Six Effective #Shemergency Strategies for Recruitment and Retention of Female EM Residents (AWAEM and RAMS Sponsored)
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Amy Zeidan, MD
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Utsha G. Khatri, MD
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Angela M. Mills, MD
Immediate Past President
Columbia University Vagelos
Angela M. Mills, MD is the J. E. Beaumont Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine Services at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Chief of Emergency Medicine Services at New York-Presbyterian. Dr. Mills graduated Summa Cum Laude from Muhlenberg College and with Alpha Omega Alpha distinction from Temple University Medical School.
Dr. Mills is a graduate and former Chief Resident of the EM residency program at University of Pennsylvania. She became a faculty member immediately thereafter and advanced academically being promoted to Professor of Emergency Medicine in 2017. At Penn, Dr. Mills served in several capacities including Medical Director and as Vice Chair of Clinical Operations. She joined Columbia in January 2018 as inaugural Chair of the newly formed department.Dr. Mills has maintained an active research career focusing on emergency diagnostic imaging, clinical operations, and the evaluation of undifferentiated abdominal pain. She has authored over 95 scientific publications and received research funding from both federal agencies and industry.
Dedicated to combining scholarship with mentoring, Dr. Mills is strongly committed to education and has influenced the careers of numerous junior faculty and trainees. Dr. Mills serves on many national and local committees and is an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM).
Dr. Mills was recently honored with two prestigious awards: the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award from SAEM and the Mid-Career Award from the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine.
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Cindy Hsing-Liang Hsu, MD, PhD, MS
Michigan Medicine
Dr. Cindy Hsu is an emergency medicine physician and surgical intensivist who cares for patients in Michigan Medicine’s Adult Emergency Department, Emergency Critical Care Center, and Trauma/Burn Intensive Care Unit. She received her undergraduate degree from the Johns Hopkins University and MD/PhD degree from Boston University with a doctoral degree in pharmacology & experimental therapeutics and biomedical neuroscience. She then completed her emergency medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania followed by trauma/surgical critical care fellowship at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. Most recently, she completed a master’s program in clinical research design and statistical analysis at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Hsu’s clinical expertise in caring for critically ill and cardiac arrest patients has reinforced her translational research on post-cardiac arrest neuroprotection and prognostication. She has dedicated significant time as an NHLBI K12 Scholar developing large animal cardiac arrest models to study neuroprotective therapies such as high-dose valproic acid, with plan to translate these findings to early-phase clinical trials. Dr. Hsu has expanded the translation of these swine models to study how resuscitative balloon occlusion of the aorta on effects prolonged cardiac arrest outcomes and aerosol generation during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. She has been continuously funded by the NHBLI K12 Career Development Award, NIH Loan Repayment Program, ZOLL Foundation, and most recently, a NINDS R61/33 Innovation Grant to Nurture Initial Translational Efforts that will enable Dr. Hsu to develop a swine model with severe neurologic brain injury to translate novel neurotherapeutics after cardiac arrest.
In addition to her dedications to translational cardiac arrest research, Dr. Hsu has served as the site principal investigator for several multicenter cardiac arrest clinical trials including ICECAP and ACCESS, as well as a lead investigator of a randomized feasibility trial of expedited out-of-hospital cardiac arrest transport called Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Refractory Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (EROCA). She has also been actively involved in the creation of resuscitation guidelines as a member on the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation’s Advanced Life Support Task Force and the American Heart Association’s Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science Subcommittee.
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Jennifer Love, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
I am a research fellow in the department of emergency medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. I completed an emergency medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania and medical toxicology fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University.
Over the last two years, I have chaired the AWAEM didactics committee. As didactics chair, I organized and lead efforts to support AWAEM didactic submissions for SAEM's annual meeting. For SAEM 2021, AWAEM had a record number of member didactic submissions (20+) and acceptances (16), all helping to promote and further AWAEM's mission. In my role as didactics committee chair, I have worked closely with the executive committee and received direct mentorship from the current VP of Education, Dr. Kat Ogle.
I am running for the position of VP of Education to continue working on AWAEM's educational initiatives that promote and sponsor women in emergency medicine. Over the last two years, I have been fortunate to review the brilliant educational didactics conceptualized and executed by our members for a variety of emergency medicine audiences at SAEM ASM. As VP of Education, I hope to build a structured curriculum for academic departments to be incorporated into the AWAEM Toolkit. This curriculum would broaden the reach of our AWAEM member experts beyond the annual meeting, and provide additional speaking opportunities for AWAEM members. Additionally, as VP of Education, I hope to work closely with our social media team to be able to promote AWAEM-related educational information and highlights continuously throughout the year. Finally, as VP of Education, I will work closely with the executive committee to develop and support new educational ideas that synergize with AWAEM's other missions including research, membership, and development.