Professor, Vice Chair for Research
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, New York, United States
Ula Hwang, MD, MPH, FACEP is Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, a core investigator at the GRECC (Geriatrics Research, Education and Clinical Center) at the James J. Peters Bronx VAMC, and part of the National Veterans Health Administration Geriatric ED Advisory Core Team. She wrote the article first describing “The Geriatric Emergency Department” that is the basis for the GEDI WISE (Geriatric ED Innovations in care through Workforce, Informatics, and Structural Enhancements) program, co-lead the development of the 2014 Geriatric ED Guidelines that are endorsed by national EM and Geriatrics organizations and basis for ACEP’s Geriatric ED Accreditation program. She is the co-PI of the Geriatric ED Collaborative (GEDC), a national implementation program supported by the John A. Hartford Foundation and the West Health Institute to educate, implement, and evaluate geriatric emergency care, PI of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) funded Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research (GEAR) Network, and MPI of the NIA GEAR 2.0 – Advancing Dementia Care network.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.