Dara Kass, MD is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City.
After completing her residency at SUNY Downstate Medical School and Kings County Hospital, she served as faculty of Staten Island University Hospital, where she facilitated the start of their EM residency program. She previously served as the director of undergraduate medical education at NYU. As director, she introduced longitudinal career advising, innovative educational modalities, and numerous clinical experiences.
She is the founder of FemInEM, an organization dedicated to the achievement of gender equity in emergency medicine. FemInEM serves as an open access resource for women in EM, a community focused on career development, physician support, and seeing women in medicine thrive. What began as a blog is now a movement, a multi-faceted community comprised women in medicine all over the world.
The FemInEM Idea Exchange, the organization's first conference, was held in 2017 and featured inspiring international speakers. The sold-out gathering was comprised of attendees from four different continents. The 2018 FemInEM Idea Exchange will take place in October of 2018 at The New York Academy of Emergency Medicine in New York City.
Dr. Kass lives with her husband and children in Brooklyn, New York.
