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    Rebekah Heckmann, MD, MPH, MPA

    Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
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    Appointments

    Emergency Medicine
    Primary

    About

    Titles

    Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

    Biography

    Rebekah Heckmann, MD, MPH, MPA is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. She is also a Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, the Director of Resident Research for the Department of Emergency Medicine, the Associate Medical Director of the Project ASSERT Program, and Core Faculty for the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine. She completed her residency in emergency medicine and served as chief resident at the University of Washington before pursuing a health policy research and translation fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. While working as an attending physician at Brigham and Women’s, she earned a master in public administration degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Heckmann has extensive experience performing health policy analysis and working within public health and global health systems. She focuses her research activities on using quantitative social science methods, including system dynamics modeling, to design and advocate for evidence-based health policy. She is board certified in emergency medicine and addiction medicine.

    Appointments

    • Emergency Medicine

      Assistant Professor
      Primary

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    Education & Training

    Fellow
    Brigham and Women's Hospital (2017)
    MPA
    Harvard University Kennedy School of Government (2017)
    Resident
    University of Washington (2015)
    MD
    University of Minnesota (2011)
    MPH
    Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (2006)
    BA
    Johns Hopkins University (2005)

    Board Certifications

    • Addiction Medicine (Preventive Medicine)

      Certification Organization
      AB of Preventive Medicine
      Original Certification Date
      2022

    • Emergency Medicine

      Certification Organization
      AB of Emergency Medicine
      Original Certification Date
      2016

    Research

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Rebekah Heckmann's published research.

    Publications

    2024

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