FemInEM

Latest Episodes
The L Word: Maintaining Resilience in the Face of Pending Litigation
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...
Rethinking Family Leave Policies
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,
ForAGirl: A Program to Help Girls Be the Rule
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...
We Speak for the Dead to Protect the Living
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...
The Power of The Outsider
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...
Taking Ownership of the Unwanted Job
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...
Coming Out as Human
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...
Goals of Care at the Moment of Crisis
In her FIX talk, Dr. Ashley Shreves discusses some difficult ED cases, focusing on how how end of life care and the conversations that surround that care can go many different ways. Using specific cases as examples she gives excellent...
Outside My Box
In his FIX 18 talk, Dr. Nii Darko shares how he went outside his doctor box to become a podcaster and how this totally changed his life and encourages others to find ways to think outside their boxes as well! Watch...
Disability Matters: From Disabling Assumptions To Enabling Conversations
In her FIX 18 talk, Dr. Cori Poffenberger shares her very personal experiences to explore how we care for and talk about people with disabilities and gives concrete tips for how we can do this better. Read her post and...