July/August 2011

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JULY/AUGUST 2011 VOLUME XXVI NUMBER 4

NRMPMATCH

in EmergencyMedicine

ANNUALMEETING:

Impressionsfrom Boston

DEBRA HOURY, MD, MPH

ANNUALMEETING

AWARDWINNERS

SAEM BoardPresident

SAEM STAFF

Executive DirectorJames R. Tarrant, CAEExt. 212, [email protected]

Executive Director – CORDBarbara A. [email protected]

Executive AssistantSandy RummelExt. 213, [email protected]

AccountantMai LuuExt. 208, [email protected]

BookkeeperJanet BentleyExt. 202, [email protected]

Customer Service CoordinatorMichelle IniguezExt. 206, [email protected]

Education ManagerKirsten NadlerExt. 207, [email protected]

Grants CoordinatorMelissa McMillianExt. 203, [email protected]

Help Desk SpecialistNeal HardinExt. 204, [email protected]

Marketing & Membership ManagerHolly Gouin, MBAExt. 210, [email protected]

Meeting CoordinatorMaryanne Greketis, CMPExt. 209, [email protected]

Membership AssistantMike AllenExt. 211, [email protected]

ReceptionistKaren FreundExt. 201, [email protected]

SAEM MEMbErShip

Membership Count as of July 1, 2011

2010-11 SAEM DUES

$545 Active $160 Fellow$510 Associate $135 Resident Group$480 Faculty Group $135 Medical Student$450 2nd yr. Graduate $115 Emeritus$325 1st yr. Graduate $100 Academies$160 Resident $25 Interest Group

International – email [email protected] for pricing details.All membership categories include one free interest group membership.

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2,250 Active 48 Associate 3,032 Resident/Fellow

150 Medical Students 9 International Affiliates 11 Emeritus 5,500 Total

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4 President’s Message

5 Executive Director’s Message

6 The Ethics of Compassion

7 Annual Meeting Follow-Up

15 Annual Meeting Awards

20 NRMP Match

24 Academic Announcements

27 Calls And Meeting Announcements

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are listening. As of January 2011, SAEM has taken a step

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prESiDEnT’S MESSAgESOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINEDebra Houry, MD, MPH

ReflectionsaftertheSaEMannualMeeting

I first became involved in SAEM as a medical student through interest group involvement, and then as a resident I participated in several committees and served as the resident member on the Board of Directors. It is surreal to now be writing to you as the incoming President of our organization, and I look forward to the opportunity to serve you this year. I’ve been attending the SAEM meeting since 1996 and haven’t missed one yet. It’s been amazing to watch the evolution of the

annual meeting. 2360 attended this year’s meeting - our largest ever! Despite the size of the meeting, the meeting still felt personal through the interest group and academy meetings and the additional tracks at the meeting. I hope that whatever the primary focus of your EM career, you found a place at the meeting. The level of didactics on education has become very sophisticated, as evidenced by this year’s Spivey Lecture “Teaching and Assessing Clinical Reasoning and Medical Decision-Making in Emergency Medicine: The Missing Link in Resident and Student Education.” Another recent advancement is the regular presence of leaders from federal funding agencies, such as the NIH, at our lectures on grants and funding opportunities. Many of the academies this year also contributed didactics to the annual meeting, further adding to the breadth of the program and expanding the number of tracks offered. The president of the European Society for Emergency Medicine also spoke at this year’s meeting, opening the door for increased collaborations with our international colleagues in emergency medicine.

Sitting on the plane headed home from Boston, I reflected on where we have come as a Society and where we are going. SAEM was founded 22 years ago after the merger of the

University Association for Emergency Medicine and the Society for Teachers of Emergency Medicine. As our organization grows and matures, SAEM continues to expand and respond to our diverse members’ needs. One area of recent growth is in formalizing and supporting training programs for our members. For example, the SAEM Board of Directors approved the first SAEM Education Fellowship grant for this year. In addition, Jeff Kline developed the Research Fellowship Certification Task Force last year, and at this year’s annual meeting he announced 14 SAEM-approved research fellowships. Our Society is committed to ensuring the next generation of academic emergency physicians has the opportunities and the resources to succeed. We have also been more involved in advocacy efforts related to academic emergency medicine. SAEM joined the Emergency Medicine Action Fund this year. We have also partnered with other EM organizations on issues as they arise, such as resident work hours and federal research funding.

Although SAEM is still a relatively young organization, with the recent move to Chicago and subsequent hiring of additional staff, including several with master’s degrees and backgrounds with national organizations, the organization is quickly maturing. Yet as we grow, it is important to reflect inward and ensure that we continue to serve our members’ needs. Over the next year, one of my main goals, as reflected in several committee objectives, is to focus on improved member services and retention. With the advent of the new website, you will see new members-only material being added. We are also focusing on greater involvement of residents and students in SAEM - a new Resident and Student Advisory Committee was initiated this spring, specific didactics for residents were added to this year’s meeting, and we look forward to increasing our collaborations with EMRA. Please let us know how our organization can better serve you and improve what we do for our members. And take the time to get involved in SAEM through academies, interest groups, and committees - you will discover how rewarding being active in this organization can be. I know I have, and I look forward to a great year at SAEM.

Debra Houry, MD, MPH

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ExEcUTivE DirEcTor’S MESSAgE

The 2011 SAEM Annual Meeting hosted one of its largest meeting attendances in history. After speaking with membership who shared their enthusiasm for SAEM, I thought, this is where the business of SAEM takes place. Throughout the year our Academies, Committees, Task Forces, and Interest Groups work on many projects, but it all begins with the interaction among membership at Annual Meeting.

The Annual Meeting marks the New Year for SAEM. The members’ energy is apparent as they stand in the halls discussing topics from the plenary and didactic sessions, lightning orals and posters. The ideas generated in the meetings of our Academies, Committees and Interest Groups help SAEM remain relevant to the membership. The SAEM Board met twice and the SAEM Foundation once as your elected leaders provided good stewardship by managing the organization’s funds and steering its activities toward achieving the goals identified in the 5-year strategic plan.

The programming for our Annual Meeting has been evolving, with greater emphasis on education presentations, Academy-specific programs, and new innovations, such as the new itinerary planner, to meet members’ needs and interests. Additionally, the exhibit area continues to grow. This area allows members to engage in discussions about employment opportunities with recruiters, and come face to face with publishers, medical device companies and other vendors of interest in academic emergency medicine.

Just prior to the Annual Meeting, the launch of the new SAEM website added to the buzz at the meeting. There will be several phases to the rollout of the new website as relevant material is identified and migrated to the new site. Outdated material will be archived. All groups are encouraged to communicate with the SAEM headquarters if there is material which they are seeking that is not found on the website. As material is added, it will be placed in one of three categories: Public View; Members Only; and Group Only. Groups will have a listserv for communication in

email threads, and document storage, which will not be available for view by the public, and older materials will now be archived. Members Only will consist of work products from groups with potential benefit to all members.

The Faculty Development Committee added a resource to the website to assist faculty members in planning career advancement. This material will be maintained in the new Members Only section of the website. You will need your SAEM user ID and password to log in and access this section.

The Residency Catalogue has been updated to allow each program to edit and update its listing at any time. All Program Coordinators were sent a user ID and password to gain access to the institution’s listing. If your Program Coordinator has changed or you are not listed in the Residency Catalogue, contact [email protected] to obtain access credentials.

Academies, Committees and Task Forces, and Interest Groups have the opportunity to bring forth creative ideas that enhance the relevance of SAEM for all members. Many of our Committees and Task Forces use the Annual Meeting to initiate projects to meet their annual objectives, which are aimed at allowing SAEM to meet the goals of its 5-year strategic plan. Interest Groups have the opportunity to discuss the latest advancements in their interest area and discuss ideas for didactic submissions. Academies conduct business meetings, elect leaders and offer educational sessions for their respective membership. The activities of the Academies are expanding the educational offerings of the SAEM meeting.

Finally, the enthusiasm of the SAEM membership in Boston can be seen from the early-morning fun run to the active networking conducted over evening fellowship. The Annual Meeting is where the business of SAEM connects the society to its members and drives the activities for the full year. The leadership looks forward to your participation in SAEM and the innovative ideas that your combined energy brings to the organization.

We hope you see this progress as a positive direction for the Society and will join us in making this year even more productive and valuable.

James Tarrant, CAE

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EThicS in AcTionthEEthicSoFcoMpaSSionMark Clark, M.D.Program Director, St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital Center EM Residency – Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University

Case: A 76-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with a complaint of weakness. The ED is packed, it is 4 in the afternoon and, to be honest, “generalized weakness” is one of my least favorite complaints. When I initially looked at the chart I felt a wave of resistance. “This woman looks fine and has normal vitals…I’m sure this is nothing emergent,” I thought. I quickly glanced at the vitals—fine, including O2 Sat and temperature. I looked over the triage note that very briefly stated: “Pt. was in ICU visiting husband who died today. Pt. swooned and fell to ground when given the news. No LOC. Escorted to ED for evaluation.”

The virtue of compassion is included in nearly every ethical code for medical professionals, including the SAEM Code of Conduct and the SAEM Declaration of Professional Responsibility, as well as the AMA’s Principles of Medical Ethics—among countless others. Medical schools, postgraduate training programs in every specialty, and the literature from almost every discipline place compassion at the top, second only to competence, when outlining the essential attributes of medical professionals. Residency training programs are required by the ACGME to demonstrate that they adequately teach and assess residents’ demonstration of compassion in patient care.

Despite all this attention, ethicists and medical professionals are often unclear about the exact definition of compassion and on the role compassion should play in everyday patient encounters. Residents and practicing EP’s are also unclear: Is compassion feeling sorry for patients? Is it dwelling on the unfortunate circumstances of others? Does having compassion require that I stop everything else I’m doing and spend a lot of time with a patient? What about medical judgment? Won’t compassion cloud objective and decisive evaluation and management of patients? Aren’t I more likely to “burn out” if I become emotionally engaged in the situations of my patients?

While we medical professionals may be puzzled by these questions, anyone who has ever been a patient or the loved one of a patient is crystal clear about what compassion is, its precise role in medical care and just how vital it really is. In fact, while patients and their families might remember very little about the details of a visit to the ER, they always remember whether or not the doctors and nurses who treated them were compassionate. If you ask a patient what it means for a physician or nurse to be compassionate, they will always express in their own words several of the following universal themes: 1. The need to be seen and acknowledged by another human

being who appreciates the concrete details of their situation at that moment and who demonstrates a desire to help.

2. The need to be treated with respect and dignity. 3. The need to not be judged or discounted. 4. The need for sincere human warmth and kindness.

Compassion literally means “to suffer with.” It is similar to empathy in that both entail a shared experience with the patient. But it is more than empathy because compassion includes a feeling of warmth or kindness that is demonstrated through a sincere intention to help. Compassion is expressed in action.

Compassion is also unlike sympathy in that it is not just feeling sorry for another. Rather, compassion implicitly acknowledges the underlying relatedness between two people in a nonjudgmental bond of common humanity.

It is difficult to consistently be compassionate in the ER for many good reasons. Time is short. Demands on our attention are high. The intensity and frequency of life and death situations and human illness, tragedy and suffering often require a degree of distance to avoid becoming overwhelmed. Some patients are not likeable, and some may have caused their own illnesses by drug or alcohol abuse. Perhaps one of the most formidable barriers to compassion is the commonly held belief that it is not medically necessary and, therefore, not the job of an ER physician.

