Free Stuff! SAEM’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Curriculum: Multicenter Experience, Tips and Tricks (ADIEM Sponosred)

Rebecca.Goett@rutgers.edu

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Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

Areas of Expertise: 

1. Education
2. Communication skills  
3. Symptom management
4. Quality improvement
   

Speaking Categories:

1. Education
2. Communication skills

Areas You’ve Received Funding: Education and Communication skills

Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

Dr Binstadt is passionate about exploring the best ways to teach residents and faculty and provide high-quality emergency care to patients. She is interested in issues of justice, equity, inclusion, and belonging, medical education using simulation, procedural skills training, experiences of women in medicine, wilderness medicine, and ethics. She also enjoys maximizing her time spent outside in natural environments, traveling, and with her family.

Kristyn J. Smith, DO is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP). Additionally, she is the Sub-internship Director for the Emergency Medicine 4th year medical student rotation. Dr. Smith has introduced iniatitives aimed at diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the emergency department through Lift Every Voice – an anonymous platform used to catalyze anti-racism change in hospital settings. She holds several local and national leadership positions in emergency medicine. Previously, she was a National Alumni Board Member for the Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) and a Leadership Fellow in the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). Currently, she is Chair-Elect for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine's (AAEM) Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Section (JEDI). Dr. Smith was recently awarded the Marcus Martin Award/Scholarship, which acknowledges signifcant achievement in DEI, through the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD).

Dr. Smith completed her residency at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA. During residency, Dr. Smith founded the health equity in emergency medicine journal club. This earned her the 2021 Dr. William & Margaret E. Menin Humanistic Sensitivity Award and the Emergency Medicine Residency Program Humanitarian Award. Throughout her medical school career, Kristyn was heavily involved in the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) serving as chapter president at the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine and co-chair of the National Osteopathic Schools Committee. Under her leadership, the chapter won the 2015 Rowan University Excellence in Diversity Award and National SNMA Chapter of the Year.