Emily Cleveland Manchanda is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, the Program co-Director for the Ravin Davidoff Executive Fellowship in Health Equity at Boston Medical Center, and works clinically in the Emergency Department at Boston Medical Center. She is also the Director for Social Justice Education and Implementation, and currently serving as Interim Vice President for Equitable Health Systems, within the Center for Health Equity at the American Medical Association (AMA). At the AMA, Dr. Cleveland Manchanda leads and oversees the AMA Center for Health Equity’s education portfolio, including the National Health Equity Grand Rounds series. Both at the AMA and at BU/BMC, her work focuses on creating learning and action networks to coordinate effective action across sectors to promote social justice and equity in health, pushing health systems and professional societies to address social and structural drivers of health, and supporting the development of health care leaders equipped to effectively advance justice in healthcare for patients, families, staff, communities and populations. Her research, educational and advocacy work primarily focus on mitigating the effects of racism, ableism, and other systems of oppression in medical education and clinical care.

After graduating from Yale with a degree in Art History and French, Dr. Cleveland Manchanda spent two years working in the public health sector in Liberia with the Clinton Foundation before attending medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. She obtained her MPH from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and subsequently completed her residency training at the Harvard-Affiliated (MGH-BWH) Emergency Medicine Residency, where she served as a chief resident. She joined the faculty at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine in 2020, and the AMA in 2021.