Urgent Matters

Dr. Barnett’s research focuses on health care delivery and quality, with a special interest in the delivery of specialty care and evaluating innovations in care delivery. Using tools from network science, his work has shown that hospitals whose patients see a larger number of doctors have higher costs and intensity of care at the end of life. He has also studied patterns of specialty referrals through the US and found that referral rates nearly doubled from 1999-2009. Dr. Barnett’s more recent projects have examined how risk adjustment for socioeconomic and clinical factors influences measurement of readmission rates, and how physician factors affect the delivery of low-value care such as overuse of antibiotics and opiates.   Read the NEJM paper here.  

Seth Trueger, MD, MPH, is a member of the faculty at the Northwestern University, Chicago, IL He completed his residency in emergency medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and recently completed a Health Policy Fellowship in the Department of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University in Washington, DC. His areas of interest include emergency department crowding and payment reform, airway management, and social media for health professions. MDaware Blog

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. S

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/

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. 

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.

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

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

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. 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

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.