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Newsletter of the Society forAcademic Emergency MedicineMay/June 2007 Volume XXII, Number 3

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“to improve patient care by advancing research and education in emergency medicine”

The SAEM Website: The Face of the Society

I have been on the Board of Directors for SAEM for the past six years, and I have spent most of that time patiently waiting for the new SAEM Website to be developed, populated, and unveiled. Needless to say, it took us quite awhile to get the site up and running. SAEM has traditionally counted

on its member volunteers for consultation, expertise, editorial guidance, and a lot of hard work. Volunteer-heavy organizations aren’t very nimble when it comes to such an all-encompassing project as a society website. After a couple of starts and stops, some new editorial energy, and some office infrastructure-building, we finally got the last pieces of the puzzle put together in the spring of 2006. The website was all set for unveiling at the 2006 Annual Meeting, but we ran into some last minute technical issues again. Glenn Hamilton, who had put more time, energy, and editorial effort into the website development than any other SAEM president, was unable to flip the switch and unveil the site as his legacy at the Annual Business Meeting. It’s too bad, because he deserved the public acknowledgement he would have received for his efforts on the site.

Finally, in September, 2006, the site was unveiled to the membership, without much in the way of hoopla. Maybe it’s because it was so long in coming, maybe it’s because everyone just expected it to look so good, or maybe nobody actually looks at the website! The latter may be true for some of us old timers, but the young physicians coming into our specialty are very computer literate and web sophisticated. For whatever reason, the site just sort-of appeared, and people just started using it as if it had always been there. We haven’t gotten much negative or positive feedback in the SAEM office about the site, and I guess that’s good. No news is good news, so to speak. If you look at the site, however, it certainly looks better and navigates better than the old site. Societal themes are across the top, constituencies are on the left side, and news is front and center. Meeting dates, times, and locations are prominent. Links to resident, student, and faculty membership databases and development materials are simpler, more logical, and easy to navigate.

President’s Message

James Hoekstra, MD

SAEM Names New Executive DirectorOn April 4, after an eight month

search process, SAEM named its new Executive Director, James Tarrant. Mr. Tarrant has accepted the Executive Directorship of SAEM, effective June 4, 2007, and he will be present at the SAEM Annual Meeting in Chicago where he will be formally introduced to the membership at the Annual Business Meeting. The Board of Directors and the Executive Director Search Committee are

very excited about Mr. Tarrant and the knowledge, ex-perience, professionalism, and enthusiasm which he will bring to SAEM. This transition has the potential to transform the Society.

James Tarrant has over �6 years of experience in medical societies. He is presently the Executive Director of the Chicago Medical Society, an organization of approximately 6000 Illinois physicians. Jim brings expertise in non-profit society management, fund raising, physician education, and meeting planning to SAEM. He has experience fostering leadership/staff collaboration; building external relation- ships; advocacy; and, management of related associations and independent consultants. Jim will bring a fresh per-spective to the Society and the SAEM office management. His family ties in the Lansing area make him the perfect candidate to develop a long-term relationship with our membership.

The SAEM Board of Directors wishes to thank Dave Sklar and the members of the Executive Director Search Committee (Jim Adams, Jill Baren, Bill Barsan, Louis Ling, John Marx, Craig Newgard, Emanuel Rivers, Bob Schafer-meyer, Sandy Schneider, and Brian Zink) for their hard work, dedication, and foresight throughout the search process. Many of the search committee members are senior members of SAEM, including past presidents and board members. Their insights and leadership throughout the search are much appreciated. The committee was commissioned in August, 2006, and has worked diligently with Jim Zaniello and Pamela Kaul of Association Strategies, Inc. to analyze the SAEM office, design a position description, advertise nationally, identify candidates, interview select candidates, and negotiate a final commitment. The committee reviewed over 45 applications, and interviewed six candidates over the months of March and April to narrow the field down to the final candidate.

Please join me in welcoming Jim to the Society.

James Tarrant

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It is inevitable that when multiple physicians converge on a single patient, they will sometimes disagree on clinical decisions. In academic emergency departments (ED) where faculty attending physicians are supervising residents of varying training levels, this dilemma may happen and the solution is not always clear nor satisfactory to everyone involved. Some hypothetical examples:

�) A healthy 30 year-old man with chest pain after heavy physical activity has a normal EKG, chest x-ray, vital signs including SaO2, and physical exam. The resident physician administers analgesics and plans on discharging the patient, but the attending wants a chest CT-angiogram to be ordered to evaluate for pulmonary embolism (PE). The resident believes the patient is at low risk for PE, and that the risk of the procedure (radiation and IV contrast) outweighs the benefits, but places the order with the notation in the chart “per attending request” which angers the attending resulting in a formal reprimand of the resident by the program director.

2) An elderly man on hemodialysis is obtunded and febrile with tachycardia and hypotension. The resident wants to start the protocol for “early goal directed therapy for sepsis” by placing an internal jugular catheter for central venous pressure monitoring and administration of vasopressors after initial intravenous fluid boluses failed to stabilize his vital signs. The resident is discouraged from this course of action, and told to get the patient out of the ED and to the ICU as soon as possible. An unfavorable shift evaluation later states that the resident “should consider leaving emergency medicine training for internal medicine”.

3) A four year old girl with fever, runny nose, cough, and vomiting is brought in by her parents after a reported brief convulsion. Initially she looks fatigued, but receives acetaminophen and oral fluids and is later smiling and playing with toys and running in the hallway. Laboratory studies show a leukocytosis but no other abnormalities. The attending physician wants to perform a lumbar puncture (LP) but the resident would prefer to simply observe the patient. The resident then attempts to stall and seeks advice from another attending physician who is coming on duty.

4) An intoxicated driver involved in a motor vehicle collision is agitated, tachycardic, and hypotensive. The resident physician does an initial evaluation and plans to announce a “trauma activation” but the attending objects and wants only the ED staff to continue caring for the patient. When a pulmonary contusion and pelvic fracture

are identified and the trauma team is consulted, the trauma attending chastises the resident for not calling for their assistance sooner. The ED attending observes this interaction but does not intervene.

5) A 35 year old woman has brief epigastric pain after a heavy meal, and no identifiable risk factors for coronary artery disease. She has a normal EKG, chest x-ray, and physical exam, and her pain improves after liquid antacids. The ED attending requests for the resident to call a consultant to admit her in order to evaluate her further for an acute coronary syndrome. The resident places the call but is dismayed when the consultant is irritated; defensively the resident states that the patient “should go home but my attending wants a consult”.

Because residency training involves a graduated level of responsibility, interns and junior residents are perhaps not as likely to have disagreements with their attending as are senior residents, and often follow the plan that the more experienced physician (senior resident or attending) provides. Conversely, senior residents have had more opportunities to care for patients, potentially even independently if they have been “moonlighting”. Having strong feelings of ownership for their patients may make it difficult for them to follow through on plans with which they don’t agree. Is this not the goal of residency programs – to prepare physicians who are well trained with the skills and judgment to provide excellent care of ED patients? If we expect them to only “do what they are told” then when will they be ready to take ownership of patients independently?

Ultimately the plan of the attending must be followed, and there is no debate here about this fact, but that doesn’t mean it is not a problem for the resident to be involved in the care of a patient that they are told is “their patient” but not agree with the decisions and yet be forced to implement them. From a liability point, the resident may be less likely to be named in a lawsuit than is the attending, but that is not the point here. It is accepted that the attending’s plan has been implemented, so if a bad outcome occurs it is unfortunate for the attending; a bad outcome, whether resulting in lawsuit or not, can be devastating to the resident since they implemented a plan with which they did not agree. It may be for this reason that house staff feel compelled to attempt to show in the medical record that it is not their plan (if not that they outright disagree) and voice this to consultants.

If a resident and attending have differing opinions on

When Emergency Department Attending and Resident Physicians Differ in Clinical Decisions

Joseph R. Shiber, MDEast Carolina University

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The SAEM Hal Jayne Academic Excellence Award recognizes emergency medicine physicians who have had “outstanding contributions to emergency medicine through research, education, and scholarly accomplishments”. Brian J. Zink, MD has made a difference in our specialty in all of these areas. He is well-known for his dedication to advancing emergency medicine through research, support of others’ research and in educating the next generation of EM physicians. He has also become a historian of emergency medicine.

Brian graduated from the University of Rochester School of Medicine in �984. He set in motion his academic career as a resident at the University of Cincinnati, serving as a Chief Resident in �988. At Cincinnati, he cultivated his analytical skills and interest that became the foundation of his research in alcohol effects in shock. As a second year resident he presented his first scientific work on alcohol and shock at the University Association of Emergency Medicine (UAEM) Annual Meeting. His first faculty position at Albany Medical College furthered Brian’s development as a researcher and teacher. There he first received accolades for his teaching, winning “Outstanding Teacher Award” in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Also at Albany, Brian began investigating the effects of acute alcohol intoxication on traumatic brain injury, supported by the Emergency Medicine Foundation Career Development Award and NIH funding. He was recruited to the University of Michigan in �992 as a new academic department was being created. There Brian’s research career flourished. He was awarded a KO8 Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award from the NIAAA. He also was involved in clinical research, serving as the site investigator for two major multi-center traumatic brain injury trials. Through his research, our basic understanding of the effects of alcohol on injury has been greatly expanded.

Brian paired his success in research with education. From �999-2006, he was the Director of Student Biomedical Research Programs at the University of Michigan Medical School (UM) and principal investigator for the National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute T35 training grant, which trained over 70 medical students each summer in research. He also coordinated student application and involvement in national year long research awards. Brian also played a big role in the overall education and career development of students at the University of Michigan Medical School by serving first as Assistant Dean for Medical Student Career Development and then Associate Dean for Student Programs. He developed an innovative, widely acclaimed career development program for medical students and personally mentored hundreds of students in their career

planning. Currently, Brian sits on the national Advisory Board of the AAMC Careers in Medicine program.

Within our Society, Brian was active from his early faculty years, serving first on the Research Committee, then on Constitution and Bylaws, and the SAEM Board of Directors from �997-2002. He served as SAEM President in 2000-200� and helped to deliver a strong message on the importance of research to the field of emergency medicine. He was co-editor of the SAEM publication “Emergency Medicine – An Academic Career Guide”, and has written several essays promoting education and research in our field, all of which have impacted medical students, residents and academic faculty in emergency medicine.

Brian’s love of emergency medicine led him to devote four years, including a sabbatical, to writing, Anyone, Anything, Anytime – A History of Emergency Medicine, 2005. This first comprehensive history of emergency medicine was based on 45 oral history interviews with founders of the field, and an exhaustive review and synthesis of the archives and literature of emergency medicine. The book is uniquely significant and highly regarded by emergency physicians for its detailed, insightful look into the social and political factors that led to the development of the field of emergency medicine.

In July 2006, Dr. Zink became Professor and Inaugural Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine for the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; Physician-in-Chief of Rhode Island, The Miriam and Hasbro Children’s Hospitals Emergency Departments and the President of the physician practice plan, University Emergency Medicine Foundation. Dr. Zink has begun to reinvigorate the academic focus of the department and its position at the table of academic medicine at Brown University. In this short period of time, Dr. Zink has had a tremendous impact, not only on the EM Residency program, but also on how Emergency Medicine is viewed academically at an Ivy League institution. Dr. Zink has focused on education and research as the major areas to bring emergency medicine into the forefront of the medical school.

Brian J. Zink, MD has made exceptional contributions to emergency medicine in the areas of research, education, and via his numerous and wide-ranging scholarly accomplishments. He has significantly advanced our understanding of alcohol and trauma. He has demonstrated

BRIAN J. ZINkRecipient of the SAEM Hal Jayne Academic Excellence Award

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Something for Everyone at the Annual Meeting 2007

Debra Houry, MD, MPH Emory UniversitySAEM Program Committee Chair

The Annual Meeting is coming soon! I hope you have all made plans to attend this year’s meeting in Chicago. Depending on your interests and your professional level (student, resident, junior faculty, or senior faculty), you should be able to find a session that interests you. Each year we review your meeting evaluations and we continually strive to improve the Annual Meeting and update the sessions to meet changing needs.

Medical students and residents:SAEM is a great way for medical students and resi-

dents to learn how to develop their own research projects and even find mentors at outside institutions. This year we are offering the Medical Student Symposium on Saturday, May �9th. Some of the topics covered will be: “Getting good advice,” “Getting the most out of your clerkship,” “The Dean’s letter,” “Career paths and prospects in emergency medicine,” plus smaller break out sessions on topics such as financial planning and medical schools without EM programs. In addition, there will be (continued on page 10)

an opportunity for medical students to meet program directors over lunch as well as at the residency fair that afternoon. The Chief Residents Forum will be on Thursday, May �7th. This workshop will give chief residents the skills and knowledge necessary to have a successful year. Some of the sessions will include: “Leadership and the management role,” “Developing a schedule,” “Effective communication,” and “The impaired physician.”

The plenary oral paper sessions will show off some of the current research at the meeting. This will give you an idea of the breadth and sophistication of emergency medicine research. Poster sessions are a great opportunity to talk with presenters and ask questions about their research in a more informal setting. “Touring the Poster Session Critiquing the Tables and Figures” will include a walk through of a poster session, stopping at posters of interest to critique the quality of the tables and figures and is another great way to get tips on research. The didactic sessions offer information on teaching, research, and career development. Some sessions that might be particularly helpful include: “Lunch with fellowship directors,” “Clinical research — getting started,” “Introduction to statistics,” and “Abstract Writing Workshop.”

The CPC competition on Tuesday, May �5th is a fun way to learn about unusual diagnoses and watch faculty try to guess the correct diagnosis based on information

Academic AnnouncementsSAEM members are encouraged to submit Academic Announcements on promotions, research funding, and other items of inter-est to the membership. Submissions must be sent to saem@saem.org by June � to be included in the July/August issue.

Douglas Ander, MD, Associate Professor, Emory Department of Emergency Medicine, has been named the inaugural Director of Simulation for the Emory School of Medicine. In July 2007, the School of Medicine is opening a state-of-the-art education building which will include a 5,000 square foot simulation center.

Steve Pitts, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Emory Department of Emergency Medicine, has been selected as one of two fellows for the National Center of Health Statistics Fellowship program for 2007-2008. Dr. Pitts will spend the year in Rockville, MD to pursue this extraordinary opportunity.

Arthur L. Kellermann MD, MPH, Professor, Emory De-partment of Emergency Medicine, has accepted a new position as the Emory School of Medicine Associate Dean for Health Policy, effective August 2007. Dr. Kellermann is on leave this year pursuing the RWJ Health Policy fellowship. In the transition to this new role, he will be stepping down as Department Chair and a chair search is currently underway.

The University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center have announced that

Richard V. Aghababian, MD, founding chair of the De-partment of Emergency Medicine, will step down form his position as chair, effective March 3�, 2007. He will be succeeded by Gregory A. Volturo, MD, currently Professor and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Aghababian will continue to serve as Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education.

Steven W. Corbett, MD, PhD has been named the Interim Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Loma Linda University.

Jack Kelly, MD, has been chosen as the 2007 recipient of the most prestigious Albert Einstein Physician Leadership Award. This is the highest honor an AEMC physician can receive.

Shahram Lotfipour, MD, MPH, Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of Undergraduate Medical Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California (UC) Irvine. He has been appointed the Course Director of Clinical Foundations I, II and III, the three-year longitudinal introduction to clinical medicine for the UC Irvine School of

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The 2007 NRMP Match in Emergency MedicineLouis Binder, MDMetroHealth Medical Center/Cleveland ClinicCase Medical School EM Residency

The results of the 2007 NRMP Match became final on March �5, 2007. Emergency Medicine residency programs offered a total of �385 entry level positions (5.6% of total positions in all specialties). The following numbers (taken from the 2007 NRMP Data Book) include information from all programs that entered the 2007 Match:

2005 2006 2007Total # of NRMP positions 24,0�2 24,083 24,685Overall % of positions unfilled 7.5% 6.8% 6.2%Number of EM programs listed �32 �35 �38 (��9 PG�/�3 PG2) (�24 PG�, �� PG2) (�27 PG�, 9 PG2)Total PG�/PG2 entry positions �332 �366 �385 (��88 PG�/�44 PG2) (�25� PG�, ��5 PG2) (�288 PG�, 97 PG2)EM positions/total NRMP positions 5.5% 5.7% 5.6%

# EM programs with PG� vacancies 6/��9 (5%) �3/�24 (��%) 2/�27 (�.6%)# unmatched EM PG� positions 23/��88 (2%) 34/�25� (3%) 6/�288 (0.5%)

# EM programs with PG2 vacancies �/�3 (8%) �/�� (9%) �/9 (��%)# unmatched EM PG2 positions �/�44 (0.7%) �/��5 (�%) �/97 (�%)

Total # EM programs with vacancies 7/�32 (5%) �4/�35 (�0%) 3/�36 (2.2%)Total # unmatched EM positions 24/�332 (2%) 35/�366 (2.6%) 7/�385 (0.5%)

Applicant Pool Data

Applicants who ranked only EM programs: 2005 2006 2007US graduates �056 996 ��05Independent applicants 324 363 385Total applicants �380 �359 �489

Applicants who ranked at least one EM program:

US graduates �207 ��47 ��40Independent applicants 48� 494 584Total applicants �688 �64� �724

US seniors applying only to EMPrograms who went unmatched 65/�056 (6.2%) 45/996 (4.5%) 78/��05 (7.�%)

Independent applicants applying ��7/334 (35%) �08/363 (30%) �50/384 (39%)only to EM programs who wentunmatched

Percent of matched US seniors �/��,796 (8.4%) �037/�2,250 (8.5%) �027/�2,59� (8.2%)who matched in EM residencies

Breakdown of filled EM positions by type of applicant:

2005 2006 2007

PG� EM positions ��88 �25� �288Filled by US graduates 950 (80%) 944 (75%) �027 (80%)Filled by independent applicants 2�4 (�8%) 274 (22%) 255 (�9.5%)Total filled ��64 (98%) �2�8 (97%) �282 (99.5%)

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PG2 EM positions �44 ��5 97Filled by US graduates �20 (83%) 93 (8�%) 77 (79%)Filled by independent applicants 24 (�7%) 22 (�9%) �9 (20%)Total filled �44 (�00%) ��5 (�00%) 96 (99%)

Total EM positions �332 �366 �385Filled by US graduates �070 (80%) �037 (76%) ��04 (79%)Filled by independent applicants 238 (�8%) 296 (22%) 274 (20%)Total filled �308 (98%) �333 (98%) �378 (99%)

** For PG1 filled entry positions (1282), 1027 were filled by US seniors, 51 were filled by US physicians, 120 by osteopathic physicians, 58 by US international medical graduates, 23 by international medical graduates, 1 by Canadian physicians, and 2 by Fifth Pathway graduates.

From these data, several conclusions can be drawn:

�. Emergency Medicine experienced a historically modest increase of �9 entry level positions in the 2007 Match over 2006 Match numbers (a �.3% increase, compared with 2.6% last year), occurring from quota increases occurring in EM �-3 programs, and from one new program in the EM match. Emergency Medicine now comprises 5.6 percent of the total NRMP positions and 8.2% of matched US seniors (both all time highs).

2. Using the higher demand figures (applicants ranking at least � EM program), the overall demand for EM entry level positions was level among U.S. Seniors applying to EM programs (virtually equivalent numbers to last year), but demand from other categories of applicants increased significantly, (from 22 to 90 applicants). The excess applicant demand over and above the size of the training base is �04 to 339 applicants (7% to 24% 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 the same in 2007 compared with 2006. In 2007, 79% of EM entry positions were filled with US graduates, which is a comparable percentage with recent years.

4. A slight increase of �9 in the supply of EM entry level positions in 2007, coupled with a leveling of demand among U.S. Seniors and an increase in demand from other categories of applicants, resulted in a notable increase in the fill rate for EM programs in 2007 (99.5%) versus 2006 (97.4%). The cumulative effect of these three trends was also manifested by a decreased number of unfilled EM positions in the Match (7 in 2007, versus 35 in 2006).

