Exploring Opportunities to Improve Outcomes of Older Adults by Targeting Their Social Determinants of Health (AGEM and ADIEM Sponsored)

I have been had a particular interest in the care of older adults since my time in residency. I have been conducting geriatrics research since I was a resident at Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospital through a variety of quality of care projects and continued during my time as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania with a focus on caregivers. Most recently, I have been focusing on older adult falls and social determinants of health as it pertains to the older adult with a number of grant funded initiatives through the Health Policy Commission and through consulting work for the MA Department of Public Health during my time at Boston Medical Center. I am currently working at Brigham and Women’s as the Director for Geriatric Emergency Care and Fellowship Director for the Health Policy and Translation Fellowship.

I have been an SAEM member since 2006 and an AGEM member since 2010. I served as an at-large board member for AGEM and have helped to coordinate and facilitate SAEM’s didactic submissions for the 2019 conference. I have also helped to maintain the AGEM website and content from 2019-2020. I enjoyed my time as an at-large member and have tried to be as available as possible for any initiatives that the board seeks to push forward and currently serve as secretary from 2022-2023. I seek to run for Treasurer to further my voice in this capacity and hone in on ways we can be creative with our budget. I hope that serving in this role will allow AGEM to innovatively reach out to current and potential new members and get them excited about AGEM research and initiatives. I believe that SAEM and AGEM strive to push forward evidence based practices and as someone who strongly believes in data driven initiatives, I know that I can stand behind the work and agenda that AGEM tries to lead. Conversely, I also hope to reach out to our members to voice their opinions on what our societies can do for them to help them implement best practices. My career has been focused on keeping older adults safe and healthy in the community and I hope to continue that by continuing to serve that on the AGEM board.

Marquita S. Norman, MD, MBA is an Associate Professor and serves as the Associate Vice-Chair of Health Equity, Quality and Safety in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center.  She currently serves as chair of the SAEM Finance Committee and a member of the SAEMF Board of Trustees.  She is a past chair of the Equity and Inclusion Committee and past president of the Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine.  She completed her internship at Howard University and residency training at the University of Michigan.   She completed her MBA from the Collat School of Business at UAB.  Her work has been centered around healthcare workforce diversity and inclusion efforts involving K-16 pathways programs and development of opportunities for undergraduate and graduate medical education.  Dr. Norman’s professional and community interests include health equity, health care workforce diversity, medical education, and communication skills.