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Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting - Conference will be held at Christiana Care Health System - Newark, Delaware on Thursday, March 26th and Friday, March 27th, 2008. Recently added information and registration system can be found from the web page at www.christianacare.org/saem
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(posted Nov 23, 2008 - updated 4 Dec 2008)

Southeastern Regional Meeting - Meeting will be held at the Emory Conference Center Hotel, Emory University, Atlanta, GA on March 27-28, 2009. Read More > > >

(posted Nov 23, 2008 updated 4 Dec 2008)

New England Regional Meeting - The 13th Annual New England Emergency Medicine Research Directors (NERDS) Regional SAEM Conference will be held on March 18th, 2009 (Wednesday) at UMass Memorial Medical Center – University Campus, Worcester, MA. Read more > > >

(posted Nov 24, 2008 - updated 4 Dec 2008)

AEM peer-reviewer Individuals interested in being considered for appointment as an AEM peer-reviewer must send a letter of interest including areas of expertise as defined on the reviewer topic survey and a current CV. Most peer-reviewer appointments are for three years. Applications must be submitted electronically to: aem@saem.org by March 17, 2009. Click Here to learn more . . . -

(posted 9 December 2008)

Call for Papers - AEM Consensus Conference (AEMCC 2009) - deadline March 2, 2009 The 2009 Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) Consensus Conference on Public Health in the Emergency Department: Surveillance, Screening, and Intervention will be held on May 13, 2009, immediately preceding the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. Original papers, if accepted, will be published together with the conference proceedings in the November 2009 issue of Academic Emergency Medicine. Read More Here . . .

(posted 13 Oct updated 9 Dec 2008)

AHA/ASA/EMF/SAEM Emergency Medicine Research Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Award
- Application Deadline: January 22, 2009. This award provides up to $132,000 per year and up to 5 years of funding.
Applicants must be eligible and apply for an
AHA Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Award.
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(posted 26 November 2008)

Crowding Repository Web Page

One of the leading clinical and policy issues in emergency medicine today is crowding, boarding, and ambulance diversion. Visit the new Crowding Repository web page to view articles, presentations and find links to important websites on this issue. You will find it listed under Advocacy.

(posted 2008 Nov 6)

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Call for Abstracts for the 2009 SAEM Annual Meeting in New Orleans - deadline December 4, 2008 - Thursday - 5:00 pm EDT.

(posted 9/17/2008 - updated 11/6/2008)

Call for Abstracts - Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting - deadline December 4, 2008 - 5:00 pm EDT.
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting Program Committee is now accepting abstracts for review via the SAEM online Abstract Submission form. This is the same form used for submission to the SAEM Annual Meeting. Simply check the box to be included for consideration for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Conference will be held at Christiana Care Health System - Newark, Delaware on Thursday, March 26th and Friday, March 27th, 2008.
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(posted Nov 23, 2008)

Call for Abstracts - SouthEastern Regional Meeting - deadline December 4, 2008 - 5:00 pm EDT.
The Southeastern Regional Meeting Program Committee is now accepting abstracts for review for oral and poster presentation. Meeting will be held at the Emory Conference Center Hotel, Emory University, Atlanta, GA on March 27-28, 2009. Only electronic submissions via the SAEM online abstract submission form will be accepted. This is the same form used for submission to the SAEM Annual Meeting. Simply check the box to be included for consideration for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Read More > > >

(posted Nov 23, 2008)

Call for Abstracts - New England Regional Meeting - deadline December 4, 2008 - 5:00 pm EDT.
The 13th Annual New England Emergency Medicine Research Directors (NERDS) Regional SAEM Conference will be held on March 18th, 2009 (Wednesday) at UMass Memorial Medical Center – University Campus, Worcester, MA. Use the SAEM electronic submission form to indicate consideration for the 2009 New England Regional Meeting. This choice is now available on the first tab for researchers that have already submitted an abstract. Read more > > >

(posted Nov 24, 2008)

Call for Abstracts - Western Regional Meeting - deadline December 4, 2008 - 5:00 pm EDT.
The 2009 Western SAEM Meeting will be held January 30-31 (Friday, Saturday) in Park City, Utah. Register before December 29th for early bird rates. Note that the abstract deadline is the same as the Annual Meeting. Use the SAEM electronic submission form and indicate consideration for the Western Regional Meeting.
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(posted Aug 6 - edited Sept 23, 2008)

