About

Gita Pensa, M.D., is an emergency physician practicing in Rhode Island since 2001. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (now Perelman School of Medicine) in 1997. She continued on to residency at the combined George Washington/ Georgetown Emergency Medicine Residency in Washington, D.C., graduating as Chief Resident in 2001. She worked in community emergency medicine for thirteen years before joining the faculty at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine of Brown University in 2014. She is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine.

In addition to physician defendant well-being coaching and consulting, Dr. Pensa was the host and editor of AEM Early Access, a research podcast of the Academic Emergency Medicine journal, through 2024. She is also a regular contributor to Emergency Medicine Reviews and Perspectives (EM:RAP) and the co-host of its UC Max program. At the medical school of Brown University, she served as a Mary B. Arnold Longitudinal Mentor to over forty medical students yearly until 2022.

Dr. Pensa lives in Providence, RI, with her husband, three daughters, and a (mostly) good dog named Maggie.

Honors include:

• AOA Honor Medical Society (1997 - present)
• Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award (2020, Warren Alpert School of Medicine of Brown University)
• RI American College of Emergency Physicians (RI ACEP) Special Service Recognition Award (“for courageous public advocacy of RI Emergency Medicine Colleagues”), 2019
• National Faculty Mentor of the Year, 2018 (Emergency Medicine Resident’s Association)