Judith A. Linden, MD
Professor, Emergency Medicine
Biography
Judith Linden, MD, MED, Emergency Medicine, is known for her expertise in violence against women/sexual assault and substance use disorder recognition and intervention. She was co-investigator for a National Institute of Justice-sponsored program to train medical and law students to advocate for victims of intimate partner violence (IPV), developed best practices for IPV documentation, and served for many years on the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Violence. She co-led a program for Israeli and Palestinian health care workers, focused on developing best practices and interventions for intimate partner violence survivors. Dr. Linden published an invited review in the New England Journal of Medicine on the acute care of sexual assault survivors, cited 106 times and downloaded internationally. She served on a committee to update CDC Guidelines for the treatment/prevention of STI in sexual assault victims, and currently serves on the AAMC’s Women in Medicine and Science Intimate Partner Violence Task Force. Dr. Linden has trained physicians in brief intervention and referral for treatment in substance use disorders. She was a coinvestigator on a $1.3 million Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) grant to develop and evaluate a web-based curriculum to assist providers identify and treat neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and opioid use disorders (OUD) among child bearing age women. More than 300 prescribers have completed the course in person or online. She is a champion of increasing diversity in academic Emergency Medicine, and currently serves on the American College of Emergency Physicians Committee on Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Promotion, as well as the AWAEM (Academy for Women in Emergency Medicine) Administrative Leadership Development Committee.
Education
- George Washington University School of Medicine, MD
- Brandeis University, BA
Publications
- Published on 2/15/2025
Moher J, Muruganandan K, Leo MM, Manchanda EC, Linden J, Bryant V, Okafor IM, Pare JR. Racial inequities in point-of-care ultrasound for pregnancy. Am J Emerg Med. 2025 Feb 15; 91:46-54. PMID: 39987627.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/23/2024
Hashimoto T, Putman RK, Massaro AF, Shiozawa Y, McGough K, McCabe KK, Linden JA, Wang W, Liu SW, Kennedy M, Neville TH, Kruser JM, Sudore RL, Schonberg MA, Tulsky JA, Ouchi K. Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial: Integrating the 'Time-limited Trial' in the emergency department. PLoS One. 2024; 19(12):e0313858. PMID: 39715103.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/11/2024
Wegman K, Gorka C, Linden J, Bell S, Stapleton SN, Tancioco V, Welsh L. Manual Uterine Aspiration Simulation for Emergency Medicine Learners. MedEdPORTAL. 2024; 20:11469. PMID: 39530104.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/18/2023
Stanford KA, Macias-Konstantopoulos W, Linden J, Agrawal P, Cortes E, Barron RJ, Stoklosa H, Dekker AM, Paxton J, Knack S, Sharp WW. SAEM Response to the National Institutes of Health request for information: Future directions in violence against women research. Acad Emerg Med. 2023 Nov; 30(11):1161-1167. PMID: 37423251.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/1/2022
Gottlieb M, Chan TM, Yarris LM, Linden JA, Coates WC. Promotion and tenure letters: A guide for faculty. AEM Educ Train. 2022 Jun; 6(3):e10759. PMID: 35707393.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/14/2022
Linden JA, Baird J, Madsen TE, Rounds K, Lall MD, Raukar NP, Fang A, Lin M, Sethuraman K, Dobiesz VA. Diversity of leadership in academic emergency medicine: Are we making progress? Am J Emerg Med. 2022 Jul; 57:6-13. PMID: 35462120.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/21/2021
Oh L, Linden JA, Zeidan A, Salhi B, Lema PC, Pierce AE, Greene AL, Werner SL, Heron SL, Lall MD, Finnell JT, Franks N, Battaglioli NJ, Haber J, Sampson C, Fisher J, Pillow MT, Doshi AA, Lo B. Overcoming barriers to promotion for women and underrepresented in medicine faculty in academic emergency medicine. J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. 2021 Dec; 2(6):e12552. PMID: 34984414.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/3/2021
Sethuraman KN, Lin M, Rounds K, Fang A, Lall MD, Parsons M, Linden JA, Gursahani K, Raukar N, Perman SM, Dobiesz VA. Here to chair: Gender differences in the path to leadership. Acad Emerg Med. 2021 09; 28(9):993-1000. PMID: 33511736.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/21/2020
Lall MD, Perman SM, Garg N, Kohn N, Whyte K, Gips A, Madsen T, Baren JM, Linden J. Intention to Leave Emergency Medicine: Mid-career Women Are at Increased Risk. West J Emerg Med. 2020 Aug 21; 21(5):1131-1139. PMID: 32970566.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/23/2020
Farrell NM, Hayes BD, Linden JA. Critical medication shortages further dwindling hospital resources during COVID-19. Am J Emerg Med. 2021 02; 40:202-203. PMID: 32471781.
Read at: PubMed
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