Laura Janneck, MD, MPH
University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine
Biography
Laura Janneck is an Assistant Professor and Associate Program Director at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine, where her work focuses on social medicine and education.
She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University, her doctorate in medicine from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and a master’s in public health from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Janneck completed residency in emergency medicine in at the Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals.
After residency, she served as Country Director for sidHARTe in Rwanda where, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, she helped to guide the development emergency medical systems across the country. She worked as a community emergency physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance where her focus pivoted toward immigrant health and social medicine with a strong emphasis on education. She developed an open-access curriculum on immigrant health, and through the Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy she helped to create an interprofessional course called the Health Equity Scholars.
While caring for patients throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, she transitioned to the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine to more actively pursue academic interests. There, she has created a section on Social Emergency Medicine and served in national roles in Social EM through ACEP and SAEM. She was appointed to be an Associate Program Director of the OU Tulsa EM Residency Program, and a Course Director for a pre-clinical medical student course focusing on the biopsychosocial approach to medicine. Outside of her work, she enjoys traveling, singing in a choir, and spending time with her family.
She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University, her doctorate in medicine from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and a master’s in public health from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Janneck completed residency in emergency medicine in at the Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals.
After residency, she served as Country Director for sidHARTe in Rwanda where, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, she helped to guide the development emergency medical systems across the country. She worked as a community emergency physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance where her focus pivoted toward immigrant health and social medicine with a strong emphasis on education. She developed an open-access curriculum on immigrant health, and through the Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy she helped to create an interprofessional course called the Health Equity Scholars.
While caring for patients throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, she transitioned to the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine to more actively pursue academic interests. There, she has created a section on Social Emergency Medicine and served in national roles in Social EM through ACEP and SAEM. She was appointed to be an Associate Program Director of the OU Tulsa EM Residency Program, and a Course Director for a pre-clinical medical student course focusing on the biopsychosocial approach to medicine. Outside of her work, she enjoys traveling, singing in a choir, and spending time with her family.
