Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, United States
Dr. Ryan Tsuchida is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. While attending medical school at the University of Michigan, he founded the Transgender M4 elective and created a student-run faculty development seminar on LGBTQ+ Health. While in residency, he organized and participated in several institutional and departmental programs including acting as lead house officer liaison for a multi-site ACGME collaborative on health care disparities and quality improvement. Within the department, he has participated in the residency’s holistic review process for residency applications, been a member of the program director search committee, and published a commentary on the RAND blog on the importance of health system workforce diversity. Now as faculty, Dr. Tsuchida currently chairs the SAEM Data and Metrics subcommittee for the Equity and Inclusion Committee. Through his committee work, he has presented a didactic at the SAEM 2021 annual meeting on resident-driven recruitment of underrepresented minority medical students and has been an unconscious bias workshop facilitator for SAEM committee and academy chairs. His work has been recently recognized by the University of Michigan Medical School’s award for Excellence in Institutional Change To Promote Health Equity and SAEM’s ADIEM Future Outstanding Academician Award.
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