Emergency medicine is tough. The world expects perfection, and we know perfection isn’t possible. Complicated patients and a dysfunctional health care system make matters worse. The sad outcome is that too many physicians are unhappy, burned out, and the rate…
Janelle Bludorn, PA-C is an emergency medicine physician assistant, serves on the Board of Directors for SEMPA (Society of Emergency Medicine PAs) and is a faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. In her FIX18 talk,…
Dr. Sanson shares a reflection on her experience speaking with Dr. Pensa at FIX18. This past October, I had the privilege of speaking alongside Dr. Gita Pensa at FemInEM’s FIX18 conference. Dr. Pensa unflinchingly shared her ordeal of living within…
Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH is the Chairman of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. He is also Director of the Harvard Humanitarian…
Dr. Jennifer Clara Tang is an emergency physician from Hamilton, ON, Canada. She is an Assistant Clinical professor at McMaster University and completed her Royal College emergency medicine training at Queen’s University in Kingston, ON. She has a Masters in Health…
Public speaking is a skill you develop. It is an essential tool each person should have in their toolbox. In this area, being a talkative extrovert does not really count. You do not have to be an expert. Everyone can…
Dr. Eva Niyibizi was born in Kigali Rwanda, and grew up in Belgium and the US. She speaks 5 languages. She currently lives and work as an internal medicine and emergency medicine specialist in Geneva Switzerland. Together with other medical…
Karen Kuehl, MD is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Virginia Tech Carilion in Roanoke, Virginia. In her FIX18 talk, she shares her story of joining a practice of cowboys and learning how to be different and make a difference. …
Carolyn McClanahan, MD 
Jennifer Beck-Esmay, MD 
Tracy Sanson, MD 
Gita Pensa, MD 
Eva Niyibizi, MD