Call for NAEMSP-Zoll EMS Resuscitation Research Fellowship Application - Deadline November 20, 2008 NAEMSP and Zoll have offered the "NAEMSP-Zoll EMS Resuscitation Research Fellowship" for the past four years. This program is quite similar to the SAEM/Physio-Control Fellowship in EMS, in that the industry partner provides the funding and the association administers the grant (including selection of the recipient), but where the latter focuses on training the traditional EMS medical director, the former focuses on training a career researcher. (NAEMSP and SAEM have been working closely to jointly promote these two fellowships, as they are fairly different. Click Here to see Brochure for more information (270 kb PDF file). Deadline for submissions for the next two-year funding cycle is November 20, 2008.

Inaugural Meeting of the US Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group - November 18-19, 2008
National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD - For more information on this meeting and to register, please visit the website at www.strategicresults.com/FG6_CTG/ (posted October 2, 2008)

2009/2010 RWJ Health Policy Fellowships Program Application - Deadline November 14, 2008
Fellows experience and participate in the policy process at the federal level and use that leadership experience to improve health, health care and health policy. The fellowship is a 12-month residential experience in Washington, D.C. with continued health policy leadership development activities. Direct Link to Application page: http://www.healthpolicyfellows.org/fellowship_howtoapply.php Homepage for RWJ: http://www.healthpolicyfellows.org/home.php (posted 9/12/2008)

AHRQ Requests Planning Ideas for New Innovations Research Portfolio - due October 15, 2008
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has issued a "Request for Planning Ideas for Development of an AHRQ Innovations Research Portfolio." The goal of AHRQ's new Innovations Portfolio is to identify and support research that has the potential to accelerate improvements in the organization, delivery, and management of health care. This RFI can be found at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-08-013.html (Posted September 18, 2008)

Didactic Proposals extended 24 hours to September 9th by 5 p.m. EDT.
Didactic Proposals for the 2009 SAEM Annual Meeting in New Orleans - DUE TUESDAY . . . To submit a proposal, complete the online Didactic Submission Form at apps.saem.org Either sign-in with your username and password, create a FREE username and password, or send an email to techsupport@saem.org if you have trouble with your username or password. More Info on the meeting scheduled for May 14 - 17, 2009 coming soon. >> Didactic Proposal Announcement <<

Calls for Abstracts - Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting - Deadline EXTENDED to Sept 8th, Monday
Deadline for the Mid-Atlantic abstracts submission is Monday, September 8th, 2008 @ 5:00 PM EST. To submit an abstract, create a free account at apps.saem.org if you do not already have one. If you need help with your password or username, send an email to TechSupport@saem.org. - (posted June 24th, edited July 28th, 2008) Mid-Atlantic Meeting Info - September 26-27, 2008 - Hershey, PA http://www.saem.org/saemdnn/Meetings/SAEMRegionalMeetings/MidAtlanticRegionalMeeting/tabid/1075/Default.aspx (edited Aug 27, 2088 to extend from 8/25 to 9/8 for abstracts)

NIH Request for Information regarding EM research needs - response extended to September 5th, 2008
As preparation for Emergency Medicine Research Roundtables addressing needs in emergency medicine research, the NIH is soliciting feedback from emergency physicians and researchers. The three roundtables will focus on trauma; neurological and psychiatric emergencies; and medical-surgical emergencies. Feedback received will be provided to roundtable participants to inform their discussion of current research needs within emergency medicine. Further information is available at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-NS-08-023.html Responses must be submitted electronically using the web-based form at: http://messageboards.ninds.nih.gov/rfi/rfi.aspx no later than September 5, 2008. (reposted August 11th)

Post-residency Tools of the Trade
The Graduate Medical Education (GME) committee has prepared a bank of power point lectures for use by the membership. Click on Post-residency Tools of the Trade. or find the lectures available from the Education > GME link on our main navigation link. Bookmark the lectures for future reference after reviewing them on our web site. (posted Aug 1, 2008)

2009 Call for Applications RWJ Physician Faculty Scholars Program by August 29, 2008
This program is part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Human Capital Portfolio, which seeks to attract, develop and retain a high-quality health and health care workforce, with an emphasis on diversity and leadership development. Click for more General Info . . . Click here for Application Info. . . - (posted June 24th, 2008)

