Margaret R Salinger
Margaret R Salinger
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Overview
Maggie Salinger, MD, MPP, MPH (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brown University. Her research and teaching interests are focused on improving healthcare quality and access for people with disabilities or serious illness. She earned her BA as a Robertson Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, her MD as a Robert J Woodruff Fellow at Emory University School of Medicine, her MPP at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government, and her MPH at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Maggie completed her residency training at Duke University. She then spent two years as a Fellow in General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Harvard Medical School and The Massachusetts General Hospital before joining the faculty at Brown.
Brown Affiliations
Research Areas
Publications
| Haywood C, Lagu T, Salinger M, López-Rosado R, DeJong C, Iezzoni LI. "The Forgotten Minority": Perpetuation of Ableism in Medical Education." J GEN INTERN MED, 2025. |
| Salinger M, Sheets ZC, Bienstock JL, Rudkowski JC, Shaw KR, Edje L, Messman A, Fisher H, Fousone M, Kakara M, Martin K, Marcelin JR, O'Toole JK, Passiment M, Ortega P, Meeks LM. "The Disability Policy Toolkit: Resource Development and Applications Within Graduate Medical Education." Journal of Graduate Medical Education, vol. 17, no. 6, 2025, pp. 792-797. |
| Salinger, Maggie R., Ornstein, Katherine A., Kleijwegt, Hannah, Brody, Abraham A., Leff, Bruce, Mather, Harriet, Reckrey, Jennifer, Ritchie, Christine S. "Defining and Validating Criteria to Identify Populations Who May Benefit From Home-Based Primary Care." Medical Care, vol. 63, no. 1, 2024, pp. 27-37. |
| Salinger M, Nguyen M, Moreland CJ, Thorndike AN, Meeks LM. "Internal Medicine Program Directors' Perceptions About Accommodating Residents with Disabilities: A Qualitative Study." J GEN INTERN MED, 2024. |
| Mather, Harriet, Ornstein, Katherine A., McDonough, Catherine, Liu, Bian, Salinger, Maggie, Ritchie, Christine S. "County-Level Social Vulnerability, Metropolitan Status, and Availability of Home Health Services." JAMA Network Open, vol. 6, no. 10, 2023, pp. e2337508. |
| Salinger MR, Levy DE, McCurley JL, Gelsomin ED, Rimm EB, Thorndike AN. "Employees' Baseline Food Choices and the Effect of a Workplace Intervention to Promote Healthy Eating: Secondary Analysis of the ChooseWell 365 Randomized Controlled Trial." Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, vol. 123, no. 11, 2023, pp. 1586-1595.e4. |
| Salinger, Maggie R., Feltz, Brian, Chan, Stephanie H., Gosline, Anna, Davila, Carine, Mitchell, Suzanne, Iezzoni, Lisa I. "Impairment and Disability Identity and Perceptions of Trust, Respect, and Fairness." JAMA Health Forum, vol. 4, no. 9, 2023, pp. e233180. |
| Liu B, Ritchie CS, Ankuda CK, Perez-Benzo G, Osakwe ZT, Reckrey JM, Salinger MR, Leff B, Ornstein KA. "Growth of Fee-for-Service Medicare Home-Based Medical Care Within Private Residences and Domiciliary Care Settings in the U.S., 2012-2019." Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, vol. 23, no. 10, 2022, pp. 1614-1620.e10. |
| Salinger MR, Boucher NA, LeBlanc TW, Oeffinger KC, Pollak K, Troy JD, Kamal AH. "Why palliative care is the answer to the serious illness question in payment reform." The American Journal of Managed Care, vol. 26, no. 4 Spec No., 2020, pp. SP127-SP128. |
| Salinger MR. "You never arrive." Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 162, no. 10, 2015, pp. 733. |
| Galindo-Fraga, Arturo, Ortiz-Hernández, Ana A., Ramírez-Venegas, Alejandra, Vázquez, Rafael Valdez, Moreno-Espinosa, Sarbelio, Llamosas-Gallardo, Beatriz, Pérez-Patrigeon, Santiago, Salinger, Maggie, Freimanis, Laura, Huang, Chiung-yu, Gu, Wenjuan, Guerrero, M. Lourdes, Beigel, John, Ruiz-Palacios, Guillermo M. "Clinical characteristics and outcomes of influenza and other influenza-like illnesses in Mexico City." International Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 17, no. 7, 2013, pp. e510-e517. |
Research
Funded Research
PAST GRANTS
- T32 Institutional National Research Service Award
- Granted funds (T32HP322715) for 2-year fellowship in general internal medicine and primary care at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Grant Number: T32HP322715
- Source: National Institutes of Health
- Dates: 2021-2023
CURRENT GRANTS
- Brown Physicians Inc. Academic Assessment Research and Education Award:
- Granted funds for a study, “Characterizing ableism in the interpretation and application of an oncological performance status measure.”
