Preeti Panda, MD
Affiliation: Stanford University
Dr. Preeti Panda is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University. She is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician and health services researcher with expertise in child trafficking, youth violence prevention, data science, and community engaged research. At Stanford University, she is the Principal Investigator of the Resilient Futures Research Lab, which seeks to advance injury and violence prevention through data science and community engaged research. Her violence related work primarily focuses on child sex and labor trafficking, prevention of multiple forms of youth violence, and built environment effects on violence. Her injury prevention work primarily focuses on electric mobility device injuries.
Dr. Panda earned her BS from Cornell University in Nutrition and Global Health. She went on to earn an MD with Distinction in Advocacy from Albany Medical College. Dr. Panda completed her pediatric residency training at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital/Case Western Reserve University, where she earned specialized certificates in Child Advocacy and Research. She completed clinical fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine as well as a Master of Science in Health Policy at Stanford University.
Dr. Panda has worked with trafficked youth for nearly 15 years, with involvement in direct clinical care, research, legislative advocacy, and education. Her research currently focuses on the development of emergency department-based interventions to support youth with experiences of trafficking, development of ED based trafficking prevention programs, and better understanding child labor in the U.S. agricultural sector. During pediatric residency, she co-founded the Haven Clinic, a medical home that provided trauma-informed medical care to survivors of child trafficking. Dr. Panda has received awards both locally and nationally for her work, including the national Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Pediatric Fellow award and the Boston Congress of Public Health as a 40 Under 40 Public Health Catalyst award.
Research Interests:
Human trafficking prevention
Child Labor in the U.S.
Interconnectedness of various forms of youth violence
Data science, machine learning, and community engaged methods