Introducing our new Section Chair: Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH

Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH, FACEP is an attending emergency physician and division chief of geriatric emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She is known as a national expert on ED delirium and has worked on institutional, state, and national initiatives related to improving care for patients with cognitive impairment, including working with ACEP on the development of the ADEPT tool. In addition to assuming the role of GEMS section president, Dr. Kennedy is also on the Board of Governor’s with the Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Program, is adjunct faculty for the Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative, and is a past-president of the SAEM Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine.