FemInEM

In Dr. Elyse Portillo’s FIX 18 talk she makes us rethink disability and explores how healthcare benefits from all types of diversity. Read her post and watch the video version of her talk here.

In conversation: @ultrasoundREL and @jbeckesay discuss speech coaching and the #FIX19 speaker coaching program led by @mizspangler. Coaches will meet in person or by webinar to learn to empower speakers to find their passion, tell their story, and fine tune...

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,...

As doctors we know it’s not all saving lives and glory. There are much more somber moments and situations that everyone inevitably goes through. Dr. Gita Pensa & Dr. Tracy Sanson talk about their experiences in their lecture “The L...

In his FIX18 talk, Dr. Michael VanRooyen, 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, explains why advocating for family leave isn’t just...

Lynn Fiellin, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Yale and is Director of the play2PREVENT Lab at the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games which conducts video game research for adolescents and young adults.  For the past 2...

Dr. Jennifer Clara Tang is an emergency physician from Hamilton, ON, Canada.  Her colleagues like to joke that it’s a very bad day when she shows up, because it usually means someone died.  In her FIX18 talk, she discusses how her...

In her FIX18 talk,  Dr. Eva Niyibizi shares how she spent most of her life feeling like an outsider, how that role gave her perspective and power and how she used it to make change. Watch the video version of...

In her FIX18 talk, Dr. Karen Kuehl she shares the story of how she became the first and only Director of Psychiatric Emergency Services for her hospital and how it ended up changing her department and her life! Watch the...

Shannon McNamara, MD is an Emergency Physician and Director of the EM Simulation Division at NYU Langone Health, or as her son Jack says, “Mommy fix boo-boos.” In her FIX18 talk, she shares her a personal story about a difficult...