Gina Marie Lopez, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

Gina Lopez
617.414.5481

Biography

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.

Education

  • Albany Medical College, MD
  • Harvard School of Public Health, MPH
  • City University of New York, BS

Publications

  • Published on 9/12/2023

    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. PMID: 37597262.

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  • Published on 3/16/2022

    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.

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  • Published on 3/2/2022

    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.

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  • Published on 10/3/2017

    Perechocky A, Mahoney L, Lopez G. Man with Scrotal Rupture. Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med. 2017 Nov; 1(4):415-416. PMID: 29849361.

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