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The HVIP+ Community Model: A Community Violence Prevention Program in a Southern State
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Dr. Joshua Ellis is a Co-Investigator on “The HVIP+ Community Model: A Community Violence Prevention Program in a Southern State” project with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Dr. Ellis is an emergency medicine physician embarking on an academic career with the goal of becoming a researcher and educator with expertise in advancing diversity in medical education and health equity. He intends to create novel interventions in diversifying the health care profession and improving the experience of minorities pursuing higher medical education. He also has passions to develop curriculum and interventions to address disparities in health care.
Dr. Ellis graduated medical school from Howard University and completed my residency in Emergency Medicine at the Mayo Clinic and then completed a Medical Education Fellow in Emergency Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) while simultaneously completing a master’s in public health from Harvard School of Public Health with a focus in Health Policy. As a medical education fellow, he engaged heavily in social medicine education at HMS. He has developed a novel curriculum on racial Disparities in Emergency Medicine, which has been published and widely distributed, and he taught multiple lectures at the school. He also published multiple articles in the New England Journal of Medicine providing recommendations for improving the minority experience in higher medical education. He finally went on to serve as the assistant clerkship director for the medical school Emergency Medicine Clerkship at HMS and also served as Director of Diversity Recruitment for the BIDMC Emergency Medicine Residency.
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