Rebecca
Goldstein,
BA, MPH, MD (Candidate)
Medical Student
Emory University
Rebecca Goldstein is a third-year medical student at Emory University School of Medicine who currently co-leads the AISH program. Prior to medical school, she received her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Cornell University, earned a Master of Public Health in Global Health from Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, and worked at the intersection of epidemiologic research and public health program delivery in five African nations with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). Rebecca’s career goals are to combine clinical practice and programmatic public health work to address both the root causes and health effects of social disparities.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Winner of the 2020 Nexus Summit Interprofessional Student Achievement Award
Background: Atlanta Interprofessional Student Hotspotting (AISH) is a student-run volunteer organization that partners with Grady Health System (Grady) to enable multidisciplinary student teams to engage in non-clinical care for high-need, high-cost (HNHC) patients. HNHC patients have had greater than or equal to 5 emergency department visits or greater than or equal to 2 inpatient admissions at Grady in the previous 12 months due to greater than or equal to 2 decompensated chronic conditions. Nationally,…