Top Articles in Gender Equity and Emergency Medicine From 2024 (AWAEM-Sponsored)
Despite significant advancements, challenges in pay equity, promotion, education, scholarly activity, and research funding persist for women in academic emergency medicine. This session will highlight the latest evidence from a Scopus-based literature review and consensus selection by the SAEM Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM) research committee, focusing on key articles published in 2024 addressing gender equity in academic EM and medicine at large. Topics will include pay equity, promotion, education, training, and workforce retention. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of recent findings and explore strategies to reduce gender inequities in academic emergency medicine. This session is essential for those looking to champion gender parity in their workplace and contribute to positive change. Speakers are experts in research methodology and gender equity, all being AWAEM members.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe key takeaways from multiple research studies published in 2024 related to gender equity in emergency medicine
- Report key lessons from multiple research studies published in 2024 related to gender equity in academic medicine at large
- Propose potential strategies, based on recent literature, to increase gender equity in emergency medicine
Presenters:
- Joe-Ann Moser, MD, MS
- Richelle J. Cooper, MD, MSHS
- Amy Zeidan, MD
- Diana Marie Bongiorno, MD
- Jennifer Love, MD, MSCR (she/her/hers)
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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. -
Richelle J. Cooper, MD, MSHS
David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine
Dr. Cooper is Professor of Emergency Medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine, and VIce Chair of Research for the UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine, at the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center. Dr Cooper has been one of the methodology and statistics editors at Annals of Emergency Medicine since 2000, and is Executive Deputy Editor of Annals of Emergency Medicine. She has conducted research on, and lectured on multiple topics related to peer-review. Her research interests include the science of peer review and methodology, gender and healthcare disparities, social emergency medicine, and overuse and low value care. She serves on the American College of Emergency Physicians Research Committee.
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Amy Zeidan, MD
Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. Amy Zeidan is an Assistant Professor at Emory University School of Medicine and works clinically at Grady Memorial Hospital. She received her medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, completed an Emergency Medicine residency at The Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania and an Emergency Ultrasound fellowship at the University of Kentucky. She is co-director of the Georgia Human Rights Clinic, Co-Founder of the Society of Asylum Medicine, and has conducted forensic medical evaluations for >60 asylum seekers including those who are detained. Her research efforts focus on barriers to acute care for refugees, immigrants, and asylum populations and she works closely with many local community organizations to advocate for improved access to medical care for immigrant populations and release of medically vulnerable individuals from detention facilities. She is also an active member of SAEM’s Academy for Women in Academic Medicine, serving on the executive board for over four years, and is interested in gender inequities in academic medicine.
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Diana M. Bongiorno, MD, MPH
Chief Resident
Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women's Hospital
Diana Bongiorno, MD, MPH is a Chief Resident in the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR) program at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a graduate of the Vagelos Life Sciences and Management dual-degree program between the College and Wharton schools. She graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and earned her MPH at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she was a TL1 Trainee in the Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program. She is passionate about health equity, work to address social determinants of health in the emergency department. In July, she will begin fellowship in the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
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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.