Professional ethics implies a habitual adherence to a set of principles, even when this is difficult. Compassion, like honesty or competence or any other of the professional virtues, is like a muscle that needs to be developed. Expressing compassion is often challenging but not impossible. It only takes a willingness to try. The first step is to be open to seeing and acknowledging the patient in front of us with respect and dignity. The second step is to maintain the intention of understanding, caring and helping when possible. For many of our patients in the ED, there is no “medical” solution to their problem, and the greatest thing we can do to help them is to show compassion.

It doesn’t take long. Sometimes it is just a look or a touch or a lowering of our voice. Sometimes it is just a willingness to listen nonjudgmentally for a few moments. In all cases it takes a firm intention to use all our skill and expertise to improve the situation of another. Resolution of the Case:

I overcame my initial resistance and sat down with the patient—glad that I had read the triage note fully before entering the room. I introduced myself, looked at her and took in the importance of this moment for her and her family. I touched her shoulder, looked her in the eyes, and said, “I’m so sorry.” There was an immediate connection and she said to me: “We were together for 54 years.” I spent 5 minutes with her and her family just listening. I carefully examined her and we checked an ecg. When we were finished, I asked if she would prefer to spend the night in the hospital, but she told me she was feeling better now and was ready to go home.

Looking back on the day, I realized this was one of the more rewarding moments, and it gave me a great deal of satisfaction. And all I had really done was allow myself to show compassion.

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AnnUAl MEETing 2011

wildernessMedicineinterestgroupupdate

Dear SAEM Wilderness Medicine Interest Group members,Thanks for such an outstanding meeting in Boston. As noted by Mel Otten, it was a SAEM meeting of firsts:1) First hands-on wilderness medicine skills session (Introduction to High

Angle Rescue)2) First formal didactic on wilderness medicine!Our Wilderness Medicine Interest Group was very well attended, with 27 members present. Attached are the minutes and goals for next year.Please extend congratulations to our members below on their new appointments:1) Membership - Responsible for reaching out to interested EPs, EM

residents, and interested medical students to widen our SAEM WM IG membership base. (Establishing the passionate ‘alpine, small tent’ interest group).

Nomination: TBA. As noted by Dr. Baumann, this remains an excellent opportunity for a medical student/ resident to step up, contribute, and be noticed! Be in touch ASAP.2) Education - Responsible for being aware of the wide range of wilderness

medicine educational offerings for medical students, residents, fellows, and staff - and to keep an up-to-date web listing on the SAEM site.

Selected: Justin Pitman, HAEMR.3) Research opportunities -- Responsible for being aware of the wide

range of medical student, resident, and fellowship research opportunities in wilderness medicine/high altitude/hyperbaric/envenomation research and keeping an up-to-date web listing on the SAEM site.

Selected: Meaghan Nitka, EM Resident, Boston Medical Center; Dan Wood, EM Resident, Emory University.4) A liaison with WMS, ACEP, and other medical groups, so that we

can effectively communicate with other national groups interested in the development of wilderness medicine as an academic discipline.

ACEP - Rob Cooney, Director of Curriculum Development Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Conemaugh Medical CenterWMS - Tracy F. Cushing, U. of ColoradoDept of Defense - Mel Otten, EM Faculty, University of Cincinnati.

I very much appreciate the great enthusiasm in our community and will look forward to seeing an even more robust wilderness medicine program on the docket for Chicago’s SAEM meeting. Wilderness Medicine is a sub-specialty of Emergency Medicine. SAEM will continue to be great means of expanding the teaching and practice of wilderness medicine.Don’t hesitate to be in touch with any ideas, plans. Best,Stuart N. Stuart Harris MD MFA FACEPDirector, MGH Wilderness Medicine Fellowship:http://www.massgeneral.org/education/fellowship.aspx?id=94Chief, Division of Wilderness MedicineDepartment of Emergency MedicineMassachusetts General HospitalBoston, MA 02114Assistant Professor of SurgeryHarvard Medical School

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22ndannualSaEM/physio-controlEMSResearchFellowship

This year in Boston, SAEM and Physio-Control awarded the 22nd annual SAEM/Physio-Control EMS Research Fellowship to Adam Frisch, MD of the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Frisch will be conducting a multicenter prospective observational study validating a prehospital decision rule to identify critically ill patients in the prehospital setting. The study’s hypothesis is that using appropriate clinical criteria, prehospital providers can accurately identify critically ill patients, allowing for early notification to the receiving facility with the hopes of improving overall patient care. Dr. Frisch’s primary mentor for this project is past grant recipient Christian Martin-Gill, MD, MPH, who was awarded the SAEM/Physio-Control EMS Research Fellowship two years prior. Dr. Martin-Gill showed his enthusiasm for the co-sponsored fellowship, stating that he appreciates the “important contribution such a grant provides to begin an academic career, as it did [his] own.”

The success of this fellowship is obvious from its enduring tenure. All twenty-two of the past EMS fellows were invited to attend a reception in their honor at this year’s SAEM Annual Meeting. The three most recent fellows posed for a quick photo at the EMS reception, hosted by Physio-Control, on June 3, 2011, along with 1992 recipient Ted Delbridge, MD, MPH.

Left to right: Adam Tobias, MD, 2010; Christian Martin-Gill, MD, MPH, 2009; Adam Frisch, MD, 2011; Ted Delbridge, MD, MPH, 1992

SaEMFoundationupdate:yourdonationsatworkforResearchandEducation!

The SAEM Foundation Board of Directors met at the SAEM Annual Meeting to review the growth and progress of the Foundation. There was good news all around. First, the Foundation corpus has grown to an unprecedented $6.28 million. That’s the highest it’s ever been, and re-establishes the SAEM Foundation as the largest charitable foundation sponsoring career development and training grants in emergency medicine. The Board again voted to use the corpus to fund $180,000 of the present grant awards that SAEM gives out this year, reducing the percentage of those grants that need to be funded by SAEM operational funds.

In addition, the SAEM Foundation will begin funding the first-ever SAEM Educational Fellowship Grant this year. In the past, the SAEM Foundation grants were specifically targeted to research skills development, but not necessarily educational skills development or educational research. Last year, for the first time ever, donations to the SAEM Foundation could be designated for either education or research. A total of $16,000 was donated by SAEM members in 2010 for education, and

another $150,000 of excess SAEM operational funds were donated over two years to establish an Educational Fund within the SAEM Foundation. This year, the Grants Committee is planning on awarding a $75,000 grant for the SAEM Educational Fellowship. Awardees are expected to complete a two-year training program in educational curricula as part of a Masters in Education program at their home institution. The goal of the fellowship is to build a cadre of skilled lifelong educators in academic emergency medicine. The SAEM Foundation will fund these fellowships, and your donations are integral to their continued success.

If you want to donate to the SAEM Foundation, please visit the SAEM website and click on the SAEM Foundation. The SAEM Foundation is a separate 501(c)3 charitable organization, and your donations are tax deductible. Build the future of academic emergency medicine by donating now, and donating annually!!!

THANkS vERY MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

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gEMa:SaEM’snewestacademy!GEMA Media and Communications Committee

The Board of Directors (BOD) of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) approved the formation of the Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA) this spring. The International Interest Group had spent years working towards Academy status. With help from their Advisors, the proposal was submitted in the fall of 2010 and was fully approved by March of 2011. The first meeting was held at the recent SAEM Annual Meeting held in Boston.

There, at its first business meeting, the Academy presented its mission statement and confirmed its inaugural leadership team. Two of GEMA’s didactic presentations took place directly afterward, and a third was given the next day.

The Mission Statement of GEMA reads:

1. To improve the global delivery of emergency care through research, education, and mentorship.

2. To enhance SAEM’s role as the international emergency medicine organization that augments, supports, and shares advances in global research, education, and mentorship.

The panel discussion on the “Professionalization of the Humanitarian Sector” was moderated by Dr. Vicken Totten and hosted speakers from the US Military (Dr. C. James Holliman), from the Harvard Health Initiative (Dr. Miriam Aschkenasy), and from the Global Health Programs in Reproductive Sciences (Dr. Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew). The panelists focused on the role of physicians in Humanitarian Aid efforts, and discussed the ethical issues relevant to disaster medicine.

Global/International EM Fellowship Programs were showcased by representatives from The New York Presbyterian - Columbia University International EM Program and the Loma Linda University Medical Center International EM Fellowship Programs. The programs presented outcomes of some of their respective investigative research and educational projects. Both programs also discussed their individual curricula and past experiences abroad.

Additionally, the Academy sponsored yet another didactic presentation relevant to educators everywhere: “Know Before you Go (or send your residents).” Training residents in the developing world offers unparalleled learning opportunities but also may present dangers to the trainee that would be unexpected in the US. One outcome of the GEMA meetings in Boston will be a consensus paper written by GEMA, the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD), and the Emergency Medicine Residents Association (EMRA) highlighting the need to assure the safety of trainees traveling abroad.

This consensus paper is one of several projects slated to take place this year under the current leadership. Additional projects for the year include developing a Global EM educational track for future SAEM meetings and a new webpage. The webpage will be user-friendly and content-rich. Some of the content will be fire-wall protected, for members only; other offerings will be publicly

accessible. There will be a bulletin board posting multi-directional offerings of positions for attendings, students, residents, and fellows.

The webpage will link to active training programs outside the US, starting with all known International EM Fellowship Programs. Information will include such fellowship design issues as “maintaining a presence on the ground” and how to integrate Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) educational criteria into international rotations. There will also be a resource tool for on-site evaluations for use by rotators in other countries. This will be unique in SAEM’s history and will be useful to many training programs.

The GEMA site will link to EM educational sites both in the US and in other countries. GEMA will serve as a resource for academic emergency physicians from any country with interests in global medicine. As such, GEMA wants to create a repository of searchable research projects for interested students, residents, and faculty.

To join GEMA, interested parties must be a member of SAEM. Annual Academy dues are $100. However, as GEMA has just been launched, this year’s dues will be prorated to only $50 —good though December 31, 2011. Residents and Fellows can join the Academy for free; medical students will be charged $25.

Finally, as part of its mission to “To enhance SAEM’s role as the … organization that … supports … global research, education, and mentorship,” in emergency medicine, GEMA leadership will be submitting a draft proposal to SAEM’s BOD for a tiered dues system. This proposed system will reduce dues for members proportionate the average income in their country of practice and residence. The World Bank ranks country income into Hinari bands – see http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications/country-and-lending-groups#Low_income. GEMA proposes that the dues be reduced by a proportion equal to the ratio of the country’s average income divided by the US average income. This proportion may be employed both for Academy membership and for general membership in SAEM and in its member Interest Groups and Academies.

