Anita Chary, MD, PhD

Anita Chary, MD, PhD, is an emergency physician and health services researcher at Baylor College of Medicine. She earned a medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine and served as chief resident at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency. Dr. Chary is a PhD-trained anthropologist and qualitative methods expert whose research focuses on health disparities, equity, and health care delivery for vulnerable populations. Dr. Chary is an active research mentor and serves as the associate program director of the Medical Scientist Training Program at Baylor College of Medicine. Her domestic emergency department-based research aims to improve health care delivery for older adults, specifically those who are socioeconomically marginalized and those with cognitive impairment. Her international work in health care program development and implementation of evidence-based interventions spans child nutrition, reproductive health, chronic disease management, and specialty care referral and navigation in rural areas.