Confronting Disparities Through Evidence: 2024 AWAEM Research in Progress (AWAEM Sponsored)

Researchers in emergency medicine face many challenges including complicated logistics, solidifying buy-in and partnerships, creating sustainable programming, and procuring adequate financing. Layering gender and disparities-based inquiries adds additional complexity due to the sensitive nature of the investigation. Women specifically have historically been less supported than their male counterparts in a wide array of academic endeavors, including research. In 2019, the Academy for Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM), dedicated to supporting the advancement of women in academic emergency medicine, inaugurated a funding mechanism to not only support women researchers but also advance our collective knowledge of gender disparities within the specialty. This didactic assembles five AWAEM sponsored researchers who were awarded funding to support their work, both through the AWAEM research awards and through a jointly supported SAEMF/AWAEM grant. Each will describe their funded studies. Speakers will describe their research, findings, and recommendations and address questions such as: What challenges have you faced while conducting gender and disparities-based work? What techniques have worked to navigate the sensitive nature and the political or social opposition to exploring these topics? How is emergency medicine as a specialty uniquely positioned to engage in gender and disparities-based work? How do you effectively disseminate research findings and advocacy efforts to have widespread impact? The audience will be introduced to a variety of scientific inquiries that, while specifically relevant to exposing and combating gender disparities in medicine, are issues that affect us all. They will be encouraged to consider ways in which they may also contribute to the literature and combat gender disparities in their home institutions. Participants will hopefully be inspired to also submit to future calls for grant submissions to further affect change.

Presenters:

  • Pooja Agrawal, MD, MPH
  • Rebecca Barron, MD, MPH
  • Jennifer L. Carey, MD
  • Shubhi Goli, MD
  • Michelle P. Lin, MD, MPH, MS
  • Preeti Panda, MD
Authors

  • Pooja Agrawal, MD, MPH

    Member-at-Large

    Yale Department of Emergency Medicine

    I am an Associate Professor at the Yale Department of Emergency Medicine where I serve as the Director of Global Health Education. I completed residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, an MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health and a Global Health Fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. I have been involved with many aspects of SAEM since residency and can say without hesitation that SAEM has not only shaped but launched my career. After holding various leadership roles with the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM), I served as President. Through that role, I created new programs, celebrated many successes, and came to recognize the potential for the greater SAEM organization to accomplish even more. I am particularly proud of the AWAEM Internal Funding Award, a program that in only four years has supported over 20 PIs with funding for their research. I have also been actively engaged with the Academy for Diversity & Inclusion in Emergency Medicine (ADIEM), the Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA), the SAEM Equity and Inclusion Committee, the Wellness Committee, as well as several other interest groups. In 2018, I was awarded the AWAEM Momentum Award and in 2023 the AWAEM Social Advocacy in Medicine Award.

  • Rebecca Barron, MD, MPH

    UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate

    Dr. Rebecca Barron is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate and an attending emergency physician at Baystate Health in Springfield, MA. She graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine, where she obtained her medical and master of public health degrees. She completed residency in Emergency Medicine and fellowship in Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital/Alpert Medical of Brown University. As a fellow, she also completed a Post-Master's Certificate in Evidence-Based Teaching in the Health Professions through Johns Hopkins University. She has extensive clinical, education, and research experience in acute sexual assault, including implementing an insitutional sexual assault response team, developing and revising institutional and statewide acute sexual assault protocols, developing and delivering educational content on this topic to medical students and residents, and conducting quantitative and qualitative research aimed at improving care for this patient population. More broadly, Dr. Barron is interested in women's health, public health, and medical education, serving as an Early Clinical Learning small group leader in UMass-Chan Medical school's PURCH track.

  • Jennifer L. Carey, MD

    UMass Chan Medical School

    Jennifer Carey, MD is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and a Medical Toxicologist at UMass Chan Medical School. She is the Division Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, and the Education Fellowship Director.

  • Shubhi Goli, MD

    Stanford University

    Dr. Shubhi Goli is a 3rd year fellow in pediatric emergency medicine at Stanford University. She earned her medical degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed her pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. After working as a emergency department pediatrician and pediatric hospitalist, she began her fellowship training in 2021 with a then 9-month-old daughter at home. She was inspired to pursue lactation-related work given her own experiences with lactation as a trainee and is passionate about increasing awareness of trainee lactation and improving related workplace experiences. She will be starting a faculty position at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta/Emory University this fall.

    Outside of medicine, she enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter (now 3), telling mom jokes, good movies and reality TV, watching sporting events, and time outdoors hiking and in the vineyards. She is also proud of the number of audiobooks she has "read" on her commute to/from Stanford over the past few years!

  • Michelle P. Lin, MD, MPH, MS

    Emergency Medicine Physician-Scientist

    Stanford University

    Michelle Lin, MD, MPH, MS, is an emergency physician-scientist working to make emergency care more patient-centered, accessible, and equitable. Her active NIH-funded research projects develop new quality measures based on what matters most to patients; improve post-emergency department discharge care for high risk patients; and enhance physician diversity and retention. She is proud to have served as a research mentor to over 40 trainees over the course of her career, including 15 emergency medicine residents who have presented nationally, published peer-reviewed manuscripts, and obtained research funding.

    Dr. Lin has received several national awards for her work, including the 2021 SAEM Young Investigator Award and 2016 AcademyHealth Presidential Scholarship for New Health Services Researchers. She completed residency at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City and fellowship in health policy research at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where she also completed a Masters in clinical epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

  • Preeti Panda, MD

    Stanford University

    Dr. Panda is a pediatric emergency medicine fellow and pediatric global health subspecialty fellow at Stanford University. She earned a bachelor of science degree from Cornell University in Nutrition and Global Health. She went on to earn an MD, with distinction in advocacy, from Albany Medical College. Dr. Panda completed her pediatric residency training at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital/Case Western Reserve University, where she earned specialized certificates in child advocacy and research. She is currently earning a Master of Science in Health Policy at Stanford University, which she will complete over the course of her fellowship.

    Dr. Panda has worked with trafficked youth for over 10 years, with involvement in direct clinical care, research, legislative advocacy, and education. Her research currently focuses on youth violence prevention. Dr. Panda has received awards both locally and nationally for her work, including the SAEM Pediatric Emergency Fellow Award.

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