Consensus Conference

June 1, 2011: On the pre-day of the 2011 SAEM Annual Meeting, AEM is hosting a consensus conference entitled "Interventions to Assure Quality in the Crowded Emergency Department". The conference will be co-chaired by Melissa McCarthy, ScD and Jesse Pines, MD, MBA of The George Washington University, and is partly funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Sessions include:

• Keynote Address by Suzanne Mason, MD
• Workshop: Policy Interventions to Reduce Crowding
• Workshop: Engineering Applications
• Workshop: Study Designs and Analytic Models
• Workshop: System Dynamic Strategies
• Breakout Sessions: Interventions to Safeguard Safety, Patient-Centered Care, Timeliness of Care, Efficiency of Care, System Effectiveness, and Equity of Care

For more information, download the full agenda [pdf]

Keynote Address by Suzanne Mason, MD

2011 AEM Consensus Conference Keynote from Academic Emergency Medicine on Vimeo.

Slides

Keynote Address 8:15 ‐ 9:00 am
Suzanne Mason, MD [pdf]

Policy Interventions To Reduce Crowding 9:00 - 10:30 am
John Heyworth, MD [pdf]
Howard Ovens, MD [pdf]

Engineering Applications 9:00 - 10:30 am
Michael Carter, PhD [pdf]
Christian Terwiesch, PhD [pdf]

Study Designs and Analytic Models 10:45 am - 12:15 pm
Melissa McCarthy, ScD [pdf]
Jenny Rudolph, PhD [pdf]
Brad Morrison, PhD

Slides from the event