Professor
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Braden Hexom, MD, is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois. He is currently the residency program director for the Rush emergency medicine residency program. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. During residency training at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, he developed an interest in global health through clinical work in Guatemala, Honduras, Liberia, and Haiti. Dr. Hexom worked with Mount Sinai's Global Health Training Center and other collaborating institutions to provide emergency care and infrastructure development support at JFK Medical Center in Monrovia, Liberia. He was a faculty mentor for Mount Sinai's Global Health Student Program and has advised students working in Jamkhed, India, and Queens, New York. He was a founding director of the Libertas Center for Human Rights, a comprehensive medical clinic for survivors of torture based at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York. His research interests include identifying the health care seeking behaviors of trauma survivors and improving access to care. He has been a member of the GEMLR team since 2011.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.