Gita Pensa, MD

Gita Pensa, M.D., FAAEM, is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brown University. Her expertise lies in clinical medicine, risk management, and legal performance for clinicians. She practiced community emergency medicine for 13 years before joining Brown's faculty in 2015. Dr. Pensa was the editor of the Academic Emergency Medicine journal’s monthly research podcast through 2024 and remains a managing editor at Emergency Medicine Reviews and Perspectives (EM:RAP) as co-host of UC Max.  She was named the EMRA (Emergency Medicine Residents' Association) National Faculty Mentor of the Year in 2018, and in 2019 she was awarded a Special Service Recognition Award from Rhode Island ACEP for “courageous public advocacy of Rhode Island Emergency Medicine Colleagues.” In 2020, she received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University.