Dr. Gina Lopez is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Director of Workplace Safety for the department. She is a board-certified emergency medicine physician dedicating to creating an equitable and safe clinical environment. She supervises medical students and residents in the emergency department promoting trauma informed care and awareness of implicit biases.
Working with nursing and public safety colleagues, she reviews incidents of workplace violence and led policy implementation related to our highest safety risk populations in the emergency department. Dr. Lopez leads a multidisciplinary group that establishes customized care plans for patients with challenging behavioral health histories including self-harm or violence in the hospital. She is active on committees which review restraint use and public safety flags. While prioritizing safety for both staff and patients, she also works to minimize bias and charged language associated with behavioral health.
Dr. Lopez received her medical degree from Albany Medical College and her master of public health with a concentration in health policy and management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed post-doctoral training at Mount Auburn Hospital and Boston Medical Center.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility
Dr. Gina Lopez is committed to increasing diversity in medicine and promoting a supportive work environment for URIM staff.
She works with the emergency department’s JEDI (Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion) committee for recruitment of underrepresented in medicine (URIM) residents. Whether speaking on panels during recruitment season or opening her home for networking events, she is dedicated to fostering a welcoming sense of community. 65% of EM residents are women and the JEDI program increased the percentage of URIM residents from 10% to 21% in a 4 year period.
Dr. Lopez has been a speaker and facilitator of microaggression bystander training workshops which included interprofessional participants. This training initiative has been adapted and expanded to include hospital leaders, residents and medical students as part of growing efforts to create a supportive learning and working environment for all.
Working within the BMC Health Equity Accelerator, Dr. Lopez is the lead on review of emergency department restraint use and hospital clinical care flags. She developed and implemented a comprehensive curriculum for emergency department staff with a focus on a team-based approach to recognition and management of acute agitation incorporating a trauma informed care approach, recognition of implicit biases, prioritization of empathetic de-escalation and open communication about safety concerns.
Working to minimize bias and charged language, Dr. Lopez collaborates with representatives from inpatient medicine, patient advocacy, the office of legal counsel and public safety to screen and reform Public Safety flags. These critical safety alerts are screened and adapted to remain as objective as possible and provide high yield information for frontline providers. Mirroring this process, she is leading an audit process of clinical care flags – an open entry alert system – reviewing for presence of disparities in entries and piloting a reform process.
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Pino EC, Gonzalez F, Nelson KP, Jaiprasert S, Lopez GM. Disparities in use of physical restraints at an urban, minority-serving hospital emergency department. Acad Emerg Med. 2024 Jan; 31(1):6-17.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37597262; DOI: 10.1111/acem.14792;
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Mason AE, Hecht FM, Davis SK, Natale JL, Hartogensis W, Damaso N, Claypool KT, Dilchert S, Dasgupta S, Purawat S, Viswanath VK, Klein A, Chowdhary A, Fisher SM, Anglo C, Puldon KY, Veasna D, Prather JG, Pandya LS, Fox LM, Busch M, Giordano C, Mercado BK, Song J, Jaimes R, Baum BS, Telfer BA, Philipson CW, Collins PP, Rao AA, Wang EJ, Bandi RH, Choe BJ, Epel ES, Epstein SK, Krasnoff JB, Lee MB, Lee SW, Lopez GM, Mehta A, Melville LD, Moon TS, Mujica-Parodi LR, Noel KM, Orosco MA, Rideout JM, Robishaw JD, Rodriguez RM, Shah KH, Siegal JH, Gupta A, Altintas I, Smarr BL. Author Correction: Detection of COVID-19 using multimodal data from a wearable device: results from the first TemPredict Study. Sci Rep. 2022 Mar 16; 12(1):4568. PMID: 35296773; PMCID: PMC8926096; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08723-x;
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Mason AE, Hecht FM, Davis SK, Natale JL, Hartogensis W, Damaso N, Claypool KT, Dilchert S, Dasgupta S, Purawat S, Viswanath VK, Klein A, Chowdhary A, Fisher SM, Anglo C, Puldon KY, Veasna D, Prather JG, Pandya LS, Fox LM, Busch M, Giordano C, Mercado BK, Song J, Jaimes R, Baum BS, Telfer BA, Philipson CW, Collins PP, Rao AA, Wang EJ, Bandi RH, Choe BJ, Epel ES, Epstein SK, Krasnoff JB, Lee MB, Lee SW, Lopez GM, Mehta A, Melville LD, Moon TS, Mujica-Parodi LR, Noel KM, Orosco MA, Rideout JM, Robishaw JD, Rodriguez RM, Shah KH, Siegal JH, Gupta A, Altintas I, Smarr BL. Detection of COVID-19 using multimodal data from a wearable device: results from the first TemPredict Study. Sci Rep. 2022 03 02; 12(1):3463. PMID: 35236896; PMCID: PMC8891385; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-07314-0;
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| Year | Publications |
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| 2017 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 |