ACEP Workforce study - June 16 thru August 29, 2008
The third ACEP Workforce study will commence this summer, June 16 - September 30, 2008. SAEM members may be contacted as ED Chair/Medical Directors, if randomly selected from the American Hospital Association (AHA) database, the primary source for ED information. Read More About it . . . - (posted June 24th, edited Aug 5th, edited Sep 3, 2008)

Academic Emergency Medicine - Journal Access and Policy Change - July 2008

Rolling Open Access - New Policy for AEM

Effective as of 12 months after publication, the contents of Academic Emergency Medicine, official journal of SAEM, will be freely available online at the journal's website on Wiley InterScience at the following URL:

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118902579/home

If you are not able to connect from here, go to http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/home
Then click on Medical, Veterinary and Health Sciences --> Medicine (general).
Then click on "A" and "Academic Emergency Medicine" is the first journal listed.

This is part of the "rolling open access" program, a service made available by Wiley-Blackwell, to increase usage and readership of the journal's content. We hope you will partake of this regularly and recommend it to your colleagues, allied health care professionals etc. (posted July 11, 2008)

New Online AEM Journal System

Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) Readers and Subscribers: Please note that as of July 1, 2008, the URL used to access your subscription to AEM on Blackwell-Synergy -- http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/acem will no longer be valid. The following URL is what should be used:

www.interscience.wiley.com

All users will be automatically migrated over to the new URL and there will be a redirect to it, as well. However, should you have any problems, please contact Sandra K. Arjona, Journal Manager, at sandrak.arjona@gmail.com.

Our continuing thanks to you for your support of the journal. We look forward to many new and exciting developments on the publisher's new online platform, to be officially up and running as of January 2009. Again, please use the URL listed above until then.

NIH Request for Information regarding EM research needs - respond by August 8, 2008

As preparation for Emergency Medicine Research Roundtables addressing needs in emergency medicine research, the NIH is soliciting feedback from emergency physicians and researchers. The three roundtables will focus on trauma; neurological and psychiatric emergencies; and medical-surgical emergencies. Feedback received will be provided to roundtable participants to inform their discussion of current research needs within emergency medicine. Further information is available at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-NS-08-021.html

Responses are requested by August 8, 2008 and may be submitted online at: http://messageboards.ninds.nih.gov/rfi/rfi.aspx

- (posted July 5th, edited August 6, 2008)

Annual Meeting - Daily Homepage Updates - May 26th through June 1

Homepage updates provided brief introductions to daily events leading to additional web pages with more information including photos, handouts, and brief reports provided by members of the SAEM Communications Committee. These have been archived and can be found via links from the 2008 Annual Meeting page.

WEB Group decided that "post and edit dates" should appear at the bottom of the news brief rather than at the top to avoid confusion with due dates. - (posted August 2008)

Residency Fair Participants List - (posted May 7th, 2008) The Residency Fair Participant List is now available for viewing here. People who have registered for the Medical Student Symposium (which runs on Saturday) may attend the Friday Residency Fair from 5 pm to 6:30 pm at no additional charge.

Committee/Task Force/Interest Group Affiliated Meetings Dates & Times - (posted April 11th, 2008) Excel File Available Here

Accepted CPCs posted - (posted April 8th, 2008)

Please review the accepted CPCs here.

Joint Scientific Dinner Session - (posted April 4th, 2008)

American College of Cardiology and The American College of Emergency Physicians in cooperation with SAEM offer special dinner session at the Washington DC meeting. Read More About it

SAEM Dodgeball Registration Available - (posted April 1st, 2008)

The Dodgeball Registration form is available. Please sign up here!

Archived News Items Questions? Comments? Contact SAEM at saem@saem.org

SAEM Pre-Conference Brochure - (posted March 28th, 2008)
The SAEM Pre-Conference Brochure is now available for download as a PDF document.

The SAEM Geriatrics Interest Group - (posted March 28th, 2008)
The Geriatrics Interest Group is excited to announce that Dr. Susan Nayfield from the National Institute on Aging will speak at the IG meeting to be held on Saturday May 31, 2008 from 10:00a-12:00p during the SAEM Annual Meeting in Washington DC. Read more about it

Medical Student Symposium Information Available- (Posted March 28th, 2008)
Medical Student Symposium Info

Mid Atlantic Regional Meeting call for Abstracts - (Posted March 25th, 2008)
Call for Abstracts information - Deadline submission Friday, August 25th, 2008 @ 5:00 PM EST. Meeting Info

Midwest Regional Meeting call for Abstracts - (Posted March 19th, 2008)
Call for Abstracts information - Deadline submission Friday, August 1st, 2008 @ 5:00 PM EST. Meeting Info

2008 New York Regional Meeting Items - (Posted February 28th, 2008)

The 2008 New York Regional Meeting is getting closer and we have just uploaded the Regional Meeting Brochure and Residency Registration Form which can be found on the 2008 New York Regional Meeting page.

