Margaret Greenwood-Ericksen

MD, MSc

Margaret Greenwood-Ericksen, MD, MSc is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of New Mexico with a secondary appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department. She is an emergency physician and health services researcher whose career is focused on transforming the structure of rural healthcare delivery to improve outcomes for vulnerable communities. Her research explores rural emergency care delivery models and associated outcomes to identify disparities and inform policy-level interventions. She has a particular interest in Medicaid policy and behavioral healthcare delivery to rural communities. 

 

She completed her Master’s at the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Michigan following her residency training at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR) Program. She is the past-president of the New Mexico ACEP Chapter, and served as ACEP’s representative to the National Quality Foundation’s committee for Rural Health Quality Measures. Within her Department, she serves as the Junior Faculty Representative to Senior Leadership and spearheaded the Clinical Scholars Research Program, a departmental research award which supports junior faculty seeking to become physician-researchers.

 

She is deeply invested in efforts to improve New Mexican’s health through innovations within Medicaid policy, mental health access, and opioid treatment. She is currently funded through New Mexico’s State Opioid Response (SOR) grant, awarded by SAMHSA, through which she is the Director for Outreach and Dissemination for the NM Bridge – a statewide program supporting hospitals and ED’s in initiation of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder programs. Within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, she has an affiliation with the Center for Behavioral Health Services Research and Evaluation (CBHTR), leading teams to conduct assessments of the state’s Medicaid mental health and substance use policies. She has developed rural-specific curriculum for quality improvement and was a founding member of Project ECHO’s First Responder Resiliency ECHO which addresses the mental health needs of emergency medicine workers in rural communities. She has ongoing collaborations with the University of North Carolina’s Rural Health Research Program to inform implementation of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ new rural healthcare payment and delivery model, the Rural Emergency Hospital. She is published broadly across rural health care delivery, rural health disparities, and rural emergency care outcomes and has received grant funding from the Emergency Medicine Foundation as well as UNM’s Clinical Translational Science Center.