Emily Cleveland Manchanda, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Emily Cleveland Manchanda is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, the Program co-Director for the Ravin Davidoff Executive Fellowship in Health Equity at Boston Medical Center, and works clinically in the Emergency Department at Boston Medical Center. She is also the Director for Social Justice Education and Implementation, and currently serving as Interim Vice President for Equitable Health Systems, within the Center for Health Equity at the American Medical Association (AMA). At the AMA, Dr. Cleveland Manchanda leads and oversees the AMA Center for Health Equity’s education portfolio, including the National Health Equity Grand Rounds series. Both at the AMA and at BU/BMC, her work focuses on creating learning and action networks to coordinate effective action across sectors to promote social justice and equity in health, pushing health systems and professional societies to address social and structural drivers of health, and supporting the development of health care leaders equipped to effectively advance justice in healthcare for patients, families, staff, communities and populations. Her research, educational and advocacy work primarily focus on mitigating the effects of racism, ableism, and other systems of oppression in medical education and clinical care.

After graduating from Yale with a degree in Art History and French, Dr. Cleveland Manchanda spent two years working in the public health sector in Liberia with the Clinton Foundation before attending medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. She obtained her MPH from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and subsequently completed her residency training at the Harvard-Affiliated (MGH-BWH) Emergency Medicine Residency, where she served as a chief resident. She joined the faculty at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine in 2020, and the AMA in 2021.

Publications

  • Published 3/4/2024

    Cleveland Manchanda EC, Aikens B, De Maio F, Jordan W, Brown JT, Sivashanker K, Maybank A. Efforts in Organized Medicine to Eliminate Harmful Race-Based Clinical Algorithms. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Mar 04; 7(3):e241121. PMID: 38441900.

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  • Published 7/17/2023

    Hong H, Shankar KN, Thompson A, De La Vega PB, Koul R, Cleveland Manchanda EC, Jaiprasert S, Roberts S, Pina T, Anderson E, Lin J, Jacquet GA. Social Determinants of Health Screening at an Urban Emergency Department Urgent Care During COVID-19. West J Emerg Med. 2023 Jul 17; 24(4):675-679. PMID: 37527386.

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  • Published 2/22/2023

    Schmidt IM, Shohet M, Serrano M, Yadati P, Menn-Josephy H, Ilori T, Eneanya ND, Cleveland Manchanda EC, Waikar SS. Patients' Perspectives on Race and the Use of Race-Based Algorithms in Clinical Decision-Making: a Qualitative Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Jul; 38(9):2045-2051. PMID: 36811702.

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  • Published 1/1/2023

    Cleveland Manchanda E, Sivashanker K, Kinglake S, Laflamme E, Saini V, Maybank A. Training to Build Antiracist, Equitable Health Care Systems. AMA J Ethics. 2023 Jan 01; 25(1):E37-47. PMID: 36623303.

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  • Published 11/3/2022

    Darby A, Cleveland Manchanda EC, Janeway H, Samra S, Hicks MN, Long R, Gipson KA, Chary AN, Adjei BA, Khanna K, Pierce A, Kaltiso SO, Spadafore S, Tsai J, Dekker A, Thiessen ME, Foster J, Diaz R, Mizuno M, Schoenfeld E. Race, racism, and antiracism in emergency medicine: A scoping review of the literature and research agenda for the future. Acad Emerg Med. 2022 Nov; 29(11):1383-1398. PMID: 36200540.

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Education

  • University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, MD
  • Columbia University School of Public Health, MPH
  • Yale University, BA

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