Rachel Hammer, MD

Associate Professor
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana

Rachel Hammer is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at Tulane University. She is Associate Program Director for the Tulane University Combined Training Residency program in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry and Clerkship Director for Psychiatry at the Tulane School of Medicine. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Dr. Hammer came to New Orleans in 2007 as a public high school teacher after Katrina. She completed a Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction during medical school at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, and completed combined residency training at Tulane in 2020. Her professional interests include narrative medicine, psychosomatic symptoms and illness, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and integrative primary care. Her current scholarly work focuses on Post-ICU Care Syndrome, Death Cafes for ICU worker burnout, and COVID-related long-term psychological stress in surviving patients and their families.

I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Presentation(s):

• Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) In the Era of COVID-19: Psychiatric Morbidity, Long-Term Outcomes, and Models of Care

  Saturday, November 12, 2022
  9:15 AM – 10:45 AM