Stephanie Chow Garbern, MD, MPH, DTMH

I am an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Research Coordinator of the Division of Global Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. For over 15 years, I have been committed to expanding emergency care globally, working clinically or on research studies in Honduras, Peru, China, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Ghana, Liberia, Tanzania, Rwanda and the USA. After medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, I obtained my residency training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Afterwards, I completed an MPH in Global Health at Harvard, a Global EM fellowship at Brown, and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene at LSHTM. My research focuses on the use of mobile health tools, wearable devices, and machine learning for emergency care in LMICs and I have led studies developing these tools for sepsis in Bangladesh, Rwanda, Ghana, and Uganda. After Hurricanes Irma/Maria, I was a volunteer responder in Caguas, Puerto Rico with International Medical Corps, for which was I was awarded the GEMA Humanitarian Service Award in 2019. 

GEMA has been an extremely positive influence on my professional career, and it has been a great honor to hold multiple roles within GEMA including as an ExCo member - Secretary (2021-2022), IT Chair (2022-present), Co-Chair of the DEI Committee, Co-Chair of the GEMA Engagement Committee, and founder/Co-Chair of the Decolonizing Global Emergency Medicine Working Group.  Some of my most rewarding work to date in GEMA has been the formation of the Decolonizing Global EM Working Group, focused on developing anti-racist, anti-colonialist strategies to achieve equity in global EM which has led to four national presentations, a BMJ Global Health publication, a trainee-led video, an SAEM Pulse article and multiple manuscripts in process. Additionally, during my tenure as Secretary, we doubled the number of submissions to SAEM Pulse particularly from LMIC-based lead authors, and as IT Chair have greatly expanded our social media network and presence through new content on our GEMA website and Twitter. As President of GEMA, I look forward to working on several focus areas: 1) Increasing membership diversity, particularly supporting recruitment and election to leadership positions of members from LMICs and under-represented in medicine minorities 2) Encouraging active participation among members through support of leadership and professional development opportunities within GEMA 3) Creating new opportunities to engage trainees and junior faculty, through increased mentorship networking and collaboration on grants/scholarly outputs 4) Increasing collaboration between GEMA, other SAEM Academies, and the national SAEM ExCo to advocate for an increased international scope of SAEM in general.