2008 Annual Meeting Accepted Abstracts Posted - (Posted February 23rd, 2008)

The 2008 Annual Meeting Accepted Abstracts are now live!

2007 Model of Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine - (Posted February 6th, 2008)

The 2007 EM Model Review Task Force conducted the third review of the EM Model.

Western Regional Research Forum - March 28th and 29th - (Posted January 29th, 2008)

Brochure as a PDF file is available from this link here. Meeting to occur in Costa Messa, California.

AEM Online Journal Access - Revamped

If you are having trouble finding the AEM access page please contact Jennifer Mastrovito at 517-485-5484 ext. 201. Just mention SAEM and AEM Journal and she will have you set up in no time! (Posted January 25th, 2008)

Frequently Asked Questions and Email Changes

We are proud to announce a new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section! This section can be viewed by clicking any of the links under FAQ from the blue drop down menu at the top of the screen and features questions broken up into seperate categories that we receive quite frequently. Also please note a change in email addresses at SAEM. All website, username or technology updates can be sent directly to techsupport@saem.org. (posted January 17th, 2008)

Call for Nominations - SAEM Elected Positions

Online submission form available to nominate candidates for the SAEM Board of Directors... more (posted Nov. 30, 2007)

SAEM Faster and More Reliable!
We have recently upgraded to a faster more reliable server. Pages are now loading significantly faster depending on connection speed. (posted Dec. 17, 2007)

SAEM Membership Directory Available to Members

We are pleased to make the SAEM online membership directory available to our members. The link has been included in the SAEM Membership box on the left for easy access. You MUST be a member of SAEM and use your SAEM login to view the directory. The directory currently includes minimal contact information, however, more information will be added in the future. (posted Nov. 30, 2007)

Attention Authors and Reviewers:
Effective November 1, 2007 ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE has moved to a new online manuscript submission and peer review system...more (updated Nov. 6, 2007)

Announcing the New Online SAEM Academic Ethics Consultation Service

The SAEM Ethics Committee is pleased to announce the online SAEM Academic Ethics Consultation Service (AECS) to its members... more (posted Nov. 5, 2007)

Audio Highlights from the 2007 Medical Student Symposium

SAEM annually hosts a Medical Student Symposium for students interested in applying for EM residency programs at the Annual Meeting. Audio highlights from the 2007 symposium are presented by members of the SAEM Undergraduate Education Committee (Drs. Sue Farrell, Michelle Lin, David Gordon, and Ernest Wang). These audio clips feature words of advice from Drs. Gene Hern, Brian Clyne, Francis Counselman, Robert Harwood, and Sheryl Heron. Listen to clips (posted Nov. 2, 2007)

Two Emergency Physicians Elected to the Institute of Medicine

Dr. Michael L. Callaham and Dr. Frederick Burkle Jr., both emergency physicians, were elected to the Institute of Medicine on October 8, 2007. Election to the IOM recognizes individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care, and public health, Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the IOM said. Election is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of medicine and health. The Institute of Medicine is an honorific membership organization and an advisory organization. Established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute has become recognized as a national resource for independent, scientifically informed analysis and recommendations on human health issues. (posted Oct. 10, 2007)

Michael Callaham, MD Michael L. Callaham, MD, is Chief of the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, Editor in Chief of the Annals of Emergency Medicine, and President of the World Association of Medical Editors. He was a pioneer in cardiac arrest research, and has more recently been a leader in the field of the science of publication.

Credentials for Frederick M. Burkle Jr., MD, MPH, include senior scholar and visiting professor, Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Bloomberg School of Public Health; research scientist, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore; director, Asia-Pacific Center for Biosecurity, Disaster, and Conflict Research; and adjunct professor, departments of tropical medicine and of public health sciences and epidemiology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu.

