Naeha Haridasa, MD
Visiting Clinical Instructor
Department of Emergency Medicine
About
Dr. Naeha Haridasa is an emergency physician whose work focuses on health policy, critical care research, and improving emergency department responses to intimate partner violence and human trafficking. She is completing her Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Chicago, where she serves as Chief Resident and participates in resident education, recruitment, and leadership activities in graduate medical education.
Her academic work includes studies on domestic violence screening in the emergency department, sexual assault and trafficking response, vasopressor safety, post–cardiac arrest care, and aspirin use in COVID-19. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Critical Care and Anesthesia & Analgesia.
Dr. Haridasa also has experience in health policy development, having held roles with the American Medical Association and the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association, where she contributed to policy proposals related to vaccine distribution, domestic violence, and humanitarian health. Her community involvement includes work with youth mentorship programs, substance-use treatment intake, and civic engagement efforts.
Selected Grants
University of Chicago, Department of Emergency Medicine Resident Research Grant, Award Recipient, 2024
The George Washington University,, W.T. Gill Summer Research Fellowship, Award Recipient, 2019
Publication Aggregators
Notable Honors
2022, EMRA Health Policy Elective Award,, Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association
2019, Public Health Case Competition Winner, National Academy of Medicine
2015, Ingram Scholarship, Vanderbilt University,
Education
Emergency Medicine Residency, The University of Chicago, Chicago
MD, Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, D.C., Concentration in Health Policy
BA, Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Honors with Distinction
BA, Medicine, Health and Society, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Selected Presentations
Viability of Midline Catheters in Vasopressor Administration, Poster, Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Congress (Virtual), February 2020
On Thin Ice: Re-Evaluating the Need for Endovascular Cooling Catheters in Post-ROSC Care, Poster, Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Congress, January 2023, San Francisco