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AWARDS COMMITTEECHAIR: Louis Ling, MDBOD Liaison: Debra Houry, MD, MPHStaff Liaison: Michelle Iniguez, Neal Hardin

CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS COMMITTEECHAIR: Eddy Lang, MDBOD Liaison: Debra Houry, MD, MPHStaff Liaison: Jim Tarrant, Kirsten Nadler

CONSULTATION SERvICES COMMITTEECHAIR: Philip Shayne, MDBOD Liaison: Robert Hockberger, MDStaff Liaison: Jim Tarrant, Karen Freund

DEvELOPMENT COMMITTEECHAIR: James Hoekstra, MDBOD Liaison: Brent King, MDStaff Liaison: Holly Gouin, Melissa McMillian

ETHICS COMMITTEECHAIR: Jeremy Simon, MDBOD Liaison: Deborah Diercks, MD, MScStaff Liaison: Sandy Rummel

EXTERNAL COLLABORATION COMMITTEECHAIR: Christopher Fee, MDBOD Liaison: Alan E. Jones, MDStaff Liaison: Jim Tarrant, Karen Freund

FACULTY DEvELOPMENT COMMITTEECHAIR: Tracy Sanson, MDBOD Liaison: Robert Hockberger, MDStaff Liaison: Holly Gouin, Mai Luu

FEDERAL FUNDING COMMITTEECHAIR: Roger Lewis, MD, PhDBOD Liaison: Jeffrey Kline, MDStaff Liaison: Jim Tarrant

FINANCE COMMITTEECHAIR: Richard E. Wolfe, MDBOD Liaison: Deborah Diercks, MD, MScStaff Liaison: Mai Luu, Jim Tarrant

GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION COMMITTEECHAIR: Jonathan Fisher, MDBOD Liaison: Sarah Stahmer, MDStaff Liaison: Maryanne Greketis, Kirsten Nadler

GRANTS COMMITTEECHAIR: James F. Holmes, MD, MPHBOD Liaison: Alan E. Jones, MDStaff Liaison: Melissa McMillian

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEECHAIR: Jamie Collings, MDBOD Liaison: Brigitte Baumann, MD, MSCEStaff Liaison: Holly Gouin, Mike Allen

NOMINATING COMMITTEECHAIR: Cherri Hobgood, MDBOD Liaison: Cherri Hobgood, MDStaff Liaison: Jim Tarrant, Sandy Rummel

PROGRAM COMMITTEECHAIR: Michael Hochberg, MDBOD Liaison: Andra Blomkalns, MDStaff Liaison: Kirsten Nadler, Maryanne Greketis, Sandy Rummel

RESEARCH COMMITTEECHAIR: D. Mark Courtney, MDBOD Liaison: Brigitte Baumann, MD, MSCEStaff Liaison: Melissa McMillian

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEECHAIR: Judd Hollander, MDBOD Liaison: Jeffrey Kline, MDStaff Liaison: Melissa McMillian

RESIDENT/STUDENT ADvISORY COMMITTEECHAIR: Jody Vogel, MDBOD Liaison: Melinda Morton, MD, MPHStaff Liaison: Holly Gouin, Mike Allen

SOCIAL MEDIA COMMITTEECHAIR: Nicholas Genes, MD, PhDBOD Liaison: Melinda Morton, MD, MPHStaff Liaison: Neal Hardin

WEB EDITORIAL BOARD (WEB)CHAIR: D. Matthew Sullivan, MDBOD Liaison: Andra Blomkalns, MDStaff Liaison: Neal Hardin

ACEP/SAEM JOINT TASk FORCECHAIR: Roger Lewis, MD, PhDBOD Liaison: Jeffrey Kline, MDStaff Liaison: Jim Tarrant, Melissa McMillian

CORD COLLABORATIvE TASk FORCECHAIR: Stephen Hayden, MDBOD Liaison: Brent King, MDStaff Liaison: Michelle Iniguez, Karen Freund

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AAAEMCHAIR: Jim ScheulenBOD Liaison: Debra Houry, MD, MPHStaff Liaison: Holly Gouin, Jim Tarrant, Mai Luu

AWAEMCHAIR: Stephanie Abbuhl, MDBOD Liaison: Robert Hockberger, MDStaff Liaison: Holly Gouin, Michelle Iniguez

GEMACHAIR: Ian B.K. Martin, MDBOD Liaison: Alan E. Jones, MDStaff Liaison: Holly Gouin

SIMULATIONCHAIR: John A. Vozenilik, MDBOD Liaison: Cherri Hobgood, MDStaff Liaison: Michelle Iniguez, Neal Hardin, Jim Tarrant

AGEMCHAIR: Timothy Platts-Mills, MDBOD Liaison: Brigitte Baumann, MD, MSCEStaff Liaison: Kirsten Nadler

CDEMCHAIR: Jonathan Fisher, MDBOD Liaison: Deborah Diercks, MD, MScStaff Liaison: Sandy Rummel, Mike Allen

ULTRASOUNDCHAIR: Resa Lewiss, MD, RDMSBOD Liaison: Sarah Stahmer, MDStaff Liaison: Melissa McMillian

2011-2012SaEMacadEMiES

SocialMediacommitteeupdate

The Social Media Committee met during the Annual Meeting. We enjoyed welcoming new members (and seeing the original members face-to-face) and planning coverage of the Annual Meeting.

Many thanks to Ali Raja and James Miner for their efforts. Ali, working with the Program Committee, promoted dozens of posters and presentations on Facebook and Twitter in the weeks leading up to the meeting. Jim, with Scott Joing, filmed and interviewed many speakers and notable figures in SAEM, and showcased these videos on SAEM’s Facebook wall.

We also want to thank Committee members Robert Cooney and Michelle Lin, incoming chair Jason Nomura and outgoing chair Nick Genes, and medical students Mary Calderone and Steven McGuire, for fostering academic discussions on this platform. All told, through the duration of the meeting, nearly 60 individuals tweeted over 750 times, rivaling the output of much larger scientific conferences.

A didactic session on SAEM’s online initiatives, led by Jim Miner and featuring Nick Genes and Matthew Sullivan, was well received (the presentation can be found via SAEM’s Facebook page).

Look for more didactic sessions to help members navigate social media in 2012, and initiatives with partners in the Grants, Research and Development committees in the summer and fall.

nEwBoaRdoFdiREctoRSElection Results Announced at the 2011 SAEM Annual Business Meeting

Debra E. Houry, MD, MPH, President Emory University

Cherri D. Hobgood, MD, President-Elect University of Indiana

Deborah B. Diercks, MD, MSC, Secretary-Treasurer University of California, Davis Medical Center

Jeffrey A. kline, MD, Past President Carolinas Medical Center

Brigitte M. Baumann, MD, DTM&H, MSCE Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center

Andra L. Blomkalns, MD University of Cincinnati

Robert S. Hockberger, MD Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Alan E. Jones, MD University of Mississippi Medical Center

Brent R. king, MD University of Texas Medical School at Houson

Sarah A. Stahmer, MD Duke University School of Medicine

Melinda J. Morton, MD, MPH Resident Member, Johns Hopkins Hospital

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Akron General Medical Center/NeoucomAlameda County Medical Center Highland Campus Albany Medical CenterAlbert Einstein Medical CenterAllegheny General HospitalBaylor College of MedicineBaystateBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Affiliated EM ResidencyBeth Israel Medical Center - Albert Einstein College of MedicineBoston UniversityBrown Emergency Medicine ResidencyBWH/MGH Harvard Affiliated Emergency MedicineCarilion Clinic-Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Emergency MedicineCarolinas Medical CenterCase Western Reserve University/MetroHealth Medical CenterChristiana Care Health SystemChristus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi Memorial Emergency MedicineCook County Emergency MedicineDartmouth Hitchcock Emergency Medicine Residency ProgramDenver Health Emergency MedicineDrexel Emergency MedicineDuke University Medical CenterEastern Virginia Medical SchoolEmory UniversityGeisinger Health System Emergency Medicine Residency ProgramGeorgetown University Hospital/ Washington Hospital Center Emergency Medicine ResidencyHarbor-UCLA Medical CenterHennepin County Medical CenterHenry Ford HospitalIndiana University School of MedicineJacobi/Albert Einstein/MontefioreJohn Peter Smith Health NetworkJohns Hopkins UniversityKern Medical CenterLincoln Medical and Mental Health CenterLoma Linda University Medical CenterLong Island Jewish Medical CenterLos Angeles County & USC Medical CenterLouisiana State University Health Sciences Center - ShreveportLouisiana State University Emergency MedicineMaimonides Medical CenterMaine Medical CenterMayo School of Graduate Medical EducationMSU-EM Residency - Lansing, MINew York Hospital QueensNew York Methodist HospitalNew York PresbyterianNorth Shore University Hospital Northwestern Memorial HospitalOregon Health & Sciences University

Orlando Regional Medical CenterPenn State University/Milton S. Hershey Medical CenterRegions HospitalResurrection Emergency Medicine Residency ProgramSaint Louis University Division of Emergency MedicineStanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine ResidencyStaten Island University HospitalSUNY Downstate/Kings CountySUNY Upstate Medical UniversitySynergy Medical Education AllianceTexas A&M/Scott and White HealthcareTexas Tech University HSC, Paul L. Foster School of MedicineThe Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina UniversityThe George Washington UniversityThe Ohio State UniversityThe University of Alabama at BirminghamThe University of ArizonaThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at DallasUA/UPHK Graduate Medical Education ConsortiumUniversity of California San Francisco/SF General HospitalUniversity of California, DavisUniversity of California, IrvineUniversity of ChicagoUniversity of CincinnatiUniversity of ConnecticutUniversity of Florida- JacksonvilleUniversity of Illinois College of Medicine at PeoriaUniversity of IowaUniversity of KentuckyUniversity of LouisvilleUniversity of Massachusetts Medical SchoolUniversity of Michigan/ St. Joseph Mercy Hospital EM Residency ProgramUniversity of Mississippi Medical CenterUniversity of Missouri - Kansas CityUniversity of Nevada School of MedicineUniversity of New MexicoUniversity of North CarolinaUniversity of Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine ResidencyUniversity of Puerto RicoUniversity of RochesterUniversity of South Florida, Emergency Medicine Residency ProgramUniversity of Texas Medical School at HoustonUniversity of UtahUniversity of VirginiaUniversity of WisconsinVirginia Commonwealth University Medical CenterWake Forest University School of MedicineWashington University School of Medicine, St. LouisWest Virginia UniversityWilliam Beaumont HospitalYale-New Haven Medical CenterYork Hospital

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2011 AnnUAl MEETing AwArDS

onReceivingthehalJayneEducationalExcellenceawardJames G. Adams, MD

I would like to thank those who nominated me for this Hal Jayne Educational Excellence Award. It is a career highlight for me. I must also thank all those at Northwestern, the faculty and residents, whom I regard so highly, along with my many other colleagues in Boston, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard teaching hospitals, the military, the University of Pittsburgh, and Georgetown, whose influence has been formative. Of course I could not be here without the support of family and friends who mean the world to me. I would especially like to thank all of you in academic emergency medicine for being such great colleagues, for helping make this such a fulfilling career. It remains a great journey and it is an absolute pleasure to be on it with you, working hard work together, making the specialty better, striving to serve patients well.

It is now 20 years since I finished my residency. I recall the rise of EM in the 1980s, the specialty then only recently achieving solid ground. Emergency medicine was not necessarily predicted to succeed at its founding, but with perseverance and aspiration for excellence, it did succeed. Even though there remain threats and challenges, there is great talent in this room and in this specialty, so we are well-equipped to respond, adapt, and continue to succeed in our mission.

I am impressed now, in 2011, with the high esteem in which you are held by society and senior leaders inside and outside of healthcare. I am also impressed, I must admit, with how little others still understand of what we do. Even other physician colleagues do not have clarity as they spend less and less training time inside the emergency department. There is respect, but not insight. This is concerning. People seem to understand our rescue function, the need to expertly respond to patients with trauma, shock, and with STEMI who need their myocardium rescued. Less fully appreciated is our role in providing relief of pain, suffering, and distress, a major reason for understandable ED visits. Even more poorly understood is our role of discernment, the need to properly assess for subtle but serious underlying conditions. This last skill seems to be a principal, but perhaps under-recognized reason for our existence as a specialty.

