Medias

Benjamin S. Abella, MD, MPhil - Mount Sinai Health System

Sep 16, 2025

Dr. John Dickens talks with Dr. Benjamin Abella about community-based CPR training programs to increase public participation and awareness, how ER physicians' instincts and skills fit well for executive leadership, and more.

Humanitarian Research Series: Geospatial Methodology in Humanitarian Settings

Sep 11, 2025

This webinar reviews geospatial methodology and discusses research methods in humanitarian settings.

Beyond ChatGPT: Next Generation AI Technologies

Sep 8, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing emergency medicine, offering tools to elevate clinical practice. During this webinar, the speakers introduce four groundbreaking AI technologies - agentic systems, advanced language models, multimodal AI, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) - that are set to transform patient care. Learn how AI can assist in complex triage, detect sepsis earlier, and provide real-time access to tailored research. Additionally, the speakers address ethical considerations, integration challenges, and the future of AI in the emergency department. Whether you're a novice or a data enthusiast, leave with actionable strategies to enhance your practice, research, and teaching.

Presenters:

• Carl Preiksaitis, MD, MEd - planner and faculty
• Joshua Joseph, MD, MS, MBE - faculty
• Christian Rose, MD - faculty
• Moira Smith, MD, MPH - faculty
• Andrew Taylor, MD, MHS - faculty
• Jeff Druck, MD - planner/course director and moderator

Best Practice Updates on Management of Agitation: The Art of Coordinated Response, De-escalation, and Pharmacotherapy (Behavioral and Psychological Interest Group-Sponsored)

Sep 5, 2025

Emergency departments (EDs) are seeing a rise in behavioral emergencies, exposing clinicians to increased safety threats from workplace violence. Despite the high rates of violence, many emergency physicians lack formal training in managing agitation. During this webinar, the speakers present new research on agitation care, focusing on de-escalation techniques, trauma-informed practices, and strategies to address implicit bias, and discuss the latest guidelines, workplace violence prevention, and psychopharmacology in agitation management.

Presenters:

• Alice Bukhman, MD, MPH - planner and faculty
• Ynhi Thomas, MD, MPH, MSc - planner and faculty
• Ambrose Wong, MD, MSEd, MHS - planner and faculty
• Marie Vrablik, MD, MCR - planner
• Casey Clements, MD, PhD - faculty
• Dana Im, MD, MPP, MPhil - faculty
• Gina Lopez, MD, MPH - faculty
• Marc Martel, MD - faculty
• Sarayna McGuire, MD - faculty
• Bidisha Nath, MBBS, MPH - faculty
• Lynn Roppolo, MD - faculty
• Michelle Suh, MD, MHPE - faculty
• Michael Wilson, MD, PhD - faculty
• Julianna Jung, MD, MEd - planner/course director and moderator

The use of TENS for the treatment of back pain in the emergency department: A randomized controlled trial

Sep 1, 2025

AEM Podcast host Ken Milne, MD, and guest skeptic Lauren Westafer, DO, MPH, MS, interview lead author Karalynn Otterness, MD. Learn more in the accompanying Hot Off the Press article available in The Skeptics' Guide to Emergency Medicine.

Health Workforce Challenges in Humanitarian Settings

Aug 21, 2025

This webinar, hosted by SAEM's Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA) Humanitarian Task Force (HTF), will feature a panel of local health professionals from Syria, Sudan, and Palestine/Myanmar as they discuss the challenges faced by the health care workforce in these ongoing humanitarian crises. Speakers will discuss their personal experiences of violence, insecurity, training disruption, and staffing shortages, as well as the future consequences for the health care system. Disparities in economic status, cadre, seniority, gender, and rural versus urban settings will also be outlined.