5. The unmatched rate of 7% for US seniors, and 39% 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.

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Medicine. The course teaches interviewing and physical exam skills using standardized patients, community preceptorships, integration of clinical and basic sciences, and hands-on clinical and procedural skills. Dr. Lotfipour has served as a Dean’s Medical Education Scholar.

Gregory P. Conners, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAP, FACEP, has been promoted to Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry. Dr. Conner remains Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine and Chief, Division of Pediatrics Emergency Medicine.

Jim Holliman, MD, has resigned form Penn State University and has started a new position with the Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine (CDHAM) of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland as the Program Manager of the Afghanistan Health Care Sector Reconstruction Project.

The aim of this project is to help coordinate health care system redevelopment efforts for Afghanistan. Jim just finished leading a CDHAM team on a two week study visit to Afghanistan. As the project develops, there should be opportunity foe SAEM members to collaborate on research spin-offs of the development efforts.

The New York University Department of Emergency Med-icine is honored to appoint Neal A Lewin, MD as the first Stanley and Fiona Druckenmiller Fund Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine (Pharmacology). Neal has worked in our department for 30 years and is a exceptionally gifted, devoted and creative physician. He has developed a special role in the hospital’s academic environment as a clinical education and mentor par excellence. Neal has devoted immense energy as an editor of Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies for a quarter century.

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The question posed to the participants of the Spring meeting of the Council of Academic Medical Societies was, “Does scholarship/research experience in medical training improve the quality of the physicians produced?” This question is relevant to undergraduate and graduate medical education, and in both areas, there are requirements for scholarship that students must meet and programs must offer. The RRC for Emergency Medicine has expectations for both resident and faculty scholarly activity and the new common program requirements from the ACGME require that basic principles of research must be taught and research be conducted, evaluated and applied to patient care. Residents should participate in scholarly activity and sponsoring institutions should allocate adequate support for research.

Definitions of research and scholarly activity are im-portant as one attempts to meet the requirements. Research is generally regarded as the process of investigation of a question with scientific methodology, collection and analysis of data and publication of results that have been reviewed by peers. Scholarly activity includes research but also includes other areas of analysis, creative expression and communication. Scholarly activity, because it is more inclusive may be the preferred activity for students and faculty. The hope, which has not been rigorously studied, is that participation in scholarship will help students and faculty develop certain habits of critical thinking, data analysis and problem solving that will make for successful life-long learners and educators. Examples of programs in scholarly activity at a variety of medical schools were presented at the meeting and the important continuity between such activities in medical school and residency were discussed.

Council of Academic Societies/Association of Academic Medical CentersSpring Meeting in Long Beach, California

March 15-17, 2007

David P. Sklar, MDUniversity of New Mexico

Although there was a broad acceptance and acknowledgment of the potential value of scholarly projects and activities, the costs of such programs also were described and discussed. Infrastructure for scholarly activity including statistical support, database access, and IRB training are some direct costs. Additionally, faculty protected time to mentor students and residents and participate in scholarly activity as mandated in Emergency Medicine have indirect costs. Who will pay for these aspects of scholarly activity? Should they be departmental costs or a central cost of a GME office or research office?

Many residents and clinical faculty resist participation in scholarly activity because it is often perceived as time consuming, onerous and not connected to their clinical activities. One of the challenges for academic medicine is to demonstrate that scholarly activity is intimately connected to high quality clinical care and education. The fragmentation of medical education that occurs due to the division of the educational process into pre-medical, medical school, resident and continuing medical education has exacerbated the difficulty of highlighting scholarship in all phases of medical education. The fragmentation often results in viewing scholarship as a product rather than mental process that must be developed throughout the continuum of medical education.

The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine has the opportunity to engage in the continuing discussion about the value of scholarship with the AAMC, our respective medical schools and with the various accrediting bodies for medical schools and graduate medical education. It will be important that we understand the new regulations and the issues that led to them as we design our responses to them.

The Mentoring Women Interest Group will meet on Thursday, May 17, from 12 pm-1 pm during the SAEM Annual Meeting. The location is yet to be announced. Our agenda will include an update about the Women in Academic Medicine Task Force and a focused discussion about promotion from Assistant to Associate to Full Professor. Are you an Associate or Full Professor? We need you and your stories about publications, research, education, your track, timelines, and the process you

experienced along the way. The best way we can mentor one another is to share ideas, network, and work together. We hope to see you in Chicago! If you are unable to attend the noon meeting, we also plan to meet for drinks in the Sheraton’s lobby bar on Thursday evening at 6 pm. Please contact co-chairs Susan Promes, prome00�@mc. duke.edu, or Joanne Oakes, Joanne.oakes@uth.tmc.edu for more information.

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Gabor D. Kelen, MD, has been an exceptional leader in academic medicine, who has had a profound influence on emergency medicine’s ascendancy from fledgling specialty to respected vibrant discipline within academia. His impact nationally and internationally has been felt in multiple spheres, redefining the very nature of academic emergency medicine. He is most deserving of

the SAEM Leadership Award in recognition of his visionary program building, mentorship to a generation of current leaders, and seminal contribution to discovery.

Dr. Kelen graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine in �979. After training in other specialties, Dr. Kelen joined the Johns Hopkins Emergency Medicine Residency Program in �982. He subsequently became faculty and assumed the role of Residency Director, and one year later became the Research Director. In �993, he was named the founding chair of the academic Department of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Kelen brought national credibility to emergency research through his seminal findings regarding the epidemiology and transmission risk of HIV. He was the first to show the extent of unrecognized infection, and was the first to validate the CDC’s advocacy of universal precautions. Dr. Kelen’s research soundly refuted the value of testing patients or providers for HIV prior to rendering medical care, and he was also the first to propose and show the feasibility of HIV testing in the ED.

Dr. Kelen was the first emergency trained academician to publish experimental work in the NEJM. His landmark findings have also been published in JAMA, Lancet, and Annals of Internal Medicine. He has published extensively and is an author/editor of three texts. In recognition of his research, he received ACEP’s Outstanding Contribution to Research Award. He has personally attracted over $22 million in research funding.

Dr. Kelen has influenced the national development of the field by bringing emergency medicine to the forefront at Johns Hopkins. Since becoming chair, the department has expanded from seven to over fifty faculty. EM is the highest ranked medical student clerkship at Hopkins, with more than �0% of the recent graduates choosing an EM residency. In addition, eleven EM fellowships have been established.

Dr. Kelen has been one of the most visionary program builders. Under his tutelage, several unique centers have been established including the Division of Special Oper-ations (Tactical Emergency Medicine); the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response; the Center for Medical

Legal Studies (the only such entity of its kind); the Division of Acute Care Medicine, the first to house emergency medicine within an inpatient setting; and the Emergency Medicine Teaching College, a new academic education model. The Hopkins EM Research Center is arguably the best funded emergency research enterprise in the country with five major areas of focus: injury prevention, cardiac care, health services, infectious diseases and disaster preparedness.

Dr. Kelen has paved the way for academic emergency medicine to claim the lead in preparedness efforts. He established and directs the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response, an enterprise wide entity that has become the model for universities and health systems. In addition, Dr. Kelen successfully competed for a Department of Homeland Security supported University Center of Excellence. The National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response is a national consortium of 22 universities and national laboratories with over 90 investigators, rendering it the largest research enterprise controlled by academic emergency medicine.

Dr. Kelen’s accomplishments have been recognized by his colleagues at Johns Hopkins. He was recently voted Chair of the Medical Board of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and was appointed to the Board of Trustees, the first emergency physician to ever hold these positions.

Dr. Kelen has served in major leadership roles within SAEM. As the last president of the Society of Teachers in Emergency Medicine, he played a major role in the creation of SAEM and sat on its first Board of Directors. He is on the editorial board of Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM), acting as guest editor for two editions. In addition, he recently chaired the AEM Consensus Conference on the Science of Surge. Dr. Kelen has served on numerous SAEM committees, including as chair of the Infectious Disease Committee and the Research Committee. He previously received the Hal Jayne Academic Excellence Award, and has served as the President of the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine.

In recognition of his national leadership, Dr. Kelen was inducted into the Institute of Medicine, and has provided expert testimony before congressional subcommittees on four occasions. He is a senior editor of the new AMA Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, and he is a reviewer for all EM journals, as well as NEJM and JAMA.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Dr. Kelen’s involvement in academic emergency medicine. During those 25 years, he has been a major force in the ascendancy of the discipline in his institution, within SAEM, and nationally.

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As we prepare for our Annual Meeting, I thought it would be a great time to bring you up to date on the SAEM Consult Service and share a number of important additions to the Service. As the challenges and available technologies in our specialty evolve, the Board requested the Consult Service expand its services to the membership to help meet their needs and further their opportunities. Here are two new and exciting additions, as well as the status of our Residency Consultations.

The Faculty Development Consultation is a response to the continual need to recruit, mature, and enhance the skill sets of our EM faculty in an evermore complex academic environment. This group can offer consultations in areas related to faculty development, provided by individuals with experience and expertise in this area. They have suggested four types of consults:

�. Faculty Development Program Development is for new programs aimed at helping them develop a realistic faculty development program.

2. Faculty Development Program Assessment is for established programs to provide an objective assessment of the current development program and provide suggestions for expansion or improvement.

3. Focused Consultations in Specific Areas is aimed at augmenting an existing program by providing consultation in specific areas such as faculty development for women.

4. Individualized Consultations are provided if the institutional leadership has issues that fall outside the parameters of the above services or needs a consult that blends elements of all or some of the above.

The group has already performed its first Consult and is looking forward to working with our members to provide this vitally important service.

It is hard to pick up any EM publication and not see a title that deals with “Simulation.” This is the fastest growing area of educational design and research in our specialty. In response to this growth, the Simulation Consultation was launched. This group will assist departments in planning; developing and implementing high fidelity simulator based training programs. With multiple agencies defining patient care safety as the most important issue confronting our profession and specialty, how we train our students, residents and faculty to deliver the highest level of care in the safest possible manner is central to all we do. Having already performed its first consult at the Wright State University Department of Emergency Medicine and receiving strong reviews for their work this group is ready to bring its expertise to your program.

The Residency Consultations continue to deliver an important product as it has for the past twenty plus years. Having provided well over one hundred consultations to a specialty that has �4� programs, this vital service has had a significant impact on our specialty. By taking

full advantage of a good number of the Consult Service membership who are Chairs we have found, in the right circumstances, that the combination of a Chair and a senior Program Director Consult Team have helped to deliver an even stronger experience for the requesting institution. This collaboration, in a recent visit, helped to not only secure RRC approval for the new program but a promise by the Dean to establish an academic department. The following services are available:

�. Establishment of an EM Residency is for centers that have decided to create a residency or for centers that would like expert advice on the potential and feasibility for a new residency. Their visit allows an “independent outsider” to offer those leaders a frank assessment of the potential liabilities that may be uncovered by your official site visit and RRC-EM review as well as offering a potential plan of corrective action.

2. Mock Site Visit is a dress rehearsal to help programs and institutions prepare for their official visit by the RRC-EM. Consulting Service members will look at the institution and the program for areas of potential concern by the RRC-EM and give the site visit participants an opportunity to “practice” prior to the actual visit.

3. Program Information Form (PIF) Reviews, a relatively new service, has become quite popular. It provides a detailed review and comment of the PIF prior to submission to the RRC-EM. This service has proven to be of particular benefit to established programs. This service allows veteran PD’s the opportunity to preview, with a veteran Consulting Service member, their program and the creative ways they have integrated recent iniatives such as Core Competencies or work hour regulations. The Consulting Service reviewer will provide a detailed review of the PIF with recommendations prior to submission to the RRC-EM.

All three services are comprised of seasoned veterans and experts as well as program directors, veteran assistant program directors and academic chairs. Visits are usually performed by two individuals who are selected with input from the Consult Service and requesting institution. Fees are $�500 per individual per day plus expenses. An additional $500 fee is paid to SAEM to support the administrative needs of the Service. PIF Reviews are $750.

The SAEM Consult Service is proud of the role it has played in sustaining quality in so many of our training programs and looks forward to continuing this tradition with our new and expanded services. In the interest of “one stop shopping” please feel to contact me for any of the services above. I can be contacted directly at wac90�@nyp.org (2�2-746-0433) or contact the Interim Executive Director, Barbara Mulder, at barb@saem.org. Thanks and I look forward to seeing you in Chicago.

SAEM Consult Service NewsWallace Carter, MDChair, SAEM Consult ServiceNew York PresbyterianThe University Hospital of Columbia & Cornell

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from the resident presenter. In addition, interest groups often also have focused discussions and collaborations on specific topics and I would encourage you to the look at the onsite program schedule and check one of these meetings out.

Junior faculty:The SAEM Research committee will be holding a Grant

Writing Workshop on the pre-day, Tuesday May �5th. There will be small group interactive sessions focused on the most critical portions of the grant application in addition to new sessions focused on training grants and electronic grant submissions. This workshop will be invaluable for anyone trying to navigate the grants process and to obtain feedback and instruction on grant writing.

As mentioned in the medical student/ resident section above, Dr. Schriger will be teaching a session on how to make high quality tables and figures and will be conducting a walk through of the poster session pointing out examples and critiquing tables and figures. In addition, Judd Hollander and I will be teaching a workshop on abstract writing based on our experiences with reviewing abstracts for the Annual Meeting. Steve Lowenstein (of the well referenced “Gilbert and Lowenstein” article on chart reviews) will be lecturing on “Chart Reviews in Emergency Medicine Research: A Guide to the Methods” which should be helpful for anyone who ever plans to do a retrospective chart review study.

Last year we offered a faculty development workshop and we will be holding this highly successful workshop again this year. The format will be a didactic session followed by small group break-out sessions led by several leaders in EM. This is another great opportunity to get directed, personal advice on your career path. Other didactic sessions targeted for junior faculty include “No! Not another boring lecture: using educational theory as basis for alternative methods of teaching”, “Academic mentorship: seeking guidance as a clinician-educator”, and “So, you want to be a residency director”. We have also added more clinically oriented state of the art sessions each day that should be of interest to all.

I also strongly encourage you to attend paper sessions on topics you are interested in. This will help you devise your own research projects and see what your colleagues are studying at other programs. In particular, the poster session and moderated poster session allows you to have a one on one discussion with presenters.

Senior faculty:The Program Committee has worked very hard at

increasing the sophistication of our didactic sessions. “Adaptive clinical trials,” “Consent barriers in emergency research,” “Making an ED information system work for operations, monitoring education, research, and disease surveillance,” and “The application of cost analysis in emergency medicine research and administration” are

new sessions geared towards experienced researchers. Another new session added this year: “Planning and

completing a sabbatical” will assist you in setting up a sabbatical and in integrating that experience back into your careers upon your return. “Communication and negotiation skills: the ED, the hospital, and the outside” will focus on developing skills for conflict resolution and effective negotiation.

Last year the Institute of Medicine report was not released in time for the Annual Meeting so this year we will have a panel discussion of “The Institute of Medicine report on the future of emergency care in the U.S.: discussion, insight, and strategy for the future”. In addition, given the recent visit to NIH by many of our SAEM and ACEP representatives, we recently added a session on “Opportunities for EM research within the NIH CTSA program”.

Finally, the quality of research continues to improve each year and your participation in discussions at the scientific paper presentations is welcomed!

Social events:The social events are a great venue for all SAEM mem-

bers from medical students to senior faculty to fraternize and network without having to leave the meeting!

This year we will be having a 30 minute coffee break with pastries before the plenary session to kick off the meeting. We will then conclude the first day of the meeting with the opening happy hour reception on Wednesday, May �6th. Make sure to swing by and grab an appetizer before you head out to dinner!

Thursday night is open for you to have a night on the town and enjoy an evening in Chicago. We have obtained group rates for two Chicago venues: Blue Chicago, a blues club and Zanies, a comedy club. Tickets are available in advance through the SAEM website.

For those of you with athletic abilities, we will be having a Fun Run in the morning. The run will start promptly at 6:�5 am and will be a 5K from just south of the hotel to Shedd Aquarium and back. T-shirts, bottled water, and fruit will be provided. You can sign up at the main meeting registration desk for your t-shirt, number, and pins anytime before Friday morning. The registration fee is $�5 and any profits generated from this event will be donated to the SAEM Research Fund.

We have planned a new event for you on Friday night. We will be having a Chicago-themed reception from 5:30-7 pm complete with Chicago-style pizza and a cash bar. We have arranged for the John Primer and The Real Deal Blues Band to play at this blues reception. John Primer has released ten solo albums to date and is a Grammy Award Nominee and Handy Award Nominee. Check out his music at www.sonicbinds.com/johnprimer. No advance registration necessary; just show up. Don’t miss it!

As always, please feel free to contact me with questions and suggestions for the Annual Meeting. Email is the easiest way to reach me: dhoury@emeory.edu. In addition, you can leave messages for me at the hotel during the meeting. I look forward to seeing all of you in Chicago!

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17th Annual SAEM Midwest Regional Meeting Meeting Announcement & Call for Abstracts

Thursday, September 20, 2007 Ford Field, Detroit, Michigan

The Department of Emergency Medicine at Wayne State University is pleased to announce that abstracts are now being accepted for the SAEM Midwest Regional Meeting. The theme of the meeting will be “Finding Your Niche in Emergency Medicine” and will include a keynote address by Dr. Glenn Hamilton. The program will feature oral and moderated poster presentations of original research, as well as a discussion-panel and short lectures from various invited faculty whom have excelled in their chosen EM niche.

The meeting location is Ford Field, home of the Detroit Lions. Registration to this event includes a complimentary continental breakfast and lunch. A selection of wine and cheeses will also be provided during the moderated poster session.

Detroit is a resurging city, with much to offer our out-of-town guests. Take a boat tour down the Detroit River. Visit Greektown for a fabulous evening meal. If gaming is your interest, Detroit has three Las Vegas style casinos downtown. Or maybe you’d like to visit a museum? The Detroit Institute of Arts and the Charles Wright Museum of African American History (the largest African American museum in the country) are two of our gems. Like music? We also are home to the world renowned Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and have a thriving local music scene. Are you a sports fan? Detroiters are passionate about their sports, and September is a great time for the sports fan to visit as it is possible to see the Lions, Tigers, and Red Wings in action, and all of whom play in Downtown Detroit.

The deadline for abstract submission is FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2007 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Only electronic submissions via the SAEM online abstract submission form at www.saem.org will be accepted. Acceptance notification will be sent by August �0, 2007. Questions concerning the meeting can be directed to the Program Co-Chair, Scott Compton, PhD, at scompton-med.wayne.edu.

Dr. Rollin J. Fairbanks from the University of Rochester has been selected to receive the SAEM/EMPSF Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Research Fellowship. The grant, sponsored by The Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation, awards $75,000 over a �2 month period to enhance the development of an emergency medicine patient safety researcher. Additionally, funds are provided for the recipient to participate in the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET)/National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship.

Dr. Fairbanks is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Rochester. Dr. Fairbanks’ grant, entitled, “Human Factors Engineering Approaches to Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine” will provide him with the opportunities necessary to allow for his development as a patient safety researcher using a combination of didactic training and a mentored

patient safety research project. The project focuses on training in Human Factors Engineering with the ultimate goal of reducing use error in medical devices and ED information systems. Human Factors Engineering analysis techniques will be used to discover latent hazards in the design of ED information systems applications. The goal will be to implement future system changes which protect patients from preventable adverse events. Dr. Robert L. Wears will serve as the primary mentor of a mentoring committee which includes Keith Karn PhD, Stanley Caplan MS, and Manish N. Shah MD, MPH.

Applications for the next cycle of funding for the SAEM/EMPSF Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Research Fellowship (project period July 2008 - June 2009) are due August �, 2007. For more information, see the SAEM website, or contact Dianne Vass, Executive Director of EMPSF at dvass@empsf.org.