- Role: PI (Co-I’s: Melissa Clark, PhD & Rochelle Strenger, MD)
- Source: Brown Physicians Inc.
- Dates: June 2025- Dec 2026
- Legorreta Cancer Center Pilot Projects Award:
- Granted funds for a study, “Characterizing ableism in the interpretation and application of an oncological performance status measure.”
- Role: PI (Co-I’s: Melissa Clark, PhD & Rochelle Strenger, MD)
- Dates: June 2025-2026
- Clinician Science Award, Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research, Brown University School of Public Health
- Granted funds for a study, “Clinical trial representation and outcomes for people with disability.”
- Role: PI (Mentors: Melissa Clark, PhD & David Meyers, PhD)
- Dates: March 2025-2026
- Advance RI Clinical and Translational Research
- Institutional grant to support clinical and translational research in RI
- Grant number: 5 U 54 GM 115677
- Role: Faculty Co-lead of Practice-Based Research Network through Community Engagement and Outreach Core (PI Sharon Rounds, MD)
- Source: NIGMS/NIH
- Dates: 2020-2025
Scholarly Work
OTHER NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
- Salinger M. "What Doctors Need To Do To Treat America's 'Heart Attack.'" STAT News. First Opinion. Dec 22, 2016. https://www.statnews.com/2016/12/22/treatamericas-heart-attack/
- Salinger M. "Don't Be Seduced By 'Continuous Coverage.'" Kennedy School Review. Opinion. Feb 20, 2017. https://ksr.hkspublications.org/2017/02/20/dont-be-seduced-bycontinuous-coverage/
- Salinger M. "Continuous Coverage Clauses in Healthcare Reform: Are They Benign?" The Health Care Blog. March 10, 2017,http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2017/03/10/continuous-coverage-clauses-inhealthcare-reform-are-they-benign/
- Salinger M. "Designing Opioid Strategies in Rhode Island." Kennedy School Review. Inside the Statehouse. Aug 31, 2017.http://ksr.hkspublications.org/2017/08/31/designing-opioid-strategies-in-rhode-island/
- Nguyen S* & Salinger M*. "David's Journey: A Patient-Centered Approach to Opioid Addiction Treatment." Kennedy School Review Print Edition. April 2018.
- Salinger M. "Hitch HIV Prevention to a Rolling Wagon.'' The Hill. Opinion. Jan 5, 2019. https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/424014-hitch-hiv-prevention-to-a-rollingwagon
- Salinger M & Kamal A. "Rebuilding Choice Architecture for Incurable but Treatable Lung Cancer: Rethinking the Future of Hospice Care in the United States.'' IASLC Lung Cancer News. Dec. 11, 2019. https://www.lungcancernews.org/2019/12/11/rebuildingchoicearchitecture-for-incurable-but-treatable-lung-cancer-rethinking-the-future-ofhospice-care-in-the-united-states/
- Salinger M & Pollard K. "The Troubling Realities of Slow COVID-19 Testing." The Hill. Opinion. April 22, 2020. https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/494105-thetroubling-realities-of-slow-covid-19-testing
- Salinger M. "Medicine Needs to See What Disability Means and What it Looks Like - in its Ranks and in its Patients.'' STAT News. First Opinion. Jul 23, 2021. https://www.statnews.com/2021/07/23/medicine-needs-to-see-what-disability-looksfeels-like-in-ranks-and-patients/
- Nameth A, Salinger M, Henry T, Memari M, Zipkin D. "The COVID-19 Pandemic and Graduate Medical Education Silver Linings.'' SGIM Forum Newsletter. Dec. 2021. https://connect.sgim.org/sgimforum/viewdocument/the-covid-19-pandemic-and-graduate?utm_content=bufferb7e68&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
- Landes S, Swenor B, Clark MA, Goddard KS, Hall JP, Hermans A, Ipsen C, Carpman M, Kurth NK, Myers MA, Popkin SJ, Salinger MR, Vaitsiakovich N. “A Research Roadmap Toward Improved Measures of Disability.” Health Affairs Forefront. July 2024. https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/research-roadmap-toward-improved-measures-disability
SCHOLARLY WORK PUBLISHED IN OTHER MEDIA
PEER-REVIEWED
- Krishnamoorthi VR, Salinger MR, Henry TL, Connolly N. “Op-Ed Writing Workshop: Is the pen truly mighty? How to write an effective op-ed and make an impact.” Training module in GIMLearn. Society for General Internal Medicine. Jan 2025.
