Gender-Specific Research in Emergency Care: Investigate, Understand, and Translate How Gender Affects Patient Outcomes
May 14, 2014 (tentative)
Dallas, TX
This consensus conference is aimed for emergency providers to methodically investigate the biological effect of gender on clinical outcomes, create a blueprint for existing knowledge, discuss the conceptual models for designing/analyzing future gender studies, and build an interdisciplinary consortium.
The key domains of the conference are
cardiovascular/resuscitation,
cerebrovascular,
pain,
trauma/injury/violence,
diagnostic imaging, and
mental health/substance abuse.
Call For Papers
The 2014 Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) Consensus Conference, "Gender-Specific Research in Emergency Care" will tentatively be held on Wednesday, May 14, 2014, the first day of the SAEM Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX. Original papers on this topic, if accepted, will be published together with the conference proceedings in the December 2014 issue of AEM.
Gender-specific medicine is the “science of how normal human biology differs between men and women and how the manifestations, mechanisms and treatment of disease vary as a function of gender.” While gender-specific medicine incorporates advances in reproductive health issues, the AEM Consensus Conference will focus on broad disease-specific EM issues that are relevant to both women and men. The key domains of the conference are cardiovascular/resuscitation, cerebrovascular, pain, trauma/injury/ violence, diagnostic imaging, mental health and substance abuse.
Consensus Goal:
The goal of the 2014 AEM Consensus Conference is to stimulate EM researchers to methodically recognize, investigate and translate the impact of gender on their clinical research outcomes. The conference proposes to build a foundation upon which researchers can build interdisciplinary scholarship, networks of expertise, discussion forums, multicenter collaborations, evidence-based publications, and improved education. The overarching themes of the conference have been guided and informed by NIH research priorities on gender medicine and include study of the lifespan, sex/
gender distinctions, health disparities/differences and diversity and interdisciplinary research.
Consensus Objectives:
1) Summarize and consolidate existing data and create a blueprint that furthers gender-specific research in the prevention, diagnosis and management of acute diseases.
2) Discuss the conceptual models for designing studies and analysis that incorporate gender as an independent variable.
3) Build a multinational interdisciplinary consortium to study gender medicine for acute conditions.
Accepted manuscripts will describe relevant research concepts in gender-specific areas with priority placed on differential disease risk, vulnerability, progression and outcomes. They may include work in clinical/translational, health systems, policy or basic sciences research. Descriptions of specific research, projects, or collaborations may be used for illustrative purposes but should not comprise the core of the submission.
Original contributions describing relevant research or concepts on these or similar topics will be considered, and original high-quality research may also be submitted alone or in conjunction with concept papers. Papers will be considered for publication in the December 2014 issue of AEM if received by Monday, March 11, 2014. All submissions will undergo peer review and publication cannot be guaranteed.
For queries, please contact Marna Rayl Greenberg, DO, MPH (Marna.Greenberg@lvh.com) or Basmah Safdar, MD (basmah.safdar@yale.edu) the 2014 Consensus Conference co-chairs.
Information and updates will be regularly posted in AEM, the SAEM Newsletter, both the AEM and SAEM websites. Conference updates are also available on Twitter (hashtag #GenderEM) and Facebook.