Sangeeta Lamba

About

Sangeeta Lamba, MD, MS, HPEd, is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. She serves as Vice-President for Faculty Development and Diversity, as well as Vice-Chancellor for Diversity & Inclusion at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. Dr. Lamba is also the Director of Emergency Palliative Care. Her professional interests include undergraduate medical education, hospice and palliative medicine across undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education, communication skills training, and academic women faculty development. Her background includes medical training at PBDS Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Science in India, and residency training at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ. She holds board certifications in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Medicine
• Intensive care medicine
• Psychology
• Radiology
• Medical physics
• Mathematics
• Medical education
• Family medicine

Selected publications

• United States Best Practice Guidelines for Primary Palliative Care in the Emergency Department

  Annals of Emergency Medicine · 2021-08-02 · 46 citations

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• DATA 2000 Waiver Training for Medical Students: Lessons Learned from a Medical School Experience

  Substance Abuse · 2020 · 35 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  BACKGROUND: We successfully implemented a DATA 2000 waiver training as a mandatory requirement for the medical school curriculum. Further studies are needed to determine optimal timing, best format, and frequency of reinforcement of MOUD educational content across the undergraduate and graduate medical education continuum.

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• Palliative Care Initiated in the Emergency Department

  JAMA · 2025-01-15 · 28 citations

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  Importance: The emergency department (ED) offers an opportunity to initiate palliative care for older adults with serious, life-limiting illness. Objective: To assess the effect of a multicomponent intervention to initiate palliative care in the ED on hospital admission, subsequent health care use, and survival in older adults with serious, life-limiting illness. Design, Setting, and Participants: Cluster randomized, stepped-wedge, clinical trial including patients aged 66 years or older who vis…

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• Integrating Basic and Clinical Sciences Using Point-of-Care Renal Ultrasound for Preclerkship Education

  MedEdPORTAL · 2020 · 15 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Introduction: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a valuable asset in bedside clinical care. Undergraduate medical education is increasingly using POCUS as an adjunct tool for teaching anatomy, pathophysiology, and physical exam in an integrated manner. Many medical schools teach content in an organ systems-based format in the preclerkship years. POCUS teaching can be very effectively tailored to specific organ systems. Though pilot curricula for generalized ultrasound education exist, few teach…

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• A Multi-Modal Remote Clinical Skills Mini-Course Utilizing a Teaching TeleOSCE

  Medical Science Educator · 2021-01-07 · 12 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Roxanne Nagurka

  TESLA (Czechia)

  70 shared

• Anne C. Mosenthal

  Lahey Hospital and Medical Center

  56 shared

• Ronald B. Low

  Imperial College London

  51 shared

• Sandra Scott

  Transnational Press London

  47 shared

• Maria Soto‐Greene

  42 shared

• Rebecca Goett

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  39 shared

• Sophia Chen

  35 shared

• Sarah Bryczkowski

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  33 shared

Labs

• Emergency MedicinePI

Education

• M.D.

  University of Illinois at Chicago

• Other

  Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

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