Assistant Professor
Emory University, Georgia, United States
Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and an Assistant Professor at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Hudak's clinical interest includes the care of trauma and injury patients with a focus on victims of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and firearm injured patients. Her public health and research interest includes the impact of violence and injury on mental health and the community, as well as firearm injury prevention in the clinical environment. She is the Assistant Director of the Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory (IPRCE) where she is the Co-Chair of the Violence Prevention Task Force collaborating with multiple Atlanta area research and community organizations. She is an adjunct instructor at Rollins School of Public Health where she co-instructs the course Violence as a Public Health Issue and Firearm-related Injury: Theory and Practice serving undergraduate, masters, and doctorate level learners. She serves as the Emergency Medicine Sexual Violence curriculum director, coordinating training for the sexual assault forensic examination as well as comprehensive advocacy focused clinical care. Her current research projects include examining the effectiveness of firearm safety discussions with patients in Emergency Department patients as well as assessing firearm injury trends, risk and protective factors, and hospital based violence intervention in the healthcare setting.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.