NIH Loan Repayment Program - The NIH has a loan repayment program for researchers with an average award of $52,000. More than 50% of the awards are made to individuals less than 5 years out of school ... (posted Sept. 27, 2007)

Link to the Monograph on Cultural Competency posted on the Diversity Interest Group page (posted Aug. 8, 2007)

Link to the REEME Project posted on the International Committee and International Interest Group pages (posted July 26, 2007)

Palliative Medicine and Geriatric events posted to Interest Group pages (posted July 27, 2007)

Simulation Interest Group newsletter (posted July 24, 2007)

Emergency Ultrasound lectures (posted July 20, 2007)

Mentoring Women Interest Group articles and resources (posted July 20, 2007)

CV Handbook developed by the Research Committee (posted July 12, 2007)

The 2007 Annual Meeting was held May 16-19, 2007 in Chicago. Several awards were presented during the annual business meeting including the Hal Jayne Academic Excellence Award, presented to Brian J. Zink, MD, and the 2007 Leadership Award, presented to Gabor D. Kelen, MD. (posted June 19, 2007)

On behalf of the SAEM Undergraduate Education Committee and Diversity Interest Group, Dr. Ernest Wang, Evanston Hospital/ Northwestern University, and Dr. Michelle Lin, UCSF/ San Francisco General Hospital, have created a short video to highlight the importance of diversity in the field of emergency medicine.

A Summary from the World Health Organization on global health statistics including mortality, persons living with HIV, TB, healthcare expenditure trends, etc. is available for reference. (Posted June 7, 2007)

SAEM and ACEP NIH Task Force Meet with NIH Center for Scientific Review (posted April 10, 2007)

SAEM Diversity Brochures (posted March 20, 2007)

Ultrasound Lecture Resources links (updated Mar. 14, 2007 with Power Point presentations)

Simulation Section (updated Mar. 14, 2007)

Presidential Report: NIH Director (posted Feb. 23, 2007)

SAEM and ACEP NIH Task Force Meet with NIH Center for Scientific Review (posted April 10, 2007)
The SAEM and ACEP Task Force, in continuing efforts to follow up on recommendations regarding emergency care funding from the Institute of Medicine report, met with the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) leadership to help examine NIH study section representation for optimal evaluation of emergency care research. In preparation for the meeting, CSR reviewed the scores of 92 NIH applications submitted from 2004 to 2006. The task force reviewed study section representation by emergency care researchers and solicited information from emergency care investigators who were qualified and willing to serve on NIH study sections. We identified 30 senior emergency care investigators with active NIH funding willing to commit to reviewing grant applications three times per year.

We were most pleased to learn that CSR welcomed our nominees for study sections and will likely appoint many of them onto permanent study sections. I personally found it amazing that the NIH basically welcomed us with open arms and clearly recognized the need for emergency care input on study sections. From the perspective of CSR, the challenge is finding established investigators willing to make the time commitment to a study section. The NIH will consider the addition of other investigators, provided that the nominee is an established independent investigator with a track record of NIH (or similar) funding. With respect to study section appointment, the challenge does not appear to be cooperation from the NIH, but rather emergency care investigators willing to make the necessary time commitment to move our field forward.

I would like to thank Robert Neumar, Roger Lewis, Sandra Schneider and Chuck Cairns for their insight, preparation and continued successful collaboration with the NIH to help advance emergency care research.

Judd E. Hollander, MD, President Elect, SAEM

Presidential Report: Emergency Medicine Meets with The Director of the NIH
James Hoekstra, MD (posted Feb. 23, 2007)

Bob Neumar was joking with me recently about how times change. In 1989, Bob was a Sarnoff Fellow, working with me in Chuck Brown’s lab, wrestling pigs to anesthetize them for studies in cardiac arrest and resuscitation. NIH funding was a dream for most of us then. The number of funded EM investigators was easily counted on one hand. A mere 18 years later, we are sitting around a conference room table with some of the most prominent leaders in academic emergency medicine, discussing strategies to synergize emergency medicine research and the Roadmap Initiative with Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Director of the National Institutes of Health. It’s not very often that any of us have a chance to participate in an historic event of this stature and precedent. For me personally, it was a distinct pleasure. More

Left to right: Charles B. Cairns, MD; Sandra M. Schneider, MD; Judd E. Hollander, MD; Robert W. Neumar, MD, PhD; Elias A. Zerhouni, MD, Director of the National Institutes of Health; James W. Hoekstra, MD, SAEM President; and Roger J. Lewis, MD

SAEM Diversity in Emergency Medicine Video