Congratulations to Dr. Uché Blackstock for receiving an EMRA 45 Under 45 Award! Uché Blackstock, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at NYU School of Medicine, where she is also the Faculty Director for Recruitment, Retention…
Sponsored: The Path to a Brighter EM Future Requires Diverse Leadership
Delivering high-quality care means committing to your patients in each moment of their healthcare journey. But sustaining and elevating that level of care requires making that same commitment to yourself. From mentorships to formal professional development programs that foster leadership…
Sponsored: Lean In to Lean On: Supporting Women in Medicine
Envision Physician Services is committed to supporting women in medicine across service lines and specialties and providing them with the resources they need to excel and lead in their fields. One part of a larger diversity and inclusion initiative…
Disability Matters: From Disabling Assumptions To Enabling Conversations
Cori Poffenberger, MD, FACEP My daughter, Eliza, is five years old. She loves purple AND pink, riding horses, and, of course, unicorns. She is the oldest of my three, by one minute over her twin brother, and she was born with spina bifida. She…
Sponsored: #ILookLikeAnERDoc: ACEP’s Commitment to Diversity
‘Anyone, Anything, Anytime’ is the core mission of emergency medicine. It’s the reason many became emergency physicians in the first place – the desire to care for anyone, no matter what. EM physicians led the charge to create EMTALA –…
A Cultural Education
Meghan Liroff, MD This is a unique sociopolitical time to practice emergency medicine. As a recent residency graduate working in a Freestanding ED in Dearborn, Michigan, my medical education has taken a back seat to a more relevant and enlightening cultural education. Dearborn,…
Making Diversity a Priority, One Step at Time
Vidya Eswaran I was sitting at Starbucks with my mentor, a laptop between us open to a spreadsheet of residency programs. There were so many to choose from and I had no idea how to narrow my list. We discussed private versus…