2007 SAEM/EMPSF Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Research Fellowship Award

James F. Holmes, MD, MPHUC Davis School of MedicineSAEM - Grants Committee

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I was recently at an ultrasound conference and a radiologist turned to me after a presentation and commented, “I’m sure you know what you are doing but the emergency physicians at my hospital are going to kill someone with the ultrasound machine.” It made me think about how the emergency medicine community and other specialties view emergency ultrasound.

When I started residency in emergency medicine the emergency ultrasound program at my hospital consisted of a small machine that sat in the corner, used intermittently by a handful of residents. The ultrasound director of our residency had achieved his experience in emergency ultrasonography by mailing prints of the images to another physician. There was a single fellowship in emergency ultrasound but it had yet to graduate a fellow. The attitude of most emergency physicians of that time could be summed up by a comment made to a current colleague of mine, “Ultrasound is a fad. It will never be commonly used in emergency medicine. You are wasting your time trying to do a fellowship in Emergency Ultrasound.”

We have come a long way since then. Emergency ultrasonography is considered one of the basic skills of an emergency physician. The RRC cites residencies that do not provide enough ultrasound education and fellowships are sprouting around the country. At my hospital we perform over 5000 emergency ultrasounds per year and in the last year we performed almost 300 more gallbladder ultrasounds than radiology. Each year more emergency medicine residents and emergency ultrasound fellows graduate and bring emergency ultrasound to academic and community EDs around the country. The reality is that some new attendings are highly skilled in bedside

ultrasound and others have a lot of energy but substantially less skill.

I am concerned that there are residencies and fellow-ships out there that are producing ED attendings with incomplete ultrasound skill sets. Some residents with minimal ultrasound experience finish their residency and begin practicing in hospitals where they become the face of emergency ultrasound. Fellows are chosen to spearhead new ultrasound programs with little or no attention paid to their experiences as a fellow. Finishing a fellowship has become a badge of “assumed competency” that in some cases masks serious flaws in the ultrasound education during their fellowship and residency. Without a national emergency ultrasound accrediting body each individual institution needs to critically assess their own program.

Now is the time to start a dialogue on the quality of emergency ultrasound education in residency and fellowship. The future of emergency ultrasound is tremendous and I think that ultrasound technology will eventually be integrated into the daily practice of emergency medicine. If emergency ultrasound is an integral skill of emergency medicine then we need to assure that every graduating resident and fellow is competent to pick up an ultrasound probe. The first step to assure quality in emergency ultrasound is to make sure that competent educators are teaching our residents and fellows. The second, often overlooked step is to dedicate the time and resources to the ultrasound director and fellowship director so that they can effectively teach ultrasound skills. We need to set the bar for graduating residents and fellows high enough that “assumed competency” becomes a reality.

Emergency Ultrasound – An unfinished (and unfunded) mandate

Romolo Gaspari, MD, RDMSUltrasound Interest Group Chair 2007

Dr. Chad E. Darling of the University of Massachusetts is the recipient of the 2007 SAEM Research Training Grant for his project entitled “Platelet reactivity in acute chest pain: Implications for risk stratification.” Dr Darling’s research proposes to test the hypothesis that on-site measurement of platelet status in ED patients will correlate with the acuity of coronary disease (i.e. will assist in discerning acute MI, unstable angina, stable coronary disease, and non-cardiac chest pain). Dr. Darling’s training plan includes entering a MPH program and complete institutional educational activities related to his research.

Dr. Darling’s primary mentor will be Dr. Karin Przyklenk. She is a qualified mentor who is a NIH funded scientist in the field of cardiovascular medicine. In addition

Dr. Darling has developed relationships with clinical mentors in the field of platelet reactivity and cardiovascular medicine in the Center for Platelet Function Studies at his institution.

The SAEM Research Training Grant provides financial support of $75,000 per year for two years of formal, full-time research training for emergency medicine fellows, resident physicians, or junior faculty. The trainee must have a concentrated, mentored program in specific research methods and concepts, and complete a research project. Applications for the next cycle of funding (July 2008 – June 20�0) are due August �, 2007.

Alan E. Jones, MD, Carolinas Medical CenterOn Behalf of the SAEM Grants Committee

SAEM Research Training Grant 2007

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Alameda County Medical CenterAlbert Einstein Medical CenterBaystate Medical CenterBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Brown Medical SchoolCarolinas Medical CenterChristiana Care Health System Christiana Care Health System Combined EM-IM ProgramCooper University HospitalDenver Health Medical Center Drexel UniversityDuke UniversityEmory University George Washington Hennepin County Medical CenterJacobi Medical CenterLehigh Valley HospitalLincoln Medical and Mental Health CenterLong Island Jewish Medical CenterMadigan Army Medical CenterMaimonides Medical CenterMaine Medical CenterMetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve UniversityMetropolitan HospitalMount Sinai Naval Medical Center San DiegoNew York Methodist HospitalNew York Presbyterian HospitalNorthwestern UniversityNYU / Bellevue

Oregon Health & Science UniversityResurrection Medical CenterSan Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education ConsortiumScott and White/ Texas A&MSinai-Grace Hospital/Wayne State UniversitySt. Luke’s RooseveltState University of New York at Buffalo Summa Health SystemSynergy MedicalTexas Tech UCLA/Olive View UCLA-Olive View Combined EM-IM ProgramUniversity of California, DavisUniversity of California, San DiegoUniversity of Cincinnati University of FloridaUniversity of IllinoisUniversity of Iowa University of NebraskaUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PittsburghUniversity of Rochester/Strong Memorial HospitalUniversity of South FloridaUT Southwestern Medical Center Virginia Commonwealth University Washington University/ Barnes Jewish HospitalWayne State University / Detroit Medical CenterYale University York Hospital

2007 Semi-Final CPC Competition

After careful review by the judges, the following 60 Program’s Cases have been accepted for presentation at the 2007 Semi-Final CPC Competition, May �5, Chicago.

The specialty of Emergency Medicine (EM) was well-represented at the Student National Medical Association’s (SNMA) Annual Medical Education Conference at San Francisco during April 4-8, 2007. SNMA is a national organization with a membership of over 5,000 minority medical students, pre-medical students, residents, and physicians. The mission of SNMA is to be committed to mentoring under-represented minority students, addressing the needs of underserved communities and increasing the number of culturally conscious and clinically excellent physicians. Currently, African-American and Hispanic medical school graduates comprise only 6.5% and 6.4%, respectively, of all graduates. This annual meeting is the largest meeting of minority medical students and pre-medical students in the United States, focusing on networking and educational workshops to nurture and promote the future leaders in medicine.

The EM recruitment booth, hosted by the Council of Residency Directors (CORD), was one of only a few specialties represented at the meeting. The EM representatives

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Emergency Medicine booth at the 2007 SNMA annual meeting, represented by (L to R) Drs. Ruby Long, Cherie Hargis, Ehsan Shirazi, and Michelle Lin.

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The membership database and meeting registration processes are all there, and just as functional as before, but the site just feels better and looks more professional than the old one.

When I took over as President of SAEM a mere 9 months and �4 days ago (but who’s counting?), one of my charges to the SAEM committees and task forces was to populate the SAEM Website with reference material, educational products, information, links, etc that would help our members achieve the mission of the society: to improve patient care through research and education in emergency medicine. This is rapidly becoming a reality. The site contains a wealth of information to assist educators or researchers in their endeavors. Most of this material is open to the public, and even available to our non-members. New intitiatives under development include a membership section that will contain a yet-to-be-developed members only area, easy access to the AEM Journal and SAEM Newsletter, and lastly a “What’s New on the Website” section to keep viewers updated about internal changes and new additions.

SAEM has developed essentially the equivalent of a journal editorial board to manage the information on the website. Al Villarin and Glenn Hamilton, who head up the Web Editorial Board, deserve the lion’s share of the credit for assembling and leading a web editorial group which

revised the old website material and transitioned it into the new website. Ellen Weber, J.T Finnell, and Matt Sullivan have also been great contributors. They continue to screen the committee/task force materials, news articles, and links to other organizations before publishing them on the website. They also provide continuous input and direction in the website content, with reviews of the front page every two weeks. They have taken on the task of keeping our website content relevant, timely, and useful to our members. The amount of time required to accomplish this task on an ongoing basis is daunting. They deserve our applause and our thanks for a job well done, and our continuing support for the future.

In addition to the development of the web editorial board, it has become apparent that our SAEM office support and sophistication is in need of an upgrade to keep up with the new Website and all its challenges. This office upgrade is underway, and with the help of our new Executive Director in the spring, we will continue to improve the sophistication and expertise of our office staff to better meet the needs of our membership. I’m proud of our accomplishments this year, and look forward to the continued development of the SAEM Website, the face of our Society.

If you have any questions, concerns, or even compli-ments on the website, feel free to contact the SAEM office or email any of the members of the SAEM Board of Directors.

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The SAEM and ACEP Task Force, in continuing efforts to follow up on recommendations regarding emergency care funding from the Institute of Medicine report, met with the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) leadership to help examine NIH study section representation for optimal evaluation of emergency care research. In preparation for the meeting, CSR reviewed the scores of 92 NIH applications submitted from 2004 to 2006. The task force reviewed study section representation by emergency care researchers and solicited information from emergency care investigators who were qualified and willing to serve on NIH study sections. We identified 30 senior emergency care investigators with active NIH funding willing to commit to reviewing grant applications three times per year.

We were most pleased to learn that CSR welcomed our nominees for study sections and will likely appoint many of them onto permanent study sections. I personally found it amazing that the NIH basically welcomed us with open arms and clearly recognized the need for emergency care input on study sections. From the perspective of CSR, the challenge is finding established investigators willing to make the time commitment to a study section. The NIH will consider the addition of other investigators, provided that the nominee is an established independent

investigator with a track record of NIH (or similar) funding. With respect to study section appointment, the challenge does not appear to be cooperation from the NIH, but rather emergency care investigators willing to make the necessary time commitment to move our field forward.

I would like to thank Robert Neumar, Roger Lewis, Sandra Schneider and Chuck Cairns for their insight, preparation and continued successful collaboration with the NIH to help advance emergency care research.

SAEM and ACEP NIH Task Force Meet with NIH Center for Scientific ReviewJudd E. Hollander, MDPresident Elect, SAEM

(L to R) Cheryl Kitt, PhD, Chuck Cairns, MD, Sandra Schneider, MD, Judd Hollander, MD, Antonio Scarpa, PhD, Bob Neumar, MD, Roger Lewis, MD, PhD

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Dr. Daniel Mark Courtney has been named as a 2007 SAEM Young Investigator. Mark com-pleted his residency in Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center and subsequently com-pleted a research fellowship in 200�.

He then joined the faculty at Northwestern University School of Medicine Division (later Department) of Emergency Medicine. His current rank is Assistant Professor and he is soon going for promotion to Associate Professor. He functions as the Assistant Research Director.

Mark’s accomplishments include at least four first-authored manuscripts in the area of diagnosis, risk stratification, and recognition of pulmonary embolism. Mark has demonstrated expertise in multiple methodological areas, including the bench research and clinical research. His published clinical work includes mining a medical examiner’s autopy database, chart review, systematic analyses, and recently a prospective multi-center cohort studies. He thus has a well-rounded research experience. This is being furthered by his pursuit of a masters of

science in clinical research as part of his K23 award.Importantly, Mark’s NIH/NHLBI K23 which focuses

on pretest probability if pulmonary embolism shows his progression from a resident through his fellowship into faculty and how he has maintained a single focus of study. This focus has been recognized by the National Institutes of Health and evidenced by his K award being funded on his first submission. As part of this effort, Mark started faculty with no knowledge of any mentor, but sought one out, wrote the application, and had the perseverance to get the K23 funding.

Mark has also participated in other projects, including one published in The Lancet.

Mark has served on the Research Committee for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine for several years and has conducted two didactic sessions.

At Northwestern, Mark is known as an extremely approachable resource in research. Indeed, when residents and medical students are looking for a mentor for any project, it is “culture” that they are directed to Mark. He has an open, warm, and non-judgmental approach toward teaching and incorporating the learning.

D. Mark Courtney, MD, Young Investigator Award

Boston – BIDMC Harvard Affiliated Teach Hospital

The Department of Emergency Medicine of the Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has positions available for faculty committed to academic Emergency Medicine. Board certification or preparation in Emergency Medicine with four years of training or experience are prerequisites. The base hospital is Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Level I trauma center, with an ED that sees 50,000 patients a year. Our community practice, Deaconess Glover Hospital, sees over 10,000 patients a year. We provide needed direction for three 911 systems. Academic opportunities include access to lab space, international programs, and teaching at Harvard Medical School. Salaries are highly competitive for the community and are incentive based. We are currently seeking faculty with interests in EMS, Ultrasound, Sepsis, Medical Education (including simulation) and Neurologic emergencies.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School are Equal Opportunity Employers. Women and minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Please send a current curriculum vitae, to:

Richard Wolfe, MDChief of Emergency MedicineBeth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterOne Deaconess Road (W/CC2)Boston, MA 02215

and recruitment material reflected the cross-collaboration of various EM institutions and organizations. There was tremendous interest in EM amongst the pre-medical and medical students, in large part from the enthusiasm of our EM representatives – Drs. Ruby Long (Summa Health System EM resident), Cheryl McBride (San Jose-O’Connor Hospital Sports Medicine fellow), Cherie Hargis and Jocelyn Garrick (Highland General Hospital), and Tanisha Pelletier, Ehsan Shirazi, and Michelle Lin (San Francisco General Hospital).

In addition to receiving individual mentorship and advice at the booth, students learned about and collected material from various EM organizations. This included SAEM brochures on the importance of diversity in the Emergency Department, the EMRA newsletter and various educational materials, and ACEP recruitment materials. Further, the students were able to view the recently completed SAEM video on Diversity in Emergency Medicine, which was produced by the SAEM Undergraduate Education Committee and highlighted interviews with various prominent minority EM faculty across the country.

As a specialty, we should continue to invest our time and efforts towards attracting more under-represented medical students into EM. Increasing the representation of racial and ethnic minorities in our field will help address the disparities in health care by expanding approaches to patient care and providing a better understanding of cultural competence in the Emergency Department.

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Steven B. Bird, MD, has been named as a 2007 SAEM Young Investigator. Steven graduated cum laude from Yale University in �99� with a degree in Biology. Following graduation AOA from Northwestern University Medical School, Steve began postgraduate training in

surgery at Naval Medical Center San Diego, followed by Naval Flight Surgeon training in Pensacola, Florida. He then served for two years as a flight surgeon in Okinawa, Japan, with the U.S. Marine Corps. Steve returned to the states and trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center from �999-2002 and was selected by his faculty and peers to serve as a Chief Resident. Upon graduating from residency he stayed at UMass as a Fellow in Toxicology from 2002-2004. As evidence of his commitment to research, Steve submitted his first NIH K-award grant while a first year Fellow. It is plainly evident that research and academic achievement has been a career-long passion and commitment for Dr. Bird.

Throughout his medical education, Dr. Bird has engaged in research related to toxicology – specifically,

the cholinergic mechanisms governing pesticide toxicity. He has received several research grants, including a four-year K08 award from The National Institutes of Health, a grant from the American College of Medical Toxicology, and a fundable score for an R2� from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Not limited to his own ideas, Steve has mentored two residents with Emergency Medicine Foundation awards, another faculty member’s K08, and several R2�s.

Dr. Bird’s academic career has not been limited to the laboratory. Steve collaborates with investigators in Sri Lanka to find better methods of therapy in their population of severely self-poisoned patients. He is also a core faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Toxicology, and actively mentors medical students, residents, and Fellows. Steve serves on two national committees through SAEM and ACEP, and is an invited NIH study group reviewer. While many faculty may say “no” to further mentoring and supervisory responsibilities, Steve always says “yes.” He has uncommon commitment to furthering the education and careers of his colleagues. It has been a pleasure to watch him grow as a physician-scientist while at the University of Massachusetts, and we look forward to his significant achievements yet to come.

Steven Bird, MD, Young Investigator Award

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patient care, it is a great educational opportunity. The attending should use this time to present his or her views, hopefully with some evidence to back them, and also give the resident a chance to voice his or her plan and supporting rationale. This discussion should be a civil, professional discussion amongst colleagues, and it may even be beneficial for junior level house staff and medical students to listen and learn. It also serves to evaluate the resident’s medical knowledge and ensure that there is not a misunderstanding between the physicians. If there are no miscommunications and all physicians involved have stated their case and there is still disagreement, then the attending physician will assume the responsibility of executing the plan and the resident should be relieved of involvement in the case. If the attending wants the patient discharged and the resident objects, then the attending will do the discharge; if the debate is over a procedure, then the attending will consent the patient and perform it; if the debate is over a consultation, then the attending will speak to the consultant; and if the debate is over a diagnostic test, then the attending will order it.

Developing formal policies based on the above

principles will remove the awkward and uncomfortable feelings for the resident of being involved with a plan that they do not agree with. For such a policy to succeed, there must not be any punishment if a resident excuses himself from a case and has the attending assume the care of the patient. It should not be viewed as being “insubordinate” or being a “weak” or “difficult” resident. Of course this dilemma should occur infrequently, so that if a certain resident has need of this policy often it may signal a problem. It may also indicate a personality conflict or style clash if this happens only with a specific attending-resident pairing.

A current EMRA policy states that EM physicians shall “embrace patient welfare as their primary professional responsibility” and “strive to protect the best interests of their patients,” while and ACEP policy on relationships with trainees states that they “must not be mistreated, abused, or coerced for faculty self-interest” and that teaching physicians “must fulfill their obligation to teach and provide appropriate levels of supervision”. This proposal may help allow for these goals to be met.

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Dr. Edbert Hsu has rapidly assembled a record of accomplishments in the area of disaster medicine research. While at Harvard, he majored in biochemical sciences and then attended medical school at the University of Pittsburgh. As a

resident, he received the Johns Hopkins Emergency Medicine Outstanding Resident Research Award for leading an investigative team which evaluated the medical response to the �999 Taiwan earthquake. This study contributed to the development of the first formal disaster medical assistance teams in Taiwan. His proven commitment to an academic career led him to pursue an international emergency medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins during which he earned a Master’s Degree in Public Health. Dr. Hsu has directed a project in post-conflict rehabilitation in Kosovo, developed emergency medicine programs in China and participated in disaster preparedness activities in Central America. Following Hurricane Katrina, he worked with the American Red Cross to conduct field shelter assessments and to assist the organization in enhancing its public health capabilities.

Dr. Hsu has authored or co-authored over twenty peer-reviewed publications and has developed a successful track record for funded research as a principal or co-investigator with eight grants totaling over $2.8 million. He has worked with the Johns Hopkins Evidence-based Practice Center on several projects supported by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In the first project, he took the lead in conducting a systematic review of the literature on the training of hospital staff to respond to a mass casualty incident leading to a comprehensive evidence report. Subsequently, he had a key role in two other projects which focused on the design of a new set of tools for evaluating the disaster preparedness training of hospital staff. The resulting evaluation tools have been published by AHRQ and have been disseminated to over 3,500 hospitals throughout the country.

Since then, he has served as a co-investigator on two other major AHRQ projects which have led to the development of formal disaster competencies and identification of early discharge criteria to enhance hospital surge capacity. Over the past several years, Dr. Hsu has led a collaborative multidisciplinary team in the assessment of regional hospital pharmaceutical response capabilities for public health emergencies through a series of projects funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The results of this original research have directly guided regional and state preparedness activities in Maryland and were highlighted by the HRSA National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program. With the inauguration of the Hopkins-led DHS National Center for Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response

(PACER), he has recently joined several additional projects related to educational curriculum development and agent-based computational modeling.

As the Director of Training at the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR), Dr. Hsu has been actively involved in emergency preparedness training around Maryland. He is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and a committee member on the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) Education Task Force. In addition, he is a reviewer for several journals including Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) and Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (PDM) and holds an editorial board position with the American Journal of Disaster Medicine. Recently, he has been appointed as an associate editor with the newly launched American Medical Association Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.

