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.
Dr. Jennifer Brokaw finished her residency in EM in 1993 at University of NM. She was an NIH Clinical Research Scholar studying the health effects of domestic violence on women and on faculty at UNM for 2 years and then…
Dr. Jessica Brice is an emergency medicine resident at UC San Diego. Dr. Brice, youngest of three girls, was raised on Idaho’s outdoor playground and went on to graduating with honors at Whitman College, nannying her niece and nephew in…
Dr. Jen Gunter is an OB/GYN and pain medicine physician. She has also done a fellowship in infectious diseases. She started her blog in 2011 to clean up her corner of the Internet, because it takes accurate information to be…
Dr. Sheryl Heron, a-selfprofessed “Jamerican” (born in Jamaica, West Indies and raised in Brooklyn) has been on faculty at Emory University School of Medicine for more than 20 years. She is currently Vice Chair of Administrative Affairs in Emergency Medicine,…
The Founding Fathers left women out of the United States Constitution. #TimesUp; a fix for this is long past due. When the United States Constitution was written, women were treated according to English common law and social tradition; women were…
This week, we’re thrilled to feature Dr. Michelle Lall, who is the current President of AWAEM, Associate Residency Director and Associate Professor at Emory. We talk about how critical AWAEM has been to sponsorship, and how— 10 years ago, she wouldn’t…
Dr. Hilary Fairbrother is an Associate Professor at McGovern Medical School, UTHealth at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She has a joint appointment to the Department of Emergency Medicine where she is the Director of Undergraduate…
Before entering the health professions, we were patients. We have all been a patient first. And as a medical student in my preclinical training, the memories of being the vulnerable party are more salient than the knowledge conveyed by my…
Jennifer Brokaw, MD 
Jessica Brice, MD 
Jennifer Gunter, MD 
Sheryl Heron, MD, MPH, FACEP 
Kristen Kent, MD 
Michelle Lin, MD, MPH, MS 
Hilary Fairbrother, MD 
Shana Zucker