Dr. Katrina Gipson, MD, MPH

Physician,
Writer,
DEI Thought Leader
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About Me

Dr. Katrina Gipson, MD, MPH, is a board certified assistant professor of emergency medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA. She is the founding health policy fellowship director for the department of emergency medicine and practices clinically at Grady Memorial Hospital, one of the busiest emergency medicine departments in the country.
She is a thought leader in health equity holding national positions such as president of the Academy for Diversity & Inclusion of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), co-Chair of the Education Committee for SAEM’s Equity & Inclusion Committee, and she serves as secretary of the Emergency Medicine Section of the National Medical Association (NMA), the collective voice of African American Physicians.
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Dr. Gipson is a recent recipient of EMRA’s ( Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association) 25 under 45 Influencers in Emergency Medicine Award. As a member of the inaugural class of Academy Health’s Public Voices Fellowship in partnership with The Op Ed Project, her writing has been featured in The Boston Globe, The Progressive, The Hill, Common Dreams, and Ms. Magazine. Her expert commentary has appeared in The New York Times.
She is an avid public speaker having collaborated with: Professor Kimberle Crenshaw’s African American Policy Forum-Critical Race Theory & Her Dream Deferred series, Spencer Stuart Black History Month Speaker, Texas Speech-Language Hearing Association (TSHA) keynote speaker, SiriusXM’s Urban View The Lurie Daniels Favors Show, and many others.
Dr.Gipson has a BS in biomedical engineering from Yale College, an MPH in health management and policy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an MD from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH where she also completed her emergency medicine residency training. Dr. Gipson completed her health policy fellowship at George Washington University in Washington DC.

Additional Publications

Darby A, Cleveland Manchanda EC, Janeway H, et al. Race, racism, and antiracism in emergency medicine: A scoping review of the literature and research agenda for the future. Acad Emerg Med. 2022;29(11):1383-1398. doi:10.1111/acem.14601

Franks NM, Gipson K, Kaltiso SA, Osborne A, Heron SL. The Time Is Now: Racism and the Responsibility of Emergency Medicine to Be Antiracist. Ann Emerg Med. 2021;78(5):577-586. doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.05.003

SCOTUS Affirmative Action Rulings. SAEM Pulse September-October 2023, 42-43 Suri A, Yang D, Sun WW, et al. “I don’t want to be the squeaky wheel”: Addressing bias as a leader in emergency medicine. Acad Emerg Med. 2024;31(4):354-360. doi:10.1111/acem.14869

Speaking

Dr. Gipson uses the art of storytelling against the backdrop of pivotal historical events to educate listeners about health care inequities. A board-certified emergency medicine physician with over 10 years of experience in the country’s busiest emergency departments, she is an emerging thought leader in diversity, equity, & inclusion and a national leader in the field.

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