Lily Berlin, MD

I am a first year resident at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California. I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2022. I have experience with AGEM, serving as Medical Student Representative on the Executive Board in 2020-2021. I have also served on the AGEM Outreach and Membership Committee for the last three years. In that time, I have continued and protocolized the AGEM Author Spotlight series, worked on a project to reach out to lapsed AGEM members to re-engage them in AGEM, worked on the AGEM twitter account, and assisted with the AGEM Gala at SAEM 2022. I also contributed to the AGEM CDEM curriculum project and served as a Medical Student Ambassador at SAEM 2020 and 2021. I am running for AGEM Resident Representative to continue to work with the incredible community and mentors within AGEM. Improving geriatric emergency care is important to me and my career, and I want to continue to contribute to and learn from this community. One of my goals is to continue to grow AGEM with younger trainees at the medical student and resident level. I hope to increase engagement in all levels of training with structured mentorship, educational webinars, continuing the quarterly journal club, and providing more resources to members and non-members. There are many geriatric ED resources that exist, but they are hard to find and not located in the same place. One potential project idea I have is to create a repository of resources, like clinical guideline tools, educational tools, community-based resources, and up-coming classes and webinars that are available to trainees and physicians. Another goal I have is to use the SAEM network and other interest groups and academies to increase AGEM’s exposure by doing partnered events via webinars and at the SAEM annual conference. For example, AGEM could team up with the Climate Change and Health interest group to discuss how climate change affects older patients specifically and what can be done to treat patients in the ED after climate-related disasters. Another idea is to work with the Social EM group with an event on social services available for older patients that can be utilized in the ED. Via these joint events, we can engage more EM providers who are not specifically interested in GEM and share our community, ideas, resources, and passion for geriatric emergency care. In addition, I want to broaden AGEM’s reach to more under-resourced settings, like county hospitals and under-resourced institutions. In my first year at a county residency program, I already see a huge need for improved geriatric emergency care with our most vulnerable older patients. I am already working with my program to improve geriatric education for my peers and to improve geriatric care for our patients. I hope to work within AGEM and the community to create a model for how under-resourced health care systems and hospitals can improve geriatric emergency care. Lastly, I am excited at the opportunity to continue to serve AGEM. I am grateful to have found this community of energized, passionate, and welcoming mentors who are working to improve geriatric emergency medicine care. I am humbled to have met and worked with many AGEM members and leaders, and I hope to continue to learn and grow from this community.