Physicians on the Frontlines: Understanding the Lived Experience of Physicians Working in Communities That...

Kathleen M O'Neill¹, Blake N Shultz¹, Carolyn T Lye¹+3

• ¹Kathleen M. O'Neill, M.D., is a general surgery resident at Yale New Haven Hospital. She is currently completing a Ph.D. at the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in New Haven, CT through the Investigative Medicine Program. She received her BA from Columbia University (2008) in New York City, NY and her M.D. from University of Pennsylvania (2015) in Philadelphia, PA. Blake N. Shultz is a fifth-year medical student at Yale School of Medicine and a second-year law student at Yale Law School, in New Haven, CT. He is also a fellow at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School. He received his B.A. from Cornell University (2015) in Ithaca, NY. Carolyn T. Lye is a fourth-year medical student at Yale School of Medicine and a first-year law student at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT. She received her B.A. from University of Pennsylvania (2016) in Philadelphia, PA. Megan L. Ranney, M.D., M.P.H., is an Associate Professor Emergency Medicine at Alpert Medical School and Directof of the Center for Digital Health at Brown University. She is also Chief Research Officer for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM Research). Gail D'Onofrio, M.D., M.S., is Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and Professor in the School of Public Health. She is also the Chief of Emergency Services for Yale New Haven Hospital. Edouard Coupet, Jr., M.D., M.S., is a National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA)-sponsored Yale Drug Use, Addiction, and HIV Scholar (DARHS) and Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital. He received his M.D. from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine (2012). He received his Master's in Health Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (2018).