Gita Pensa, M.D., FAAEM, is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brown University, and is widely recognized as one of the nation's leading experts on malpractice litigation stress and physician litigation support. Her open access podcast curriculum, "Doctors and Litigation: The L Word" is an introduction to the practical and psychological preparation necessary for malpractice litigation defendants, and is now used as a teaching tool in medicine, law, and the malpractice insurance industry. She works as a consultant to medical malpractice insurance companies, hospital systems and defense attorneys, and also has a busy practice as a well-being and performance coach for medical defendants in litigation. Dr. Pensa was the editor of the Academic Emergency Medicine journal’s monthly research podcast through 2024 and remains a managing editor at Emergency Medicine Reviews and Perspectives (EM:RAP).  She was named the EMRA (Emergency Medicine Residents' Association) National Faculty Mentor of the Year in 2018, and in 2019 she was awarded a Special Service Recognition Award from Rhode Island ACEP for “courageous public advocacy of Rhode Island Emergency Medicine Colleagues.” In 2020 she won the Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award at the School of Medicine of Brown University.  Dr. Pensa has been featured in forums such as Time magazine, The SXSW Festival, NPR, and the new PBS documentary "A World of Hurt: How Medical Malpractice Fails Everyone.” Dr. Pensa is the creator of the novel LEAP (Litigation Education and Performance) Course, now licensed by several large hospital systems and medical liability insurers to educate their newly named defendants. You can find more about her at https://doctorsandlitigation.com/ .