This partial understanding of our role allows a national dialogue that is not of our making. It is frequently said that emergency care is too expensive and too often unnecessary. Lyndon Johnson said this; Bill Clinton and George Bush also said it. I suspect that President Obama will soon say it as well. And still ED visits have increased through the decades. That emergency care is only between 2 and 4% of US healthcare expenditures is notable but insufficiently known. Our facilities are seen as expensive and overused, even though it is insured patients with real needs who predominantly fill our hallways and our waiting rooms. The notion that there is excessive, unnecessary care neither solves nor satisfies anything. It hasn’t in almost 50 years.

Although emergency medicine is incompletely understood, it is, admittedly, highly regarded. Although the larger US healthcare system is not viewed as the best in the world for its citizens, the emergency care system is. There is clear international consensus that the US emergency care system is indeed the best in the world.

Now, in 2011, with confidence in our quality, we need to begin to control the narrative. We must enable others to more fully understand our role in rescue, relief, and discernment. There are no other sites better skilled, better equipped, or better organized to achieve these goals more efficiently or effectively. We do not seek patients who can be well served in another setting. We simply do not want patients harmed in the process of trying to get them there.

Our message is an optimistic one, a welcoming one, an ambitious one. True to our values of service and excellence, we will continue to improve in clinical care, in education, and in research. In this work I have found my calling; in you I have found impressive colleagues and good friends. Through your talents and your leadership we will surely continue to advance. Thank you for this wonderful career. This award today is great recognition, and I am touched by it. I thank you for all you have done for me, both today and throughout these many years. I am deeply grateful.

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Many new features appear in the form of “modules” and will be updated on a regular basis. The new platform is more robust and easier to navigate, with enhanced online functionality. Visit often and stay tuned for updates!

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onReceivingtheSaEMExcellenceinResearchawardAdam J. Singer, MD

It is a great honor and privilege to receive this award from SAEM and its members. This award is especially meaningful to me since it comes from SAEM, an organization that has nurtured and encouraged me over the last 2 decades. It is important to note that I accept this award not only on my behalf but on behalf of the dozens of mentors, students, residents, nurses, support staff and patients without whose support I would not have succeeded as a researcher.

I would like to take this opportunity to encourage the junior members of our society to strive for excellence in their own academic and research careers. In order to be successful it is important to understand the vital role that advanced formal training and finding a supportive mentor play in one’s academic career. I myself am very thankful to have mentors such as Judd Hollander and Mark Henry, who helped me get to where I am today.

Today, more then ever before, our specialty and our society has a growing number of excellent mentors and role models who continue to cultivate our future generation of academicians and researchers. While federal funding is always tight, thanks to the

efforts of SAEM’s and ACEP’s leadership, extramural funding support from federal agencies, such as the NIH, is greater than ever before. Now is the time to seize the opportunity that has been given to all of us who are involved in acute and emergency care research. Consider collaborating with others scientists and specialists in your institution and in other institutions to enhance your development and success.

While the life of a researcher is filled with numerous barriers and disappointments, the potential rewards and successes make it all worthwhile in the long term. As an emergency physician, I have personally seen and touched the lives of nearly 100,000 patients throughout my career. In contrast, the fruits of my research have touched the lives of millions of patients throughout the world, and there can be nothing more rewarding than that.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank my family: my wife, Ayellet, and my three children, Daniel, Lee, and Karen, who have tolerated my long absences spent cultivating my own professional career, sometimes at their expense.

cpcwinners

Division OneResident Presenter Winner: Joseph Pare, MD, Boston Medical CenterResident Presenter Runner Up: Aimee Nefcy, MD, Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State UniversityFaculty Discussant Winner: Daniel Egan, MD, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt HospitalFaculty Discussant Runner Up: Dennis Guy, MD, University Hospitals Case Medical Center

Division TwoResident Presenter Winner: Nadine Himelfarb, MD, Brown UniversityResident Presenter Runner Up: Christian Maloschik, MD, University of California, IrvineFaculty Discussant Winner: Amber Richards, MD, Maine Medical CenterFaculty Discussant Runner Up: David Pearson, MD, Carolinas Medical Center

Division ThreeResident Presenter Winner: Kevin Koehler, MD, Naval Medical Center, PortsmouthResident Presenter Runner Up: Bahareh Aslani, MD, Henry Ford Combined EM/IM ProgramFaculty Discussant Winner: Tim Barcomb, MD, Albany Medical CenterFaculty Discussant Runner Up: Aparajita Sohoni, MD, Alameda County Medical Center

Division FourResident Presenter Winner: Jenna MB White, MD, University of MichiganResident Presenter Runner Up: Crystal Weis, MD, Oregon Health & Science UniversityFaculty Discussant Winner: Tala Elia, MD, Baystate Medical CenterFaculty Discussant Runner Up: Michael Van Meter, MD, University of Texas Medical School at Houston

Division FiveResident Presenter Winner: Juliana Wilson, DO, University at BuffaloResident Presenter Runner Up: Tara Paterson, MD, North Shore University HospitalFaculty Discussant Winner: Christopher Wolcott, MD, LSU Health Sciences Center, ShreveportFaculty Discussant Runner Up: David Bell, MD, PhD, Maricopa Medical Center

Division SixResident Presenter Winner: Melissa Marinelli, MD, Northwestern UniversityResident Presenter Runner Up: Sarah Frasure, MD, Brigham&Women’s/Mass General HospitalFaculty Discussant Winner: Lauren Smith, MD, Stroger Cook County HospitalFaculty Discussant Runner Up: Erik Kochert, MD, York Hospital

Congratulations!

Congratulations to all the Resident Presenters and Faculty Discussants who participated in the 2011 National Emergency CPC Semi-Final Competition in Boston! We had a very successful competition this year thanks to all the hard work done by the resident presenters, faculty discussants, judges and the CORD office. We look forward to seeing you at the CPC Final Competition at ACEP in San Francisco in October.

The winners and runners up from each division are listed here:

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2011SaEMawardwinners

BEST BASIC SCIENCE PRESENTATIONVikhyat S. Bebarta, MD, Wilford Hall Medical CenterHydroxocobalamin Versus Sodium Thiosulfate In The Treatment Of Acute Cyanide Toxicity In A Validated Swine (sus Scrofa) Model

BEST FACULTY PRESENTATIONEllen J. Weber, MD, University of California, San FranciscoImpact Of England’s Four Hour Emergency Throughput Target On Quality Of Care And Resource Use

BEST FELLOW PRESENTATIONMichael Puskarich, MD, Carolinas Medical CenterAssociation Between The Timing Of Antibiotic Administration And Outcome In Patients With Septic Shock

BEST MEDICAL STUDENT PRESENTATIONCarl T. Berdahl, BA, Yale School of MedicineA Tale Of Two Trends: Utilization Of Computed Tomography In American And Canadian Emergency Departments

BEST RESIDENT PRESENTATIONArjun K. Venkatesh, MD, MBA, Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine ResidencyInappropriate Imaging For Emergency Department Patients With Suspected Pulmonary Embolism: Defining The Performance Gap

BEST YOUNG INvESTIGATOR PRESENTATIONAnthony M. Napoli, MD, Brown University School of MedicineActivated Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes Expressing Increased Levels Of Cytolytic Effector Molecules Are Characteristic Of Emergency Department Patients With Severe Sepsis And Septic Shock

BEST INNOvATIONS IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE EDUCATION (IEME) EXHIBITS

Best Moderated IEME PresentationEsther K. Choo, MD, MPH, Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH, Gregory D. Jay, MD, PhD – Rhode Island Hospital / Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown UniversityEducational Innovation to Improve K23 Grant Writing Among Junior EM Faculty

Best IEME ExhibitLaura Nolting, MD, Patrick S. Hunt, MD, Thomas P. Cook, MD – Palmetto RichlandUltrasound Guided Foreign Body Simulation: A Novel Use of Spam

PHOTO COMPETITION WINNERSResident: Matt Steimle, MD Detroit Receiving Hospital

Medical Student: Rocky Samuel Harvard Medical School Northeastern Emergency Medicine

2010annualMeetingpresentationwinnersDetermined from the 2010 presentations after the Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ and recognized at the 2011 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA

BEST BASIC SCIENCE PRESENTATIONJohn A. Watts, PhD – Carolinas Medical CenterPulmonary Vascular Endothelial Cell Dysfunction during Experimental Pulmonary Embolism

BEST FACULTY PRESENTATIONKristen E. Nordenholz, MD – University of Colorado Denver School of MedicineThe Likelihood of Acute Pulmonary Embolism in ED Patients is Not Lower Among Patients Taking Warfarin

BEST FELLOW PRESENTATIONRobinson Mark Ferre, MD – Wilford Hall Medical CenterThoracic Ultrasound can be Used to Predict the Size of a Pneumothorax in a Cadaver Model

BEST MEDICAL STUDENT PRESENTATIONBryan Geyer – University of Arizona College of Medicine, PhoenixBypassing Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients to Specialty Centers Results in Improved Survival

BEST RESIDENT PRESENTATIONJeremy Branzetti, MD – McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern UniversityProcedural Experience Among Incoming Emergency Medicine (EM) Interns

BEST YOUNG INvESTIGATOR PRESENTATIONLise Nigrovic, MD – Harvard Medical SchoolClinical Observation Before the Decision to Obtain a Computed Tomography (CT) for Children with Blunt Head Trauma

BEST INNOvATIONS IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE EDUCATION (IEME) EXHIBITJessie G. Nelson, MD – Regions Emergency Medicine ResidencyThoracotomy Training Without the Live Animal – Development of a Prefabricated Fiberglass Torso for Training EM Residents in Multiple Invasive Truncal Procedures

PHOTO COMPETITION WINNERS1st Place – Cindy Zimmerman, MD

– University of Alabama at Birmingham

2nd Place – Lauren Wiesner, MD – Georgetown University

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Albany Medical College Sean Patrick Geary

Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine Emily Macy

Baylor College of Medicine John Christopher Champion

Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University Brandi Gilchrist Wilkes

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Jessica E. Galarraga

Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons Alex H. Linker

Dalhousie University Colin McCready

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Joseph Chan

Drexel University College of Medicine Seth Katz

Duke University Elaine Todd

East Tennessee State University, Quillen College of Medicine Amanda Leigh Clouse, MD

Eastern Virginia Medical School Benjamin L. Chidester

Emory University School of Medicine Douglas W. Chesson

Florida State University College of Medicine Rafael de la Puente

Georgia Health Sciences University Paul William Courtwright

Harvard Medical School Benjamin Easter

Indiana University School of Medicine Stephen Michael Keller

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Alonzo Woodfield

Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences Kevin James Hardiman

Keck School of Medicine Terence Ahern

Loma Linda University Medical School Curtis Andrew Knight

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – New Orleans Heath Nugent

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – Shreveport John Benjamin Luck

Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine Nicolaus Hawbaker

Marshall University Danielle Whitley

Mayo Medical School Kelsey Shelton-Dodge

Medical College of Wisconsin Jennifer P. Drukhanavala

Mercer University School of Medicine Steven Tanner

Michigan State University College of Human Medicine Doug Doehrman

Morehouse School of Medicine Alexander Moore

Mount Sinai School of Medicine Rebecca Brafman

New York Medical College Julie C. Rice, MD

New York University School of Medicine Timothy Peck

Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine and Pharmacy Laura Landis

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Jude Kieltyka

Ohio State University College of Medicine Nicole Dubosh

Oregon Health & Science University Markus Boin

Penn State University College of Medicine Evan Michael Grosjean

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Vaughan M. Washco, MD

Queen’s University Colin Bell

Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine/Chicago Medical School Rachel Wightman

Rush Medical College Richard Louis Herrmann

Saint Louis University Jason R. West

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Julie M. Fultz

St. George’s University School of Medicine J. Reed Caldwell, MD

SUNY Downstate Hannah LoCascio

SUNY Upstate Medical University Samantha Jones, MD

Temple University School of Medicine Ryan Spangler

Texas A&M College of Medicine Kunal Thakrar

Texas Tech University HSC, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine Dustin Corgan

Tufts University School of Medicine Brian J. Yun

Tulane University Karen Keller

UMDNJ RWJMS – Camden Amy Ondeyka

UMDNJ – New Jersey Medical School Suzanne Lilleya

University at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Katherine Fredlund

University of Alberta Michael Szava-Kovats

University of Arizona Carrieann Drenten

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Matt Martin Parker

University of California, Davis School of Medicine Allen Bookatz

University of California, Irvine School of Medicine Shadi Lahham

University of California, San Diego Ryan Raam

University of California, San Francisco Cynthia Zamora

2011SaEMMedicalStudentExcellenceawardwinners

Listed below are the recipients of the 2011 SAEM Medical Student Excellence in Emergency Medicine Award. This award is offered to each medical school in the United States and Canada to honor an outstanding senior medical student. This is the twelfth year this award has been made available. Recipients receive a certificate and a one-year membership in SAEM, including a subscription to the journal Academic Emergency Medicine.

