Esther Choo is a founding member and strategic lead of Time’s Up Healthcare, an affiliate (launched March 2019) of the nonprofit tackling sexual harassment and gender inequity in various industries. An associate professor of emergency medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, she is a practicing clinician and NIH-funded investigator with expertise in drug policy, partner violence, and gender disparities in health care. Choo co-founded Equity Quotient, a company that provides metrics of health care culture, and writes columns for The Lancet. She is past president of the Academy of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine and former associate director of the Division of Women’s Health in Emergency Care at Brown University.
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