NON-PEER-REVIEWED
- Salinger M. “Preventing Opioid Misuse In Rhode Island: A Guide For Evidence-Based Policymaking To Tackle The State’s Most Pressing Public Health Issue.” Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Master’s Thesis. April 2018.
- Bromberg G*, Sheets ZC*, Burnett-Bowie S, Charnsangavej N, Salinger M, Tolchin D, Truong U. Implicit Bias, Microaggression and Ableism. Training Module in Graduate Medical Education Working Group (DIGME). https://docswithdisabilities.org/digme
- Disability Policy Toolkit. Disability Resource Hub. Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and Docs With Disabilities Initiative. https://dl.acgme.org/pages/disability-resource-hub-policy-toolkit
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
LOCAL
- “Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis,” Internal Medicine Chairs Conference, Department of Medicine, Duke University Hospital. Durham NC, 2020
- “How to Write Op-Eds,” Internal Medicine Conference, Department of Medicine, Duke University Hospital. Durham, NC, 2021
- “Secondary analysis of ChooseWell 365 to determine if the effect of a workplace healthy eating intervention is associated with employees’ baseline food choices,” Grand Rounds, Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. Boston, MA, 2021
- “Toward improving the representation and wellbeing of residents with disabilities: qualitative interviews with internal medicine program directors.” Scientific abstract oral presentation. Recipient of award for best abstract. Symposium for Medical Education, Innovation, Equity, and Well-being. Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Providence, RI, 2024
- “Tips for disability allyship in clinical learning environments.” Faculty Development Workshop, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Providence, RI, 2024
REGIONAL
- “(Who, What When, Where Why, and) How to write an op-ed,” Boston University Medical School, Boston University. Boston, MA, August 2023
- “Disabilities and disparities: how to leverage medical education and workforce representation to mitigate ableism and improve care,” Medicine Grand Rounds, Massachusetts General Hospital. Boston, MA, September 2023
NATIONAL
- “Who Could Benefit from Home-Based Medical Care?” Special Symposium. Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting. Indianapolis, IN, November 2022
- “Disabilities and disparities: how to leverage medical education and workforce representation to mitigate ableism and improve care.” Special Symposium. Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting. Aurora, CO, May 2023
- “Op-ed writing workshop: Is the pen mightier than the stethoscope? How to write impactful op-eds,” Workshop. Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting.
- Aurora, CO, May 2023
- Boston, MA, May 2024
- Hollywood, FL, May 2025
- Washington, DC May 2026
- “Improving the Transition from Undergraduate to Graduate Medical Education.” From Evidence to Action: A Summit on Disability Access and Inclusion in Medical Education. Chicago, IL, April 2024
- “Workplace accommodations for residents with disabilities: experiences and perceptions of program directors at internal medicine residencies.” Oral presentation. Finalist for Milton W. Hamolsky Junior Faculty Scientific Presentation Award. Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting. Boston, MA, May 2024
- “How to be an ambassador of anti-ableism on the wards,” Workshop, Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, May 2024.
- “Climbing The Hill: Empowering Physicians to Participate in Legislative Advocacy.” Workshop. Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting.
- Boston, MA, May 2024
- Hollywood, FL, May 2025
- “How to engage in clinician advocacy.” Advocacy in Clinical Leadership, Alumni Panel. Internal Medicine Residency Program, Duke University Hospital. Durham, NC, May 2024
- Invited Testimony on Disability Data Equity. Virtual Listening Session hosted by The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy for the Federal Evidence Agenda on Disability Equity. May 2024.