Dr. Hsu’s work promises to bring a systematic, evidence based approach to the field of disaster research, an area which historically has been lacking a scientific foundation. He demonstrates a profound dedication to investigation, along with a proven academic record that few in emergency medicine at his level possess. The SAEM Young Investigator Award is well-deserved recognition for the great promise that he has shown.

Edbert Hsu, MD, Young Investigator Award

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The 2007 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference (CC) on Knowledge Translation (KT) is shaping up to be a landmark event for our specialty. Funding commitments have been received by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Eighteen agencies and organizations have issued endorsements and statements of support to the initiative. Many of these have provided representation and active voices to the consensus-building process.

The mission of the consensus conference initiative is to stimulate the development of a research agenda and a coordinated initiative within Emergency Medicine (EM) aimed at finding optimal routes into clinical practice for consistent and reliable implementation of evidence-based interventions.

The CC will provide an unprecedented opportunity for participants to learn about and participate in developing

2007 AEM Consensus Conference on knowledge Translation Update

this increasingly important area of interest in healthcare research and delivery for Emergency Medicine. The conference has assembled a talented and renowned group of experts with extensive knowledge of KT within an Emergency Medicine context. Participants will have the opportunity to choose from four concurrent late morning and early afternoon plenary sessions to attend. In addition to names extremely familiar to an EM audience, participants will have the opportunity to hear perspectives from the CIHR’s Vice President for KT, Ian Graham as well as one of the field’s founders and thought leaders Jeremy Grimshaw. Completing the field of speakers is Dr. Jean Slutsky, the Director for the Center for Outcomes and Evidence with the AHRQ.

The highlight of the day will be a plenary address by keynote speaker and AHRQ president Dr. Carolyn Clancy on the challenges and opportunities that the EM community faces in closing the gap between research and practice during a lunchtime presentation.

Thirteen high profile theme leaders have engaged stakeholders and discussants in developing the draft recommendations that will be brought forth for endorsement during the two afternoon breakout sessions being planned. Covering perspective of KT in EM as diverse as bioethics to policy issues and informatics attendees will have a unique opportunity to brainstorm with the existing teams and contribute to a consensus-based process. The plenary session presentations and proceedings emanating from the theme forums will be published in a dedicated KT issue of AEM to be published in November.

Consensus Conference Co-Chairs

Eddy LangPeter WyerBarney Eskin

“Application Focus” track

“Research Focus” track

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Theoretical Underpinnings of KT

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Guideline Implementation Research

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Decision Support Technology

• Brian Holroyd

Research Methodology in KT

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Implementing Decision Rules in an Emergency Department

• Ian Stiell

Funding Opportunities in Knowledge Translation

• Jean Slutsky

Developing Evidence Summaries for Emergency Medicine

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A Model Program in Knowledge Translation Research

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himself as a world-class educator and visionary. The educational programs he has developed have impacted countless medical students, and will continue to affect the future of medical education on a national level. And finally, Dr. Zink’s book is a singular scholarly achievement that is now a valuable reference and resource for anyone who needs to understand how emergency medicine evolved. Like previous Hal Jayne award winners, Brian has devoted much of his life energy to advancing academic emergency medicine, and making sure that the next generation will do even more.

BRIAN J. ZINk (continued from page 3)

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It is a great honor to nominate Mary Ann Schropp for the 2007 SAEM Special Recognition Award. Ms. Schropp retired last year after serving as Executive Director of SAEM and its predecessors, UAEM and UAEMS, for almost thirty years. She also served as the founding Executive Director of AACEM and CORD. In these leadership positions, she has played a major role in the growth

and development of Academic Emergency Medicine over the past 3 decades.

Mary Ann Schropp was the founding Executive Director of the University Association for Emergency Medicine (UAEM) which focused on providing a forum for research and academic productivity in the new specialty of emergency medicine. While UAEM focused on promoting research, the Society for Teachers of Emergency Medicine (STEM) focused on faculty development and the teaching of Emergency Medicine. In �989 UAEM merged with the (STEM) to form SAEM with Ms. Schropp as the Executive Director. It was the wise, skillful and humble leadership of Ms. Schropp that allowed this merger to take place smoothly providing the strong academic focus for the new specialty of Emergency Medicine, SAEM.

Ms. Schropp’s “can do” attitude with her outstanding record of accomplishment after accomplishment made the job of the elected leadership of SAEM easy. We

often took credit for Mary Ann’s vision, leadership and management skills to move Academic Emergency Medicine forward. We always knew that very little would be accomplished during our few years as elected leaders without the knowledge and wisdom of Ms. Schropp. For example, the growth and development of the SAEM Annual Meeting was directly the result of the innovative ideas and hard work of Ms. Schropp. When it was time for a new peer reviewed journal in Emergency Medicine, Ms. Schropp led the way for the development and growth of Academic Emergency Medicine into one of the premier journals in Emergency Medicine. When SAEM reached a stage where it could provide direct support for young researchers in emergency medicine (in large part due to the skillful financial management of Ms. Schropp), once again it was Mary Ann’s vision and leadership skills that made the SAEM Research Fund a reality.

Those of us who have had the honor of serving with Ms. Shropp in leadership positions for SAEM, AEM, AACEM or CORD are forever grateful for Mary Ann’s vision, creativity, resourcefulness, humility, and optimism. Those of us doing research in emergency medicine are forever grateful to Ms. Schropp for her leadership and accomplishments helping us become better researchers. Those of us involved in the teaching of Emergency Medicine are forever grateful for her contributions helping us become better teachers. We feel at this time of Ms. Schropp’s retirement it is fitting that the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine honor her with a Special Recognition Award for her innumerable contributions to the specialty of emergency medicine.

SAEM Special Recognition Award

Arthur B. Sanders MDUniversity of Arizona Bill Barsan, MDUniversity of Michigan Louis Binder, MDMetroHealth Medical Center Michelle Biros, MDHennepin County Medical Center

Carey Chisholm, MDUniversity of Indiana David Cone, MDYale University Steve Dronen, MDServier Medical Center Lewis Goldfrank, MDNew York University

Sam Keim, MDUniversity of Arizona Roger Lewis, MDHarbor UCLA Medical Center Marcus Martin, MDUniversity of Virginia

Sanda Schneider, MDUniversity of Rochester

David Sklar, MDUniversity of Virginia Susan Stern, MDUniversity of Michigan Scott Syvereud, MDUniversity of Virginia Brian Zink, MD Brown University

Nominations submitted by:

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SAEM 2007 Research Grants

Emergency Medicine Medical Student Interest Group GrantsThese grants provide funding of $500 each to help support the educational or research activities of emergency medicine medical student organizations at U.S. medical schools. Established or devel-oping interest groups, clubs, or other medical student organizations are eligible to apply. It is not necessary for the medical school to have an emergency medicine training program for the student group to apply. Deadline: August 1, 2007

Research Training GrantThis grant provides financial support of $75,000 per year for two years of formal, full-time research training for emergency medicine fellows, resident physicians, or junior faculty. The trainee must have a concentrated, mentored program in specific research methods and concepts, and complete a research project. Deadline: August 1, 2007 Institutional Research Training GrantThis grant provides financial support of $75,000 per year for two years for an academic emergency medicine program to train a research fellow. The sponsoring program must demonstrate an excel-lent research training environment with a qualified mentor and specific area of research emphasis. The training for the fellow may include a formal research education program or advanced degree. It is expected that the fellow who is selected by the applying program will dedicate full time effort to research, and will complete a research project. The goal of this grant is to help establish a depart-mental culture in emergency medicine programs that will continue to support advanced research training for emergency medicine residency graduates. Deadline: August 1, 2007

Scholarly Sabbatical GrantThis grant provides funding of $�0,000 per month for a maximum of six months to help emergency medicine faculty at the level of assistant professor or higher obtain release time to develop skills that will advance their academic careers. The goal of the grant is to increase the number of independent career researchers who may further advance research and education in emergency medicine. The grant may be used to learn unique research or educational methods or procedures which require day-to day, in-depth training under the direct supervision of a knowledgeable mentor, or to develop a knowledge base that can be shared with the faculty member’s department to further research and education. Deadline: August 1, 2007

Emergency Medical Services Research FellowshipThis grant is sponsored by Medtronic Physio-Control. It provides $60,000 for a one year EMS fel-lowship for emergency medicine residency graduates at an SAEM approved fellowship trianing site. The fellow must have an in-depth training experience in EMS with an emphasis on research concepts and methods. The grant process involves a review and approval of emergency medicine training sites as well as individual applications from potentioanl fellows. Deadline: August 1, 2007 EMF/SAEM Medical Student Research GrantsThese grants are co-sponsored by the Emergency Medicine Foundation and SAEM. A maximum of $2,400 over three months is available to encourage research in emergency medicine by medical students. Deadline: August 1, 2007

Further information and application materials can be obtained via the SAEM website at www.saem.org

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SAEM Membership Application Please complete and send to SAEM with appropriate dues and supporting materials

On-line applications can also be submitted at: https://apps.saem.org/SAEM/Insecure/Newuser.aspx

Name: ___________________________________________________ Title: ______________________________________

Home Address: _______________________________________________________________________________________

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Telephone: Home (_____) ____________________ Business (_____) ________________________________________

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Membership Benefits Include: Subscription to SAEM’s monthly, peer-reviewed journal, Academic Emergency

Medicine Subscription to the bi-monthly SAEM Newsletter Reduced registration fees to attend the SAEM Annual Meeting

Check membership category: Active $425.00 open to individuals with an advanced degree such as MD, DO, PhD, PharmD, DSc or equivalent who hold a university appointment or are actively involved in Emergency Medicine teaching or research. Active members are eligible to vote for proposed C&B amendments and to fill elected positions in the Society. I attest that I hold a university appointment or am actively involved in Emergency Medicine teaching or research Yes No Associate $400.00 open to health professionals, educators, government officials, members of lay, or civic organizations, and members of the public who have interest in Emergency Medicine. Young Physician – Year 1 $250.00 (recent residency graduate in first year following residency graduation) Young Physician – Year 2 $350.00 (recent residency graduate in second year following residency graduation) Resident $120.00 My anticipated month/year of residency graduation is: ____/____ (open to residents interested in Emergency Medicine). Fellow $120.00 My anticipated month/year of fellowship completion is: ____/____ (open to fellows interested in Emergency medicine). Medical Student $105.00 My anticipated month/year of med. school graduation is: ____/____ (open to medical students interested in Emergency Medicine).

Interest Groups: Society members are invited to join any of the dedicated Interest Groups listed below. Include $25.00 annual dues for each Interest Group you check (resident members may join one Interest Group at no charge):

Academic Informatics Ethics Neurologic Emergencies Simulation Airway Evidence-based Medicine Palliative Care Sports Medicine CPR/Ischemia/Reperfusion Geriatrics Patient Safety Toxicology Clinical Directors Health Svcs & Outcomes Pediatric EM Trauma Disaster Medicine International Public Health Triage Diversity Mentoring Women Research Directors Ultrasound Educational Research Med-student Educators Sepsis & Resuscitation Uniformed Services EMS

Signature of Applicant: _______________________________________________________ Date: _____/_____/_____ My signature certifies that the information provided herein is accurate and indicates my desire to join SAEM.

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Current Academic Position(s)Emory University School of Medicine; Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine; Acting Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine; Assistant Dean, Medical Education and Student Affairs Non-SAEM Career AccomplishmentsMember, Institute of Medicine, Board on Military and Veterans’ Health (2006-09)Recipient of Emory Dean’s Teaching Award, ACEP National Teaching Award and ACEP Academic Leader honorAOA Councilor, Emory School of Medicine (2003-06)Recipient of multiple State of Georgia, Foundation and CDC grants to study the impact of emerging infectious diseases in the ED populationMember, State of Georgia Pandemic Influenza Steering Committee Co-PI, Dept Health Human Services grant with Emory School of Nursing to prepare Master’s level nurse practitioner students for emergency department clinical practiceSAEM Service: Member since 1993SAEM Involvement: Secretary-Treasurer, elected, 2004-2007; Board of Directors, elected 2002-2005; Uniting Education and Research Task Force Chair, 2002; Constitution and Bylaws Committee, 1999-2002, Chair, 2001-02; Program Committee, 1998-1999; Education Committee, 1996-1998; Patient-Physician Communication Task Force, 1994-1996 Major Contribution to SAEM Products

Secretary-Treasurer: Have held this position for three years, specifically to accomplish several key tasks:• Research the role of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and impact on financial checks and balances for 501C3 organizations • Create a case for the Society’s first-ever audit which led to endorsement by the Board of Directors. A preliminary assessment was per-

formed followed by an audit of fiscal year 2005.• Serve as liaison to the Finance Committee with specific goals: enhance the role of the committee in the development and planning of

the budget; develop policies and procedures in response to the audit; develop policies and procedures for the administration, oversight and direction of the SAEM Research Fund

• Enhance education of the Board of Directors in budget planning and executionFor the past three years, regular participation in meetings with executive leadership of lead emergency medicine societies (e.g., ACEP, AAEM, CORD, ABEM)Strong liaison relationships for several years with the Program Committee, Finance Committee, Undergraduate Education Committee and multiple Task Forces and Interest GroupsAttended the June 2006 Washington DC meeting that introduced the IOM Report on the Future of Emergency Care and have been involved in regional media interviews pertaining to the impact of this report on emergency and trauma care Abstract reviewer, multiple years, SAEM Annual MeetingRegular contributor for research and didactic/panel presentations, SAEM Annual Meeting and Southeastern Regional MeetingModerator, multiple years, SAEM Annual MeetingWinner, Imago Obscura Award, 1997 (!)Keynote Speaker on 3 occasions for SAEM Regional Meetings, and have been invited to speak (but unable to attend) two additional regional meetingsPrior to election to the Board, served on the Constitution and Bylaws Committee and as chair in my final year of serviceLed newly created task force designed to integrate education and research. This group generated significant scholarly output for didactic presentations at Annual Meetings with collaboration between Research committee and other standing committeesCo-author: Regional Meetings Guidelines, presented to Board of Directors, 1998Co-author/contributor: Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Task Force (1996)Physician-Patient communication in the emergency department, parts I and II, Academic Emergency Medicine 3: 1065-1069 and 1146-1152

Personal StatementI am proud of my role in developing a robust Finance Committee with strong collaboration between the committee and the Board of Direc-

tors. This has enhanced the fiduciary responsibility of the Board to the membership. I take pride in serving as a Board member for the past 5 years, representing you, and working hard to advance the Society’s vision of excellence in research and education. As Secretary-Treasurer for 3 years, I have had substantial interaction with the leadership of other EM organizations, working to foster collaboration and identify emerg-ing themes that cross-cut EM organizations and increase the visibility of the specialty.

Emergency Medicine is expanding and academic opportunities are numerous. My goals for the Society focus on creating an organization that is responsive to the academic/scholarly needs of our members and the dynamic world of academics and medicine. To be nimble and responsive requires continued infrastructure and investment in space, staff, research fund growth and IT/web portal access. The Society can then more quickly and effectively identify members with expertise to serve on national panels and advisory boards, apply for grant funding and advance health policy efforts that secure the future of emergency medicine research and education. I would like to enhance communica-tion between committees and task forces, the Board and members-at-large. This will generate new ideas, work products, enhance awareness about our mission and improve organizational efficiency. A continued focus on faculty development for clinician-educators, clinician-re-searchers and scientists is a very high priority.

The future for SAEM is very bright. We are praised by experts for our science, our educational techniques and our solutions to problems. We can do more and the best investment we can make is the continued investment in our members, for we are the ones who are training and preparing the future of our specialty.

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Katherine L. Heilpern, MD - President-Elect (1 of 2 candidates)

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Current Academic Position(s)Associate Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NCInstitution(s): Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC; UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NCAcademic Appointment(s):Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine and Clinical Professor of PediatricsOther Major Administrative Position(s):Past Residency Program Director, Past Interim Chair, Associate Chair and Chief for Department of Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC Non-SAEM Career AccomplishmentsAwards:Recipient, George Podgorny Outstanding Service and Leadership Award, NC College of Emergency Physicians, 1996Outstanding Reviewer 1997, 1999, 2000, Top Consultant 2003, and Top Peer Reviewer, Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2004 and 2005Served as extra on set of ER, aired 4/27/2000Past President Award, ACEP, 2001Fellowship Award, International Federation of Emergency Medicine Award (FIFEM), International Conference of EM, Cairns, Australia, June 8, 2004John G. Wiegenstein Leadership Award from ACEP, Scientific Assembly, October 19, 2004Grants:EMS-C Grant for North Carolina, Co investigator, $1,195,000, 1992-95Leadership:Board member of Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2004-07; President, NC College of Emergency Physicians, 1986-1988; President-Elect, President and Past President, American College of Emergency Physicians, 1999-2002; Board member, American College of Emergen-cy Physicians, 1994-2002; Chair-Elect and Chair, Emergency Medicine Foundation, 2001-2002SAEM Service: Member since 1989; Member of STEM from 1985 to 1989SAEM Involvement: Program Committee, 1993-95; National Affairs Task Force, 1996-2000, 2002-03; National Affairs Committee, 2003-04; Pediatric Emergency Medicine Interest Group, from start-upLeadership Roles Within SAEM: Chair: National Affairs CommitteeBoard Liaison for Committee/Task Forces/Interest Groups:Constitution and Bylaws; National Affairs Committee; Graduate Medical Education; Faculty Development; International Emergency Medi-cine Task Force and Committee; International Emergency Medicine Interest Group; Pediatric Emergency Medicine Interest Group; Medical Student Interest Group; Member of Search Committee for Executive Director Elected Positions(s): Board of Directors, 2004-2007Role in Major Contribution to SAEM Products: My leadership experiences in SAEM has involved advocacy within our specialty and to the federal government. While on the National Affairs Task Force and committee, I authored or co-authored several letters that expressed the views and opinions of Academic Emergency Medicine. While chair of the National Affairs Committee, we developed a rapid response system that SAEM could use to notify members of important issues and assist them in developing their response to those issues. I have helped in the planning of the SAEM/AACEM sponsored AAMC presentations. I have helped rewrite the bylaws for SAEM in order to get the organization incorporated in Michigan and receive its updated 501 c (3) status. I am currently on the Search committee and have helped put together the executive director’s contract for the new director. I represented SAEM at the AAMC Workforce Research Conference and have written many newsletter articles, served as a reviewer for AEM and for the program committee’s review of abstracts. I have provided didactic and panel presentations and poster abstract presenta-tions at the annual meeting.

Personal StatementMy most important contributions to SAEM include serving on the board of directors, on the program committee, as a member and as chair

of the National Affairs committee, work with the international task force and committee and mentorship efforts. While on the board, I have supported the growth and solid foundation for the Society and for its Research Fund. Much of my effort has been in ensuring a solid founda-tion of the Society by pushing for financial policies, working on the new bylaws, participating on the Search Committee and providing input based on my prior leadership opportunities in professional associations, including ACEP. SAEM’s journal and research fund need a solid foundation for growth and greater support by our membership. My committee involvement and board service has helped me understand the strengths and limitations of our Society. I have always believed that SAEM is poised on the brink of becoming the most visible, recognizable voices of academic emergency medicine and a full participant with other specialty academic societies. We have addressed education, research and career development. To insure our success requires SAEM to further develop its membership though leadership development and mentor-ship. Our ability to provide quality education, research, and most importantly quality patient care at our academic centers, will depend on our leadership and individual efforts as advocates. I am confidant that I can advance the Society in this endeavor and through collaboration with other EM organizations.

Through SAEM involvement and many other leadership opportunities that I have been privileged to participate in, I know that SAEM will succeed in its member services, research fundraising and as a strong voice for academic emergency medicine. I welcome the opportunity to serve SAEM as we work to develop more physician scientists, academic leaders, and enhance our national advocacy.