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ViRtualiSSuES

“Virtual Issues” will be a key feature of the journal’s new home page on our publisher’s recently implemented platform, Wiley Online Library (WOL). A virtual issue is basically just a collection of articles on a given topic - so the EMS virtual issue, for example, will be a running compilation of all EMS articles that we publish. The idea is that a reader will go there to look for a particular article, but then will see our other offerings on that topic as well - increasing our full-text download numbers and helping ensure the broadest dissemination of our authors’ work.

The first Geriatrics Virtual Issue is online. Go to the journal’s home page on the WOL platform, see “Special Features” on the left-hand side and click on the feature.


Stay tuned for updates!

University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine Emily Singer

University of Colorado School of Medicine Michael Ruygrok

University of Florida Louis N. Ciardulli

University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine David P. Yamane

University of Iowa Stacey M. Marlow

University of Kansas Bethany Duff, MD

University of Kentucky Kelly Potts

University of Louisville Kaitlin Dveira Stengel

University of Maryland School of Medicine Lauren Wooley

University of Massachusetts Medical School Whitney Scholz

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Reginald Ward

University of Michigan Medical School Jesse Loar

University of Minnesota Christine Thomas

University of Mississippi Medical Center Joseph Verzwyvelt

University of Missouri – Kansas City Aaron High

University of Missouri – Columbia Robert McCullough

University of Nebraska Medical Center Robert Dahlquist

University of Nevada School of Medicine Kristi Stanley

University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine Nicolas Asselin

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Cory Forbach

University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences Matthew M. Gerde

University of Oklahoma, College of Medicine Emily Wiliams

University of Ottawa Michael O’Brien

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Amanda Crichlow

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Matthew Stephan Staum

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Kathryn M. Kellogg

University of Saskatchewan Kathryn Crowder

University of South Alabama College of Medicine Erin H. Lurie

University of South Carolina Ashley Davis

University of South Dakota, Sanford School of Medicine Drew Lewis

University of South Florida College of Medicine Mark Chappell

University of Texas Healthland Center at San Antonio Daniel De Los Santos

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Amber Michelle Howell

University of Texas Medical School at Houston Stewart Master

University of Toledo College of Medicine Sameer Sinha

University of Virginia Nicholas S. Simpson

University of Washington David Markel

UNTHSC – Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine Stephen Miller

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Susanne Bryce

Wake Forest University School of Medicine Courtney Horton

Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Ian Buchanan

Washington University in St. Louis Travis Keeling

Weill Cornell Medical College Rose M. Estevez

West Virginia University Nicole Dorinzi

Western University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Marko Mamic

Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine Heidi Abraham

Yale University School of Medicine Benjamin Zabar

2011 SAEM Medical Student Excellence Award Winners — Continued...


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the2011nRMpMatchinEmergencyMedicineLouis Binder, MD, Emergency Medicine Attending, Huron Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio

The results of the 2011 NRMP Match became final on March 17, 2011. Emergency Medicine residency programs offered a total of 1,626 entry level positions (7% of total positions in all specialties). The following numbers (taken from the 2011 NRMP Data Book) include information from all programs that entered the 2011 Match:

The 2011 NRMP Match in Emergency Medicine Louis Binder, MD, Emergency Medicine Attending, Huron Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio


2009 2010 2011 Total # of NRMP positions 21,815 25,520 26,158 Overall % of positions unfilled 4.6% 4.5% 4.6% Number of EM programs listed 147 150 152

(141 PG1, 6 PG2) (147 PG1, 3 PG2) (150 PG1, 3 PG2) Total PG1/PG2 entry positions 1515 1575 1626

(1472 PG1, 43 PG2) (1556 PG1,19 PG2) (1607 PG1, 19 PG2) EM positions/total NRMP positions 6.0% 6.8% 6.9% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # EM programs with PG1 vacancies 5/141 (3.6%) 5/147 (3.4%) 2/150 (1.3%) # unmatched EM PG1 positions 13/1472 (1%) 16/1556 (1.0%) 5/1607 (0.3%) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # EM programs with PG2 vacancies 0/6 (0%) 0/3 (0%) 0/3 (0%) # unmatched EM PG2 positions 0/43 (0%) 0/19 (0%) 0/19 (0%) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total # EM programs with vacancies 5/147 (3%) 5/150 (3%) 2/152 (1.3%) Total # unmatched EM positions 13/1515 (1%) 16/1575 (1%) 5/1607 (0.3%)

Applicant Pool Data

Applicants who ranked only EM programs:

2009 2010 2011 US graduates 1167 1175 1293 Independent applicants 457 439 470Total applicants 1624 1614 1763

Applicants who ranked at least one EM program:

US graduates 1324 1343 1484 Independent applicants 684 791 762Total applicants 2008 2074 2246

US seniors applying only to EM Programs who went unmatched 64/1167 (5.9%) 68/1175 (5.7%) 94/1293 (7.3%)

Independent applicants applying 181/457 (40%) 151/439 (34%) 196/470 (42%) only to EM programs who went unmatched

Percent of matched US seniors 1171/16,611 (7%) 1182/14,992 (8%) 1277/17,607 (4.3%) who matched in EM residencies






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From these data, several conclusions can be drawn:1. Emergency Medicine experienced an increase of 51 entry-level

positions in the 2011 Match over 2010 Match numbers (a 3% increase this year, compared with 3% last year), occurring from quota increases in EM 1-3 programs, and from three new programs in the EM match. Emergency Medicine now comprises 7 percent of the total NRMP positions and 7% of matched US seniors.

2. Using demand figures, the overall demand for EM entry-level positions increased 9% among US seniors applying to EM programs. The excess applicant demand over and above the size of the training base is 156 to 639 applicants (9% to 40% surplus), depending on how the parameters of the applicant pool are determined.

3. The proportions of EM positions filled by US seniors versus independent applicants (US graduates, osteopaths, and international medical graduates) remained similar in 2011 compared with 2010 and 2009. In 2011, 78% of EM entry

positions were filled with US graduates, which is a comparable percentage with recent years.

4. An increase of 51 in the supply of EM entry-level positions in 2011, coupled with a higher increase in demand among US seniors and other categories of applicants (149-172 increase in applicants), resulted in a higher fill rate for EM programs in 2011 (99.7%) versus 2010 (99%). The cumulative effect of these three trends was also manifested in a smaller number of unfilled EM positions in the Match (5 in 2011, versus 16 in 2000). By historical trends and supply/demand considerations, 2011 was a “seller’s year” - a small increase in the supply of EM positions, paired with a higher increase in the applicant pool, led to a high fill rate for EM programs and a similar unmatched rate for applicants.

5. The unmatched rate of 7% for US seniors, and 42% for independent applicants going into EM, continue to support the notion that most US seniors and independent applicants who apply will match into an EM residency.

Breakdown of filled EM positions by type of applicant:

2009 2010 2011

PG1 EM positions 1472 1556 1607Filled by US graduates 1146 (78%) 1182 (76%) 1268 Filled by independent applicants 313 (21%) 358 (23%) 334 Total filled 1459 (99%) 1540 (99%) 1602 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PG2 EM positions 43 19 19Filled by US graduates 25 (58%) 6 (32%) 9 (47%) Filled by independent applicants 18 (42%) 13 (68%) 10 (53%) Total filled 43 (100%) 19 (100%) 19 (100%) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total EM positions 1515 1575 1626Filled by US graduates 1171 (77%) 1188 (74%) 1277 (79%) Filled by independent applicants 331 (22%) 371 (24%) 344 (21%) Total filled 1502 (99%) 1559 (99%) 1621 (100%)

** For PG1 filled entry positions (1607), 1268 (77%) were filled by US seniors, 70 were filled by US physicians, 127 by osteopathic physicians, 71 by US international medical graduates, 14 by international medical graduates, 1 by Canadian physicians, and 1 by Fifth Pathway graduates.

From these data, several conclusions can be drawn:

1. Emergency Medicine experienced an increase of 51 entry-level positions in the 2011 Match over 2010 Match numbers (a 3% increase this year, compared with 3% last year), occurring from quota increases in EM 1-3 programs, and from three new programs in the EM match. Emergency Medicine now comprises 7 percent of the total NRMP positions and 7% of matched US seniors.

2. Using demand figures, the overall demand for EM entry-level positions increased 9% among US seniors applying to EM programs. The excess applicant demand over and above the size of the training base is 156 to 639 applicants (9% to 40% surplus), depending on how the parameters of the applicant pool are determined.

3. The proportions of EM positions filled by US seniors versus independent applicants (US graduates, osteopaths, and international medical graduates) remained similar in 2011 compared with 2010 and 2009. In 2011, 78% of EM entry positions were filled with US graduates, which is a comparable percentage with recent years.

4. An increase of 51 in the supply of EM entry-level positions in 2011, coupled with a higher increase in demand among US seniors and other categories of applicants (149-172 increase in applicants), resulted in a higher fill rate for EM programs in 2011 (99.7%) versus 2010 (99%). The cumulative effect of these three trends was also manifested in a smaller number of unfilled EM positions in the Match (5 in 2011, versus 16 in 2000). By historical trends and supply/demand considerations, 2011 was a “seller’s year” - a small increase in the supply of EM positions, paired with a higher increase in the applicant pool, led to a high fill rate for EM programs and a similar unmatched rate for applicants.

5. The unmatched rate of 7% for US seniors, and 42% for independent applicants going into EM, continue to support the notion that most US seniors and independent applicants who apply will match into an EM residency.

** For PG1 filled entry positions (1607), 1268 (77%) were filled by US seniors, 70 were filled by US physicians, 127 by osteopathic physicians, 71 by US international medical graduates, 14 by international medical graduates, 1 by Canadian physicians, and 1 by Fifth Pathway graduates.

pEER-REViEwEdlEctuRES(peRls)aREcoMing!Academic Emergency Medicine will be publishing a series of videos of lectures on topics in emergency medicine. These are intended to represent the state of the art in emergency medicine education. Residents, practicing physicians, and medical students may use them for didactic education. The videos should contain both the presented audiovisual materials for the lectures (such as PowerPoint slides) and live video of the presenter.

