Emma Lo, MD
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Biography
Dr. Lo has dedicated her career to working with vulnerable and marginalized populations, specifically focusing on people experiencing homelessness and serious mental illness. She is the founder and Medical Director for the newly established Street Psychiatry Program at the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC). She is actively involved in the Street Medicine Institute, where she serves as a faculty advisor on the Learning and Education Advisory Panel, which supervises the Street Medicine Institute Student Coalition, an international group of medical trainees leading and developing best practices for student-run street medicine programs around the world. She has been invited for multiple internal and external speaking engagements and presented numerous times about her work in Street Psychiatry. Her research interests lie in mental health services implementation, health care access issues for vulnerable populations, medical education in structural competency and social determinants of health, and addressing racial and economic disparities on systemic levels.
Prior to her time at Yale, Dr. Lo worked with a prominent street medicine program in Pittsburgh, PA where she first trained and contributed to the field of street medicine. She then served as a Street Medicine Fellow in Kolkata, India where she worked on quality improvement for a program providing medical care to people living on the streets and slums. During medical school at the University of Rochester, she established and led a new student-run street medicine program which provided medical care, education, and connection to services for people experiencing homelessness in Rochester, NY. She spent a year in rural Uganda training Village Health Workers who brought primary care and health screening to those without access to health centers.
Education & Training
- Public Psychiatry FellowYale University (2019)
- ResidencyYale University School of Medicine (2019)
- MDUniversity of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Medical Humanities Track (2015)
- BAHaverford College, Fine Arts (2008)
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Ira Levine Award | Yale Department of Psychiatry | 2017 |
Distinction in Community Health | University of Rochester School of Medicine | 2015 |
The Medical Society of the State of New York Community Service Award | University of Rochester School of Medicine | 2015 |
The Kenneth Woodward Memorial Award | University of Rochester School of Medicine | 2015 |
Gold Humanism Society | University of Rochester School of Medicine | 2013 |
Excellence in Public Health | University of Rochester School of Medicine | 2013 |
National Health Service Corps Scholar | National Health Service Corps | 2011 |
Phi Beta Kappa Society | Haverford College | 2008 |
Fine Arts Departmental Honors | Haverford College | 2008 |
Magna Cum Laude | Haverford College | 2008 |
Professional Service
Organization | Role | Date |
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Medical and Professional Staff Executive Committee | Leadership Committee | 2021 - Present |
Anti-racism Task Force - Community Subcommittee | Multi-disciplinary task force to address racial disparities on the community level | 2021 - Present |
MIT Press | Reviewed book proposal for MIT Press | 2021 |
Medical Records Committee | Medical records committee at Connecticut Mental Health Center | 2020 - 2021 |
Harm Reduction/Overdose Workgroup - City of New Haven | City-wide committee of providers collaborating to prevent opioid overdoses and treat OUD | 2020 - Present |
Residency Recruitment | Interviewer | 2019 - 2020 |
Learning and Education Advisory Panel, Street Medicine Institute Student Coalition | Supervise students serving on international panel to assist other students in starting and improving their own street medicine programs, provide webinars and journal club material | 2018 - Present |
American Psychiatric Association | Member | 2018 - 2020 |
PGY-1 Roundtable | Lead | 2018 - 2019 |
Social Justice Health Equity Curriculum Committee | Member | 2018 - 2019 |
American Association of Community Psychiatrists | Member | 2018 - Present |
Wellness Committee | Member | 2017 |
Street Psychiatry Program - New Haven, CT | Founder and resident coordinator for this new program serving unsheltered homeless individuals in New Haven, CT. Subsequently hired to be the program's attending psychiatrist in 2019. | 2016 - 2019 |
Cinema and Psychiatry | Member | 2016 - 2017 |
Medical Student Education Committee | Member | 2016 - 2017 |
Hotspotters | Medical student group working individually with high-utilizers with the goal of increasing humanism and reducing morbidity and mortality in seriously ill patients | 2014 - 2015 |
Global Health Year-Out Fellow - Kisoro, Uganda | Led Village Health Worker program in Kisoro, Uganda to bring access to care to people living in underserved areas | 2013 - 2014 |
Honor Board | University of Rochester School of Medicine's Honor Board representative | 2012 - 2013 |
UR Well Street Outreach | Founded and led student-run program focusing on outreach to unsheltered homeless people in Rochester, NY | 2010 - 2013 |
UR Well Race Committee | Organized annual fundraiser to support student-run free clinic | 2010 - 2011 |
UR Well Student-Run Free Clinic | Volunteer | 2010 |
Street Medicine Fellow - Calcutta Rescue - Kolkata, India | Fellow | 2010 |
Doctors for Global Health | Member | 2009 - Present |
AmeriCorps Volunteer - Operation Safety Net - Pittsburgh, PA | Volunteer | 2008 - 2009 |
Street Medicine Institute | Member | 2008 - Present |
Rivkees Pediatric Research Lab | Intern | 2005 |
Fundación Martha Estrella - Haverford College - Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, Machachi, Ecuador | Intern | 2005 |