Equity/Diversity/Inclusion

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to enhancing diversity within the UCSD DEM including the residency. Through mentoring and support, we aspire to increase the numbers of underrepresented healthcare professionals and empower them to be future leaders in medicine.

UCSD Campus EDI

The UC San Diego office of Graduate Medical Education and EDI committee will be hosting a Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) virtual open house for students and residents applying to UCSD training programs - 1/27/2025. We have both a Departmental JEDI group and participate at GME JEDI events as well. Please see below for some of our Department's work in ths space.

Thank you for considering UC San Diego!

Women in Emergency Medicine (WEM)

WEM meets quarterly for social activities such as hiking, painting, picnics, book club, kayaking, etc. to encourage friendship and informal mentorship between the faculty, fellows, and residents. We host “meet and greet” events with visiting grand rounds speakers with the intent to create an informal environment where women in the UCSD Department of Emergency Medicine can learn from one another, and from our speakers. Speakers who visit our department as guest speakers possess a wealth of knowledge and breadth of personal and professional experiences, which are an invaluable resource for all of us, regardless of career stage.

Informal WEM events occur quarterly and have included painting, book club, and combined EM/IM panel discussions.

LGBTQ+

Our UCSD Hillcrest location is a part of the neighborhood that stands as San Diego's LGBTQ+ central hub. UCSD is highly supportive of LGBTQ+ patients, faculty, residents and staff, and we include LGBTQ+ related health Issues in our curriculum. Topics have included implicit bias, HIV and STIs, transgender healthcare, and psycho-social aspects of the LGBTQ+ experience related to disproportionate healthcare outcomes.

UCSD DEM faculty and residents are involved in several UCSD initiatives, including the Chancellor’s LGBTQ+ Advisory Committee, our very own UCSD DEM Diversity Committee, and Underrepresented in Medicine events.

We encourage LGBTQ+ applicants to join our family and welcome you to explore UCSD’s LGBTQ+ Resource Center.

LGBTQ+ Resource Center

Social Justice in Medicine

Date	Event	Topic
1/27/25	GME JEDI
11/16/23	Social EM	Subspecialty community resources for our uninsured/medi-cal patients
11/14/23	Clothing Drive	Clothing Drive for those experiening Homelessness
10/30/23	DEM Conf	Unique healthcare needs of Asylum-seekers in San Diego and Imperial county; an introduction to the Asylum-seeker Medical Screening and Stabilization program"
08/17/23	Social EM	Human Trafficking
07/21/23	Orientation	Downtown Tour
05/23/23	DEM JEDI mtg
04/28/23	Social EM JC	Use of Restraints & De-escalation Techniques in the ED
02/28/23	DEM JEDI mtg	DEI Speakers
02/25/23	Community Outreach	MEDS is an all-day conference for pre-med, pre-pharmacy, pre-health students at UC San Diego and neighboring community colleges.
02/24/23	GME JEDI	GME wide JEDI event
02/13/23	Global Health HC	Migrant Deaths
01/27/23	Social EM JC	High Utilizers in the ED
01/24/23	DEM Conference	"Immigration health and migrant farmworker health issues"
01/10/23	DEM Conference	Healthcare for the unhoused
10/28/22	Social EM JC	Health-related props on the voting ballot
10/25/22	DEM Conf: Lecture	Recruitment Bias
09/22/22	Healthcare for the Homeless	Fall semester launch
08/05/22	Social EM JC	Impact of Supreme Court decision on pregnancy
07/26/22	DEM Conference	Hindsight is 2020: Bias, Healthcare Disparities, Systemic Oppression, and the Pandemic
07/26/22	UCSD DEM EDI	Quarterly Meeting
07/15/22	Orientation	Downtown Tour
04/29/22	Social Justice in EM	Barriers to Care
04/25/22	CONF:	Racism in Medicine - How Can We Be the Change?
02/18/22	Social Justice in EM	Racial Disparities in pain management
01/11/22	CONF:	Human Trafficking
11/12/21	Clothing Drive	Clothing Drive for those experiening Homelessness
10/27/21	JEDI Virtual open house	UCSD GME
10/26/21	Social Justice in EM	Dying homeless
10/21/21	Social EM JC	Death and Dying Poor in the US
10/18/21	GME Deaf Culture	Deaf-Friendly Doctor gives Deaf Culture Advice for Care-giving
10/04/21	GME Deaf Culture	Branton's Misinterpreted World
09/20/21	GME Deaf Culture	Explaining the Medical Physical Exam to Deaf Patients
07/28/21	ZOOM	Dr. Leslie Oyama and Dr. Blackstock UCSD Medical Education Anti-Racism Audit Call
07/22/21	UCSD DEM EDI	Quarterly Meeting
07/16/21	Orientation	Downtown Tour
07/09/21	DEM Social EM	Charged Terminology and Medical Care
06/22/21	GME Intern Orientation	Implicit Bias
06/08/21	DEM Conf Grand Rounds	Teaching Cultural Competency to Residents
05/04/21	DEM Conf	Child Abuse & SART, Domestic Violence/Strangulation
05/04/21	DEM Conf	LGBTQ Health
04/21/21	IM Grand Rounds	Health Disparities and Health Equity Research in the Time of COVID-19
04/15/21	Social EM	Asylum Seekers
3/2/21	Webinar	Human trafficking Awareness Webinar
02/25/21	Webinar	Intersection of Human Trafficking & Addiction with a Focus on the Opioid Crisis
2/23/21	Webinar	Exploitation of Vulnerabilities & Adaptations Amidst COVID
01/28/21	Social EM	illicits abuse
01/26/21	Journal Club	Social EM
01/14/21	WEM	Communication
01/12/21	JEDI Virtual open house	UCSD GME
12/09/20	i3 Conference	Domestic Violence
11/19/20	Journal Club	Social Health Inequities JC
11/12/20	Annual Clothing & Toiletry Drive	2nd Annual Clothing & Toiltery Drive for people experiencing homelessness
09/01/20	Resident Recruitment	Implicit Bias

UCSD EM Research in Health Disparities

Published Manuscripts:

Self M, Kennis B, Lafree A, Tainter CR, Lopez J, Malhotra A, Chan TC, Wardi G. Disparities Exist in the Application of Low Tidal-volume Ventilation in the Emergency Department (article)
Amrollahi F, Shashikumar SP, Meier A, Ohno-Machado L, Nemati S, Wardi G. Inclusion of Social Determinants of Health Improves Sepsis Readmission Prediction Models (article)
Sobel J, Hayden SR, Wardi G. The Knowledge Gap: Mentorship in the Emergency Residency (article)

SAEM Abstract:

Self M, Wardi G. Female Sex and Obesity Are Associated With High Tidal Volume Ventilation in the Emergency Department. Lighting Oral Presentation at Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. May, 2021.

*this led to Brenna Hogue's QI project to accurately measure patients in the ED to prevent this disparity.

American Heart Association Abstract:

Baille A, Speck T, Sell R, Wardi G. Gender Based Differences in Cardiopulmonary. Resuscitation in the Inpatient setting. Resuscitation Science Symposium 2021. Boston, Massachusetts. November, 2021.

ACEP Abstract:

Finch N, Speck V, Tainter C, Sell R, Wardi G. Effect of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity on Duration of Resuscitative Efforts following OHCA. ACEP Research Forum 2021, Boston, Massachusetts. October, 2021.