Awards

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  Andrew Monick, BBA

  Thomas Jefferson University

  “Unhewn Student Experience – Cognitive Heuristics in Emergency Clinical Knowledge"

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  Katie Lebold, MD, PhD

  Stanford Emergency Medicine Residency Program

  “ED-Based Prognostication of ARDS Onset and Severity"

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  David Yang, MD

  Research and EMS Fellow

  Yale University

  David Yang, MD, is a Research and EMS Fellow in the Yale Department of Emergency Medicine. He earned his BS in Biomedical Engineering and BSAS in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, MD from LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, and his MHS from Yale University. He recently completed his emergency medicine residency at Yale Department of Emergency Medicine. Nationally, he has served on the Equity and Inclusion Committee with SAEM. At the local level, he works closely with the sexual assault forensics committee and as an Interprofessional Longitudinal Clinical Experience (ILCE) mentor. His current research focuses on addressing disparities of care in three domains: discrimination that healthcare workers face in the clinical setting, disparities in care for survivors of sexual assault, and prehospital disparities in care for behavioral emergencies.

  
  

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  Nicole Battaglioli, MD, MHPE

  Emory University School of Medicine

  “Investigation of Support Solutions for Women in Academic Medicine"

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  Eric Boccio, MD

  Baystate Medical Center

  “Patient Monitor Positioning and Provider Recognition of Desaturation Events During Intubation"

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  Torben K. Becker, MD, PhD, MBA

  Chair

  University of Florida

  Dr. Becker is an associate professor at the University of Florida. He is board-certified in emergency medicine (EM), critical care medicine, and emergency medical services. After obtaining his MD and PhD at the University of Heidelberg Medical School in Germany, Dr. Becker completed his residency in EM at the University of Michigan, followed by fellowships in critical care medicine and emergency medical services at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Florida, respectively. He is the executive director of EM for the University of Florida Health Critical Care Organization. In the department of EM, he serves as chief of the division of critical care medicine and director of the section of global health.

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  Rebecca Theophanous, MD

  Duke University

  “A POCUS Implementation Intervention for ED providers in the Durham VAHCS"

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  Kevin Baumgartner, MD

  Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

  “Evaluation of the Human Immune Response to North American Crotalid Envenomation"

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  Lauren Ann Selame, MD

  Brigham & Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School

  “Tele-Ultrasound Instruction in the Performance of Sonography"

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  Corey Hazekamp, MD, MS

  Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center

  "Shifting Tides: Changing the Paradigm of Treating Opioid Use Disorder by Updating Resident Education"

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  Arjun Venkatesh, MD, MBA, MHS

  Chair, Emergency Medicine

  Yale University

  Dr. Arjun Venkatesh is the Chair of the Yale Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Venkatesh is also an Associate Professor, Chief of the Section of Administration in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University, and Scientist at the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation. He has been funded by the NIH, AHRQ, and the Emergency Medicine Foundation to study health system outcomes and efficiency, and he is supported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as co-Principal Investigator of the Emergency Quality Network (E-QUAL) and for the development of the Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings. He has received over $6 million in grant funding, published over 80 peer-reviewed papers, and is senior editor of The Evidence book series. He is a national leader within ACEP and SAEM and he serves on expert panels for the National Quality Forum (NQF), AHRQ, and CMS. His work is also funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the Addiction Policy Forum to advance the quality and delivery of emergency and acute care for opioid use disorder.

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  Margaret E. Samuels-Kalow, MD, MPhil, MSHP

  Massachusetts General Hospital

  “Missed Opportunities + New Strategies: Addressing Adverse SDoH in the ED"

   

  Dr. Samuels-Kalow is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS), an attending physician in emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and the Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at MGB. Her work focuses on developing interventions to reduce disparities in emergency care, and designing strategies to use the ED visit to address adverse social determinants of health. Current projects include work to examine the role of individual and hospital factors in quality and equity of care for children in general emergency departments and understanding how to best address unmet oral health and social needs in the ED.

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  Joshua Lupton, MD, MPH, MPhil

  Oregon Health & Science University

  “Determining the Ideal Timing and Route for Antiarrhythmics during Cardiac Arrest"

This award honors a SAEM member, within 8 years of their first faculty appointment who has made outstanding contributions to emergency medicine through the teaching of others. Applicants will be evaluated by their creativity/innovation and impact on emergency medicine educational practice. Excellence is assessed not only by the quantity of teaching activities but also by the quality of teaching and engagement in the broader education community.

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  Alexa Curt and Raylin Xu

  Harvard Medical School for "Pediatric Emergency Bootcamp: Targeted Procedural and Simulation Skills for the Developing Physician"

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  Jasmanpreet Kaur and Amanda Schoonover

  Michigan State University College of Human Medicine for “'Stop The Bleed' Events: A Missed Opportunity for the Inclusion of Firearm Safety and Education in U.S. Medical Schools"

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  Carter Griest

  The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania for "Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Related Clinical Skills Session for Preclinical Students"

   
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  Kristina Gueco and Shaylyn Fahey

  Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Pilot for "CPR/AED Education and Outreach Project for Local Nepalese Community"

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  Harry Fillmore and Thomas Heisler

  Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons for "First Responder Competition"

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  Julia Horiates

  East Carolina University, I-TEAM Day: Interprofessional Triage for "Emergency Assessment, and Management Day"

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  Grace Amadio

  Thomas Jefferson University

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  Kavya Davuluri

  University of Michigan Medical School

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  Andrew Monick, BBA

  Thomas Jefferson University

  “Unhewn Student Experience – Cognitive Heuristics in Emergency Clinical Knowledge"

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  Priya Patel

  University of Maryland School of Medicine

Learn more about Dana Sacco, MD a recipient of this year's $12,000 SAEMF/NIDA Mentor-Facilitated Training Award.

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  Dana Sacco, MD

  Columbia University

Learn more about Phillip Moschella, MD, PhD a recipient of this year's $12,000 SAEMF/NIDA Mentor-Facilitated Training Award.

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  Phillip C. Moschella, MD, PhD

  Prisma Health – Upstate (South Carolina)

  Dr. Moschella is a board-certified Emergency Physician Scientist (MD/PhD) with an extensive background in cellular signaling. He is a full-time clinician, associate professor and the assistant research director for the Department of Emergency Medicine for Prisma Health-Upstate. He manages all the research projects within the department of over 70 physicians and 30 resident physicians. His primary research emphasis surrounds HIV and HCV recognition, and linkage to care from the emergency department (ED), with several publications in top-tier emergency medicine journals. He has expanded his research interests into substance use disorders and specifically opioids. He is the PI on a large ($1.5 million over 3 years) grant from SAMHSA to evaluate the use of Alternatives to Opioids in the ED. He has recently published an exciting systematic review on the effects of peer-recovery services in the ED and on his alternatives to opioids project. His mix of clinical experience and basic science allowed him to advance medical design to solve real-world clinical problems. His collaboration with engineers at Clemson University, have produced publications on a novel portable negative pressure environment for treatment of COVID-19 and a novel pH sensing peritoneal dialysis catheter to aid in early detection of infection in top-tier engineering journals.
  

Learn more about Jane Xiao, the recipient of this year's $19,879 Education Project Grant.

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  Jane Xiao, MD, MSE

  Oregon Health & Science University