- “Toward Disability Equity in the Physician Workforce.” Annual Center for Disability Health and Wellness Disability Research Symposium. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI, October 2024
- “Op-eds: an accessible platform for physician advocacy.” Workshop. Advocacy in Clinical Leadership, Graduate Medical Education, Duke University Hospital. Durham, NC.
- November 2024
- November 2025
- January 2026
- “Fostering Disability Inclusion in Clinical Learning Environments.” Workshop. Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting. Hollywood, FL. May 2025.
- “Disability Access in Medicine: insights from a physician-researcher with lived experience.” Medicine Grand Rounds, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. June 2025
- “Which patients could benefit from home-based primary care? Gaining expert consensus on a step-wise approach.” Research lecture. Home-Based Primary Care Research Network. VA Portland Health Care System. Portland, OR. June 2025.
- “Disability equity and inclusion in medical education.” Guest lecture for “Helping Learners Learn: Remediation and Support in Health Sciences Education” course. Master of Science in Medical Education Program. University of Pittsburgh. October 2025
- “Building Effective Disability Policy in GME: Introducing the Disability Policy Toolkit.” Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and Docs With Disabilities Initiative. Virtual Webinar. February 2026.
INTERNATIONAL
- “Toward disability inclusion in medical training: a qualitative study of challenges and opportunities.”
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- Association of the Study of Medical Education Annual Meeting. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. July 2025.
- International Association for Health Professions Education Annual Meeting. Barcelona, Spain. Aug 2025.
Background
Education and Training
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | MPH | Harvard University |
| 2018 | MD | Emory University |
| 2010 | BS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Postdoctoral/Other Training
| Fellow in Primary Care and General Internal Medicine | Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School | 2021-2023 | |
| Masters in Public Health | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Clinical Effectiveness | 2021-2023 | |
| Internal Medicine Residency | Duke University Medical Center | 2018-2021 | |
| Masters in Public Policy | John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | 2016-2018 |
Honors and Awards
2006-2010 Robertson Scholars Leadership Program
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Full 4-year scholarship to attend both UNC & Duke University including stipends for leadership development & international internships.
2007 First Place & People’s Choice Awards
Carolina Challenge Social Entrepreneurship Competition
Kenan-Flagler Business School,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Awarded for the composition and presentation of a business plan for Nourish International's development project in Uganda. The funds from both awards ($16,000) were applied directly to project implementation.
2007 International Internship Award
Center for Global Initiatives
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Granted to cover expenses incurred while leading a sustainable development initiative sponsored by the Full Belly Project and Nourish International in Iganga, Uganda.
2007 Phi Betta Kappa Honor Society Initiate
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2009 Personal Development Grant
` Center for Public Leadership Workshop
Robertson Scholars Leadership Program
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Awarded to participate in a 5-day workshop conducted by professional leadership development specialists at the Center For Creative Leadership, which focused on keystones of successful management.
2013-2018 Robert W. Woodruff Fellowship
Emory University School of Medicine
Full 4-year scholarship to Emory University Medical School.
2016 Leadership Development Cohort Member
Center for Public Leadership
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Selected to engage in a semester-long leadership development workshop series featuring prominent leaders across a variety of fields.
2017 Michael S. Dukakis Governor’s Fellowship
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Awarded funding to work as a policy analyst in the Rhode Island Governor’s Office, where I created a comprehensive strategy to curtail the opioid epidemic in RI, which was incorporated into an executive order signed by the Governor.
2017 Advanced Workshop Scholarship
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Received $1,000 scholarship to attend J-PAL's Advanced
Workshop on Field Experiments to support my opioid policy and research initiatives with Governor Raimondo's Office.
2017 Dubin Field Experience
Center for Public Leadership
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Awarded funding for a series of speaker events and 5-day field experience in WV to enhance graduate student awareness about the opioid epidemic through meetings with government officials, researchers, clinicians, patients with addition, and other stakeholders.
2018 First Place
Social Innovation Case Competition
Harvard Kennedy School of Government &
Harvard Business School
Awarded for the design and presentation of a public-private partnership plan to alleviate the opioid crisis. Proposals were judged by McKinsey & Company and were shared with officials in KY's state government.