Each video lecture should contain the following information:• A written abstract describing the content of the lecture • Lecture title, author, and institutional affiliation on a title slide• Conflict of interest statement • A brief overview of the lecture content (~ 1 minute)• The body of the lecture (< 30 minutes) • References and further reading (~ 30 seconds)• Contact information for questions

Prospective authors should consider contacting the PeRLs editorial board (through John Burton, MD, Senior Associate Editor: [email protected]) for a discussion before starting on video production of a lecture for a determination of topic suitability. Videos can be complex to produce, and given the effort involved, having a discussion with an editor either by e-mail or by phone before producing it is recommended

STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFORMATION!

Breakdown of filled EM positions by type of applicant:

The 2011 NRMP Match in Emergency Medicine — Continued...

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academyofgeriatricEmergencyMedicineThis is an exciting time to be a member of the Academy of

Geriatric Emergency Medicine. This year, the first baby boomers turned 65. Over the next 20 years, the aging of the baby boomers will lead to a demographic shift in the U.S. that will result in an estimated 75% increase in the number of individuals 65 and older – from 40 to 70 million. On average, these patients will be healthier and more independent than the current older adult population. As such, their potential to contribute to society is great. For example, at present 40 of the 100 US senators are 65 or older. An essential priority for health care providers during the coming decades is to maximize the health, independence, and productivity of these older adults. At present, 8 out of 10 patients 65 and older visit a U.S. emergency department each year. Older adults have a higher rate of life-threatening injury and illness than younger patients, and decision making for these patients is often complicated by pre-existing illness, polypharmacy, limited mobility and social support, and cognitive impairment. Providing optimal emergency care for these older adults in a manner consistent with patient preferences and respectful of finite health care resources is a continuous challenge faced by emergency providers every hour of the day, every day of the week. The goal of our organization is to provide educational, clinical, and research resources which will support emergency medical decision making for this important, growing, and often vulnerable population.

NEWS FROM THE SAEM NATIONAL MEETING, JUNE 2011, BOSTON

On June 4th, the Academy met to discuss current and future projects. The following new officers were elected: Tim Platts-Mills

– Chair, Jeff Caterino – Chair Elect, Carrier Cregar – Secretary, Kirk Stiffler – Treasurer. Members at large – Andrew Chang, Alison Southern, Ula Hwang, and Kevin Biese.

The Academy also created a new award, the “Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine’s Gerson-Sanders Award” in honor of Drs. Lowell Gerson and Arthur Sanders. Both Dr. Gerson and Dr. Sanders have made substantial contributions to geriatric emergency medicine through their research, through their support of the sub-specialty, and through their mentorship of junior investigators. This year’s recipient is Janice Eisner, who we chose to recognize because of her important work as the administrative coordinator for the Dennis W. Jahnigen Career Development Award.

The meeting was attended by 28 members and included a lively and productive discussion of the Academy’s role in advancing education, clinical, and research efforts related to improving the quality of geriatric emergency medicine care. Please contact [email protected] for further information regarding the discussion at the meeting.

Prior to the meeting, an AGEM-sponsored didactic session was held entitled, “Opportunities for Basic and Translational Research in Aging.” Panelists included Basil Eldadah, MD, PhD, NIA Program Officer; Charles Cairns, MD, Chair of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina; and Scott Wilber, MD, MPH, Immediate Past Chair of the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine. This session was also well attended and provided information about opportunities in emergency medicine research from the perspectives of leaders in basic science and clinical research as well as from the NIA.

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AGEM MISSION STATEMENTThe Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM)

provides a forum for the collaborative exchange of ideas among emergency medicine researchers, educators, trainees and clinicians. Our Mission is to improve the quality of emergency care received by older patients through advancing research, education and faculty development. Our specific goals are:1. To serve as a unified voice for geriatric emergency medicine

researchers, educators, trainees and clinicians.2. To provide a forum for individuals committed to geriatric

emergency medicine to communicate, share ideas, and generate solutions to common problems.

3. To foster research that improves the care and quality of life of older patients.

4. To advance resident and continuing education and professional development to improve clinical outcomes as they pertain to issues of aging.

5. To foster relationships with other organizations to promote geriatric emergency medicine.

MEMBERSHIPAnnual AGEM membership fees were due at the end of

December, concurrent with SAEM membership dues. Membership provides exclusive access and use of AGEM resources available on the website that include educational, clinical, and research support. Join or renew NOW and don’t miss another day of AGEM access.AGEM membership fees are:$100 for attending-level individuals; $25 for residents, fellows, non-EM or emeritus SAEM members (Please contact Kirk Stiffler at [email protected] if you think you may qualify for reduced membership fees.)You can sign up for AGEM the following ways:1. Login to your SAEM users account (www.saem.org upper left

corner) and electronically join AGEM by clicking on the “Pay for dues, donations and interest groups” (to do this, you will need your SAEM account logon and password)

2. For additional questions or assistance with your membership please contact [email protected] or call the SAEM main office at 847-813-9823 and ask to speak to a membership services representative: Mike Allen at [email protected] or Holly Gouin at [email protected]

BENEFITS OF AGEM MEMBERSHIPPerks of being an AGEM member include:• Access to the network of SAEM AGEM members interested

in improving the quality of emergency care received by older patients through advancing research, education, and faculty development

• Access to and the opportunity to contribute to the AGEM forums webpage to include topics in research, education, advocacy, and general discussion for Geriatric-EM focused topics. The website will include:

• Information about Geriatric and Geriatric-Friendly Emergency Departments including a list of existing facilities, descriptions of services, and relevant literature. This is intended to be useful for individuals who which to develop a Geriatric Emergency Department and will be supported by leaders in the field.

• Federal and private research and educational grant announcements and training opportunities. A grant review service in which experts in the field provide feedback to those interested in seeking funding for their research ideas.

• Links to Geriatric Emergency Medicine educational lectures and presentations

• Articles and summaries appropriate for Geriatric Emergency Medicine journal clubs and a list of important references for specific subjects within the field of Geriatric Emergency Medicine.

• Most importantly, a voice in what you would like AGEM to do to support your needs and interests with regards to geriatric emergency care.

didacticSuBMiSSionS

2012 SAEM Annual Meeting – Chicago, May 9th-12th, 2012Submissions are due by Wednesday, September 7th

We are proud to announce that our new, improved online didactic submission system will be open for submissions on August 1st. This new software program should make online submission easier and more intuitive.

A template for submissions will be available on the website by mid-July.

The Program Committee selects didactic submissions for the final program after an extensive peer review process. Several factors go into choosing sessions for the meeting which include:

• Emphasizing and consistent with the SAEM mission • Overall quality and organization of the submission• Quality and reputation of the speakers/facilitators • Novelty of submission and impact on specialty• Applicability to general audience • Number of similar submissions • Previous SAEM didactics from the same author • Audience reviews from similar sessions in the past • Overall annual meeting reviews from the last several years

Please feel free to contact the Didactic Subcommittee Co-chairs for the 2012 Annual Meeting with any questions or concerns. We are happy to discuss potential didactic submission ideas prior to the SEPTEMBER 7TH deadline!

Didactic Co-chairs: Megan Ranney, MD MPH ([email protected]) — Christopher Ross, MD ([email protected])

Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine — Continued...

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AcADEMic AnnoUncEMEnTSMunishgoyal,Md,FacEphas been promoted to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine

phillipd.levy,Md,Mph, Associate Professor and Associate Director of Clinical Research in the Wayne State University Department of Emergency Medicine, recently received a grant award from the NIH/NIMHD (1R01 MD005849-01A1) for a study entitled “Adjunct Therapy with Vitamin D as a Means to Reduce Disparities in Subclinical Target-Organ Cardiac Damage Among Vulnerable Hypertensive Patients.” The award is for a 5-year period and the total funded amount is $1.9 million ($380,000 per year - directs + indirects). The project is a randomized, controlled trial of vitamin D supplementation in vitamin D deficient African-American emergency department patients who have hypertension and subclinical target-organ cardiac damage. The primary aim is to compare the effect of adjunct vitamin D therapy on regression of structural heart damage as assessed by change in left ventricular mass indexed to body surface area (LVMI) on gadolinium-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging performed at baseline and one-year post-randomization.

lisa Moreno-walton, Md, MS, Associate Professor at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans graduated from the Tulane University School of Medicine with a Master of Science degree in Clinical Research in May 2011.

RollinJ(terry)FairbanksMd,MS,Director of the National Center for Human Factors Engineering in Healthcare at the MedStar Institute for Innovation in Washington, DC and Attending Emergency Physician at Washington Hospital Center has been appointed Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine.

anniet.Sadosty,Md,has been appointed Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

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‘Become an EPEC for Emergency Medicine Trainer’ Conference September 20-21, 2011 — Oak Brook, IL

The “Become an EPEC Trainer” Conference is for participants who wish to become EPEC Trainers and teach the core skills of palliative care to others. “Become an EPEC Trainer” Conferences are available for:EPEC: This includes the full core curriculum for palliative care practitioners.EPEC - Emergency Medicine (EPEC - EM): This curriculum has been developed and tailored to provide core palliative care content for emergency medicine clinicians.EPEC - Oncology (EPEC - O): This curriculum has been developed and tailored to provide core palliative care content for oncology clinicians.Please go to http://www.epec.net for more information!

CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is seeking a future-oriented builder with substantive medical leadership experience to serve as Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine. Reporting to our Chief Medical Officer, the successful candidate will blend interests in quality improvement and care management, clinical program development, mentorship and faculty development, education and scholarly endeavors. As a member of Senior Management Council, the Chair of Emergency Medicine will be integrally involved in the overall management of our health network. The Emergency Medicine Department comprises 70 physicians and 38 advanced practice clinicians who manage over 220,000 patient visits through our five sites. Our residency program, which is one of the largest in the country with 56 residents, is both ACGME and AOA accredited. LVHN is a premier health system in eastern Pennsylvania comprising three hospital campuses with 988 licensed acute beds, a multispecialty physician group with more than 500 members and nine community health centers. We have a major academic affiliation with the University of South Florida and have partnered to provide an innovative medical education program. We have a level I Trauma Center with additional qualifications in pediatric trauma, and the region’s only children’s ED. Our award-winning health network has been named among the top five academic medical centers by the University HealthSystem Consortium, and is one of only 54 US hospitals named 2010 “Leapfrog Hospitals” for quality, safety and affordability. The Lehigh Valley is a prosperous, growing, suburban area with excellent suburban schools, numerous cultural and recreational offerings and close proximity to major metropolitan areas – we are 1 hour north of Philadelphia and 1.5 hours west of NYC. Interested physician leaders should email a CV to [email protected], or call (610) 969-0207.

