Laura Walker, MD, MBA

I am currently an Assistant Professor and Director of Digital Health for Mayo Clinic Emergency Medicine and the Chair of the AWAEM Administration/Leadership Committee, which serves to advance women in leadership positions in academic emergency medicine as well as being a co-founder of our residency's Women in EM group. I recently completed my MBA and my prior role was as Regional Hospital Practice Chair for Mayo Clinic Health System in SEMN, overseeing hospital operations for five sites. I also have experience with hospital quality improvement and been an ED medical director. I am currently also on the SAEM Faculty Development Committee. I believe in the mission of AWAEM. I am fortunate to have worked with this amazing group over the last few years, and would like to escalate my involvement by taking on a role within the executive group. My primary aim in doing this is to support my fellow academic women in EM, to represent us and advocate for us and to give back to this wonderful community. Promoting women, and doing so in an intersectional way, is a core value and working within the system is a valuable way to make progress. Learning more about how SAEM works with its academies is something I hope to learn in the role. I feel that I currently have capacity in my life to take on an additional role with AWAEM and give back. With the effects of burnout that have impacted physicians, I am aware that I currently have capacity to take this on, and doing so is healing to me. Working with a group of highly effective women brings me joy and fulfillment and I hope to step up my involvement to the next level in the coming year.