LEAD focuses on various leaderships styles and issues surrounding FemInEMs. We will disuss getting involved with local and national medical organizations, negotiating with your employer and how to develop as a leaders in this field.
Emergency physicians are prepared to care for any affliction that rolls through the ER doors. Or at least we try to be. But if you are reading this and you are an emergency provider, I want to challenge the notion…
With growing concerns about racism in America, doctors have the professional mandate to advocate for health equity as part of the oath we take to do no harm. But when race is used in medical practice and research, it’s often…
They are physicians, mentors, partners, mothers, sisters, friends, colleagues – but most evidently at the moment, they are heroes. I (virtually) sat down with five women physicians, at all points in their medical careers, who are working in several of…
FemInEM was founded as a community of allies and advocates supporting the careers of women in emergency medicine. From our inception, we have tried to be an organization that strives for equity and to address gender disparities in a way…
My talk at FIX19 was called from Evidence-Based Medicine to Feminist-Based Medicine. Over the last few years Dara and others have opened my eyes to some of the other limitations to EBM. You can get copies of my slides at…
Dr. Breena R. Taira is an associate professor of clinical emergency medicine at the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine and the director of research for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Olive View- UCLA Medical Center and she is…
Ageism, bias against an individual due to their age, disproportionately affects women. Although it goes both ways – ageism occurs against both the young and the old – it tends to occur more towards older adults. As women we set…
Dr. Tsion Firew is an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Global Health Faculty at Columbia University and she also serves as an advisor to the Minister of Health of Ethiopia on Strategic Partnership and Emergency Care. She is an advocate for the…
Kelly Quinley, MD 
Jennifer Tsai, MD, BA, M.Ed 
Rachel MacAskill 
Dara Kass, MD 
Jennifer Beck-Esmay, MD 
Ken Milne, MD, MSc, CCFP-EM, FCFP, FRRMS 
Breena Taira, MD, MPH, CPH, FACEP 
Anita Rohra, MD 
Tsion Firew, MD