Laura received her medical degree from Northwestern University in 1994 and subsequently completed an emergency medicine residency at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in 1998. She spent 5 years at Harvard University as the Associate Emergency Medicine Program Director and then was recruited to Yale University to become the Emergency Medicine Program Director, a position she held for 7 years. Laura received a Master of Education with a concentration in health professional education from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2014. She is currently educational faculty at the University of Maryland Department of Emergency Medicine.
At the Podium: Practical Tips for Female Speakers
Laura Bontempo, MD MEd (Editor’s Note: This post will be followed by an Honors post on the FemInEM winners at the ACEP16 New Speakers Forum) Public speaking is an integral part of every academic emergency physician’s career. Doing it well is key to career…