PERSON: Dara Kass

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Dara Ann Kass (born September 6, 1977) is a practicing emergency medicine physician and a consultant in healthcare policy and impact. She is a longtime advocate for advancing the careers of women in medicine. While treating patients during the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, Kass became infected, sharing her disease course and serving as a public health messenger. Since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization she has focused on healthcare policy and advocacy related to reproductive healthcare, specifically on the care patients receive in Emergency Departments.

Kass began her post-residency medical career as an attending physician at Staten Island University Hospital, where she remained for five years between 2007 and 2013, helping to start their emergency medicine residency. In 2013 she moved to NYU Langone Medical Center. There, she ran the medical school programs in the emergency department, serving as the director of undergraduate medical education. In 2018, she became the director of equity and inclusion and associate professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She has worked at Montefiore Medical Center since 2024.

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