2020 SAEM Consensus Conference

Telehealth and Emergency Medicine: A Consensus Conference to Map the Intersection of Emergency Medicine and Telehealth*

Defining an Emergency Medicine Research Agenda

*Telehealth will be defined for this conference as the use of communication technology to facilitate the delivery of healthcare. These modalities include:

• Live video
• Asynchronous communication
• Store-and-forward data transfer
• Secure messaging
• Other data technologies

Registration opens December 1, 2019

Please check back often for updates.

Additional Speakers 

	John C. Evanko, MD MBA- Chief Medical Officer, Senior Vice President, Patient Safety and Loss Prevention, MCIC Vermont LLC
	Jason Goldwater, MA, MPA- Senior Principal, Atlas Research
	Aditi U. Joshi, MD- Medical Director, JeffConnect, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Director, Fellowship in Telehealth Leadership, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
	Ana Maria Lopez, MD, MPH, MACP- Chief of Cancer Services Jefferson Health-New Jersey
	Nick Mohr, MD, MS- Associate Professor Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia-Critical Care Medicine, Epidemiology, Vice Chair of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine Investigator, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
	Christina Olson, MD- Assistant Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine & Telehealth Medical Director, Children’s Hospital of Colorado
	Dimitri Papanagnou, MD, MPH- Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Education and Associate Provost for Faculty Development: Health Professions Education & Scholarship,  Thomas Jefferson University
	P. Divya Parikh, MPH- Vice President, Research & Education, Medical Professional Liability Association
	Karen Rheuban, MD- Professor of Pediatrics, Senior Associate Dean for CME and External Affairs & Director, Center for Telehealth University of Virginia
	Scott Shipman, MD, MPH- Director Clinical Innovations and Primary Care Affairs, Association of American Medical Colleges
	Neal Sikka, MD- Section Chief Innovative Practice and Telemedicine, George Washington Medical Faculty Associates
	Richard L. Summers, MD- Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Billy S. Guyton Professor, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Chair Emeritus, University of Mississippi Medical Center
	Lori Uscher-Pines, PhD- Senior Policy Researcher RAND Corporation
	Marcia M. Ward, PhD- Director Rural Telehealth Research Center Director Center for Health Policy and Research College of Public Health University of Iowa

Our Goals

Our Process

• Work will take place in breakout groups 2019-2020 via asynchronous work in ongoing flipped classroom and small group discussions. 
• Small group efforts will be anchored by periodic "Town Hall" meetings. ​
• Small group working documents will be presented at national Conference and forged into consensus statement with input of national group

Breakout Groups

How Can You Get Involved?

• Attend the conference
• Join a breakout group

Breakout groups will start work in October 2019 and will investigate the current state of evidence for the breakout group topic. The groups will:

• Create a list of gaps in knowledge and evidence
• Present their findings at the Consensus Conference for discussion with attendees
• Write a manuscript of their findings
  

Contact Us

Planning Committee

	Emily Hayden, MD, MHPE Massachusetts General Hospital Conference Chair
	Shruti Chandra, MD Thomas Jefferson University
	Christopher Davis, MD Denver Health Medical Center
	Peter Greenwald, MD, MS New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center

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