Andrea Tenner, MD, MPH

Volunteer Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

Location: UCSF San Francisco & Oakland

Specialty: Emergency Medicine

Biography

Education:
BA: Rice University
MD: Baylor College of Medicine
MPH: Columbia University Mailman School
Residency: University of Illinois at Chicago, Columbia University, Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine
Fellowship: Columbia University/New York Presbyterian, International Emergency Medicine, American College of Emergency Medicine Teaching Fellow
Board Certification: Emergency Medicine

Andrea (Andi) Tenner, MD, MPH, is a board-certified physician in both emergency medicine and internal medicine. She attended Baylor College of Medicine for medical school, University of Illinois at Chicago for her combined residency, and Columbia University to complete a fellowship in International Emergency Medicine and an MPH with a focus on forced migration. She also holds a Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers’ Health from the American Society for Tropical Health and Hygiene. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and is a UCSF Global Health Sciences Affiliate Faculty Member. Her interests include disaster preparedness and response, strengthening health and emergency care systems in the pre- and post-disaster setting, and tropical infectious disease. She has worked in multiple countries in South America and sub-Saharan Africa. Her field experience includes working in an active conflict zone in South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, responding to a building collapse in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and overseeing Ebola Isolation Units for the International Rescue Committee in Sierra Leone. Additionally she has served as an instructor for the US Department of State Office of Antiterrorism Assistance’s Senior Crisis Management Seminar and as a consultant to the World Health Organization’s Emergency, Trauma, and Acute Care Programme.

Community Service:

2013 Committee Member-AFEM Scientific Committee - African Federation for Emergency Medicine
2012 Research Forum Abstract Reviewer - American College of Emergency Physicians
2011-2012 Organizing Committee Member - African Federation of Emergency Medicine
2011-2012 Prehospital Pre-Conference Workshop Organizing Committee - African Federation of Emergency Medicine
2011-2013 Deputy Ambassador--Rwanda - American College of Emergency Physicians

Honors/Awards:

2013 Fellow in the American College of Emergency Physicians
2012 Best Teacher in Emergency Medicine (chosen by 2nd year medical students)
2010 Department of Emergency Medicine Humanitarian Award
2009 Derek Piper Travel Grant - University of Illinois at Chicago
2005 SAEM Excellence in Emergency Medicine Award
2004 Travel Grant - American Medical Women’s Association
2001 Hanszen College Senior Service Award
2000 Vice President’s Appreciation Award
1997 President’s List - Rice University, Houston, Texas
1997 National Merit Scholarship

Publications

Predicting patient patterns in veterans administration emergency departments.

Kessler CS, Bhandarkar S, Casey P, Tenner A

Pre-course online cases for the world health organization's basic emergency care course in Uganda: A mixed methods analysis.

Friedman A, Wallis LA, Bullick JC, Cunningham C, Kalanzi J, Kavuma P, Osiro M, Straube S, Tenner AG

White Paper on Early Critical Care Services in Low Resource Settings.

Losonczy LI, Papali A, Kivlehan S, Calvello Hynes EJ, Calderon G, Laytin A, Moll V, Al Hazmi A, Alsabri M, Aryal D, Atua V, Becker T, Benzoni N, Dippenaar E, Duneant E, Girma B, George N, Gupta P, Jaung M, Hollong B, Kabongo D, Kruisselbrink RJ, Lee D, Maldonado A, May J, Osei-Ampofo M, Osman YO, Owoo C, Rouhani SA, Sawe H, Schnorr D, Shrestha GS, Sohoni A, Sultan M, Tenner AG, Yusuf H, Adhikari NK, Murthy S, Kissoon N, Marshall J, Khoury A, Bellou A, Wallis L, Reynolds T

Reaching further: Lessons from the implementation of the WHO Basic Emergency Care Course Companion App in Tanzania.

Greenberg AL, Rose CC, Nicholaus P, Mfinanga JA, Sawe HR, Tenner AG

Cross-Sectional Survey of Former International Emergency Medicine Fellows 2010-19.

Patel S, Green A, Feltes M, Geduld H, Tenner AG

Harnessing inter-disciplinary collaboration to improve emergency care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): results of research prioritisation setting exercise.

Lecky FE, Reynolds T, Otesile O, Hollis S, Turner J, Fuller G, Sammy I, Williams-Johnson J, Geduld H, Tenner AG, French S, Govia I, Balen J, Goodacre S, Marahatta SB, DeVries S, Sawe HR, El-Shinawi M, Mfinanga J, Rubiano AM, Chebbi H, Do Shin S, Ferrer JME, Haddadi M, Firew T, Taubert K, Lee A, Convocar P, Jamaluddin S, Kotecha S, Yaqeen EA, Wells K, Wallis L

Emergency Medicine Training Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.

Rybarczyk MM, Ludmer N, Broccoli MC, Kivlehan SM, Niescierenko M, Bisanzo M, Checkett KA, Rouhani SA, Tenner AG, Geduld H, Reynolds T

Erratum: This Article Corrects: "Effectiveness of a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Curriculum in a Public Tanzanian Referral Hospital".

Chen CC, Werne AL, Osborn KA, Vo H, George U, Sawe H, Addo N, Tenner AG

Results from a World Health Organization pilot of the Basic Emergency Care Course in Sub Saharan Africa.

Tenner AG, Sawe HR, Amato S, Kalanzi J, Kafwamfwa M, Geduld H, Roddie N, Reynolds TA

African Federation for Emergency Medicine's Francophone Working Group - May 2018 Report.

Mundenga MM, Diango K, Mbanjumucyo G, Kabongo D, Tenner AG