Urgent Matters

Dr. Boniface trained in emergency medicine and emergency ultrasound at Boston Medical Center. He is currently the Director of Emergency Ultrasound at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and is active in ultrasound education and research.

Dr. Sheryl Heron is a Professor and Vice Chair of Administrative Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine, the Assistant Dean for Medical Education and Student Affairs on the Grady Campus, and Associate Director of Education and Training for the Injury Prevention Research Center (IPRCE) at the Emory University School of Medicine. She is a past Chair of the Emergency Medicine Section of the National Medical Association. She has received several awards, including the Partnership against Domestic Violence's HOPE Award, the Women in Medicine Award from the Council of Concerned Women of the National Medical Association, the Gender Justice Award from the Commission on Family Violence and was named a hero of Emergency Medicine by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).

In 2012, she was named the inaugural President of the Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine (ADIEM) of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and is currently on ACEP's Diversity and Inclusion task force. She is an editor of the first textbook in Emergency Medicine on Diversity and Inclusion in Quality Patient Care. Dr. Heron has lectured extensively on wellness and work-live balance, diversity and disparities care in emergency medicine as well as the medical response to intimate partner violence.

NorthShore University HealthSystem, in conjunction with Loyola University and Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, is recruiting for a 1-year, post graduate, advanced practice fellowship program for NPs and PAs in emergency medicine. This intensive program offers advanced training in hands-on clinical care through the use traditional teaching methods, but also the use of our innovative simulation center and cutting edge informatics. Along with emergency medicine, the program places an emphasis on multi-disciplinary learning and communication. All fellows will work under the direct mentorship of national leaders in emergency medicine and simulation-based education.

http://www.northshore.org/academics/academic-programs/fellowship-programs/np-pa-emergency-medicine/

Dr. Weingart is currently an attending in and chief of the Division of Emergency Critical Care at Stony Brook Hospital. He is a clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at Stony Brook Medicine and an adjunct associate professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

He is best known for his podcast on Resuscitation and ED Critical Care called the EMCrit Podcast; it currently is downloaded > 400,000 times per month.

Dr. Weingart is currently an attending in and chief of the Division of Emergency Critical Care at Stony Brook Hospital. He is a clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at Stony Brook Medicine and an adjunct associate professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

He is best known for his podcast on Resuscitation and ED Critical Care called the EMCrit Podcast; it currently is downloaded > 400,000 times per month.

Rebecca Parker, MD, FACEP began her term as ACEP President this October at ACEP16 in Las Vegas. Dr. Parker is a practicing attending emergency physician at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park Illinois. She serves as senior vice president of practice and payment integration for Envision Healthcare, and executive vice president for leadership development and education for EmCare Inc. Dr. Parker is also president of Team Parker LLC, a consulting group, and serves as clinical assistant professor at the Texas Tech El Paso department of emergency medicine. 

Megan Ranney MD MPH is a practicing emergency physician and researcher, focusing on the intersection between digital health and injury prevention. She is the Director and founder of the Brown Emergency Digital Health Innovation (EDHI) program (www.brownedhi.org).

Dr. Marian Betz conducts research in injury prevention, with specific interests in the role of healthcare providers in (1) older driver safety and (2) suicide prevention. Her current focus is on the use of mixed methods to developed a tiered evaluation system for older drivers, and she has also worked extensively in the area of “lethal means restriction” for suicide prevention.

For more information:

http://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(16)30932-5/fulltext?rss=yes

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2595514 

https://afsp.org/about-suicide/firearms-suicide-prevention/

https://www.annals.org/article.aspx?doi=10.7326/M15-2905

The EC3 Program was developed by the University of Michigan health System Department of Emergency Medicine and was recently selected as an honorable mention for the Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award on behalf of the Urgent Matters program in conjunction with Schumacher Clinical partners and Phillips Blue Jay Consulting. The innovation was presented at our pre-conference meeting at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly in Las Vegas, October 2016. 

Speakers today:

1. Benjamin Bassin, MD

2. Kyle Gunnerson, MD

3. Renee Harvey, RN

Dr. May currently serves as the Director of Emergency Department Antibiotic Stewardship at UC Davis Health. She is also an associate professor with interests in clinical infection disease epidemiology and the application of rapid diagnostic tests in the ED setting. 

The CC-PIT Program was recently selected as an honorable mention for the Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award on behalf of the Urgent Matters program in conjunction with Schumacher Clinical partners and Phillips Blue Jay Consulting. The innovation was presented at our pre-conference meeting at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly in Las Vegas, October 2016. 

Speakers today: 

1. Michael Rodgers - Director of Strategic Innovation | Aurora Health Care

2. Paul Coogan, MD - Emergency Medical Director | Aurora Sinai Hospital, Milkwaukee