Anita N. Chary, MD, PhD

Anita Chary, MD PhD is a medical anthropologist and emergency physician. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, received her medical and doctoral degrees (MD PhD, Anthropology) from Washington University in St. Louis, and served as chief resident of the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency. She currently works at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Broadly, her research focuses on social determinants of health and care of vulnerable populations. Her geriatrics research concerns emergency care of older adults with cognitive impairment and is funded by an NIA (GEMSSTAR) award and the Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research (GEAR) Network. Dr. Chary was previously an elected resident executive committee member of AGEM and currently serves as the Research Committee Chair of SAEM Academy of Diversity & Inclusion in Emergency Medicine. In this role, she bridges the academies to foster initiatives and collaborative research that address ageism/ableism in clinical care and improving inclusion of minoritized older adults in emergency medicine research. Dr. Chary also conducts global health research related to child nutrition/development, chronic disease management, and care innovations in rural Indigenous communities in Guatemala.