Robert W. Schafermeyer, MD - President-Elect (2 of 2 candidates)

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Current Academic Position: Research DirectorInstitution: Carolinas Medical CenterAcademic Appointment: Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Adjunct Professor of Biology, UNC Charlotte

Non-SAEM Career AccomplishmentsNIH/NHLBI, Fast-track R42 HL086316-01, Expired CO2/O2 to diagnose pulmonary embolism - 8/1/06-12/31/08, Role: PI

R42 HL074415-02A1 - 9/1/04-9/1/07, Pretest Probability Assessment for Pulmonary Embolism: Phase II, Role: PI

RO1 HL074384-01 - 7/8/03-7/31/08, Surrogate Markers for Severe Pulmonary Embolism, Role: PI

SCCOR special emphasis panel, 2006

NIH/NIGMSK23 GM076652-01 GMS - 1/1/06-12/31/11, Project Title: Randomized Clinical Trial for a Non-invasive Resuscitation Protocol for Sepsis, Role: Project Preceptor/Mentor (Alan Jones PI)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute - 7/1/2005-6/30/06

Research Training Fellowship for Medical Students, Project Title: Role of MCP-1 in Right Ventricular Dysfunction after Pulmonary Embo-lism, Role: Project Mentor

SAEM Service: Member since: 1991; Task Force appointments; Academic Faculty Development, 1996-1997

Leadership Roles Within SAEM: Primarily as a member of the Research and Program Committees, on the Editorial Board and as Associate and Senior Editor of AEM, and on the Board of Directors.

Committee/Task Forces/Interest Groups: Program Committee, 2002-2004; Subcommittee Chair: Scientific Subcommittee, 2002-2004; Research Committee, 1995-2002; Subcommittee chair: successful researchers project, 2000-2001; Subcommittee chair: Critical review of grants, 2001-2002

Elected Positions: SAEM Nominations Committee, 2001-2003; SAEM Board of Directors, 2004-2006

Role in Major Contribution to SAEM ProductsOn the Research Committee, as part of Roger Lewis’ initiative to create a series of “how-to” manuscripts for researchers, I coauthored manu-scripts: The use of laboratory animal models in research. Academic Emergency Medicine, (1)6:75-82, 1999, and Research fundamentals: choosing an appropriate journal, manuscript preparation, and interaction with editors. Academic Emergency Medicine 8(8):844-850, 2001). On the Research Committee, I headed the “Successful Investigator Project” in 2000-2001; I then wrote the Newsletter article that summarized this extensive effort. I organized, obtained funding for, and directed the 2001 SAEM Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, held in Charlotte, NC. In 2001, I initiated the grant review session that has been held consecutively for 5 years at the annual meeting. Four years ago, while on the Program Committee, I suggested and implemented the change in Annual Meeting format such that poster sessions occur unopposed. This for-mat remains intact. As Scientific subcommittee chair on the Program Committee, I authored Newsletter articles summarizing abstract submis-sion and acceptance outcomes in 2003 and 2004. Over the past 8 years, I created and presented four didactic sessions, including one “State of the Art” session. I have reviewed for Academic Emergency Medicine since its inception, served for three years on the Editorial Board and three years as an Associate Editor. Recently, I created and oversaw the design of the new 2006 front cover of Academic Emergency Medicine. On the Board of Directors, I initiated the intellectual property protection measures that led to establishment of SAEM as an incorporated non-profit organization in 2006 and will trademark our name and logo, and establish our organization as principle assignee to the copyright for Academic Emergency Medicine. I conceived and oversaw the Research Committee’s writing of a draft application for a bridge grant. The concept of this grant is to allow a member release time and basic funding required to respond to a summary statement for a K award that was not funded, but has promise. This award has been offered to the Development Committee as an instrument that can be named after a person who makes the requisite donation.

Personal StatementI am most proud of my role as a mentor for researchers who I met at SAEM meetings. Our group has worked together to create several

multicenter research projects focusing on pulmonary embolism, including projects funded by the NIH, resulting in manuscripts published in major journals. I have dedicated my life to creating and executing applied basic science and clinical research. The five goals that I outline here reflect my values as a researcher: The first is to continue ongoing efforts to grow the Research Fund to hit $8 Million. A key to this effort will be supporting the Development Committee in identifying and approaching a person or persons capable of donating one to two million dollars to the Research Fund. Synergistic with this effort will be the creation of a bridge grant to provide up to 2 years of direct cost funding for an investigator who has submitted a K08 or K23 grant application to the NIH, but was not funded. The idea would be to provide release time for the applicant to meet the deficiencies identified in the scientific review Summary Statement. This bridge grant could be named after the person who provides the appropriate philanthropical contribution to SAEM to support the award in perpetuity. Second, the Society must assist the Editor in Chief of Academic Emergency Medicine with funding and resources need to improve its impact score. My third goal would be to assist the President and the Board to achieve a balanced budget in 2008. Fourth, I would continue ongoing efforts by the Board of Directors to enhance member services, especially in supporting committees and interest groups. Fifth, I would develop a more thorough conflict of interest policy for the annual meeting and a plan to handle allegations of failure to report conflicts.

Jeffrey A. Kline, MD - Secretary-Treasurer (1 of 1 candidate)

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Current Academic Position: Associate Professor in Emergency MedicineInstitution: University of PittsburghAcademic Appointment: Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine

Other Major Administrative Position: Associate Director of Cardiac Arrest Research for the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research

Non-SAEM Career Accomplishments I have helped develop a translational research program on resuscitation, serving as principal investigator on research grants from the American Heart Association, a K02 Career Development Award and an R01 from the National Institutes of Health (NINDS). I am the site principal investigator for an NHLBI Consortium (U01) to conduct clinical trials to improve outcomes from cardiac arrest and severe trauma. I have served as co-investigator for Center of Excellence Award from the Emer-gency Medicine Foundation (1999-2002) and two other R01 awards to study resuscitation (NHLBI). My co-inventors and I have received two patents related to resuscitation.

SAEM Service: Member since 1993 (Resident 1993-1996)

Committee/Task Force/Interest Group Membership Program Committee (1999-2000)Research Committee (2000-2003)Grants Committee (2003-2007)SAEM liaison to the Emergency Cardiac Care Committee of the American Heart Association (2003-2007)NIH Roadmap Task Force (2004-2005) Editorial Board of Academic Emergency Medicine (2005-2007) Young Investigator Award (1998)CPR/Ischemia/Reperfusion Interest Group

Leadership Roles Within SAEMChair - Grants Committee (2003-2006)

Committee/Task Forces/Interest GroupsInstitute of Medicine Report Task Force (2006-2007)NIH Roadmap Task Force (2004-2005)

Role in Major Contribution to SAEM Products On the Research Committee, I helped develop the list of funded emergency medicine investigators as a resource for the membership.

During my service as Chair of the Grants Committee, the SAEM application process was converted to electronic submissions using NIH forms. The review of grants was also revised to provide more detailed narrative feedback to applicants. We have collaborated with members of the Research Committee to provide workshops on grant preparation for the membership. Our committee has also initiated significant revi-sions in the application and evaluation criteria for the Emergency Medical Services Research Fellowship, as well as systematic evaluations of the success of the research grants that have been awarded by SAEM.

Personal Statement I hope to represent the interests of academic emergency physicians who identify themselves as investigators. SAEM already provides tremendous support to advance education of residents and to support emergency medicine faculty. It is also critical for our specialty to de-velop a mature research tradition that competes successfully for federal funding. The training of new investigators differs slightly from that of educators, and may require fellowships, other advanced degrees, and sustained departmental commitments to infrastructure. Recognizing and addressing the fiscal and academic barriers to training and sustaining researchers within emergency medicine should be a priority for SAEM. If elected to the Board, my specific goals would include increasing dialogue with the committees and task forces about how their activities are integrated into the overall mission of SAEM. I favor collaboration with other specialty organizations on issues that affect both academic and “non-academic” emergency care. For example, our academic niche should foster very strong ties with trauma, cardiology and critical care medicine. I favor any opportunity to increase emergency medicine’s visibility within NIH and other national funding agencies. Use of the Research Fund should be targeted to increase opportunities for our membership to develop into independent investigators. Finally, I hope to increase discussion of how SAEM should balance fiscal needs with the potential conflicts of interest inherent in corporate and com-mercial sponsorship for research and training.

Clifton W. Callaway, MD, PhD - Member-At-Large (1 of 5 candidates)

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Current Academic Position: Associate Professor Institution: University of California, Davis Medical CenterAcademic Appointment: Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis

Non-SAEM Career Accomplishments For the past 9 years I have had the honor of working with the great faculty and residents at UC Davis. During this time I have received 3 teaching awards and have actively participated locally on the Privileges and Tenure Hearing Committee, Admissions Committee, and Institutional Review Board. For the past six years, I have also served on ACEP Scientific Review Committee. As a result of my research focused on cardiovascular care, I have been awarded grants including one from the Emergency Medicine Foundation and have been selected to serve on American Heart Associate committees for the care of acute myocardial infarction.

SAEM Service: Member since 1994

Committee/Task Force/Interest Group MembershipFaculty Development (2000-2003), Program Committee (2003-present), Industry Relations Task force (2005-present), Abstract Reviewer 2003-present

Leadership Roles Within SAEMChair, Industry Relations Task Force-2005-present Program Committee Didactic Sub-committee chair 2005-2006

Elected PositionsC&B Committee 2006-presentConstitutional and Bylaws Committee 2006-present

Role in Major Contribution to SAEM Products Major contributions to SAEM: I participated in the development and content of the Faculty Development Website. In particular my ob-

jective was to provide the references and links to sites regarding sabbaticals and women in academic medicine. I was responsible for the de-velopment of the Medical Student Volunteer Program for the annual meeting. This has resulted in a dramatic increase in evaluation collection and therefore resulted in better feedback to the Program Committee. I was also responsible to the didactic sessions of the committee. I created an ongoing, innovative didactic session called “On-Trial” which provides a venue for debate regarding pertinent topics. As chair of the Indus-try Relations Task force, I served as a mediator for the various viewpoints presented by the task force members and provided feedback on the opinions of the membership as a whole, as documented in the last membership survey.

Personal StatementGoals for Advancing the Society: I have 2 major goals for SAEM. The first goal is to continue to work on increasing the funding oppor-

tunities for junior faculty in emergency medicine. This will require supporting current efforts for increased research funding and investigating potential new opportunities for grants. In order to foster the success of our young investigators, we need a mechanism for grant funding that can provide them with the protected time needed to pursue projects that can lead to broader funding opportunities.

My second goal is to increase participation in the annual meeting. Attendance of this meeting has been relatively constant over the years. Enhancing the visibility of this meeting and searching for innovative didactic formats is essential to increasing the attendance of the annual meeting and growth of our society.

What is your vision for the future of SAEM: SAEM should be the major funding source for research and development of education tech-niques for our specialty. This will require innovative mechanisms for funding such as partnerships and expansion of educational and faculty development opportunities.

Which needs of the membership do you wish to address: I believe that any physician responsible for furthering the fund of knowledge of the any aspect of emergency medicine through research, or who has a role in educating the emergency medicine physicians of the future, is an academic emergency physician. Promoting research and education in a manner that reflects the inherent value of all academic emergency physicians is important.

Personal Comment I have benefited from the mentoring, collaboration, and friendships that my participation in SAEM given me. As a member of the Board,

I hope to enhance and create opportunities that utilize the experience of our more senior members to cultivate and promote future academi-cians of emergency medicine.

Deborah B. Diercks, MD - Member-At-Large (2 of 5 candidates)

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Current Academic PositionsInstitution: Emory UniversityAcademic Appointments: Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine; Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Administrative Appointments: Research Director, Department of Emergency Medicine; Director, Center for Injury Control, Emory University

Major Career AccomplishmentsMy career to date has focused on becoming an independently funded investigator in the areas of injury prevention and public health. I have obtained approximately $2 million in grant funding, published over 40 peer reviewed papers, and currently teach 3 classes in the School of Public Health at Emory University. The American Public Health Association recognized this work with the Jay Drotman Award for the most promising public health professional. I’ve received the Mentorship award from the Emory EM residency and SAEM’s Young Investigator award in 2004. I am currently an Associate Editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine.

SAEM Service: Member since 1995

Committee/Task Force/Interest Group MembershipProgram Committee (2002-2007)Public Health Task Force (2000-2001)Public Health Interest Group (1999-2007)Research Directors Interest Group (2006-2007)

Leadership Roles Within SAEMChair, Program Committee (2005-2007)Scientific Subcommittee Chair, Program Committee (2004-2005)Didactic Subcommittee Chair, Program Committee (2003-2004)Domestic Violence Interest Group Chair (2002-2004); BOD liaison to Undergraduate Committee (2001-2002)BOD liaison to Public Health Task Force (2001-2002)

Elected PositionsSAEM Board of Directors Resident Member (2001-2002)

Role in Major Contribution to SAEM ProductsI’ve actively contributed to planning the Annual Meeting for five years. As Program Committee Chair since 2005, we’ve added the new

Late Breaker category for scientific presentations, planned many new didactic programs such as a simulation session and an abstract writing workshop, based on suggestions from members, and added more opportunities for networking each morning and social events each evening. As the resident BOD member, I wrote several newsletter articles and participated in strategic planning for SAEM. As the Domestic violence interest group chair, our group’s collaborative efforts led to a peer-reviewed publication: Houry D et al: Violence-inflicted injuries: reporting laws in the fifty states. Annals of Emergency Medicine; 2002: 39: 56-60.

Personal StatementThrough my involvement with planning the Annual Meeting and during my one year term as the resident member on the BOD, I have

worked directly with SAEM members of all levels, committees, and interest groups. I know how the organization works, and believe it can continue to serve its membership even better. The SAEM leadership communicates with the members in a reasonably effective manner, but the exchange and feedback can be improved. I would like to enhance the transparency of the BOD and SAEM office to all members, and expand the opportunities currently offered through the SAEM Research fund. This includes increased training opportunities at the fellow and junior faculty level, and at the mid-career level allowing bridge funding between grants. As the preeminent organization advocating for academic emergency medicine, we must be more proactive in working with federal agencies such as NHTSA, CDC, and the NIH to make our voice and our patients’ needs heard. We must actively collaborate with other EM organizations in doing so. There is also the opportunity to continually improve our outreach and educational opportunities for all levels of membership through our Annual and Regional Meetings, and the new website. If elected, I would work to fulfill these goals and always be accessible to SAEM members and their suggestions.

Debra Houry, MD, MPH - Member-At-Large (3 of 5 candidates)

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Current Academic Position(s)Professor and Vice Chairman for ResearchAssociate Residency DirectorDepartment of Emergency MedicineStony Brook UniversityStony Brook, NY

Non-SAEM Career Accomplishments Awards:ACEP Outstanding Contribution in Research Award, 2006SAEM Young Investigator Award, 1999CORD Resident Academic Achievement AwardSUNY Stony Brook Chief Resident Award, 1999SUNY Stony Brook Resident Research Award, 1999Grants:EMF Medical Error Reduction GrantMultiple Industry funded studies including many investigator initiated studies. Leadership PositionsAHA First Aid Task Force

SAEM Service: Member since 1996 Committee MembershipProgram Committee, 199-2002, 2003-2004Grants Committee, 2002-2003Nominating Committee, 2003-2005IOM Report Task Force, 2005-presentMembership Survey Task Force, 2004Leadership PositionsChair, Scientific Subcommittee, 2000-2001Chair, Grants Committee, 2002-2003Associate Editor, Academic Emergency Medicine, 1996-2004Chair, NY Regional SAEM Program Committee, 2007

Personal StatementOf all my accomplishments for SAEM to date I am most proud of my service as Chair of the Scientific Sub-committee of the Annual

Meeting Program Committee. I also am proud of my 6 year service as an Associate Editor of AEM early in its history helping to build a strong and respectable journal for our society. In my function as the Chair of the Grants Committee I also had the distinct honor and pleasure to help distribute research funds to some of our most promising and talented researchers. My goals for advancing the Society include greater involvement of our members as well as inclusion of other foreign members to help grow and diversify our Society. I also hope the help protect and grow our research fund by soliciting further internal and external support for our future generation of talented emergency medicine physicians and researchers.My vision for SAEM is to see our specialty continue to grow and become more competitive at receiving extramural and Federal funding. I would also like to see more focus put on helping the development of junior and middle level faculty. I would also like to see our journal become the premiere journal of our specialty.

Our membership needs to feel that they are involved and that their opinions matter. In order to facilitate this issue we need to encourage greater involvement of our membership in SAEM’s mission and ongoing activities. I propose surveying our members prior to making critical board decisions. I also recommend having an open forum during each annual meeting allowing society members to meet directly with mem-bers of the board to voice their opinions and make suggestions for future improvement.

Over the last decade I have had the honor and privilege of serving the Society and its members in many capacities. It is my hope to con-tinue to contribute and serve faithfully on the Board of Directors to help accomplish all of our goals.

Adam J. Singer, MD - Member-At-Large (4 of 5 candidates)

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Current Academic PositionsDepartment of Emergency Medicine; University of RochesterAssociate Professor (2004)Vice-Chair and Director of Clinical Operations (2003-current)ED Information System (EDIS) physician champion

Non-SAEM Career AccomplishmentsMy primary professional activities have been directing and leading a 98,000 visit ED in an academic tertiary care center with a mature EM residency. Key planning issues have been opening of a new ($25M) ED, plan-ning and implementation of Radiology upgrades to digital, and now leading the implementation of an ED IS (moving to a comprehensive EMR). Getting an MBA has been an important addition to my managerial experience and personality—teaching me perspective on vision, and giving me important tools for financial management and organizational leadership.I served on the ACEP Finance Committee for 4 years.

SAEM Service: Member since 1998 (when I joined an academic EM department)

Committee/Task Force/Interest GroupsFinancial Development Committee, 2000-2004Involved with transition of the committee from advising on financial structure and processes of SAEM, to a division of work between Devel-opment and Finance.Finance Committee, 2004-currentChair of Committee, 2005-currentNew committee for SAEM, leader in developing roles and structure of the committee. Primary initial actions to respond promptly to financial management analysis of Plante Moran, and to determine investment priorities of the Research Fund.Faculty Development Committee, 2004-2005Clinical Directors GroupMember, 1998-currentCo-Chair, 2003-2004Chair, 2004-2005

Elected Positions: Clinical Directors Co-Chair, Chair (as above)

Role in Major Contributions to SAEM Products Finance Committee

The Finance Committee was first established in 2004, as a division of responsibility from the Financial Development Committee. For all practical purposes the Finance Committee was dormant that year.

In 2005 the Finance Committee was charged with multiple issues and became an “active” committee. I have led the Finance Committee as Chair since then.

The Finance Committee has had major challenges in assuming responsibilities for the financial management of SAEM. Two months into my first year, we received the results of the first financial audit of SAEM (from Plante Moran). There were multiple “reportable” conditions identified in SAEM’s internal processes. (There was no specific misconduct or fraud identified however.) The Finance Committee and admin-istration meticulously worked through and corrected the list of more than 30 items. A follow-up second audit has been performed, and there are still some open issues that have not been resolved—these are being addressed currently.

Another important area has been the management of the Research Fund. We have implemented a well-managed and monitored invest-ment process utilizing the Fidelity Investor Newsletter.

Budget deficits were experienced last year (2006) and were projected for the current year (2007). The Finance Committee has been able to lead an organized approach of budget projection, and has evaluated various means of revenue enhancement (projecting dues changes, and meeting registration changes).

Personal StatementI am proud to have been an active member of SAEM since joining an academic EM environment 9 years ago—at that time I shifted my

professional focus and interest from ACEP (nationally and state—I was president-elect in Missouri ACEP ) to SAEM.In the last 4 years, I have been directly involved as SAEM has made fundamental organizational changes in leadership, structure and

function. While “organizational function” is not a compelling or catchy phrase to members, these changes and directions effect nearly every member interaction with SAEM-colleagues and SAEM itself. Without funds and without reliable processes, SAEM as an organization is threatened (no money, no organization—in EM we see this on a daily basis in our hospitals and EDs).

