Margaret Samuels-Kalow, MD, MPhil, MSHP
President-Elect Massachusetts General Hospital
Biography
I am an EM/PEM physician and health services researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, where I also serve as Vice-Chair for Research. My research focuses on developing interventions to reduce disparities in emergency care, and using the emergency department visit to improve health equity, and has been supported by a wide variety of funders including SAEM and NIH (NICHD, NIDCR).
I have been an active AWAEM member since 2018, serving as co-chair of the AWAEM Research Committee from 2019-2022, during which time we developed the research consultation program for AWAEM members. I currently serve as AWAEM VP for Communications, working to help support the existing AWAEM committees, strengthen our connections within SAEM and making sure that the important work of the Academy is disseminated effectively. Locally, I have been part of the founding teams for both our departmental women in EM group, and the Harvard Medical School-wide women’s emergency medicine faculty consortium.
I have been fortunate to benefit from tremendous mentorship and collaboration within AWAEM, and hope to have the opportunity to help shape the ongoing work and future directions. In particular, in the setting of ongoing clinical and capacity challenges, AWAEM has the opportunity to help make academic life a little less hard, and more rewarding, for our members. We do this by building community—in networking groups, online gatherings and mentorship connections—and building the evidence for how to best support women in academic emergency medicine through research collaborations and administrative projects. I would like to help create more structured opportunities for AWAEM members to serve as mentors and sponsors for one another, expand the uptake of our existing AWAEM services, such as the research consultation service and the speakers’ bureau, and develop new programs to serve our members.
I have been an active AWAEM member since 2018, serving as co-chair of the AWAEM Research Committee from 2019-2022, during which time we developed the research consultation program for AWAEM members. I currently serve as AWAEM VP for Communications, working to help support the existing AWAEM committees, strengthen our connections within SAEM and making sure that the important work of the Academy is disseminated effectively. Locally, I have been part of the founding teams for both our departmental women in EM group, and the Harvard Medical School-wide women’s emergency medicine faculty consortium.
I have been fortunate to benefit from tremendous mentorship and collaboration within AWAEM, and hope to have the opportunity to help shape the ongoing work and future directions. In particular, in the setting of ongoing clinical and capacity challenges, AWAEM has the opportunity to help make academic life a little less hard, and more rewarding, for our members. We do this by building community—in networking groups, online gatherings and mentorship connections—and building the evidence for how to best support women in academic emergency medicine through research collaborations and administrative projects. I would like to help create more structured opportunities for AWAEM members to serve as mentors and sponsors for one another, expand the uptake of our existing AWAEM services, such as the research consultation service and the speakers’ bureau, and develop new programs to serve our members.