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aaaEMnewsThe Academy of Administrators in Academic Emergency Medicine (AAAEM) held its 4th Annual Meeting recently in Santa Fe, New Mexico in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association of Academic Chairs in Emergency Medicine (AACEM). The joint meetings were enhanced by gifted and knowledgeable speakers and concluded with an informative and thought-provoking panel/group discussion. The Academy was also very productive in developing its work plans for the coming year.Since being recognized as an Academy by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) in 2009, AAAEM has grown to a 51-member strong professional organization. AAAEM is composed of emergency medicine administrators from various academic medicine institutions all across the United States. AAAEM’s purpose is to build a professional organization that provides a forum for administrative leaders to collaborate with colleagues and interact with EM department chairs to share information. AAAEM also seeks to advance the profession of individuals serving as administrators in academic emergency medicine departments through education and development. Despite its relatively brief existence, AAAEM has quickly made its mark by presenting to department chairs and colleagues its benchmark survey summary for the fourth year in a row. This survey data, taken from 58 academic medical centers, yielded over 10,000 data points spanning over 100 key elements of patient care (adults and children) and academic missions of peer emergency medicine departments and divisions. AAAEM also announced the results of its first formal elections at the meeting, with outgoing Academy Chair Kenneth Marx, University of Florida, passing the gavel of leadership to incoming Chair James Scheulen of John Hopkins University.

SeniordirectorcalamityvilleGlenn Hamilton, MD has been named Senior Director of the National Center of Medical Readiness at Calamityville. Dr. Hamilton has served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Boonshoft School of Medicine Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio since January 1982. He became the Vice-Chair in 2010, when he co-created the National Center for Medical Readiness at Calamityville, an all-hazards, reality-based disaster and tactical emergency medicine environment.

In Honor of a Great Educator

Dr. Glenn Hamilton has been involved in academic emergency medicine for over 30 years. His life-long interest in medical education at all levels has touched the lives of thousands of emergency physicians, residents, fellows, and medical students, if not by personal mentoring or lectures, then through one of three textbooks in emergency medicine or more than 70 peer-reviewed papers.

The Department of Emergency Medicine, Boonshoft School of Medicine Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, recently created an award in honor of Dr. Glenn Hamilton. The Glenn C. Hamilton Medical Student Award for Excellence In Emergency Medicine will be presented to the medical student pursuing Emergency Medicine who has been most enthusiastic and engaged in serving this discipline over the previous four years.

congratulationstothe2011SaEMgrantRecipients:SAEM/Physio-Control EMS Research Fellowship:• Adam Frisch, MD - University of Pittsburgh

Research Training Grant: • Mary Murphy, PhD - Yale University

• Megan Ranney, MD, MPH - Rhode Island Hospital

SAEM/EMPSF Patient Safety Research Fellowship:• Wesley Self, MD - Vanderbilt University

Emergency Medicine Interest Group grants: • University of California, San Diego EMIG

- Timothy S. Davie, MS3

• SUNY Upstate Medical Center EMIG - Shaunna Escobar, MS2

• The Ohio State University College of Medicine EMIG - Jacob Gerstman, MS4

• University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Wilderness Medicine Interest Group in collaboration with the EMIG - Alexander Hubbell, MS2

• University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine EMIG - G. Michael Hunihan II, MS1

• Penn State Hershey College of Medicine EMIG - Benjamin Liss, MS2

• Temple University School of Medicine EMIG - Mark Robidoux, MS2

• Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine Emergency Medicine Club - Michael Yim, MS2

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for reading select articles in the journal and successfully

completing a test on the content.

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JillM.Baren,MdnamedchairofthedepartmentofEmergencyMedicine,universityofpennsylvania

We are delighted to announce that Jill M. Baren, MD, has been named Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, effective July 1 2011. A member of our medical faculty since 1997, Dr. Baren is Professor of Emergency Medicine and holds a secondary appointment as Professor of Pediatrics. She is an attending physician at both HUP and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Larry Jameson joins us in enthusiastically endorsing Jill’s appointment and in thanking the search committee, chaired by Dr. Katrina Armstrong, for their work. Dr. Baren succeeds William G. Baxt, M.D., who has served with distinction as chair since 1994, when the Department of Emergency Medicine was established.

Within the larger field of emergency care, Dr. Baren is recognized as an expert in pediatric emergency medicine and was one of the first individuals to hold this subspecialty certification. As a fellow of both the American College of Emergency Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics, she has held major leadership positions professional organizations of both specialties including President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Chair of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians and Chair of the sub-board of Pediatric Emergency Medicine of the American Boards of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics.

In 2006, she received a master’s degree in bioethics from the Center for Bioethics at Penn and has served as a faculty member at the Center developing and teaching Clinical Ethics courses. Dr. Baren has also lectured and written on informed consent issues in emergency medicine research, bioethical issues in resuscitation, and end-of-life issues in the emergency department. Widely published, Dr. Baren is senior editor of, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, a leading textbook in

the specialty, and co-editor of Emergency Medicine Clinical Pearls, a case based text

on the practice of Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine. She

was associate editor of Journal Watch Emergency Medicine for 10 years

and continues as associate editor of the journal Academic Emergency

Medicine.

Dr. Baren has been consistently recognized for her

teaching and mentoring. Since 1998, she has shared the Jean A.

Cortner Divisional Teaching Award for Excellence in and Commitment to Resident Teaching eight times with colleagues at CHOP and has been awarded the Annual Resident Mentoring Award of the Department of Emergency Medicine twice. At Penn Medicine, she was elected to the Medical Faculty Senate in 2009 and served a two-year term.

Dr. Baren is nationally recognized for her expertise in the interpretation and application of Federal regulations governing emergency research under circumstances where informed consent cannot be obtained in life-threatening circumstances. She has led clinical trials in pediatric and adult patients to investigate new therapies for acute neurological emergencies both locally and nationally and has conducted numerous secondary investigations focusing on the ethical aspects of these trials. She is the Principle Investigator of the first exclusive FDA regulated pediatric trial conducted under the Exception from Informed Consent regulations. At Penn, Dr. Baren built a multidisciplinary research consortium, involving the Departments of Emergency Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Pediatrics, and the Divisions of Trauma Surgery and Neurocritical Care as well as 11 additional regional hospitals. This collaboration, known as the Greater Philadelphia-Southern New Jersey Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials Network, is funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and has now been extended to include sites in two additional States. Dr. Baren serves as an investigator and consultant within the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Applied Research Network and the Pediatric Critical Care Trials Group funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

After earning her medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh (magna cum laude) in 1989, Dr. Baren completed an internship and a residency in Emergency Medicine and a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. While there, she served as a clinical instructor of Pediatrics and Medicine (Emergency Medicine) at the UCLA School of Medicine. Before coming to Penn Medicine, Dr. Baren was Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Assistant Professor of Surgery (Emergency Medicine) at Yale University School of Medicine. Last year, Dr. Baren was selected to participate in the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine fellowship at the prestigious Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership at Drexel University.

Since its founding in 1994, Penn Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine has become one of the leading departments in the United States, and one of the top NIH funded emergency medicine research programs. The Department was recently awarded one of only six highly competitive Research Career Development Program awards. In his 17 years as chair of the department, Dr. Baxt has been a vigorous and visionary leader and deserves our heartfelt thanks. We are confident that Dr. Baren will make her own mark as chair and lead the department to an unprecedented level of success in both clinical and academic realms.

Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh

Ralph W. Muller

Peter D. Quinn, DMD, MD

Garry Scheib

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cAllS AnD MEETing AnnoUncEMEnTSFor details and submission information on the items below, see www.saem.org and look for the Newsletter links on the home page or links within the Events section of the web site.

callForpapersConsensus Conference Follow-Up Manuscripts

Submissions in any category (Original Contributions, Brief Reports, etc.) that describe research that was initiated to address a research agenda topic generated at one of the prior Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conferences should be identified as such in the cover letter that accompanies the manuscript, when the manuscript is submitted for review. Authors should state to which consensus conference the manuscript relates, and should also state which issue(s) discussed or raised at that consensus conference is/are addressed by the manuscript. Attempts will be made to publish consensus conference follow-up manuscripts as a group, rather than individually, and if authors are aware of other papers underway from that same conference’s research agenda, they are encouraged to coordinate submission with the authors of those other papers. Contact: Gary Gaddis, MD, PhD ([email protected]).

greatplainsRegionalMeetingSeptember 10, 2011 in St. Louis, MissouriFor information contact Michael Mullins, MD at [email protected]

2011/2012SaEMgrantandScholarshipinformationSAEM is pleased to offer a variety of grants available for competitive application. The grant below has an upcoming deadline:

SAEM Education Fellowship Grant ($75,000/yr. for 2 years) - The Education Fellowship Grant strives to foster teaching, education, and educational research in emergency medicine at faculty, fellow, resident and medical student levels. The mission of the grant is to develop the academic potential of the selected fellow by providing support for a dedicated two-year training period that includes an advanced degree in education.Application Deadline: August 1, 2011

Additional upcoming SAEM grants include:SAEM / ECCC National Emergency Care Sabbatical - The grant, co-sponsored by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and the Emergency Care Coordination Center (ECCC) of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), awards $75,000 over a 12-month period to support emergency medical care collaboration and policy development at the federal level and to enhance the development of an emergency physician as a leader in emergency care policy.Application Deadline: September 1, 2011

SAEM / ACMT Michael P. Spadafora Toxicology Scholarship ($1,500) - Scholarship fund to encourage Emergency Medicine residents to pursue Medical Toxicology fellowship training. The 2012 recipient will attend the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) spring course in San Diego, CA from March 15-18, 2012. Application Deadline: August 1, 2011

SAEM Institutional Research Training Grant ($75,000/yr. for 2 years) - The Institutional Research Training Grant (IRTG) is intended to identify, develop, and fund promising institutions dedicated to providing high-quality training to research fellows in emergency medicine.Application Deadline: August 1, 2011

SAEM Research Training Grant ($75,000/yr. for 2 years) - The Research Training Grant (RTG) is intended to provide funding to support the development of a scientist in emergency medicine.Application Deadline: August 1, 2011

For more details as well as detailed application instructions, please go to the SAEM website www.saem.org and click on “Grants” under the “Grants & Awards” tab.

CME CREDIT FOR ANNUAL MEETING!

Please remember that in order to receive CME credit for attendance at the 2011 SAEM Annual Meeting in Boston, you must submit a completed CME Certificate Attendance Verification Form to SAEM headquarters NOT LATER THAN MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011.

The form can be downloaded at http://www.saem.org/deadline/

cme-credit-form-due and mailed to: SAEM, 2340 S. River Rd, Ste 200,

Des Plaines, IL 60018 or faxed to (847) 813-5450.

CME CREDIT WILL NOT BE ISSUED IF THE FORM IS RECEIVED

AFTER MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011!

CORRECTIONThe article “Institute of Medicine Elects Tom P. Aufderheide, MD” on page 16 of the May/June issue of the SAEM News-letter was written by Emily Senecal, MD. We regret that her name was not published with the article.

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PROGRAM DIRECTOR Department of Emergency Medicine Opportunity

Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) in Charleston, West Virginia is seeking candidates for the position of Program Director within the Department of Emergency Medicine. Can-didates must be residency trained in Emergency Medicine and AOBEM certified or eligible for AOBEM certification and have a minimum of three (3) years clinical experience. Providing an excellent experience for residents, CAMC is an 838-bed teaching hospital consisting of three hospital facilities, including a Level I trauma center and a Women and Children’s Hospital. The three Emergency Departments see more than 100,000 patients per year.

The Emergency Medicine residency program is a fully accredited four-year program by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and approved for a complement of 16 residents. The program is well established and achieved a maximum accredita-tion status at its most recent review cycle.