2018 Manuel C. Carballo Memorial Prize
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Awarded for MPP thesis, entitled "Preventing Opioid Misuse In Rhode Island: A Guide For Evidence-Based Policy-making To Tackle The State's Most Pressing Public Health Issue." The thesis was awarded the prize for its "innovations for improving the quality and effectiveness of programs to serve the poor and disadvantaged."
2024 Best Research Abstract
Belonging, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Track
Warren Alpert Medical School Research Symposium
2024 Finalist, Hamolsky Junior Faculty Scientific Presentation Award
Society of General Internal Medicine
Presented annually to junior faculty whose abstracts are judged to be the most outstanding among those submitted to the national meeting
Affiliations
Affiliations
Society for General Internal Medicine
Rhode Island Medical Society
Credentials/Licenses
| Rhode Island Medical License | State of Rhode Island | - | #MD19373 |
| American Board of Internal Medicine | American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine | - |
Appointments
| Assistant Professor of Medicine. Rhode Island Hospital, - |
| Assistant Professor of Medicine. Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, - |
Teaching
Teaching Overview
UNIVERSITY TEACHING, SERVICE, ADVISING & MENTORING ROLES
2021-2023 Course Instructor
“Practice of Medicine”
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
I taught medical students in a longitudinal course focused on patient and team communication, collection of patient data, physical examination skills, documentation of care, and medical decision-making. While most teaching sessions took place at the bedside with 2 students at a time, I also provided instruction in OSCE settings, simulation labs, and classroom-based settings with approximately 12 students at a time.
2021-2025 Mentor for Medical Students
HMS Allies in Chronic Illness, Health Conditions, and Disabilities
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
I provide support and guidance for students to successfully
navigate medical education and training as they receive and
advocate for their disability accommodations.
2022-2023 Teaching Fellow
Epidemiology 946
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston, MA
I coordinated the lecture schedule for Fall and Spring semesters in an epidemiology course with approximately 30 graduate students.
HOSPITAL TEACHING, ADVISING & MENTORING ROLES
2018-2021 Resident Physician
Duke University Hospital,
Durham, NC
I provided instruction and supervision to medical
students and interns on clinical rotations.
2019-2020 Project HoPE Consultant
Duke University Hospital
Durham, NC
I participated in the design and analysis of a web-based platform that assists patients, families, and providers in the hospice education and enrollment process.
2021-2023 Consultant and Content Co-Creator
Disability in Graduate Medical Education
Docs with Disabilities
I collaborated on the design of educational videos targeting residency program leaders across the country to improve programmatic support of trainees with disabilities and chronic medical conditions.
2022 - 2023 Leader of Disability Curriculum Development
Department of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
During my GIM fellowship, I was invited by the MGH Department of Medicine to design a curriculum on the fundamentals of caring for people with disability that could be woven into existing GME pedagogy. The curriculum would introduce trainees to such topics as: disability definitions and frameworks; language, identities, and implicit biases; health and social disparities affecting people with disabilities (PWD); legal, ethical, and professional obligations in caring for PWD; inclusive environments; fundamental clinical skills and accommodations; and support services available to PWD across the life course.
I spoke about this initiative at the SGIM 2023 Annual Meeting as a Special Symposium and at MGH as a Medicine Grand Rounds lecture.
2024-2025 Consultant & Member of Disability Policy Toolkit Committee
Multimedia Resource Hub for Disability Inclusion in Graduate Medical Education on Learn at ACGME.
Contributed to the development of ‘best practices’ for disability and accommodation policies/processes in an initiative led by the Docs with Disabilities Initiative and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, with support from the 2024 Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Catalyst Award for Transformation in Graduate Medical Education (Lisa Meeks as PI).
2024-Pres Interviewer for Internal Medicine Residency Selection Committee
Department of Medicine
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Providence, RI
2025-Pres Speaker Panelist for Internal Medicine Residency Research Day
Department of Medicine
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Providence, RI. Jan 2025 & 2026
2025-Pres Guest Lecturer on advancing disability equity in clinical medicine
Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME 300)
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Providence, RI. March 2025 & April 2026
2025-Pres Faculty Liaison for Disability Affinity Group
Medical Students with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses (MSDCI)
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Providence, RI.
I provide informal professional development mentorship for medical students with disabilities and attend MSDIC’s social/ awareness-raising events (e.g., as a Speaker Panelist at Nov 2025 session on supporting learners with disabilities on the wards.)