Vishnu Muppala, MD, MPH Honored with the 2023 Resident Leadership and Advocacy Award by New York ACEP

December 23, 2022

Vishnu Muppala, MD, MPH was honored with the 2023 Young Physician / Resident Leadership Award by the New York chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Muppala is currently a second-year emergency medicine resident at Maimonides Medical Center.

This award was created to promote leadership and to advance political action and advocacy among emergency physicians through attendance at the ACEP Leadership & Advocacy Conference April 30-May 2, 2023 in Washington, DC. Young physician candidates must be within their first three years of practice. Resident candidates must be in good standing in an accredited residency program within New York State. Special consideration is given to resident candidates planning to practice in New York State.

Dr. Muppala has an ongoing record of service, advocacy, and leadership. Prior to starting medical school in Florida, Dr. Muppala obtained a master’s degree in Public Health at Yale in the field of Health Policy and Management. His research experience during medical school included studies such as evaluating health clinic-based voter registration, verification, and absentee ballot request resources. During the height of the pandemic in 2020, he served on the national leadership team for VoteHealth2020 in Washington D.C., a non-partisan coalition of health professionals working to promote civic engagement and provide healthcare providers with tools to empower peers and patients to vote. He has served as an educator for underserved communities and led pipeline programs for historically excluded students to prepare them for college and careers in the health professions. Dr. Muppala’s work has resulted in traditional scholarly products, including multiple poster presentations and PubMed indexed publications describing processes to improve voter registration and support a diverse physician workforce.

From the beginning of his intern year, Dr. Muppala demonstrated engagement and commitment to the mission and the growth of the residency program as evidenced by his mentorship of medical students and efforts to support recruitment for the program, especially in the areas of diversity, inclusion, and health equity. He currently serves as the resident lead for our Underrepresented Minority Summer Research Program for first-year medical students. This year, Dr. Muppala was selected as one of only four residents nationally to participate in the EMRA/ACEP Health Policy Academy, a highly selective, year-long academy to train residents to be policy advocates in emergency medicine. He is planning on a pursuing fellowship training in Global Health and ideally in New York City, as it will allow him to continue to support diverse and underserved populations.

For more information about the ACEP Leadership and Advocacy Conference, click here.