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About SAEM Foundation
The core purpose of the SAEM Foundation is to improve health by investing in academic emergency medicine career development, research, and education. The assets of the SAEM Foundation currently total $14 million, making it the largest foundation for emergency care. To date, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and the SAEM Foundation have provided nearly $14.5 million to fund over 600 grants for emergency medicine researchers and educators.
The SAEM Foundation is incorporated as a 501c3 nonprofit organization and is governed by a Board of Trustees. SAEM provides administrative support to the SAEM Foundation and is its sole member which gives SAEM oversight of the SAEM Foundation.
History
The SAEM Foundation, also known as the SAEM Research Foundation, was created by SAEM in 2008 to establish a resource to protect the assets of the pre-existing Research Fund. The Research Fund was established in 1998 with an initial organizational commitment from SAEM of $1,000,000. In 2003, SAEM initiated a formal membership "giving campaign" that was endorsed by nearly every past president of SAEM, University Association for Emergency Medicine (UAEM), and Society of Teachers of Emergency Medicine (STEM). The organizational contributions from 2003 through 2005 totaled more than $850,000.
The Education Fund was developed in 2008 to provide the same quality training opportunities for educators as the Research Fund does for researchers. This fund was created with the mission to support faculty, residents, and students who have shown promise and expertise in emergency medicine education or are looking to develop innovative educational tools or projects to train the next generation of emergency care providers and teachers.
Core Purpose
To improve health by investing in academic emergency medicine career development, research, and education.
Vision
Transform the science, education, and practice of emergency medicine.
Engage with SAEMF
- Donate
- Learn About the Power of A Gift to SAEMF
- Meet SAEMF's Grantees
- Apply for a grant
- Become a Resident Reviewer of the SAEM Grants Committee
- Leadership opportunities
Emergency physicians count on the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) to advance the science and innovation at the heart of our specialty.
SAEM:
- Offers the highest quality continuing medical education in emergency medicine, including journals and other publications, as well as the SAEM Annual Meeting.
- Brings specialists across emergency medicine together through academies, committees, and interest groups.
- Supports medical students, residents, fellows and faculty on their academic career paths in emergency medicine.
Alongside SAEM’s work to strengthen our specialty today, the SAEM Foundation supports the research and researchers who will shape our specialty tomorrow.
The SAEM Foundation:
- Is the largest private foundation of research and research training in emergency medicine, with annual funding growing every year and reaching over $1M for SAEMF's 2025-26 grantees.
- Represents the gold standard in research quality, with a rigorous peer review process that prepares applicants for the National Institutes of Health.
- Makes a career-defining impact on aspiring researchers by funding their work at a critical stage before they compete for NIH funding.
- Drives 100 percent of annual fund donor support to clinical, translational, and education research with a singular mission focus and an efficient operation supported by SAEM.