In the reshaping of SAEM, we have been faced with budget deficits—as a dues-based organization, these challenges are not going to go away. Yet we need to continue to move forward to support important member issues. Web and IT issues need to be constantly upgraded and remain state-of-the-art. SAEM needs effective and member-responsive staff—and we need to be able to recruit and retain these kinds of people.

I have had a tremendous opportunity as Chair (first and continuing) of the Finance Committee to help with reshaping SAEM as an orga-nization. In this role, I have worked closely with the Board of Directors over the last 2 years—I would be proud to continue in the work as a member of the Board.

Frank L. Zwemer, MD, MBA - Member-At-Large (5 of 5 candidates)

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Current Academic PositionProgram Director, Emergency Medicine Residency New York Presbyterian Columbia/CornellAssociate Professor of Emergency Medicine in Medicine Weill Medical College of Cornell UniversityAssociate Professor of Clinical Medicine College of Physicians&Surgeons of Columbia UniversityAssociate Medical Director New York Presbyterian Emergency Medical Services

Non-SAEM Career AccomplishmentsAfter serving as the Chief Resident at the Jacobi/Albert Einstein Program I became the Associate PD. From there I joined the Bellevue/NYU Program as PD spending nine years and having the privilege of graduating its first class. As the founding Director of the Residency at New York Presbyterian I also look forward to graduating our first class this June. I have a long association with CORD serving on numerous com-mittees. I am a reviewer for both AEM & Annals. Since 1999 I have been a Specialist Site Visitor for the RRC and an ABEM Oral Examiner since 2001.

SAEM Service: Member since 1990

Committees/Task Forces/Interest GroupsGraduate Medical Education Committee 1994-98Publications Committee 1995Editor SAEM Newsletter 1995-97Editor SAEM Resident Newsletter 1996-98Undergraduate Medical Education Committee 1998Annual Meeting Abstract Reviewer 2002, 2004-07Residency Consultation Service 1999-presentChair, Residency Consultation Service 2005-present

Role in Major Contributions to SAEMI am most proud of my work with the Consult Service. As a member of the service and now its chair I have worked to have the Consult

Service evolve as the needs of the Society have evolved. For a long period of time consults for new program applications predominated. These are still being requested and are yielding strong results with a recent consult being credited with having played a pivotal role in the creation of an academic department at a prominent university. As these requests slow down we have worked with the membership to of-fer services to the members such as PIF reviews and visits to established programs to help prepare for RRC visits. The visits to established programs are an exciting opportunity. As we are all well aware, the requirements and mandates change constantly. The ability for established programs and experienced PD’s to preview with their SAEM Consultants how they have responded to those changes prior to their site visits has been very well received . We are also working with the Board to bring all of the consultation services provided such as Faculty Develop-ment, Robotics&Simulation and Ethics together and make the process of requesting and scheduling consults and receiving timely feedback much easier. We have also developed a relationship with AACEM that allows us to pair a member of the Consult Service with one of their members. The addition of the Chair as the second member of the consult team has been valuable and added a new dimension to our consults.

Personal StatementMy association with SAEM remains one of the high points of my career. As I near my twentieth year with SAEM I look back and realize

it has been one heck of a ride. When I joined, we were discussing ABEM becoming an independent board and the number of academic de-partments could be counted on your fingers and toes and a large part of the annual meetings was dedicated to teaching us about basic statistics and methodology and the NIH was a big building in Washington. In 2007 I see work on measuring genetic material to guide clinical deci-sions and translational research and evidence based thinking is everywhere and the NIH is funding some of our specialty’s best and brightest. Service to SAEM has been a privilege. I hope that you will elect me so that I may continue to serve our membership on the Constitution and Bylaws Committee.

Wallace A. Carter, MD - Constitutions and Bylaws Committee (1 of 2 candidates)

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Current Academic PositionsProfessor and Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals

Non-SAEM Career Accomplishments Grants:EMF – Role of Oxygen Free Radicals in…Myocardial Ischemia (PI)American Heart Association – Reactive Nitrogen Species…Post-Trauma Myocardial Apoptosis (PI)Awards:Contributions to Teaching…in Emergency Medicine, National Institute of Emergency CareJefferson Medical College: Dean’s Letter WriterThomas Jefferson University Hospital: Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee – ChairJefferson University Physicians (Faculty Practice): Board of Directors

ACEPAcademic Affairs Committee: Medical Error EM Residency Curriculum Subcommittee – ChairFederal Government Affairs Committee: EMS/Emergency Preparedness Subgroup – ChairPennsylvania Chapter: President; Education Committee - Written Board Course Director, Oral Board Course Examiner; Education Founda-tion – Board of Directors; Meritorious Service AwardPhiladelphia County Medical Society: President-Elect

SAEM Service: Member since 1989Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine (AACEM) (2002 – present)

CommitteesFaculty Development (Chair 2005 – present, Member 2002 – present) “Didactic Proposal” Subcommittee Chair (2003 – 2004) “Conversion of Didactics to Newsletter” Subcommittee (2004)CORD (Member 1997 – 2002) “Navigating the Academics Waters” Plan Comm (2001 – present)

Task ForcesMedical School 4th Year Clerkship Curriculum, AACEM Rep (2002 – 2005)

Interest GroupsInternational Emergency Medicine (1999 – 2003)Evidence-Based Medicine Interest Group (1999 – 2004)Clinical Directors Interest Group (1999 – 2004)

Personal StatementAlthough over the years, I have presented more than 60 abstracts at the annual meetings, I am most proud of my contributions as Chair

of the SAEM Faculty Development (FD) Committee. Recently, this committee has: 1) had a record-breaking number of didactic propos-als on leadership and academic skills development accepted to the annual meeting; 2) developed an FD consultation service for academic EM departments and divisions; 3) developed an FD section on the SAEM website, to include an EM reference library with bibliography; 4) developed an Academic Leadership Skills Course, for senior faculty moving to Chair, Dean’s office or other leadership positions; 5) created a curriculum to teach skill sets needed by EM clinician-teachers; and 6) updated the FD handbook to correlate with AAMC FD skills and knowledge components.

Other milestones include: 1) co-representing AACEM on the 4th Year Medical Student Clerkship Curriculum Task Force, writing the section on Feedback; 2) assisting in the annual “Navigating the Academic Waters” CORD conference; and 3) hosting foreign academic emer-gency physicians – clinically, administratively, educationally and in research.

I have a passion for advancing the research and educational missions of academic EM. My SAEM goals include: 1) increasing mem-bership (society and annual meeting) from EM training programs and beyond; 2) advocating for all academic divisions of EM to become independent academic departments; 3) growing the SAEM research fund and other financial resources for training grants and sabbaticals; 4) establishing stronger ties with AAMC; 5) advocating for mandatory EM clerkships in all medical school curricula; and 6) creating a section of EM research in the NIH.

My SAEM vision includes: 1) increasing the EM clinician-educator’s faculty position and respect in the academic medical community; 2) augmenting EM simulation education, and patient centered and safety-focused educational initiatives; and 3) defining academic EM’s national advocacy role and public image.

Theodore A. Christopher, MD, FACEP - Constitution and Bylaws Committee (2 of 2 candidates)

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Current Academic PositionClinical Professor of Medicine, Emergency Services, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco

Non-SAEM accomplishments Medical Director, Emergency Services, SFGH 1999-2004Division Chief, Medical Informatics, UNC-CH Dept of Emergency Medicine 1994-1999Chair, Committee to Develop an Urgent Care Center at UNC-CHActing Director, Emergency Medicine, UCSF Division of Emergency Medicine 1992Member, Academic Affairs Committee, ACEP, 2004-nowFounder and Creator, High Risk Emergency Medicine, National CME course, UCSF, 2000-nowAdvisory Panel to the CDC, HIV Testing in Hospitalized Patients, representing ACEP, 1990Member, Committee to Develop Data Elements for ED’s (DEEDs), CDC, 1996Teacher of the Year (Socrates Award), UNC-CH, 1998GrantsRetrospective survey of treatment patterns for patients with headache in the ED – Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, PI, 1992Double Blind, Multicenter trial of DHE vs. Meperidine for the treatment of Migraine Headache in the ED, Sandoz Pharamaceuticals, Study Site PI, 1991Prehospital Study of High Dose Epinephrine vs. Standard Dose Epinephrine in Human Victims of Cardiac Arrest, EMS Agency, State of California, Co-PI, 1990-1992Development of an ex-vivo Langendorff model to study power spectrum parameters of ventricular fibrillation in the rat., University Research Council grant, UNC-CH, PI, 1996Modulation of the Determinants of the Power Spectrum of VF in the isolated perfused swine heart. Asmund Laerdal Foundation, PI, 1997Analysis of the Power Spectral characteristics of ventricular fibrillation in the prehospital victim of cardiac arrest, Zoll Medical Inc., Co-PI.

SAEM Service: Member since 1986

Committee/Interest Group MembershipTechnology Committee – 1993Political Affairs Committee – 1997-98Program Committee – 2000-2003Program Committee, Chair, Faculty Basic Science Subcommittee – 2002Program Committee, Chair, Scientific Subcommittee – 2003Faculty Development Committee – 2003-2004Member, Resuscitation Interest Group – 1998-2003Associate Editor, Academic Emergency Medicine, 2004 – current

Personal StatementHaving been a member since 1986 I’ve been a witness to tremendous growth and development of this organization. As our academic

departments continue to develop and strengthen I’d like to continue my participation in SAEM through the nominating committee ensuring that faculty with great potential to further our cause of promoting academic development in emergency medicine and defining our academic mission are selected to the slate of nominees for our most important positions. SAEM has been instrumental in fostering the development of Academic Departments at Medical Schools throughout the country and defining the key questions that confront emergency medicine and our patients that need our expertise. I want to see SAEM further develop the questions that define the Academic Domain of Emergency Medicine and foster the research that will answer these questions as only Emergency Medicine can do.

Chris Barton, MD - Nominating Committee (1 of 2 candidates)

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Current Academic PositionsInstitution: San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH)Academic Appointment: Assistant Clinical Professor at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Major Administrative Positions:Medical Education Director for Emergency Services at SFGHAssociate Residency Director for UCSF-SFGH Emergency Medicine Residency Program

Non-SAEM Career AccomplishmentsUCSF Academy of Medical Educator’s Innovations Grant recipient for “A Novel Instructional Approach to Teach Bedside Abdominal Ultrasonography Using a Self-Directed, Interactive, Multimedia Module for Medical Students”, 2006-2007AAEM Young Educator Award, 2006Bedside Educator Award for the Stanford-Kaiser EM Residency Program, 2003 and 2006Executive Board Member and Section Editor on Procedures and Consent View for PEMSoft (Pediatric Emergency Medicine Software), an international decision-support software in pediatric EMMonthly columnist on “Tricks of the Trade” for ACEP News

SAEM Service: Member since 2001Undergraduate Education Committee, 2002-present (Vice-chair 2005-06, Chair 2006-present)Educational Research Task Force, 2002-2005Medical Student Interest Group, 2006-present

Major Role in SAEM ProductsWhile on the Undergraduate Education Committee, I have been involved with various SAEM-related projects and products. I success-

fully proposed and implemented 3 didactic sessions for the annual meeting on educational research during 2002-2005. As part of the medical student website subcommittee, I led efforts in restructuring the entire medical student section for the SAEM website, highlighting our SAEM Virtual Advisor program and creating a more practical, user-friendly site for medical students seeking guidance. I also authored a 2004 SAEM newsletter publication on “Meeting the Challenges of Educational Research”.

Personal StatementWhile a member of and as the current chair of the productive Undergraduate Education Committee, I have had the pleasure of facilitat-

ing and addressing various important educational issues on behalf of the Society. To name a few, I coordinated several didactic sessions at the annual SAEM meetings on Educational Research in EM, improved the Virtual Advisor mentorship program for medical students, helped to reorganize the Medical Student and Medical Student Educator sections of the SAEM website, and was involved in the creation of informa-tional brochures to recruit minority medical students into academic EM.

What I envision for our Society’s future is continued growth in breadth and depth, while keeping with the balanced mission of cultivat-ing education and research in EM. What I would like to see is a concerted effort to foster and mentor medical students, residents, and junior faculty in academic EM. Breadth in membership should be coupled with depth in grant support to include innovations in education and educational research, focusing on outcomes research particularly. As the Chair of the Undergraduate Education Committee and the Associate Residency Director of the upcoming UCSF-SFGH EM program, I feel that I am in a unique position to help our society grow in such breadth and depth.

Michelle Lin, MD - Nominating Committee (2 of 2 candidates)

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Current Academic PositionResident, Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine

InstitutionSUNY Downstate / Kings County Hospitals

Academic AppointmentClinical Assistant Instructor

Non-SAEM Career AccomplishmentsResident Editor, 8/2006 - 8/2007Annals of Emergency Medicine Editorial Board

Resident As Teacher Award, Department of Medicine 2006

Director, Residency Recruitment, 1/2007 - presentDepartments of Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

Regional Vice President, Committee of Interns and Residents, 5/2006 - present

Resident Recruitment Coordinator, 9/2005 - 12/2006Departments of Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine,

National Chairperson of the Board of Directors, 4/2003 - 4/2004Student National Medical Association (SNMA), chief executive officer and operational leader;

Recruitment Coordinator, 1/2003 - 6/2003Columbia University, Dental Pipeline Project

Director, “Operation Success” Summer ProgramSUNY Downstate College of Medicine, summer of 2000

SAEM Service: Member since 2004

Personal StatementAs I continue to endeavor in this the most noble of professions, I have always hoped to have an impact on my community at large. My

desire to address community health issues was only heightened when I was honored with the opportunity to serve as National Chairperson of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA). The SNMA is the nation’s oldest and largest student organization focused on the needs and concerns of medical students of color. As the chief executive officer and operational leader of an organization with over 140 national chapters dedicated to service, I was challenged and truly blessed with the experience. Later during residency, I was moved by the dedication and impact of the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR). The opportunity to serve as Regional Vice President of this organization serving over 12,000 residents across the country has been extraordinary. Martin Luther King Jr. said “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” CIR from its inception has continued to remain ever vigilant and never silent as a friend to housestaff and supporter of patient care. As the road ahead of physicians is rich with both the seemingly limitless capacity yet enormous shortfalls of modern medicine, CIR continues to be the voice of commitment, reason and responsibility. I continue to be excited not only to practice medicine at a time when we can do more for the patient than any other time in his-tory but also to participate in an organization committed to giving the “silent majority” a vehicle for change.

Now my long journey to become “at home in the world” may hopefully take yet another turn. Who better to help himself and his neigh-bors “feel more at home” in this precarious world than an Emergency Physician? To that end, the pursuit of a career in academic Emergency Medicine must also incorporate a commitment to continually expand one’s clinical skill and service to impact communities on a global level. Critically appraising and writing literature that guides emergency physicians in the pursuit of evidenced-based practices is essential for patient care as well as the hopeful pursuit of educating future physicians. Furthermore, sharing these skills with future emergency physicians is a powerful method to address the clinical issues affecting large underserved populations. To enhance my training and professional experi-ences with an opportunity to coalesce principles of science, research, clinical medicine, philosophy and public health while contributing to the SAEM Board of Directors would be phenomenal.

Spencer Nabors, MD, MPH - Resident Board Member (1 of 3 candidates)

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Rodney Omron, MD, MPH - Resident Board Member (2 of 3 candidates)Current Academic PositionEmergency Medicine Resident, The George Washington University Department of Emergency Medicine, Post Graduate Year 3/4

Non-SAEM Career AccomplishmentsResearchGWU Emergency Medicine, 10/2005-1/2006, Contagious disease outbreak workshop: Evaluation of an edu-cational tool to increase medical student and resident knowledge and comfort in responding to a contagious disease outbreak in the emergency department.GWU Emergency Medicine, 10/2005-present, In charge of the annual Airway Day at GWU; 10/2005-present, Principal Investigator for Novel Method of Rewarming Patients. Look at different devices to rewarm injured soldiers during transport.NSA, Fort Meade, 10/2003-07/2005, Indoor Air Quality Study, Principal Investigator of indoor air quality complaints and associated medical conditions; 10/2003-07/2005, Bone Density Study, Principal Investigator of the efficacy of bone density screening to government employees.

PublicationsMoon, RY, Omron, R, “Determinants of Infant Sleep Position in an Urban Population”, Clinical Pediatrics, 10/2002, Volume: 41 (8), Pages 569-573

Poster SessionsAspirated JP-5 Jet Fuel Induced Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Neutropenia in an Otherwise Healthy Marine, Poster Presentation at the Government Services American College of Emergency Physician’s Joint Service Symposium 2004

PresentationsHypertension Overview, Weekly Continuing Education Symposium, NSA 4 Sept 2003 Urgent Hypertensive Emergencies, Weekly Continuing Education Symposium, NSA , 11 Sept 2003 The Universal Algorithm, Weekly Continuing Education Symposium, NSA 9 Oct 2003 Pulmonary Function Testing, Weekly Continuing Edu-cation Symposium, NSA, 6 Nov 2003 Wound Management, Weekly Continuing Education Symposium, NSA, 4 Dec 2003 Anaphylaxis, Weekly Continuing Education Symposium, NSA, 29 January 2004 Vertigo, Weekly Continuing Education Symposium, NSA, 8 Apr 2004 Disaster Preparedness, Weekly Continuing Education Symposium, NSA, 29 Apr 2004 Chest Pain, Weekly Continuing Education Symposium, NSA, 22 July 2004 Medical Manifestations of Stress, Weekly Continuing Education Symposium, NSA , 5 Aug 2004 Approach to a Patient with Abnormal PFTs, Weekly Continuing Education Symposium, NSA 9 Sep 2004 Influenza, Weekly Continuing Education Symposium, NSA, 4 Nov 04 Low Back Pain, Weekly Continuing Education Symposium, NSA, 24 Mar 2005

AwardsDefense Meritorious Service Medal (June 2005): for excellence as a Staff Physician in service of the Department of Defense, Fort Meade MD during my two year tenure in support of the Global War on Terrorism.

Navy Commendation Medal (June 2003): for excellence as the Officer In Charge of the Battalion Aide Station of the Battalion Landing Team 2/2 during my two year tenure to include Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Surface Warfare Medical Designator Officer Pin (May 2003: Awarded as a result of proficiency in seamanship and daily shipboard activities including piloting the ship and understanding ship’s communications.

SAEM Service: Member since 2004

Personal StatementI am very interested in serving as the resident board member for the 2007-2008 year. I have a strong academic background and my goals

are in keeping the tradition of excellence that SAEM strives for. My background in epidemiology and biostatistics, strong leadership experi-ence and commitment to mentorship makes me a very strong candidate.

As a medical student, I completed a master’s degree in epidemiology and biostatistics. I learned the importance of understanding the fundamentals of evidence-based medicine. It is easy to mask the truth under the guise of statistical significance. It takes an ever-vigilant physician to recognize misleading statistics and protect ones patients from the application of research presented in such a way.

As a physician having just completed an internship, I was deployed to war as a battalion surgeon for the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines and Task Force Tarawa. There I learned the importance of mentorship, strong leadership, and commitment to purpose. I know the time commit-ment necessary to complete a project well. More important than a solid plan is one’s ability to adapt it in the face of adversity. In war, plans change in seconds and an inflexible plan can result in the loss of life.

As an emergency medicine resident, I am surrounded by great mentors everyday. I chose The George Washington University because I have always been impressed with their tradition of mentorship and leadership. I strive everyday to be a mentor to my nurses, medical stu-dents, and to share knowledge with my attendings and fellow residents.

In summary, I am strong candidate with a commitment to education, evidence based medicine, leadership and mentorship. The strengths that I bring are a life long pursuit to understand evidence-based medicine, experience in leading, and a firm commitment to mentorship. Thank you for your consideration.

