Associate Chief, Director of Patient Safety and Quality, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
UMASS Medical School - Baystate, Massachusetts, United States
Dr. Elia is an Associate Professor at UMMS Medical School-Baystate and Associate Chief of Department of Emergency Medicine at Baystate Medical Center. She also holds the role of Director of Patient Safety and Quality. She has a strong interest on patient quality and safety, in particular the impacts ED throughput and boarding. Dr. Elia joined the faculty initially in 2007 and helped to establish the Division of Emergency Ultrasound and start an Emergency Medicine Fellowship. She later took on the role of APP Medical Director and continues to have an interest in the role of APPs in Emergency Medicine. More recently, she led a multi-year intradepartmental gender based salary analysis. Her other areas of focus include equity and diversity, mentoring and teaching.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.