MD, MPA

    Vice Chair, Emergency Medicine

    Long Island Jewish Medical Center

    Dr. Nancy Kwon is the Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and a Professor at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Most recently, Dr. Kwon became the Central Region Medical Director of Health Equity for Northwell Health under Northwell's Center for Equity of Care.

    She has been an active member of SAEM since residency, and is currently. the Chair of the SAEM Faculty Development Committee, and is an active member of the Equity and Inclusion, and Research Committees, and was elected in the past to be a member of the Nominating Committee.

    Dr. Kwon has many years of experience in academics and has served in the past as the Associate Chair of Academics and Research in Emergency Medicine. She created and was the faculty advisor for new courses and rotations, including a for credit course: Hofstra Clinical Research Course in Emergency Medicine for Hofstra Undergraduate Students, which she developed and initiated in 2016. She has collaborated and taught at Hofstra Northwell’s School of Medicine in the area of SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment) for substance abuse disorders, for which she has performed research and was the Co-Principal Investigator of the NYSBIRT II Project, and is currently part of an NIH grant regarding the utilization of text messaging for patients with substance use disorders. She has served as a committee member on the Appointments and Promotions Committee at Hofstra Northwell’s School of Medicine. Dr. Kwon has been a recipient of Northwell's President’s Award for Teamwork in 2014., the Emergency Medicine Service Line Guttenberg Award in 2017 for her work in Emergency Medicine, and was one of five finalists for Northwell Health System's Truly Leadership award, and is currently a finalist for the Truly Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award. She has a focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Population Health, developing and implementing programs for vulnerable and underrepresented patient populations, faculty development, and mentorship.

    Dr. Kwon received her Bachelor of Science from Brown University, and her Doctorate of Medicine from The University of Rochester. She completed her Residency in Emergency Medicine at NYU Langone School of Medicine/Bellevue Hospital Center, and stayed on as faculty until 2013. She received a Masters in Public Administration from The NYU Wagner School of Public Service. She became a part of The Northwell Health team in 2013.

  • Sanjey Gupta, MD

    Northwell Health

    Sanjey Gupta, MD, is the Chairperson of Emergency Medicine at South Shore University Hospital/Northwell Health and professor of emergency medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He was named the 2016 ED Director of the Year by the Emergency Medicine Foundation/American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Gupta helped to establish new residencies at New York Presbyterian Queens and South Shore University Hospital, and assisted with the merger of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center/North Shore University Hospital residencies. He previously served as core faculty at New York Presbyterian Queens, Long Island Jewish Medical Center and South Shore University Hospital; assistant residency director at New York Presbyterian Queens (as well as clerkship director, research director, simulations, scheduler/payroll, and associate chairperson); and director of wilderness medicine at New York Presbyterian Queens, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, and South Shore University Hospital.
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    Luan Lawson, MD

    Senior Associate Dean, Medical Education and Student Affairs

    Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

    Luan Lawson, MD, is the Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education and Student Affairs, and a professor of emergency medicine (EM), at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. She has extensive experience in undergraduate medical education, with a particular focus on curriculum development, assessment, and team-based training. Previously, as Principal Investigator of the AMA Accelerating Change in Education grant at East Carolina University, Dr. Lawson led the development and implementation of key health systems science initiatives, including the Teachers of Quality Academy faculty development program, a health system transformation and leadership distinction track, and a longitudinal curriculum.

    Dr. Lawson has contributed nationally to medical education through her service on the USMLE Step # CCS Committee, National Board of Medical Examiners' EM Advanced Clinical Exam task force, and as a past president of the Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine (CDEM).

  • Deborah B. Diercks, MD, MSc, MBA

    UT Southwestern

    Dr. Deborah Diercks joined the faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center in 2014. She completed her residency at University of Cincinnati Medical Center and obtained a Master of Science from Harvard. Her clinical research interests have included the diagnosis and management of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome and congestive heart failure who present to the emergency department. She has been involved in both single center and multi-center trials in both of these areas.

    Dr. Diercks has collaborated in studies involving the identification of acute coronary syndrome in the emergency department, including the use of cardiac injury markers and novel electrocardiogram techniques, and has done work evaluating observation unit care of the chest pain patient. She has participated in therapeutic trials for congestive heart failure and acute coronary syndrome.

    Over the past several years, Dr. Diercks has participated in a number of national acute coronary syndrome symposia. She is active in Emergency Medicine serving on many ACEP committees and has been on the Board of Directors for the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. She is active within the American College of Cardiology and serves on the Editorial Boards for Circulation and Academic Emergency Medicine. She has received awards for the Advancement of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine and Advancement of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine.

  • Kat Ogle, MD

    Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

    George Washington University

    Dr. Ogle is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University, where she completed medical school, residency, as well as her ultrasound fellowship. She is a former RN and first-generation college graduate and physician. She is engaged in medical education and professional development from the undergraduate to faculty level. Her roles include Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Director, leading the Medical Education and Leadership Scholarly Concentration as well as Clinician as a Medical Educator course. Dr. Ogle serves on local, regional, and national organizations including the GW Antiracism Guiding Coalition, is President of the SAEM Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM), and is active within the Society of Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships, is a reviewer for several academic journals, and is an award-winning educator. Her professional interests include medical education, point-of-care ultrasound, mentorship, diversity, equity, and inclusion, leadership, and promotion. She balances her academic and professional responsibilities with her role as a mother.

  • Marquita S. Norman, MD, MBA

    Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine / SAEM Finance Committee Chair

    UT Southwestern Medical Center

    Marquita S. Norman, MD, MBA is an Associate Professor and serves as the Associate Vice-Chair of Health Equity, Quality and Safety in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center.  She currently serves as chair of the SAEM Finance Committee and a member of the SAEMF Board of Trustees.  She is a past chair of the Equity and Inclusion Committee and past president of the Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine.  She completed her internship at Howard University and residency training at the University of Michigan.   She completed her MBA from the Collat School of Business at UAB.  Her work has been centered around healthcare workforce diversity and inclusion efforts involving K-16 pathways programs and development of opportunities for undergraduate and graduate medical education.  Dr. Norman’s professional and community interests include health equity, health care workforce diversity, medical education, and communication skills.

  • Leigh A. Patterson, MD, MAED

    Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University

    Dr. Leigh Patterson in the Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine and the Chief of Emergency Service Line for the ECU Health System. Dr. Patterson completed her residency at Louisiana State University in New Orleans and her fellowship in EM Ultrasound at Drexel College of Medicine. She completed her MAEd with a focus in Adult Education at East Carolina University and served as the Residency Director for Emergency Medicine.. She has worked in UME as a course director and as Chair of the Brody Executive Curriculum Committee. Following her time as Residency Director, Dr. Patterson served as the Associate Dean for Faculty Development. In this role, she also served as an Interim Chair for the Department of Pathology at ECU. She regularly mentors faculty on career planning and developing teaching skills. Dr. Patterson continues to enjoy a busy shift in the ED with residents and students. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter and is an avid knitter.

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