Margaret Greenwood-Ericksen is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of New Mexico with a secondary appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department. She is an emergency physician and health services researcher who studies the impact of Medicaid and Medicare policy on emergency care-related outcomes for rural persons. She is widely published on rural emergency care quality and outcomes, health related-social needs, and rural care delivery models – and serves on national committees dedicated to rural quality and delivery. Through her work with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences' New Mexico Consortium for Behavioral Health Training and Research she collaborates on behavioral health policy evaluations for New Mexico’s Medicaid program.