Event Highights
The Emergency Medicine Division researchers presented several abstracts that involved EM faculty and residents. Abstracts(PDF)
EM Journal Club Now on Facebook and Twitter..
SGEM Book Club Alert : Evidence Based Emergency Care: Diagnostic Testing and Clinical Decision
Rule ,2nd Edition (available on Amazon)
FOAM MED 2012 podcast rated Emergency Medicine Journal Club as being the Best (Listen)
EM NEWS
Event Calendars
Emergency Medicine Calendar
Announcements:
Residency Event: Peter Rosen, MD will present - "A History of Emergency Medicine Through the Eyes of Our Specialty's Grandfather: Peter Rosen" ......
Event Flyer (Resident Event) || Rosen's Bio
Awards and Congratulations:
EMS
Brian Froelke, MD was recently appointed as the EMS Medical Director at the Department of Health and Senior Services.
EMF Career Development Award was awarded to Laura Heitsch, MD. This highly competitive and prestigious one-year award will support her work on Genetic Architecture of Human Brain Ischemia.
EMF/EMRA Resident Research Grant
Eva Moses, MD Washington University in St. Louis
Magnetic Modulation Biosensing for the Determination Low Concentrations of Troponin I in Emergency Department Patients Being Evaluated for Acute Coronary Syndromes
EMF/EMPSF Fellowship
Richard Griffey, MD Washington University School of Medicine
The impact of 'push' notification of CT study count on CT ordering in the Emergency Department
Congrats to Tim Koboldt, MD who received one of three New York Academy of Medicine Knowledge to Action Fellowship positions that is jointly sponsored by EMRA and ACEP! He will be hard at work developing and testing a Knowledge Translation project between now and October. In October, he will present his ideas and accomplishments at the ACEP Scientific Assembly just like Sean Stickles and Phil Moy did 2-years ago.
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Chris Carpenter, MD, nominated Chair of the Evidence Based Medicine Interest Group
John Kirby, MD, and Emergency Medicine Clinical Instructor Rebecca Bavolek, MD, display their awards at the Distinguished Service Teaching Awards Ceremony.READ MORE
Gregor Polites , MD will be speaking at the Spring AOA lecture on April 30, 2013 at 12 pm in Erlanger auditorium. This lecture is open to all students, residents and faculty of the School of Medicine.
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Emergency Medicine PROMOTIONS
Jacob Keeperman, MD: Promoted to Critical Care Division ACNP Physician Leader
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Congratulations Chief Residents (2013-2014) Matthew Dettmer, MD, Lucy Franjic, MD, Timothy Koboldt, MD and Joan Noelker, MD.
Match Day Results: Emergency Medicine Division Class of 2017.(Row1) Aldo Andino (University of Texas), Philip Chan (Northwestern), Kurt Eifling (Northwestern), Steven Hung (Northwestern), Daniel Kolinsky (Louisiana State) (Row2) Melissa Kroll (University of Iowa) Christopher Lawrence (Wash. U. St. Louis) (Row3) Lei Lei (Buffalo State), Jacob Marganski (UIC-Chicago), Christopher Miller (University of Kentucky), John Morrison (U. Missouri-Columbia), Lucy Yang (U. Missouri-Columbia)
Kristen Mueller won resident presenter for her group. This makes her the first resident from Washington University to progress and win a trip to ACEP in Seattle for the finals!
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Jason Wager MD, and residents teach CPR, hands-on with organs, and demonstrate various ED tools. This event provides information for children interested in science ......
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Chris Carpenter, MD - As an emergency physician at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, I see patients with life-threatening diseases every day. Often, it would be helpful to understand a patient's individual wishes ...... READ MORE
Emergency physician Chris Carpenter, MD,will have a book published with Elsevier Health Science entitled: "Geriatric Emergency Medicine, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine ".
Expected release date:
2-28-2013. READ MORE..
Guests Carpenter MD, Polites MD, and Panagos MD - Case Scenario: Emergency Medicine resident approaches her staff physician after listening to an episode of the SGEM. The information she is being taught by her supervisor is in conflict with what she had heard on the podcast.....
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Standing Orders - April 2013: Bath Salt Ingestion
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Paramedic TV, David Tan, MD - EMS1.com
Brian Fuller, MD:
Fuller BM, Mohr NM, Drewry AM, Carpenter CR. Lower tidal volume at initiation of mechanical ventilation may reduce progression to acute respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review. Crit Care. 2013 Jan 18; 17 (1):R11.
Fuller BM, Mohr NM, Carpenter CR. Association between use of lung-protective ventilation with lower tidal volumes and clinical outcomes among patients without acute respiratory distress syndrome: a meta-analysis. JAMA. 2013
David K. Tan, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and EMS section chief, has been re-elected to the board of directors of the National Association of EMS Physicians.
WU NEWS-Notables
Journal Article: Patterns and factors associated with intensive use of ED services: implications for allocating resources.
Jennifer Prah Ruger, Lawrence M Lewis, Christopher J Richter
Lawrence M Lewis, MD Research Gate Publication List
Larry Lewis, MD, professor of emergency medicine, and Amanda Fletcher, a student at Meharry Medical College, look at a sonogram in the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Emergency Department. Fletcher participated in a program funded in part by a diversity grant last summer....READ MORE
Emergency physician Chris Carpenter, MDis conducting a study of patients in the emergency room who are older than 65 and at increased risk of having dementia. READ MORE..
Chris Carpenter, MD, Awarded the WUSM 2012 Distinguished Educator House Staff Teaching Award.
Historical EM News
