Confronting Disparities Through Evidence: 2025 Association of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine Research in Progress
Researchers in emergency medicine face numerous challenges, such as logistical hurdles, securing partnerships, and obtaining funding. Adding gender and disparity-based inquiries brings additional complexity due to the sensitive nature of the work. Women, in particular, have historically received less support in academic research across many disciplines. In 2019, the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM) established a funding mechanism to support female researchers and explore gender disparities within the specialty. This session will feature five AWAEM-funded researchers sharing their studies, findings, and recommendations. Attendees will learn strategies for navigating challenges in gender-related research and discuss how these insights can drive systemic change.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore active areas of investigation related to gender and disparities based challenges in emergency medicine
- Recognize disparities in fellowship training, career outcomes and leadership opportunities with additional insight to physician attrition, lactation practices, and gender equity
- Understand the process of developing their own line of inquiry, building collaborations, and submitting proposals
- Develop strategies to combat gender disparities at their home institution
Presenters:
- Pooja Agrawal, MD, MPH
- Kelly W. Barringer, MD
- Angela Jarman, MD, MPH
- Jennifer Love, MD, MSCR
- Joe-Ann Moser, MD, MS
- Tehreem Rehman, MD, MPH, MBA
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Pooja Agrawal, MD, MPH
Yale University School of Medicine
Pooja Agrawal, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University. She is a Member-at-Large of the Board of Directors of SAEM. Dr. Agrawal is a recent Past President of the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM), dedicated to enhancing the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in Emergency Medicine. Her initiatives have influenced many genres including research, education, leadership, sponsorship, wellness, and others.
Dr. Agrawal is the Associate Director of Faculty Affairs & Sponsorship and the Director of Global Health Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University. Her academic work focuses on disparities, both with a lens to gender and to displaced populations including refugees, and an emphasis on health access, disparities, and outcomes. Dr. Agrawal holds faculty appointments in the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Center for Asylum Medicine and is on the Board of Directors of Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services. -
Kelly W. Barringer, MD
HealthPartners
Dr. Kelly Barringer is an Assistant Program Director for the Regions Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Department and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota,
Dr. Barringer has been involved with residency administration and education for over 15 years, with a specific in interest in innovative education, mentorship (especially supporting women in emergency medicine), wellness, resident evaluation and remediation, and residency administration. In her outside life, she is the parent to 4 children and an avid runner, cyclist, and traveller. -
Angela Jarman, MD, MPH
University of California, Davis
Angela Jarman is an Associate Professor and the Director of Sex & Gender in Emergency Medicine at UC Davis. She joined the faculty there after completed a two-year fellowship in Sex & Gender in Emergency Medicine at Brown University, where she also earned a Master of Public Health degree. Angela is a North Carolina native and majored in Gender Studies at Duke University before attending medical school at the University of Kentucky. She trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Dr. Jarman is currently a Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health scholar; her research interests include sex differences in venous thromboembolism, health disparities, LGBTQ+ health, & bias in medicine. -
Jennifer Love, MD, MSCR
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dr. Love is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. After residency at the University of Pennsylvania, she completed a medical toxicology fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University. She then completed a clinical research fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine under Dr. Lynne Richardson's T32 training program in emergency care research. Her current work focuses on opioid use disorder and novel substances of misuse, specifically xylazine. She also serves as the SAEM AWAEM research committee co-chair and the VP of Education.
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Joe-Ann Moser, MD, MS
University of Wisconsin
Dr. Joe-Ann Moser is an Associate Professor and Assistant Residency Program Director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also the current EMRA Director of Education. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry and Master of Science in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. Afterward, she spent a year researching respiratory viruses at the National Institutes of Health before starting medical school. Dr. Moser received an MD with distinction in Medical Education and Global Health from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she also completed her Emergency Medicine residency. She recently finished her Education Scholarship Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is pursuing a Master of Health Professions Education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Dr. Moser’s research interests include curriculum design, feedback using dashboards, and minimizing trainee and faculty burden to improve wellness. -
Tehreem Rehman, MD, MPH, MBA
Mount Sinai Hospital
I am an Assistant Professor, Clinical Informaticist and Assistant Medical Director at Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine with expertise in AI-augmented clinical pathways and operations.
Through EHR-embedded and AI-augmented CDS, I strive to minimize provider cognitive burden and variation in resource utilization while optimizing throughput and adherence to evidence-based guidelines. I am also invested in strengthening community-based partnerships and health information exchange infrastructure to deliver patient-centered care addressing health-related social needs.
I serve on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Technical Expert Panels on national quality measures for emergency medicine. Through the American College of Emergency Physicians, I am Vice Chair of the Health Innovation Technology Committee and lead the workgroup on alternative payment models for the Reimbursement Committee. My work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Pfizer. I am on the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine editorial board and have published in peer-reviewed journals such as Annals of Emergency Medicine, the Journal of Public Health Management & Practice, and the Journal of the National Medical Association.