Rita Manfredi-Shutler

MD, FACEP

Dr. Manfredi is a professor of clinical emergency medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She started her career as a US Navy Flight Surgeon and completed an emergency medicine residency at the University of Massachusetts.

She previously completed a fellowship in Health and Spirituality at the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health and recently became board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine and is interested in integrating palliative medicine concepts into the care of patients in the emergency department.

Dr. Manfredi previously served as Chair for the ACEP Wellbeing Commitee.

She is editor of the online book 2nd edition: “From Self to System: Being Well in Emergency Medicine” and is a member of the SAEM Wellness Committee. She presented at “BalancED,” the inaugural emergency medicine conference focusing on well-being in emergency medicine, and was Co-Chair of the 2019 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s Consensus Conference on “Wellness for the Future:  Cultural and Systems-Based Challenges and Solutions.”

In 2021, Dr. Manfredi received ACEP’s Lifetime Achievement Award: The Pamela Benson Trailblazer Award  for seminal contributions over time to the growth of the College and to the specialty of emergency medicine.

Dr. Manfredi’s work in wellbeing focuses on how the system or organization impacts the wellness of the individual health care provider. She also was a finalist in the Urgent Matters EM Innovators of the Year contest for “EM Talk: Mastering Difficult Discussions in the ED.” She is continuing her work in the primary palliative education of emergency providers teaching skills for rapid goals of care discussions in the ED, and publishing articles about translating palliative medicine principles into EM. She has presented at conferences nationally and internationally.