Email

anita.chary@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Medicine - Health Services Research
Baylor College of Medicine

Education

MD from Washington University in St. Louis

05/2017 - St. Louis, Missouri United States

Residency at Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency

06/2021 - Boston, Massachusetts United States

BS from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

05/2008 - Champaign-Urbana, Illinois United States

Certifications

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support/Basic Life Support/Pediatric Advanced Life Support

American Heart Association

Advanced Trauma Life Support

Advanced Trauma Life Support

Professional Interests

• Social determinants of health
• Health equity
• Health services research
• Emergency medicine
• Geriatrics
• Global healthcare delivery
• Medical anthropology

Professional Statement

I completed my MD and PhD in Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. My doctoral dissertation focused on health system development and reproductive health care in low- and middle-income countries, based on field research conducted in Guatemala. Through graduate training, I developed expertise in qualitative and ethnographic research. I completed residency and served as Chief Resident at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR) based at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston. I have also served as a qualitative research consultant for non-governmental organizations and academic centers, including the Massachusetts General Hospital Disparities Research Unit and the Center for Research in Indigenous Health in Guatemala. As a researcher, I have held leadership roles in mentoring teams of research assistants, graduate, and medical students. My mentees have presented at several national meetings and have been co-authors on publications. As a junior career clinician-researcher, I am focused on access to health care and innovations in health care delivery for vulnerable populations.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Krenz JR, Chary A, Schwartz KR, Hayes BD, O'Brien ME "A case of a pediatric patient after a large ingestion of buspirone." Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2021 Sep;59(9):848-849. Pubmed PMID: 33448880
• Molina M, Landry A, Chary A, Burnett-Bowie S "Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Microaggressions in Medicine." Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2020 Oct;76(4):387-391. Pubmed PMID: 32456801
• Thomas YT, Chary AN "An anthropological approach to effecting change as a medical trainee." AEM Educ Train. 2021 Aug;5(4):e10656. Pubmed PMID: 34527847
• Chary A, Flood D. "Iatrogenic Trainwrecks and Moral Injury." Medical Anthropology. 2021 May 31;1-16. Pubmed PMID: 34058932

Memberships

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Languages

Spanish