Visualizing the Cords Together: Utilizing Video Laryngoscopy Recordings for Emergency Airway Education (Airway Interest Group and Critical Care Interest Group Sponsored)

Rita A. Manfredi, MD, is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She started her career as a US Navy Flight Surgeon and completed an Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Massachusetts. She previously completed a fellowship in Health and Spirituality at the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health, recently became board-certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and is interested in integrating Palliative Medicine concepts into the care of patients in the ED. Dr. Manfredi is an active member of the SAEM Wellness Committee and has introduced a Storytelling in EM event at national SAEM conferences for the past 3 years. In 2021, Dr. Manfredi received ACEP’s Lifetime Achievement Award: The Pamela Benson Trailblazer Award for seminal contributions over time to the growth of the College and to the specialty of emergency medicine. Dr. Manfredi’s work in Wellbeing focuses on how the system or organization impacts the wellness of the individual health care provider.

Dr. Jacobs currently works as an attending emergency physician at numerous academic hospitals throughout the Washington DC area, including the George Washington University Hospital and the DC Veterans Medical Center. As a faculty member at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, she teaches a didactic course to medical students called the “practice of medicine” and serves a coach for medical students. She is also actively involved in teaching in the emergency medicine residency program.