Kira Gressman, MD
University of Washington
"Establishing a Quality Framework for Post-Overdose Care and Harm Reduction in the Prehospital to Emergency Department Care Continuum in Seattle, King County, Washington"
Dr. Gressman is a second-year resident at the University of Washington Emergency Medicine residency, pursuing a population health educational track focused on rural health and addiction medicine. She was born and raised in Colorado, and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder in international affairs and molecular, cellular, developmental biology. Prior to medical school, she worked in HIV prevention and as an emergency medical technician, and volunteered in syringe access. For medical school, she attended Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. As a medical student, she helped to establish a syringe access program in rural New Hampshire. Her interests within emergency medicine include substance use, rural health, development of bidirectional health system-community partnerships, and ground EMS.