Dan Griffith, CPA, Assistant Director of Finance, is a member of the inaugural class of the Leadership Foundations Program of Faculty Physicians, Inc. Participation in the 6-month class is based on an application and acceptance process. The program culminates with the presentation of a group project...
Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD, testified before a subcommittee of the House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce this morning, regarding the national shortage of inpatient psychatric beds and the implications of boarding psychiatric patients in EDs. Dr. Hirshon presented data from t...
Ali Farzad, MD, has published another interview in his column in Common Sense, the national membership publication of The American Academy of Emergency Medicine. In the current issue, he meets our very own Rob Rogers, MD, at the intersection of traditional academic emergency medicine and revolutiona...
Congratulations to Drs. Sarah Dubbs, Semhar Tewelde, Andi Tenner, and Danya Khoujah for their recent completion of ACEP's Teaching Fellowship. Our emergency medicine program has more graduates of this teachng skills course than any other program in the world. Dr. Amal Mattu, also a graduate of the f...
Whitney Cesari, MD, Brad Cotter, MD, and Ben Lawner, DO, presented the evening educational broadcast for EMS providers from the Shock Trauma Center auditorium on March 5. They discussed current treatment protocols and presented an evidence-based approach for common prehospital calls: traumatic brain...
Congratulations to Dr. Doug Sward on the publication of his article on wilderness medicine in the current issue of the World Journal of Emergency Medicine. The article provides an overview of the history, areas of practice, and educational opportunities in this specialty area of emergency medicine. ...
Dr. Brian Browne was a keynote speaker at the International Summit on Emergency Medicine and Trauma, held in Pondicherry, India, in mid-February. In addition to his plenary session presentation, titled "Integrated Emergency Care," he led a break-out session on lethal rashes. Accompanying D...
Dr. Amal Mattu was a co-chairman and faculty member for the 25th Annual Winter Conference on Emergency Medicine, which was held in St. Maarten, Dutch West Indies, in mid-February. He presented four lectures: "Emergency Cardiology Update: The Articles You've Got to Know," "Infections i...
Michael Bond, Mike Winters, Haney Mallemat, and Rob Rogers recently returned from Copper Mountain, Colorada, where they were on the faculty for the Rocky Mountain Winter Conference on Emergency Medicine. Each of them presented three lectures during this national meeting.
John Greenwood, MD, and his book, PressorDex, are featured in the December/January issue of EM Resident, published by the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association. While John was a resident in our program, he chaired EMRA's Critical Care Division, where the idea for the book was launched. He is now...