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Megan L. Ranney, MD - Resident Board Member (3 of 3 candidates)Current Academic Position: Resident, PGY-3 (rising PGY-4)Institution: Brown Medical SchoolAcademic Appointment: Chief Resident 2007-2008

Non-SAEM Career AccomplishmentsUndergraduate Honors: Summa cum laude, History of Science, Harvard College 1997; Phi Beta Kappa; John Harvard & Elizabeth Radcliffe Scholarships, 1993-97Medical School Honors: Alpha Omega Alpha; Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award; Gold Foundation Humanitarian AwardPost-Graduate Honors: Chief Resident, 2007-2008; Emergency Medicine Foundation Resident Research Grant: Feasibility study of brief motivational interventions to increase motorcyclists’ helmet use. (Application submitted Dec 22 2006, DECISION PENDING)CommitteesACEP International Emergency Medicine Committee, 2004-present; Early Goal Directed Therapy Interdisciplinary Committee (Rhode Island Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine & Medical Intensive Care Unit): Emergency Medicine resident representative, 2006-present; Graduate Medical Education Committee (Rhode Island Hospital): Resident member, 2005-present; Department of Emergency Medicine Chair Search Committee (University Emergency Medicine Foundation): Resident Representative, 2005; Department of Emergency Medicine Journal Club: Resident coordinator, 2004-2006Original Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals1. Ranney, ML, Partridge R, Jay G, Rozzoli DE, Pandey P. “Rabies antibody seroconversion rates among travelers in Nepal.” Journal of Travel Medicine, Vol. 13(6), 20062. Ranney ML, Gee E, Merchant RC. “Non-prescription availability of emergency contraception in the United States: Current status, contro-versies, and impact on the emergency department.” Annals of Emergency Medicine, Vol. 47(5), 2006.3. Krosin MT, Klitzman R, Levin B, Cheng J, Ranney ML. “Problems in comprehension of informed consent in rural and peri-urban Mali, West Africa.” Clinical Trials, Vol. 3(3), 2006.Abstracts and Posters1. Levinson A, Ranney ML, Levy M, Venetetuolo C. “Surviving Sepsis: Evaluating an Interdisciplinary Educational Initiative for Improving Management of Patients with Sepsis.” To be presented as oral presentation at American Thoracic Society International Conference, May 2007. 2. Ranney, ML, Mello MJ, Baird J. “Predictors of motorcycle injury severity in a state with limited helmet laws.” Presented as poster at Lifespan Research Celebration, November 2006.3. Dadaekian G, Mello MJ, Ranney ML. “Motorcycle Accidents: Analysis of the RI Trauma Registry from 2000-2004.” Poster presentation at Navy Chapter of American College of Physicians, October 2005.Presentations1. Road Traffic Injuries. Moi Referral and Teaching Hospital, Eldoret, Kenya. Presentations to medical students, Casualty department, and parents. March 2007.2. Cardiac Arrythmias. Moi Referral 2. Carbon Dioxide and Cyanide: Silent Killers in Inhalation Injury, Joint EM/Trauma Conference, Brown Medical School, January 2007. 3. Atrial Myxoma, Clinical-Pathological Correlation Conference, October 2006. (To be re-presented at regional SAEM CPC competition, March 2007.)4. Shortness of Breath. Presentation to Emergency Medicine medical students. Monthly since August 2006.5. Introduction to Emergency Ultrasound. Presentation to Emergency Medicine medical students. November 2005.6. Student Perspectives on Global Health; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons’ Alumni Weekend; New York, NY; May 20, 2004..7. Medical School Community Partnerships; Urban Health Initiative: New York Academy of Medicine; October 12, 2002.

SAEM Service: Member since: 2007

Committee/Task Forces/Interest Groups: Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference Working Group: “Knowledge Translation in Emergency Medicine.” Spring 2007.

Personal StatementOne of the aspects of emergency medicine which most excites me is that it is still a nascent field. We have the ability to continue to

define and create our specialty. The trend is promising, as you are well aware. But I believe we have much work to do to make academic E.M. as respected as academic internal medicine or general surgery. Doing so requires increased research interest, time, and money for our attend-ings. It also requires increased emphasis on research and teaching training for E.M. residents. Through my research projects, teaching efforts, and committee memberships during residency, I am well aware of the local and national issues which can lead a budding academician into community E.M. I would like to see all residents and attendings who intend to stay in academics actually do so.

As a resident representative to the SAEM Board of Directors, therefore, I would be a strong and effective advocate for the continued expansion of E.M.’s academic mission. I have demonstrated a commitment to committee work and development of the department within my own residency, and would welcome the chance to extend my work to a national scale. I would especially welcome the chance to work on GME issues, international academic E.M., undergraduate education, and faculty development, as these intersect especially well with my existing interests. SAEM’s support to program directors, new faculty, and budding researchers in these areas can have a huge impact on the development of a future generation of academic EM researchers.

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Listed below are the committee and task force objectives (SAEM’s year runs from May to May to coincide with the Annual Meeting). While SAEM’s mission “to improve patient care by advancing research and education in emergency medicine” gives direction to SAEM’s activities, and the Five-Year goals and objectives (http://www.saem.org/newsltr/hd5yrpla.htm) lay the foundation, it is the extensive and detailed work of each committee and task force towards the fulfillment of their specific goals and objectives, which really advance the academic specialty.

Although the committee and task force objectives are developed and approved by the Board of Directors, they are based on SAEM’s Five Year Goals and Objectives and on the suggestions of prior committee and task force chairs and members, and from individual SAEM members. The Board strives to ensure that the objectives assigned to each committee and task force are well defined, achievable, and directly related to SAEM’s core mission. The Board appreciates feedback regarding these objectives from the membership, and most importantly, invites suggestions for future objectives.

Awards CommitteeChair, Don Yealy, MD: yealydm@upmc.eduBoard Liaison: Judd E. Hollander, MD

�. Develop recommendations to the Board on a standardized means of identifying and nominating Awards Committee members, outside of the usual application process, which assures senior members on the committee. Due: September �, 2006.

3. Request and review nominations for the Young Investigator Award and recommend recipients to the Board. Due: February �, 2007.

4. Request and review nominations for the Academic Excellence and Leadership Awards and recommend recipients to the Board. Due: February �, 2008

5. Request and review nominations for the Special Recognition Award and recommend recipients to the Board. Due: February �, 2008.

6. Request and review nominations from the Women in Academic Emergency Medicine Award. Due: February �, 2008.

Crowding Task ForceChair, Brent Asplin, MDbrent.r.asplin@healthpartners.comBoard Liaison: Judd E. Hollander, MD

�. To write a review article summarizing all the literature on the effects of ED crowding on patient oriented outcomes.

2. To develop studies that can demonstrate to JCAHO and the lay press the adverse effects of ED crowding on patient oriented outcomes.

3. To develop studies that can demonstrate to AAMC and the lay press the adverse effects of ED crowding

on education and training of health care providers. 4. To work with the undergraduate education committee

on a policy statement and literature review on the impact of ED crowding on education. The Crowding TF will be the lead committee.

Communications CommitteeChair, Kathleen Clem, MD: clem0002@mc.duke.eduBOD Liaison: Ellen Weber, MD

�. Develop a policy regarding preferential route of dissemination of information: web posting, all member emails, and newsletter.

2. Develop a process to disseminate press releases to the lay press.

3. Serve as a clearing house for important news, success stories, etc from SAEM members, and particularly IG’s, task forces and committees. Determine which are newsworthy, and to what audience. Develop press releases, web site stories (brief intros with links are often enough), newsletter articles to highlight these achievements. (These are submitted to the ap-propriate venue but still must be vetted by the persons responsible, e.g. web board, newsletter editor).

4. Search for achievements among members that can be advertised. Highlight important research findings published both in AEM and other journals.

5. Develop relationships with local press at annual meeting site prior to the meeting. Participate in the development of press releases for particular abstracts (may be an issue with a new publisher). Arrange for interviews between researchers and the press.

6. Set up and staff a Media Room at annual meeting.

Constitution and Bylaws CommitteeChair, Deborah Diercks, MD or Craig Newgard, MDdbdiercks@ucdavis.edu or newgardc@ohsu.edu Board Liaison: Ellen Weber, MD

�. Review the Constitution and Bylaws to ensure consistency with the Society’s activities and internal functions. Propose amendments to the Board for review and approval. Due: November �, 2007.

2. Respond to specific requests from the Board regarding potential changes in the Constitution and Bylaws over the course of the year.

Consultation ServiceChair, Wallace Carter, MD: wac9010@nyp.orgBoard Liaison: Leon Haley, MD

�. Create a self-evaluation tool for consultation sites to provide feedback to the committee. Due: September �, 2007.

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2. Continue to develop the Consultation Service section of the SAEM web page, with an objective to produce descriptions and contact persons for each consultation service which can be easily accessed by the membership. Due: December �, 2007.

3. Review present consulting faculty, identify faculty who may be willing to provide consultations, and provide an update to the Board and SAEM website. Due: December �, 2007.

4. Provide consultation services as requested. Report the results of each consultation to the Board as they are completed, and report any issues to the Board as needed.

Development CommitteeChair, Brian Zink, MD: bzink@lifespan.orgBoard Liaison: James Hoekstra, MD

�. Work with the Senior Council to identify up to five donors with significant giving potential and develop a plan for cultivation and asking these individuals for a significant gift.

2. Implement with the help of the SAEM Board of Directors and SAEM staff the Multiyear Member Campaign for the Research Fund.

3. Coordinate SAEM Research Fund promotion and donor recognition with the SAEM staff.

4. Work with the Senior Council to make recommen-dations to the Board on strategies and future needs for development activities within SAEM.

Ethics CommitteeChair, Tammie Quest, MD: tquest@emory.eduBoard Liaison: Catherine Marco, MD

�. To develop a conflict of interest policy for anyone making decisions on behalf of society with potential financial ramifications (for example, policies, grants, etc.)

2. To develop a rapid response system where a panel of members can make a rapid (2-3 day) determination of whether an individual has a conflict of interest.

3. To develop an article discussing the surrounding controversies in authorship and practical ethically based ways to deal with or avoid them. Work with the research committee on identifying the most common authorship controversies.

4. Provide ethics consultation services to the mem-bership, as appropriate, with reports back to the Board on completion.

5. Develop a proposal for a didactic session on ethical conduct of industry sponsored research, to be presented at the Annual Meeting 2008. Due to the program committee for consideration: September �, 2007.

6. Continue to build the ethics section of the new SAEM web site, which can be populated with ethics position

statements, consultation services, teaching modules, references and suggested library, etc. Due: December �, 2007.

7. Create 2-3 ethics teaching modules, or select 2-3 ethics modules from the ethics monograph, to populate the ethics portion of the SAEM web site. Due: February �, 2007.

8. Propose �-2 goals and objectives for junior committee members to accomplish. These will require BOD approval prior to implementation. Deadline June �, 2007.

Faculty Development CommitteeChair, Theodore Christopher, MD:theodore.christopher@jefferson.eduBoard Liaison: Jill Baren, MD

�. Develop didactic proposals for submission to 2008 Annual Meeting. Due to the program committee: September �, 2007

2. Continue to work with the web editor group to develop the faculty development section of the SAEM web site, populated with materials of the committee’s choosing, including links in #2, and possibly materials from didactic sessions. Due: Ongoing

3. Finalize the proposal to the Board for creating an Academic Leadership Skills Course to be sponsored by SAEM, AACEM, AAMC. This is to be a senior level course directed at individuals interested in moving from a Mid-Career level to Chair/Dean’s office/EM leadership position. Due: June �, 2007

4. Work with Web committee to post “Skill sets for Clinician-Teachers”, on the website. Due: June �, 2007

5. Develop a survey to assess emergency medicine faculty development and “best practices”. Submit to BOD for approval. Due: November �, 2007

6. Propose �-2 goals and objectives for junior committee members to accomplish. These will require BOD approval prior to implementation. Deadline June �, 2007.

Finance CommitteeChair, Frank Zwemer, MD:frank_zwemer@urmc.rochester.eduBoard Liaison: Jeffrey Kline, MD

�. Continually evaluate response to the findings of the external audit process with recommendations to the Board. Make certain that we implement the past recommendations prior to the 2008 audit.

2. Provide a proposed structure for budget preparation and approval by the Finance Committee and BOD. This should include: formal dates/processes for budget planning—in terms of preliminary budget by date x, BOD approval by date y, final budget by

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date z. Due: October �, 2007. 3. Ensure that monthly financial statements capture

and reflect the financial activities and performance of SAEM, ensuring that actual and budgeted revenue and expenses are accurately presented in the monthly financial statements.

4. Complete development of a handbook of the Society’s financial procedures and policies. In conjunction with the Executive Director, develop for Board approval revisions of any procedure or policy deficiencies that are discovered. Due to the Board: December �, 2007.

5. Provide the BOD with alternative recommendations for determining finance committee membership other than the typical one year appointment process used for most committees.

Geriatrics Task ForceChair Lowell Gerson, PhD: lgerson@neoucom.edu Board Liaison: TBA

�. Meet the objectives of any funded grants to develop educational modules for the web site.

GME CommitteeChair, Jacob Ufberg, MD: jacob.ufberg@tuhs.temple.eduBoard Liaison: TBA

�. Catalog and review past articles for the Resident Section of the Newsletter to identify uncovered topics for quality articles. Submit appropriate articles to the Newsletter as needed.

2. Prepare an article on the effect of ED crowding on medical student and resident education.

3. Prepare and complete a distribution plan for the Academic Career Guide. Present the plan to the Board by June �, 2006. If publication is planned, please present a formal proposal, including publication costs.

4. Prepare and submit a proposal for a didactic session for the Annual Meeting Due to the Program Committee for consideration: September �, 2007.

5. Identify LLSA articles for submission to ABEM, based upon ABEM topics.

6. Review the following 2 recent ACGME Institutional Requirements. Report to the Board on specific recommendations for action to be taken by SAEM.

A) A Sponsoring Institution must have an institution-wide policy that addresses continuation of GME financial and administrative support for programs to continue the education of all residents in the event of a disaster. (See ACGME Policies and Procedures, II.G).

B) Accommodation for disabilities: The Sponsoring Institution must have written policies regarding

accommodation for residents with disabilities. 7. Propose �-2 goals and objectives for junior committee

members to accomplish. These will require BOD approval prior to implementation. Deadline June �, 2007

Grants CommitteeChair, Kelly Young, MD: kyoung@emedharbor.eduBoard Liaison: Jeffrey Kline, MD

�. Coordinate the grant application reviews with the assistance of expert reviewers within the Society. Recommend a prioritized recipient list to the Board for the following grants and fellowships: Research Training, Institutional Research Training, Scholarly Sabbatical, EMS Research Fellowship, Medical Student Interest Group, and EMF/SAEM Medical Student Research. Due: Varies by grant program

2. Serve as a resource for the Research Committee for the grant-writing workshop for the Annual Meeting, and the research reference section on the SAEM website. Workshop proposal due to the Program Committee for consideration: September �, 2007.

3. Continue to develop the process and monitor the progress of grant recipients, including a template for interim and final reports of grant-related research progress, as well as career progress for the investigator. Due: September �, 2007.

4. More clearly define the eligibility criteria for each grant, and with the specific goals of each grant.

5. Propose �-2 goals and objectives for junior committee members to accomplish. These will need BOD approval prior to implementation. Deadline June �, 2007.

Guidelines CommitteeChair, Charles V. Pollack, MD:pollack2@mindspring.comBoard Liaison: Judd E. Hollander, MD

�. Assess medical organizations responsible for guide-lines, and identify organizations appropriate to establish working relationships with SAEM. Report to BOD by July �, 2007.

2. Establish communication and functional strategies for collaboration. Report back to BOD by October 2007

3. Develop mechanism to review guidelines sent to SAEM for review/endorsement. To BOD by July 2007

4. Develop list of experts that can serve as SAEM liaison to other organizations writing guidelines. Report due in SAEM office and BOD by November 2007.

5. Review, or assign to SAEM designated experts, guidelines as requested by the BOD and make recommendations to the BOD regarding our endorsement. Due as requested.

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Industry Relations CommitteeChair, Deborah Diercks, MD, or Andra Blomkalns, MD:dbdiercks@ucdavis.edu orandra.blomkalns@uc.eduBoard Liaison: Jill Baren, MD

�. Develop a proposal for a didactic session for the 2008 Annual Meeting pertaining to industry involvement in academic medicine. Due to the program committee for consideration: September �, 2007.

2. Work with the Board as needed, to foster com-munication with industry on the mission of SAEM, and its relation to industry.

3. Complete the survey of EM departments and researchers which explores the prevalence and nature of industry sponsored clinical and research in EM. Included are numbers of researchers, nature of research, dollar awards, sponsoring companies, etc. Results to be presented to the BOD and published on the Research Reference Section of the SAEM website. Due: February �, 2008.

4. Propose �-2 goals and objectives for committee members to accomplish. These will require BOD re-view prior to implementation. Deadline June �, 2007.

International CommitteeChair, Indrani Sheridan, MD:indrani28@earthlink.netBoard Liaison: Leon Haley, MD

�. Develop a mechanism for committee members to stay involved with reaching committee goals and objectives while they are traveling abroad.

2. Survey International Fellowship programs to see if they see a need for and support Development of a core content document for International EM fellowships.

2. Develop Faculty Development recommendations/guidelines for International academic EM physicians.

3. Develop a Resident International EM elective curriculum.

4. Write a paper on the need and impact of EM internationally on 2 or 3 three key global topics.

Membership CommitteeChair: Susan Stern. MD: suestern@umich.eduBoard Liaison: TBA

�. Implement the approved survey evaluating the needs and desires of teaching faculty who are non-members. Due: September �, 2006 for implementation with the membership drive in Nov-Dec 2006.

2. Work with finance committee to determine the impact of the institutional membership.

3. Review requests for emeritus status, and approve as appropriate. Due as requested.

4. Provide the BOD with a report summarizing the

results of the membership survey conducted at the Annual Meeting. Questions should be centered on ways to improve SAEM’s service to our members. Due: September �, 2007.

National Affairs CommitteeChair, Dick Kuo, MD: dkuo@umaryland.edu Board Liaison: TBA

�. Monitor legislative and regulatory issues pertinent to academic emergency medicine. Publicize and distribute, via email and the SAEM web site, pertinent advocacy issues of interest to the membership which require legislative or regulatory member input. Due as needed to the Board for approval before sending to the email list serve.

2. Develop an Advocacy web site section for the SAEM web site which can be populated with position statements, advocacy opportunities, etc. Due: December �, 2007.

3. Work with AACEM to develop a draft program for the AAMC Annual Fall Meeting 2008 on the advocacy topic of interest to the membership. Submit to Board for approval: January �, 2008. Submit summaries of these events to the Newsletter. Due: � month post-meeting

4. Assess and prioritize a list of advocacy issues to be addressed and/or monitored by the National Affairs Committee on an ongoing basis. Criteria should include applicability to research an education in EM, and uniqueness to SAEM versus other EM advocacy bodies. Due to the Board: October �, 2007.

Nominating CommitteeChair, President-elect

�. Develop a slate of recommended nominees for the following elected positions in 2007: Board officers, Board of Directors, Nominating Committee, and Constitution and Bylaws Committee. To be submitted to the Board for approval. Due: March �, 2007.

Program CommitteeChair, Craig Newgard, MD: newgardc@ohsu.eduBoard Liaison: TBA

�. Review the feedback from the 2007 Annual Meeting and present the report to the Board with any recommendations for improvement and change. Due: August �, 2007.

2. Plan 2008 Annual Meeting. This includes presenting budget (November �, 2007) and quarterly progress reports by the Chair to the Board. Due: July, September, November 2007 and March, 2008.

3. As part of quarterly reports, the Chair will be updated by the Board on current academe-related themes

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of interest to the Society. These themes may be considered for incorporation into Annual Meeting activities.

Research CommitteeChair: Roger Lewis, MD: roger@emedharbor.eduBoard Liaison: James Hoekstra, MD

�. Prepare a conference submission to the NIH to host a conference on establishment of an emergency and acute care research network consistent with the SAEM response to the NIH Roadmap. Work with emergency physicians who already have discipline specific networks.

