Urgent Matters

This podcast is sponsored by Novo Nordisk. This podcast features Dr. Charlie Pollack, an Associate Provost for Innovation in Education at Thomas Jefferson University and Professor and Senior Advisor for Interdisciplinary Research and Clinical Trials, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.

This podcast is sponsored by Novo Nordisk. Dr Joanna Davis is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Miami Leonard Miller School of Medicine and the Medical Director of Comprehensive Pediatric Hemophilia Treatment at the University of Miami. Dr. Davis and her treatment center provide educational talks nationally raising awareness about the diagnosis of underlying bleeding disorders.

Read Dr. Friedman's piece in the Annals of Emergency Medicine here.  More about Dr. Friedman.

Click here for Dr. Scaletta's Urgent Matters Toolkit submission.

Read the Annals of Emergency Medicine Paper here. More on ACEP's website. 

Read Dr. Callaham's editorial on the matter here.

Dr. Kapur is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Jackson Memorial Hospital(JMH) in Miami, FL and was recruited in 2015 to bring transformative change in the delivery of high-quality acute patient care at one of the nation’s busiest emergency centers. Dr. Kapur is launching an academic platform with his colleagues at JMH based on clinical excellence, innovative education, translational research, and public health outreach at the Jackson Health System and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Click here for the paper.

Dr. Friedman's study can be found here. 

Dr. Waller can be contacted at sylvan.waller@gmail.com.

Kevin is the Chief Strategy Officer for DispatchHealth. He brings nearly 15 years of experience in the healthcare industry as a clinician and in management. Prior to DispatchHealth he was the head of clinical solutions and strategy at an industry leading consumer mobile health app company called iTriage. Kevin has been a board certified physician assistant for over a decade. Over the years Kevin has served as a clinical preceptor for physician assistant students, served on numerous boards and committees including; quality improvement committees, EMR deployment committees as a provider “champion”, and president of the Colorado Academy of Physician Assistants. In addition to his work at DispatchHealth Kevin is an active advisor in the healthcare industry start-up community locally in Colorado providing both business and clinical expertise.   More about DispatchHealth. 

Dr. Rahul Sharma is the Emergency Physician-in-Chief for New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medicine and an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine. Dr. Sharma serves as the Medical Director of Strategic Initiatives and the Making Care Better Program for New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center. He also serves as Associate Director of the Executive MBA/MS in Healthcare Leadership program with the Johnson School of Management and is an Associate Professor of Clinical Healthcare Policy and Research. Dr. Peter Greenwald is a Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician. Dr Greenwald is Emergency Medicine Telehealth Services Co-Director and Director of Emergency Medicine Telehealth Quality Assurance. The Wall Street Journal: Can Tech Speed Up Emergency Room Care?

Dr. Tim Peck s the CoFounder and CEO of Call9, a technology enabled clinical services startup. In 2016, Call9 became fully operational in two Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs or nursing homes), and treated more than 1,300 patients. Call9 is an alternative to 911 in SNFs. When a patient in a SNF suffers an acute event, the SNF nurse activates Call9. One of Call9's on-site Clinical Care Specialists (CCSs) then go the the patient's bedside and, within moments, are connected to an Emergency Physician via Call9's HIPAA secure technology platform. The Call9 CCS can then perform diagnostics, take labs, and deliver care under the Physician's direction -- at the patient's beside. In 2016, its first full year of operation, Call9 received more than 1,300 unique activations and kept patients in their nursing home beds -- as opposed to potentially going to the Emergency Department -- 78% of the time. Call9 has already saved the healthcare system, and the tax payer, millions of dollars -- while delivering comfort to patien