Erika has been on the Emergency Medicine faculty at Stony Brook since 2003. She completed her training in 1994, a member of Bellevue/NYU’s first entering class in EM. She has held faculty appointments at several medical schools, including Harvard and Tufts. In 1998, she sailed with her husband to Auckland, New Zealand on a 34-foot sloop, and stayed on to work as a consultant in Emergency Medicine for a year. Back in the U.S., she developed interests in medical ethics, serving as chair of Stony Brook Hospital's institutional ethics committee; in practice variation in medicine; and in the problem of nonbeneficial health care and the question of how medical care might better target the real needs of patients. She completed an MPH in 2012.
Patients Prefer an Active Role in Medical Decisions When the Provider is Female? Just Go with It.
Engaging patients in matters of their health and health care is important to me, but I never considered that I might have a special advantage in this area. Then one day, perusing abstracts in a recent issue of Academic Emergency…