2. Prepare a summary of ways for emergency physician investigators to integrate into both pre-existing CTSA grants and how emergency medicine can benefit CTSA applications.

3. Design (with input of website development committee) field to be populated at the time of registration regarding funding of industry, foundation and NIH grants and contacts.

4. Submit a didactic proposal for a grant review session at the annual meeting. Due: September �, 2007.

Technology in Medical Education CommitteeChair, James Gordon, MD:jgordon3@partners.orgBoard Liaison: TBA

�. Draft an information paper on the role of simulation training in GME, for board approval and possible publication. Due: February �, 2008.

2. Submit a consensus conference proposal on simu-lation for 2008 Annual Meeting. Due: September �, 2007.

3. Develop a plan for collaboration with the ACEP Academic Affairs Committee to develop simulation and technology curriculum for GME. Due: December �, 2007.

4. Continue the development of a simulator case library to be made available to the members via the SAEM website. Work with the AAMC in that endeavor. Ongoing

Undergraduate Education CommitteeChair, Michelle Lin, MD: mlin@sfghed.ucsf.eduBoard Liaison: Catherine Marco, MD

�. Determine feasibility and budget required to produce up to 3 mini-Podcasts of the 2007 Medical Student Symposium highlights to be uploaded to the Medical Student section of the website to serve as promotional material for the Symposium. Submit proposal to BOD for approval prior to production.

2. Add to the current �2 standardized PowerPoint lectures; continue the development of the Standardized

EM Curriculum by developing 5 additional standard lectures, to be posted on the Medical Student Educators section of the website. Each lecture will reference material from the Question Databank.

3. Continue the development and growth of the Undergraduate Question Databank by developing up to 40 new multiple-choice questions for the Undergraduate Question Databank, update the current test questions, and continue to incorporate annual images from the SAEM Visual Photo Contest, upon consent of the photo submission author.

4 Collaborate with CORD to improve the ability of the Standardized Letter of Recommendation (SLOR) form to differentiate the middle-range of EM applicants. This may include linking our behaviorally anchored standardized student assessment form (from this year’s objectives).

5. Determine feasibility and budget required to create short videos, highlighting EM as a career choice for minority students, for the Medical Student section of the website. Submit proposal to BOD for approval prior to production.

6. Finalize the proposed Virtual Advisor application and exit forms (from this year’s objectives) and upload these changes with the Web Editorial Group.

7. Work with crowding task force to summarize the literature and prepare a SAEM position statement on the impact of ED crowding on medical student education. Crowding TF will have lead role.

Web Task ForceChair: Albert Villarin, MD: villaria@einstein.eduBoard Liaison: Ellen Weber, MD

�. Draft broad guidelines for website material submission, review, and publication. After Board approval of the guidelines, write a Newsletter article to introduce the process to the membership. Due: October �, 2007.

2. Work with each Committee/Task Force to optimize their respective sections of the SAEM website, including links and web postings. Ongoing

3. Develop a member’s only section of the website that houses a searchable membership directory.

4. Oversee bi-monthly phone conferences to maintain enhancements, pro-active updates of content and support web-content manager personnel at SAEM HQ.

5. Submit progress reports to the Board prior to each of the Board face-to-face meetings (ACEP, March BOD Meeting, and Annual Meeting). Due: September �, 2007, February �, 2008, and April � 2008.

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Atlanta, GA

DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE

One of the nation’s leading academic EM programs, Emory offers a dynamic professional environment and faculty development. We have special strengths in clinical and lab research, EM education, EMS, medical toxicology, medical education, and public health, as well as strong links to the CDC and other local organizations. We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and job security. Applicants must be residency trained or board certified in EM. If you are an excellent doctor, love to teach, and want to make a difference, contact us. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. For further information, visit our web site at http://www.emory.edu/em, then contact:

Kate Heilpern, M.D., Acting Chair Department of Emergency Medicine

531 Asbury Circle – Annex Suite N340

Atlanta, GA 30322 Phone: (404)778-2602 Fax: (404)778-2630

Email: paula.bokros@emory.edu

Emory is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer

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Research Director/Director of Academic AffairsDepartment of EM

Newark Beth Israel Medical CenterNewark, New Jersey

St. Barnabas Health Care System

We are searching for an emergency medicine physician experienced in research, EM residency teaching, administration, and grant writing to assume a key leadership role in our department. We are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic individual who is 5-10+ years post-EM residency graduation and desires an opportunity to mentor and contribute to the scholarly development of a team of talented, dedicated faculty and EM residents and be part of an Emergency Department committed to scholarship, clinical excellence, community service, and humanistic values. An MS or MPH would be a very desirable plus. We are home to an ACGME and AOA fully accredited EM residency with 30 residents in an EM 1-3 format. Our Department provides care to 90,000 patients annually (1/3 pediatric) and utilizes a fully electronic nursing/physician charting and tracking system. An active EM US program is in place. This position carries a very competitive compensation and benefits package with ample protected time. Academic appointments at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and NY College of Osteopathic Medicine commensurate with experience. Please forward your CV/letter of interest in confidence to Marc Borenstein, MD, Chair, Department of EM, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, 201 Lyons Ave, Newark, NJ 07112, phone, 973-926-7562, e-mail, mborenstein@sbhcs.com.

Emergency Medicine Faculty Position

The Department of Emergency Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM)) seeks academic faculty members. Positions are available at Boston Medical Center (BMC) which is a Level 1 Trauma Center with 130,000 visits annually. The Department of EM serves as an independent academic department within BUSM and BMC.

The department has a nationally recognized, well-established residency program with academic faculty appointments through BUSM. BMC is the medical control and academic base for Boston EMS. In addition, we have an active research section with particular focus on public health, administration, EMS and cardiovascular emergencies. The ideal candidate will have a strong research background or interest. Candidates must be ABEM board certified or eligible and must demonstrate a commitment to the training of emergency medicine residents. Competitive salary with an excellent benefits package.

Further information contact: Jonathan Olshaker MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center, 1 BMC Place, Boston MA 02118-2393. Tel: 617-414-5481; Fax: 617-414-7759; E-mail: olshaker@bu.edu. An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA

Research Director

The Department of Emergency Medicine at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center is seeking a full-time faculty with a proven record of research success to direct its research program. Both clinical and basic science research opportunities are available as well as collaboration with world-class basic science and clinical investigators. LSUHSC began its Residency Training Program in 2004 and is the tertiary referral center for the entire region with an annual volume of 65,000 and is the areas only Level I Trauma Center. Protected time and educational benefits are provided. Applicants with residency training and ABEM board status are encouraged to apply. Rank and position will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. LSUHSC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

Interested applicants are encouraged to contact:

Thomas C. Arnold, M.D. Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine LSUHSC-Shreveport1501 Kings Highway P.O. Box 33932 Shreveport, LA 71130-3932 (318) 675-6885 or fax (318) 675-6878 TARNOL@LSUHSC.EDU

Atlanta, GA

DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE

One of the nation’s leading academic EM programs, Emory offers a dynamic professional environment and faculty development. We have special strengths in clinical and lab research, EM education, EMS, medical toxicology, medical education, and public health, as well as strong links to the CDC and other local organizations. We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and job security. Applicants must be residency trained or board certified in EM. If you are an excellent doctor, love to teach, and want to make a difference, contact us. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. For further information, visit our web site at http://www.emory.edu/em, then contact:

Kate Heilpern, M.D., Acting Chair Department of Emergency Medicine

531 Asbury Circle – Annex Suite N340

Atlanta, GA 30322 Phone: (404)778-2602 Fax: (404)778-2630

Email: paula.bokros@emory.edu

Emory is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer

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Research Director/Director of Academic AffairsDepartment of EM

Newark Beth Israel Medical CenterNewark, New Jersey

St. Barnabas Health Care System

We are searching for an emergency medicine physician experienced in research, EM residency teaching, administration, and grant writing to assume a key leadership role in our department. We are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic individual who is 5-10+ years post-EM residency graduation and desires an opportunity to mentor and contribute to the scholarly development of a team of talented, dedicated faculty and EM residents and be part of an Emergency Department committed to scholarship, clinical excellence, community service, and humanistic values. An MS or MPH would be a very desirable plus. We are home to an ACGME and AOA fully accredited EM residency with 30 residents in an EM 1-3 format. Our Department provides care to 90,000 patients annually (1/3 pediatric) and utilizes a fully electronic nursing/physician charting and tracking system. An active EM US program is in place. This position carries a very competitive compensation and benefits package with ample protected time. Academic appointments at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and NY College of Osteopathic Medicine commensurate with experience. Please forward your CV/letter of interest in confidence to Marc Borenstein, MD, Chair, Department of EM, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, 201 Lyons Ave, Newark, NJ 07112, phone, 973-926-7562, e-mail, mborenstein@sbhcs.com.

Emergency Medicine Faculty Position

The Department of Emergency Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM)) seeks academic faculty members. Positions are available at Boston Medical Center (BMC) which is a Level 1 Trauma Center with 130,000 visits annually. The Department of EM serves as an independent academic department within BUSM and BMC.

The department has a nationally recognized, well-established residency program with academic faculty appointments through BUSM. BMC is the medical control and academic base for Boston EMS. In addition, we have an active research section with particular focus on public health, administration, EMS and cardiovascular emergencies. The ideal candidate will have a strong research background or interest. Candidates must be ABEM board certified or eligible and must demonstrate a commitment to the training of emergency medicine residents. Competitive salary with an excellent benefits package.

Further information contact: Jonathan Olshaker MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center, 1 BMC Place, Boston MA 02118-2393. Tel: 617-414-5481; Fax: 617-414-7759; E-mail: olshaker@bu.edu. An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA

Research Director

The Department of Emergency Medicine at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center is seeking a full-time faculty with a proven record of research success to direct its research program. Both clinical and basic science research opportunities are available as well as collaboration with world-class basic science and clinical investigators. LSUHSC began its Residency Training Program in 2004 and is the tertiary referral center for the entire region with an annual volume of 65,000 and is the areas only Level I Trauma Center. Protected time and educational benefits are provided. Applicants with residency training and ABEM board status are encouraged to apply. Rank and position will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. LSUHSC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

Interested applicants are encouraged to contact:

Thomas C. Arnold, M.D. Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine LSUHSC-Shreveport1501 Kings Highway P.O. Box 33932 Shreveport, LA 71130-3932 (318) 675-6885 or fax (318) 675-6878 TARNOL@LSUHSC.EDU

Atlanta, GA

DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE

One of the nation’s leading academic EM programs, Emory offers a dynamic professional environment and faculty development. We have special strengths in clinical and lab research, EM education, EMS, medical toxicology, medical education, and public health, as well as strong links to the CDC and other local organizations. We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and job security. Applicants must be residency trained or board certified in EM. If you are an excellent doctor, love to teach, and want to make a difference, contact us. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. For further information, visit our web site at http://www.emory.edu/em, then contact:

Kate Heilpern, M.D., Acting Chair Department of Emergency Medicine

531 Asbury Circle – Annex Suite N340

Atlanta, GA 30322 Phone: (404)778-2602 Fax: (404)778-2630

Email: paula.bokros@emory.edu

Emory is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer

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Research Director/Director of Academic AffairsDepartment of EM

Newark Beth Israel Medical CenterNewark, New Jersey

St. Barnabas Health Care System

We are searching for an emergency medicine physician experienced in research, EM residency teaching, administration, and grant writing to assume a key leadership role in our department. We are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic individual who is 5-10+ years post-EM residency graduation and desires an opportunity to mentor and contribute to the scholarly development of a team of talented, dedicated faculty and EM residents and be part of an Emergency Department committed to scholarship, clinical excellence, community service, and humanistic values. An MS or MPH would be a very desirable plus. We are home to an ACGME and AOA fully accredited EM residency with 30 residents in an EM 1-3 format. Our Department provides care to 90,000 patients annually (1/3 pediatric) and utilizes a fully electronic nursing/physician charting and tracking system. An active EM US program is in place. This position carries a very competitive compensation and benefits package with ample protected time. Academic appointments at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and NY College of Osteopathic Medicine commensurate with experience. Please forward your CV/letter of interest in confidence to Marc Borenstein, MD, Chair, Department of EM, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, 201 Lyons Ave, Newark, NJ 07112, phone, 973-926-7562, e-mail, mborenstein@sbhcs.com.

Emergency Medicine Faculty Position

The Department of Emergency Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM)) seeks academic faculty members. Positions are available at Boston Medical Center (BMC) which is a Level 1 Trauma Center with 130,000 visits annually. The Department of EM serves as an independent academic department within BUSM and BMC.

The department has a nationally recognized, well-established residency program with academic faculty appointments through BUSM. BMC is the medical control and academic base for Boston EMS. In addition, we have an active research section with particular focus on public health, administration, EMS and cardiovascular emergencies. The ideal candidate will have a strong research background or interest. Candidates must be ABEM board certified or eligible and must demonstrate a commitment to the training of emergency medicine residents. Competitive salary with an excellent benefits package.

Further information contact: Jonathan Olshaker MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center, 1 BMC Place, Boston MA 02118-2393. Tel: 617-414-5481; Fax: 617-414-7759; E-mail: olshaker@bu.edu. An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA

Research Director

The Department of Emergency Medicine at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center is seeking a full-time faculty with a proven record of research success to direct its research program. Both clinical and basic science research opportunities are available as well as collaboration with world-class basic science and clinical investigators. LSUHSC began its Residency Training Program in 2004 and is the tertiary referral center for the entire region with an annual volume of 65,000 and is the areas only Level I Trauma Center. Protected time and educational benefits are provided. Applicants with residency training and ABEM board status are encouraged to apply. Rank and position will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. LSUHSC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

Interested applicants are encouraged to contact:

Thomas C. Arnold, M.D. Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine LSUHSC-Shreveport1501 Kings Highway P.O. Box 33932 Shreveport, LA 71130-3932 (318) 675-6885 or fax (318) 675-6878 TARNOL@LSUHSC.EDU

Atlanta, GA

DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE

One of the nation’s leading academic EM programs, Emory offers a dynamic professional environment and faculty development. We have special strengths in clinical and lab research, EM education, EMS, medical toxicology, medical education, and public health, as well as strong links to the CDC and other local organizations. We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and job security. Applicants must be residency trained or board certified in EM. If you are an excellent doctor, love to teach, and want to make a difference, contact us. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. For further information, visit our web site at http://www.emory.edu/em, then contact:

Kate Heilpern, M.D., Acting Chair Department of Emergency Medicine

531 Asbury Circle – Annex Suite N340

Atlanta, GA 30322 Phone: (404)778-2602 Fax: (404)778-2630

Email: paula.bokros@emory.edu

Emory is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer

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www.regionshospital.comwww.healthpartners.com

Patient CenteredSpecialty Focused

Emergency Medicine Faculty The Emergency Department at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, MN is recruiting faculty to join our progressive academic group. Regions Hospital is a Level I trauma center with an established 3-year EM residency program and an annual ED volume of 66,000. We are currently undergoing an extensive addition to our existing ED clinical space.

We are seeking talented EM residency-trained, ABEM certified/eligible clinicians committed to excellence in bedside teaching. Protected time is available for those with fellowship training and/or proven experience in research, education, or administration. We will support faculty appointments to the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of MN at the appropriate level.

For details, contact Dr. Brent Asplin, Department Head, at brent.r.asplin@healthpartners.com. To apply, forward your CV and cover letter to sandy.j.lachman@healthpartners.com or apply online at www.healthpartners.com. Call (800) 472-4695 for more information. Visit us at www.regionsem.org. EO Employer

FACULTY POSITION

The Department of Emergency Medicine at SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital is seeking full-time faculty members for our four-year emergency medicine residency. Candidates will be residency-trained BC/BP in Emergency Medicine or Pediatric Emergency Medicine We are a fully accredited 12-year old PGY 1-4 residency in EM with 13 residents/class as well as an EM/IM program with 20 residents. Ample opportunities for participation and advancement in medical school education, community service, research and administration. We are active in clinical and basic research, and all research interests will be encouraged. You will have the opportunity of practicing at both KCHC, a busy urban Level I trauma center with over 120,000 annual visits, as well as University Hospital of Brooklyn, a tertiary care center with over 55,000 visits and a brand new ED. Contact Roger Holt at roger.holt@downstate.edu.

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA College of Medicine -

JACKSONVILLE

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Central Texas: Scott & White Health System

The Department of Emergency Medicine of Scott & White and The Texas A&MUniversity System Health Science Center College of Medicine are currently seekingoutstanding physicians BC/BE in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. A state-of-the-artEmergency Department is currently under construction, as part of a new Center forAdvanced Medicine and will include an 8 bed pediatric emergency department. As theonly Level I Trauma department in Central Texas, the department evaluates and treats58,000+ patients annually with a pediatric volume greater than 12,000 patients. Thedepartment presently consists of 14 full-time faculty physicians, committed to quality caredelivery enhanced by resident and student education. The department will play a criticalrole in the vision of the institution to grow both its clinical services and academics.Academic appointment and rank is commensurate with experience and qualifications.Scott & White is the largest multi-specialty practice in Texas, with more than 530physicians and research scientists who care for patients at Scott & White MemorialHospital in Temple and within the 15 regional clinic system networked throughout CentralTexas. Over $250 million in expansions are currently underway, including two newhospitals and three regional clinics. Led by physicians with a commitment to patient care,education and research, Scott & White is listed among the "Top 100 Hospitals" in Americaand serves as the clinical educational site for The Texas A&M HSC COM. Additionally, the180,000-member Scott & White Health Plan is the #1 health plan in Texas.Scott & White offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefit package, whichbegins with four weeks vacation, three weeks CME and a generous retirement plan. Foradditional information, please call or send your CV to: C. Keith Stone, MD, Professorand Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine; c/o Jason Culp, PhysicianRecruiter, Scott & White Clinic, 2401 S. 31st, Temple, TX 76508. (800) 725-3627jculp@swmail.sw.org Scott & White is an equal opportunity employer. A formalapplication must be completed to be considered for this position. www.sw.org

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SAEM

Newsletter of the Society forAcademic Emergency Medicine

Board of DirectorsJames Hoekstra, MDPresident

Judd Hollander, MDPresident-Elect

Katherine Heilpern, MDSecretary-Treasurer

Jill Baren, MDJeanette Ebarb, MDLeon Haley, Jr, MD, MHSAJeffrey Kline, MDCatherine Marco, MDRobert Schafermeyer, MDEllen Weber, MD

EditorDavid Cone, MDDavid.Cone@yale.edu

Executive Director/Managing EditorBarbara Mulderbarb@saem,org

Advertising CoordinatorMaryanne Greketismgreketis@saem.org

“to improve patient care byadvancing research andeducation in emergencymedicine”

The SAEM newsletter is published bimonthly by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the

authors and do not necessarily reflect those of SAEM.

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Future SAEM Annual Meetings

Call for Abstracts Research Impacting Emergency Medicine

10th Annual Mid AtlanticSAEM Regional Research Meeting

Saturday, November 10, 2007Penn State University Hershey Medical Center

Emergency Medicine Residency ProgramHershey, PA

The Program Committee is now accepting abstracts for oral presentations. As in prior years there will be plenary and brief oral presentations. The meeting will take place on November �0, 2007 from 9:30am to 5:30pm. We will also be hosting a dinner and speaker the evening before on November 9th, 2007 starting at 6pm.

The deadline for abstract submission is Monday, October �, 2007 at 5:00 pm Eastern Time. Only electronic submissions via the SAEM online abstract submission form at www.saem.org will be accepted. Plan to receive the personal disclosure form in early October by email. Acceptance notifications will be sent in late October. The goal is to allow students, residents and junior faculty the opportunity to present a brief summary of their research in an oral format and field questions from moderators and the audience. More senior investigators are invited to submit abstracts for the plenary presentations.

Hershey is less than a 3-hour drive from DC, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Nearby lodging and tourist attractions are readily available. Questions are welcome at ggeeting@hmc.psu.edu.

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