Featured Publication and Resource

Elizabeth Goldberg, MD, ScM, SAEM Academic Promotion Toolkit. Among the contributors to this new career guide for emergency medicine academic clinicians is Michelle Lall, MD, MHS, FACEP, and a leader of WEM-PWRDD.
Allyship Behaviors for Gender Bias in the ED (with a Tip Sheet) - Dr. Taylor Stavely, Emory EM Resident
Notable Awards
Dr. Michelle Lall is serving as a member-at-large for the SAEM Board of Directors.
Dr. Amy Zeidan is president of AWAEM 2024-25 and was president elect 2023-24. She was the AWAEM Treasurer in 2020-21. She is also a 2020-2021 SAEM Foundation Grantee. Dr. Zeidan was the recipient of an SAEMF/AWAEM Research Award for her project, "Barriers to Reporting Incidents of Sexual Harassment in Training and Practice (BRIGHT)."
Dr. Taylor Stavely is AWAEM's Vice President for Membership and Engagement (2023-24). Dr. Stavely was the resident Executive Committee Member (2020-2021) and the Didactic Committee Co-Chair (2021).
Dr. Megan Henn has been our EM student clerkship Co-Director (2017-21) and Director (2021-present).
Dr. Anika Backster was the ADIEM Development Officer in 2020-21.
Notable Publications
- Madsen T, Linden J, Rounds K, Hsieh Y, Lopez B, Boatright D, Garg N, Heron S, Jameson A, Kass D, Lall M, Melendez A, Schedulen J, Sethuraman K, Safdar B. Current Status of Gender and Racial/Ethnic Disparities Among Academic Emergency Medicine Physicians. Academic Emergency Medicine, 2017: 24(10): 1182-1192.
- Siegelman J, Lall M, Lee L, Wallenstein J, Shah B. Gender Bias in Simulation-Based Assessments of Emergency Medicine Residents. Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 2018: 10(4): 411-415.
- Sethuraman K, Lall MD, Watts S, Clem K. A Commentary on Impact of Women-focused Professional Organization and Academic Retention and Advancement: Perceptions From a Qualitative Study. Academic Emergency Medicine, 2019: 26(3): 354-357.
- Madsen TE, Heron SL, Rounds K, Kass D, Lall M, Sethuraman KN, Arbelaez C, Blomkalns A, Safdar B. Making Promotion Count: The Gender Perspective. On Behalf of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Equity Research Taskforce. Academic Emergency Medicine, 2019: 26(3): 335-338.
- Lin M, Lall M, Chang AM, Das D, Linden J, Samuels-Kalow M, Perman S, Agarwal P. The Impact of a Woman-Focused Organization on Academic Retention and Advancement, Academic Emergency Medicine, 2019: 26(3): 303-316.
Notable Presentations
- FIX – FemInEM Idea Exchange, “Working Flexibility Can Work for You,” New York, NY, October 4-6, 2017
- Revive: A FemInEM Development Retreat. “Working Smart Philosophies for the Physician Woman,” Scottsdale, AZ, February 4, 2019
- Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, “An N-of-1: When is the Best Time to Start a Family,” Las Vegas, NV, May 15, 2019
- Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, “#Me Too in Emergency Medicine: A Discussion of Gender, Ethnic and Sexual Discrimination and Harassment in Medicine,” Las Vegas, NV, May 17, 2019
- Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, “Wellness, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity: The Wide and the Why . . . That is the Question,” Las Vegas, NV, May 17, 2019
- FIX – FemInEM Idea Exchange, “Angry Women Can Be Effective Women” New York, NY, September 15-17, 2019, accepted