SAEM is sponsoring a one-day conference, May 28th 2008 immediately preceding the SAEM annual meeting, designed to address the relationship between scientific scope, infrastructure, organization, and performance of emergency care research networks.
The SAEM Emergency Care Research Network Conference will be a meeting of leaders and participants in emergency care research who are engaged in the planning, execution, participation, and future funding of networked collaborative research in our field.
Via a combination of keynote didactic presentations, small group breakout discussions, and expert panels we will achieve the following goals:
1. Identify features of emergency care clinical translational research which are unique with respect to both the scientific questions posed and the infrastructure required
2. Define the current state of emergency care research networks
3. Describe the optimal structure and components of emergency care research networks and define metrics for assessing performance
This conference will be held on the pre-day of the SAEM Annual Meeting, in Washington DC, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel on May 28, 2008. The systematic examination of the above issues and the achievement of these aims will bring clarity to the question of how best to advance emergency care research in a manner that is consistent with both the most pressing needs of our patients and the goals of funding agencies and health policy makers. We are excited to bring leaders and research stakeholders together in what will be a landmark conference that broadly impacts future emergency care research.
Sign-up Here! to register for this conference using the SAEM 2008 Annual Meeting registration form. You will need to either quickly create a new FREE account (name, e-mail and gender is all that is needed) or log in to your SAEM account. If you do not know your SAEM account user name or password you can contact SAEM by sending an e-mail to TechSupport@saem.org or phone 517-485-5484 x204 or x208 (M-F 8 to 5 EST).