Future Directions in Violence Against Women Research (AWAEM, Social EM and Population Health, and Sex & Gender in EM Interest Group (SGEM) Sponsored)

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.

Kimberly Stanford, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago and the Director of ED HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Screening at the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination (CCHE). A nationally recognized expert on screening for syphilis and HIV in the ED, Dr. Stanford is an NIH-funded implementation scientist whose research focuses on leveraging the emergency department visit as a key point of contact with the healthcare system for patients who might otherwise have limited access to care, creating opportunities for critical public health interventions related to infectious and chronic diseases and social determinants of health.

Annette Dekker MD, MS is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at UCLA / Olive View. She completed her medical training at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and her residency training at University of Chicago, where she served as chief resident. Most recently, she completed a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management as part of her research fellowship at UCLA. Her current research interests trauma-informed care, implementation of care for victims who have experienced trauma, and immigrant health and policy.

Jennifer A. Newberry is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. She completed her medical and law degrees at the University of Chicago and her Masters in Epidemiology and Clinical Research at Stanford University. Her research focuses on help-seeking and services use by vulnerable populations, including in the global health setting and in intimate partner violence. Her current R01 seeks to improve mental health help-seeking in the Latinx population using a community-engaged approach and partnering with promotores.

Alice Lu is a fourth-year medical student at UCSF with dedicated interests in gender based violence including improving the care of IPV survivors in emergency departments as well as supporting asylum seekers and detainees through medical-legal partnerships. Her educational background includes studying Global Health and Human Biology at UCSD, followed by a master's in law at Northwestern Law where she focused on human rights and the regulation of healthcare and technology. Drawing from her interdisciplinary interests, she plans to become an emergency medicine physician working with underserved patient populations while also advocating for their socio-legal needs. Alice is excited to be starting residency next year with HAEMR at Mass General Brigham.