Supporting Emergency Medicine Trainees: Applying Trauma-Informed Care to the Educational Environment (ADIEM and Equity & Inclusion Committee Sponsored)

Authors

  • Taylor Brown, MD

  • Henry Ashworth, MD, MPH

  • Michael Clery, MD, MPP

    Grady Health-Emory University

  • Kamna S. Balhara, MD, MA, FACEP

    Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

    Johns Hopkins University

    Dr. Kamna Balhara is an associate professor of emergency medicine (EM) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and holds a dual appointment as associate professor in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. After obtaining a master’s degree in French Cultural Studies from Columbia University, she completed medical school and residency at Johns Hopkins, serving as chief resident. She served in residency program leadership at the University of Texas San Antonio and subsequently at Johns Hopkins.

    Dr. Balhara is an innovator in the health humanities and has experience with implementing humanities curricula for medical students, residents, and faculty from across specialties. She is a founder and co-director of the Health Humanities at Hopkins EM initiative, which offers equity-focused and humanities-based programming to institution, community, and national audiences. She also directs a unique longitudinal interdisciplinary institution-wide health equity and humanities track for residents and fellows across Johns Hopkins, and directs the Health Humanities Fellowship. She has been invited to speak to international audiences on the humanities in medicine and was selected as a Harvard Macy Institute Art Museum-Based Health Professions Education Fellow.

    Her scholarly interests revolve around equity and inclusion in clinical and learning environments. She has authored multiple publications on graduate medical education, humanities, social determinants of health, and disparities in health care access, and has developed tools and resources for other educators seeking to apply the humanities towards equity in health care and health professions education. Her work has been funded by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the Josiah Macy Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Emergency Medicine Foundation. She serves on the steering committee for the National Health Humanities Consortium, and is a member of the editorial board of the SAEM journal Academic Emergency Medicine.

     

  • Michael Valdivia, MD

  • Jason J. Lewis, MD

    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    Dr. Jason Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and core faculty at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Lewis completed his residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency in 2014 followed by a fellowship in Medical Education in 2015. He currently serves as the director of the Emergency Bootcamp, associate clerkship director and co-site director of the capstone course at Harvard Medical School. He is passionate about medical education, with a particular focus on undergraduate medical education.

  • Sanche Mabins, MD

  • Ashlea Winfield, MD, MSPH

    Assistant Program Director Cook County Health

    Dr. Ashlea Winfield is an emergency medicine physician and the Assistant Director of the Cook County Health Simulation Center in Chicago, IL. Dr. Winfield earned her Master of Science in Public Health from the Tulane University School of Public Health and medical doctorate from the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in New Orleans. She then went on to complete her residency and emergency simulation fellowship at Cook County Health. 

    Dr. Winfield is committed to increasing diversity in medicine, specifically the recruitment of underrepresented groups in medicine. As the founder and chair of the Cook County Emergency Medicine Diversity and Inclusion Committee she coordinates multiple activities aimed at fostering a culture of safety for all individuals within her program and institution.

    As the Assistant Director for the Cook County Simulation Center, Dr. Winfield focuses on procedural competency and task trainer development, using simulation to teach topics in DEI, and the use of medical simulation to inspire interest in STEM careers.

     

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