Evaluation of race and ethnicity as barriers to inpatient treatment for opioid use disorder
Authors
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Jessica Faiz
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Steven L. Bernstein, MD
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
I am currently a member of the SAEMF Board, and would like to serve another term. I have been a member of SAEM for 30 years, have contributed at the highest level of giving, and enjoy the work considerably. I would be honored to continue to be of service. -
Julianne Dugas, MPH
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Elissa M. Schechter-Perkins MD,MPH,DTMH
Vice Chair of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine; Director of Emergency Medicine Infectious Disease Management; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Elissa M Schechter-Perkins MD, MPH, DTMH is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Vice Chair of EM Research at Boston University School of Medicine/Boston University School of Medicine. She is also the Director of Emergency Medicine Infectious Disease Management. She is the co-Chair of the SAEM Interest Group Emergency Medicine Transmissible Infectious Diseases and Epidemics, a network of academic emergency departments focused on research, practice, and policy on emerging and transmissible infectious diseases.
Dr Perkins earned a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University, and completed her Doctorate of Medicine at Columbia University. She did her Emergency Medicine residency training at Yale New Haven Hospital, and then completed an International EM fellowship at Los Angeles County, University of Southern California, during which time she earned an MPH from UCLA and a diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Gorgas Clinical Course in Tropical Medicine in Lima, Peru.
Dr. Perkins has spent her career working with vulnerable populations, primarily in inner city EDs. Her academic area of expertise focuses on the intersection of infectious diseases, public health, and the ED. She has developed programs and evaluated methods to enhance both ED and hospital-wide screening and treatment of infectious diseases that have public health consequences, including HIV, HCV, MRSA, sexually transmitted infections, influenza, and now COVID-19. -
Lauren Nentwich, MD
Vice Chair, Clinical Affairs
Massachusetts General Hospital Emergency Department
Lauren Nentwich is the Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs at Mass General Hospital. Prior to that, Dr. Nentwich served as the Vice Chair of Quality and Patient Safety at Boston Medical Center's Department of Emergency Medicine. Her specific interests are operations, optimizing care for patients with substance use disorders, and neurological emergencies. -
Kerrie P. Nelson, PhD
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Joseph R. Pare, MD, MHS