Vidya Eswaran, MD

Vidya Eswaran completed her MD at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. and residency training at the Northwestern University Emergency Medicine Residency Program (NUEM) based in Chicago, IL. She then moved to San Francisco, CA for a fellowship in the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP, formerly Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program) where she obtained a Masters Degree in Clinical Research. She has held a number of leadership positions in the Emergency Medicine Residents Associations as well as the American College of Emergency Physicians' Social Emergency Medicine Section, and serves as Managing Editor for Policy Prescriptions, a health policy blog. Her research interest lies in topics related to Social Emergency Medicine and health equity, with a specific focus on behavioral health and care for incarcerated, and recently incarcerated, populations. She believes strongly in community engagement and trainee mentorship throughout the research process.