Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Emory University School of Medicine

Emory University School of Medicine

Emory University School of Medicine

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Dr. Amy Zeidan is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. She received her medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, completed an Emergency Medicine residency at The Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, and then completed an Emergency Ultrasound fellowship at the University of Kentucky. She joined the faculty at Emory University School of Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine in 2019 and works clinically at Grady Memorial Hospital. She is the Medical Director of the Grady Memorial Hospital Medical-Legal Partnership and is dedicated to harnessing medical-legal partnerships to advance the health rights of structurally vulnerable populations. She is also Co-Director of the Georgia Human Rights Clinic, a medical-legal partnership in Atlanta that provides forensic medical evaluations to individuals seeking asylum and conducts chart reviews to advocate for the release of medically vulnerable individuals in detention and carceral facilities. Her scholarship, teaching, and advocacy focus on advancing health justice for immigrant populations, as well as medical mismanagement, neglect, and abuse in U.S. Immigration Detention facilities. She is interested in gender inequities in academic medicine and has been an active member of AWAEM, serving as president.