Urgent Matters

Dr. Baugh currently serves as the Chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians Observation Medicine Section and Director of Emergency Department Operations at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is also an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. 

Dr. Kabrhel is an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Hayden is currently an attending emergency medicine physician in Charleston, South Carolina and EMergency Ultrasound Director at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Triage sepsis alert and sepsis protocol lower times to fluids and antibiotics in the ED

Dr. Lehnhardt discusses his work with evidence-based practice in EMS medical direction and getting providers involved in the protocol revision process. He also discusses his clinical oversight over instances where providers were able to supplement efforts to maintain a pre-hospital standard of care. 

Matt Bennett, MA, MBA (Chief Innovation Officer - Coldspring Center for Social & Health Innovation) specializes in the development of trauma informed care, quality improvement, and results-based leadership and clinical practices. A dynamic trainer, Matt’s expertise takes him around the country speaking on topics including: trauma, leadership, quality improvement, Motivational Interviewing and resiliency. Matt has successfully combined his academic pursuits as a researcher and published author with his practical experience in leading nonprofit organizations and educational institutions. This combination of the academic and the pragmatic has led to research based solutions which improve the health of individuals, organizations and systems.

For more information: http://coldspringcenter.org/tieinfo.pdf

This podcast is supported by an educational grant from Boehringer Ingelheim. 

Dr. Charles Pollack assumes multiple roles at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Associate Provost for Innovation in Education; Director, Institute of Emerging Health Professions; Associate Dean for CME and Strategic Partner Alliances; and, Professor and Senior Advisor for Interdisciplinary Research and Clinical Trials, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College.

Dr. Highet is practicing emergency medicine physician in Daytona Beach, Florida. During her fourth year of residency at Johns Hopkins, she became interested in the intersection of  palliative medicine, hospice care, and the emergency department. 

Click here for more information on her study!

Link to "Hospice in a Minute" App.

Dr. James Dunford is an Emeritus Professor at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and the City of San Diego EMS Medical Director.  He championed the importance EMS in the development of San Diego Health Connect, the regional health information exchange and co-founded the San Diego Community Information Exchange to link the region’s social provider databases. Dr. Dunford currently serves as principal investigator for a community paramedic pilot project in collaboration with the California EMS Authority and volunteers his expertise at the National Quality Forum in Washington, DC. Jim has been repeatedly recognized for contributions to research, community service and leadership including receipt of the UCSD Chancellor’s Award, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness Research Award, the Michael K. Copass (Metropolitan Medical Directors’) Award, the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, the Outstanding AHA Physician Volunteer in the Western States and the EMS Innovator Award.

Dr. Ayesha Khan, MD MPH is a board certified emergency medicine physician in Stanford, California. She is currently licensed to practice medicine in California. She is affiliated with Stanford Health Care and is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University Medical Center. Dr. Khan has worked in international health education and development in Cambodia, Haiti, India, Lesotho, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Zimbabwe. 

For more information on her study done at Stanford (supported by a USAID grant):

http://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2016/07/27/emermed-2015-205430.abstract

Dr. Han is an associate professor with the Department of Emergency Medicine at VanderbiltUniversity. HecompletedhisemergencymedicineresidencyattheUniversityof Cincinnati and also served as chief resident. He completed a research fellowship and obtained a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology. In addition to his clinical responsibilities in the emergency department, Dr. Han has been very active in patient oriented research.  Currently, Dr. Han is funded by a National Institute on Aging K23 award which will validate several brief delirium assessments for the emergency department setting and investigate how delirium in the emergency department affects long-term outcomes.

He also serves on several national committees. He serves as the co-chair of the Emergency Medicine Delirium Working Group, and is an active member of the American Delirium Society Research Committee and the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine.

For more information visit: http://www.icudelirium.org/group/ourteam.html