CAMC is the largest teaching hospital in West Virginia and serves as the sponsoring institution for 11 graduate medical education programs approved by the ACGME/AOA and other graduate level programs including pharmacy residencies, a psychology internship and a School of Nurse Anesthesia.Affiliated with the West Virginia School of OsteopathicMedicine and West Virginia University School of Medicine,

CAMC is the regional campus for more than 100 medical students completing their 3rd and 4th year of clinical training. CAMC has received numerous awards and recognitions for its patient care quality and many services to the community. As West Virginia’s largest city, picturesque Charleston offers both urban amenities and abundant outdoor activities.

The Program Director position offers an opportunity to serve as a member of a dynamic team of professionals and faculty serving Southern West Virginia and the region. A highly appeal-ing package is offered which includes excellent remuneration and benefits including equity ownership eligibility within an established democratic group.

For additional information please contact:Rachel KlockowPremier Health Care Services(800) 406-8118 | [email protected]: (954) 986-8820

The University of Nebraska Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine is recruiting an additional faculty member committed to developing an academic career.

With an accredited three-year emergency medicine residency program with 22 residents, this is a great opportunity to help shape the future of emergency medicine in this region. The Center for Clinical Excellence, which opened in November 2005, houses the Emergency Department and provides services for over 50,000 annual visits.

Respond in confidence to: Robert Muelleman, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 981150 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-1150 (402-559-6705). Individuals from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply

filled. Clinician Educator Clinical Researcher

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

The Department of Emergency Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University seeks BC/BP emergency and pediatric emergency physicians for tenure or clinical track positions at the rank of assistant professor or above, depending on qualifications. Our current faculty possesses diverse interests and expertise leading to extensive state- and national-level involvement. Through this expansion we hope to increase our depth and further develop programs in clinical pediatric EM, clinical research, and our cadre of clinician-educators. The emergency medicine residency is well-established and includes 12 EM and 2 EM/IM residents per year. We treat more than 105,000 patients per year in a state-of-the-art ED at Pitt County Memorial Hospital. PCMH is a rapidly growing level I trauma, cardiac, and regional stroke center. Our tertiary care catchment area includes more than 1.5 million people in eastern North Carolina, many of whom arrive via our integrated mobile critical care and air medical service. Greenville, NC is a fast-growing university community located ninety minutes from the beautiful North Carolina beaches. Cultural and recreational opportunities are abundant. Compensation is competitive and commensurate with qualifications; excellent fringe benefits are provided. Successful applicants will possess outstanding clinical and teaching skills and qualify for appropriate privileges from ECU Physicians and PCMH. Screening will remain open until filled.

Confidential inquiry may be made to Theodore Delbridge, MD, MPH, Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine ([email protected]). Must apply online

by using ECU OneStop on the main ECU page: www.ecu.edu.

ECU is an EEO/AA employer and accommodates individuals with disabilities. Applicants must comply with the Immigration Reform and Control Act. Proper documentation of identity and employability required at the time of employment. Current references must be provided upon request.

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FACULTY POSITION

Emergency Medicine

The Mount Sinai Medical Center is an 1,100-bed tertiary academic

center with state-of-the-art ED seeing 95,000 adults and children

annually. The successful candidate will be residency-trained in EM,

highly motivated and innovative; fellowship training preferred.

Academic rank will be commensurate with experience. The four-year

residency program has 60 residents and fellows in Research, Pediatrics,

Informatics, Ultrasound and Global Health. Our active research

division is ranked in the top 10 NIH-funded EM Departments. The

Department is fully integrated into medical school curriculum and

hospital leadership. We offer a strong faculty development program

and support staff infrastructure.

We offer a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package with

productivity bonus. Interested candidates please send CV to: Andy

Jagoda, MD, Chair at [email protected]. For more

information, please call 212-824-8050. Mount Sinai is an Affirmative

Action, Equal Opportunity Employer.

MEDICAL DIRECTOR Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco General Hospital

The Department of Emergency Medicine at UC San Francisco is seeking an outstanding individual for one of the key leadership positions in the Division of Emergency Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. The successful candidate will have exceptional administrative and organizational skills and a proven record of successful performance as a leader in the areas of patient care, Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement, and care delivery in an academic emergency medicine environment. The successful candidatewill serve as Medical Director and Director of Performance Improvement at San Francisco General Hospital and will have major responsibilities in organizing the clinical service, providing medical direction, innovating new models of care delivery, and overseeing the Performance Improvement activities of the Department. San Francisco General Hospital is fully affiliated with UCSF, and is the sole Level 1 designated Trauma Center for San Francisco and Northern San Mateo counties, with an annual volume of approximately 60,000 emergency department visits. Over 250 students and residents, including Emergency Medicine residents from two programs, are trained in the Emergency Department annually. The positioncarries an appointment to the UCSF faculty at a level and series commensurate with the candidate’s academic qualifications. Excellentacademic and administrative support, compensation and benefits package, including professional liability coverage, is provided.

Please send your curriculum vitae to:

Chris Barton, MD Chief, Division of Emergency Medicine

Chair, Search Committee San Francisco General Hospital - Room 1E21

1001 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, California 94110. Phone: 415-206-5762 Fax: 415-206-5818 E-mail: [email protected]

UCSF seeks candidates whose experience, teaching, research, or community service has prepared them to contribute to our commitmentto diversity and excellence. UCSF is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. The University undertakes affirmative action to assure equal employment opportunity for underutilized minorities and women, for persons with disabilities, and for covered veterans. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, including minorities and women.

The University of Nebraska Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine is recruiting an additional faculty member who has completed an ultrasound fellowship and is committed to developing an academic career.

With an accredited three-year emergency medicine residency program with 22 residents, this is a great opportunity to help shape the future of emergency medicine in this region. The Center for Clinical Excellence, which opened in November 2005, houses the Emergency Department and provides services for over 50,000 annual visits.

This is an established ultrasound program with QA, credentialing and billing processes already developed. The ED currently has three ultrasound systems available.

Respond in confidence to: Robert Muelleman, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 981150 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-1150 (402-559-6705). Individuals from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

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The Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama School of Medicine is seeking talented residency-trained Emergency Medicine physicians at all academic ranks to join our faculty. The University offers both tenure and non-tenure earning positions.

The University of Alabama Hospital is a 903-bed teaching hospital, with a state-of-the-art emergency department that occupies an area the size of a football field. The Department treats over 75,000 patients annually and houses Alabama’s only designated Level I trauma center. The Department’s dynamic, challenging emergency medicine residency training program is the only one of its kind in the State of Alabama.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a major research center with over $440 million in NIH and other extramural funding. The Department of Emergency Medicine is a site for the NIH-funded Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) and for the Protocolized Care of Early Sepsis Shock trial (ProCESS). The Department has been highly successful in developing extramural research support in this warmly collaborative institution.

Birmingham, Alabama is a vibrant, diverse, beautiful city located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The metropolitan area is home to over one million people, who enjoy recreational activities year round because of its mild southern climate. Birmingham combines big city amenities with Southern charm and hospitality.

A highly competitive salary is offered. Applicants must be EM board eligible or certified. UAB is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

Please send your curriculum vitae to: Janyce Sanford, M.D., Associate Professor & Chair of Emergency Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Department of Emergency Medicine; 619 South 19th Street; OHB 251; Birmingham, AL 35249-7013

The Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama School of Medicine is seeking talented residency-trained Emergency Medicine physicians at all academic ranks to join our faculty. The University offers both tenure and non-tenure earning positions.

The University of Alabama Hospital is a 903-bed teaching hospital, with a state-of-the-art emergency department that occupies an area the size of a football field. The Department treats over 75,000 patients annually and houses Alabama’s only designated Level I trauma center. The Department’s dynamic, challenging emergency medicine residency training program is the only one of its kind in the State of Alabama.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a major research center with over $440 million in NIH and other extramural funding. The Department of Emergency Medicine is a site for the NIH-funded Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) and for the Protocolized Care of Early Sepsis Shock trial (ProCESS). The Department has been highly successful in developing extramural research support in this warmly collaborative institution.

Birmingham, Alabama is a vibrant, diverse, beautiful city located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The metropolitan area is home to over one million people, who enjoy recreational activities year round because of its mild southern climate. Birmingham combines big city amenities with Southern charm and hospitality.

A highly competitive salary is offered. Applicants must be EM board eligible or certified. UAB is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

Please send your curriculum vitae to: Janyce Sanford, M.D., Associate Professor & Chair of Emergency Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Department of Emergency Medicine; 619 South 19th Street; OHB 251; Birmingham, AL 35249-7013

Vice Chair for Clinical Operations

The University of Florida, Department of Emergency Medicine in Gainesville is seeking a full-time board-certified emergency physician with demonstrated experience to provide leadership to the clinical mission and operation of the Department. The position is offered as tenured or non-tenured track and at an academic rank commensurate with the candidate’s experience. The Vice Chair for Clinical Operations will also serve as the Associate Chief of Emergency Services for Shands UF and Medical Director of the Adult Emergency Department. The position offers the potential for significant additional administrative leadership within the College of Medicine and Shands at the University of Florida. The successful candidate will join our current group of 28 full-time Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Faculty and 12 physician extenders who provide clinical services for more than 75,000 patient visits per year in a state-of-the-art, 61-bed ED and trauma critical care center as well as a new separate pediatric emergency medicine facility scheduled to open on July 1st 2011. Our tertiary care catchment area extends to more than 13 counties surrounding the Gainesville area. Our 3-year emergency medicine residency program supports 24 residents, and the Department hosts an active undergraduate medical education program. The Department provides substantial research support and expertise and there are significant opportunities for collaboration throughout the College of Medicine and institutes on the contiguous University of Florida campus.

Shands at UF in Gainesville is the hub of a multi-hospital network and has become one of the busiest level 1 trauma centers in the State of Florida. The Department provides medical direction for county EMS, hospital-operated ground-based, helicopter and fixed wing medical transports, as well as medical direction and support for NASA activities. Qualified candidates must have a strong desire to support the academic mission of our Department through teaching and/or research. Our negotiable salary and benefits structure is highly competitive. Gainesville is the center of the Gator Nation and is a superb award-winning college town! Positions will post until an applicant pool has been established. Applicants will begin being reviewed on July 15, 2011. For additional information, please visit our website at http://emergency.med.ufl.edu

Please send CV and cover letter to: J. Adrian Tyndall, M.D., M.P.H., Chairman

Department of Emergency Medicine University of Florida College of Medicine

P O Box 100186 Gainesville, FL 32610-0392 E-mail: [email protected]

Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Chief of Service NYU Langone Medical Center/Tisch Hospital Emergency Department

New York, NY

The Department of Emergency Medicine at NYU School of Medicine is looking for an outstanding leader for the position of Service Chief of Emergency Medicine at Tisch Hospital/NYU Langone Medical Center.

The Tisch Hospital ED cares for 46,000 patients annually and is currently undergoing expansion, renovation and the implementation of an electronic medical record. The Service Chief will be responsible for the operations of the department, including all patient care, quality and process improvement initiatives. We are looking for a candidate who possesses outstanding communication and collaboration skills and has the ability to lead and implement growth initiatives in a complex environment. A proven record of success at the Associate Chief or Chief of Service level is required.

The Department of Emergency Medicine at NYU sponsors a 64-resident EM Residency Program and offers fellowship training in Medical Toxicology and Pediatric Emergency Medicine. An Ultrasound Fellowship is planned for the near future. We provide Emergency Medicine Services at Tisch Hospital, Bellevue Hospital and the Manhattan VA. A new Simulation Center will open in the Fall of 2011.

Please send CV and Cover Letter to: Robert Femia, MD

Vice Chairman, Clinical Operations In care of: Danielle [email protected]

http://jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty

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