What is Social Emergency Medicine

The term social emergency medicine (SEM) was created by the founders of the Levitt Center and focuses on how medical issues and social determinants bind emergency care to patients and their communities. As Dr. Harrison Alter -founding executive director of the Levitt Center - describes, “Andy was more than a pioneer in emergency medicine research, and more than a physician. He was, quite literally, a great humanitarian… So [we] put those 3 words together—social, emergency, and medicine— and the Andrew Levitt Center for Social Emergency Medicine was born.”