Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Stanford University
Stanford, California, United States
Kajal Khanna, MD, JD, is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. She completed her undergraduate degree in Biology and Government at Dartmouth University, her medical and law degrees at the University of Toronto, her pediatric residency at the University of California, San Francisco with specific training in health equity and her pediatric emergency fellowship at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She is currently completing a master of science in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is the founder and director of the Global Pediatric Emergency Equity Lab based in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Khanna’s research is focused, not only on interventions that are designed to change healthcare provider behavior resulting in strengthened health systems and improved patient outcomes but also in the use of health equity and constitutional obligations to facilitate health systems change.
Outside of her work in health equity, Dr. Khanna is focused on advancing physician well-being. Dr. Khanna was an inaugural member of the Women's Wellness through Equity and Leadership project , an interdisciplinary cohort focused on the development of women physician leaders to build healthier, more equitable working environments. She has been invited to speak nationally and internationally on health equity and wellness. Dr. Khanna is particularly interested in innovation in well-being and how this can be integrated in how we train and practice emergency medicine.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.