What You Need to Know About Caring for Incarcerated Patients

Presented by

Erin Sullivan DeMartino, MD

Consultant, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lead, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

Program Director, Biomedical Ethics Scholars Training Fellowship

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Erin Sullivan DeMartino is a graduate of Williams College and Dartmouth Medical School, where she also completed internal medicine residency.  She completed her pulmonary and critical care fellowship at Mayo Clinic, and has been on faculty since 2017.  In addition to her specialty training, she completed a fellowship in clinical medical ethics at the University of Chicago. She attends primarily in the medical intensive care unit and studies health policy and ethics as they intersect at the bedside. Dr. DeMartino’s original research has been published in JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine. She chairs the American Thoracic Society’s Ethics and Conflicts of Interest Committee and is a co-founder of Scopes and Shields, a physician advocacy group dedicated to upholding dignity of incarcerated patients. She is a recipient of the Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders in Aging Research Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging, studying the experiences of incarcerated older adults who are hospitalized.