Andreia B. Alexander, PhD, MD

Dr. Alexander is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and an Assistant Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency. She has been a faculty member at IUEM since 2018. She graduated from the IUSM MSTP (MD/PhD) Program in 2014 and from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Emergency Medicine Residency in 2018. She works clinically at IU Health Methodist and West Hospitals. His/her clinical interests include resident education, improving Emergency Department care for sexual and reproductive health issues, and raising awareness of systemic racism and implicit biases in ED clinical practice. Her research focuses on decreasing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) disparities and finding alternative settings for SRH care access. She is also an expert in qualitative research methods. Outside of work Dr. Alexander enjoys coaching and playing basketball, watching football and rugby, spending time with her son, Nicolas, and imagining that she is at the beach.

Alexander, A.B., Masters, M.M., & Warren, K. (2020). Caring for Infectious Disease in the Prehospital Setting: A Qualitative Analysis of EMS Providers Experiences and Suggestions for Improvement. Pre-Hospital Emergency Care, DOI: 10.1080/10903127.2019.1601313

Alexander, A.B., & Ott, M.A. (2019). Fifty years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics: Rape: A Complex Management Problem in the Pediatric Emergency Room. The Journal of Pediatrics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2019.05.014

Alexander, A.B., & Ott, M. (2018). A Social Emergency Medicine Approach to the Implementation of Sexual and Reproductive Health Interventions in the Emergency Department. Invited Commentary. Academic Emergency Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.13616.*

Alexander, A.B., Best, C., Stupiansky, N., & Zimet, G. (2015). A model of health care provider decision making about HPV vaccination in adolescent males. Vaccine, 33(33): 4081-6.

Alexander, A.B., Ott, M.A., Lally, M., Sniecinski, K., Baker, A., Zimet, G.D, & The Adolescent Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions. (2015). Adolescent decision-making about HIV vaccine trial participation. Vaccine, 33(11):1331-1337.