FSM Student recognized at MSSR Symposium
October 23, 2009
Congratulations to Terrance Lee, member of the Feinberg School of Medicine Class of 2012, for his best poster prize at the Northwestern University Medical Student Summer Research Symposium. His project entitled "Emergency Department Crowding: Understanding Factors Associated with Patients who Leave without Being Seen" was mentored by Michael Schmidt, MD and Mark Courtney, MD.
NOrthwestern sweeps regional Research Competitions
October 3, 2009
ICEP Academic Forum - Chicago, IL - October 2, 2009
Congratulations to PGY 4 residents Matt Lazio, MD and Jon Van Roo, MD and their academic advisor Sanjeev Malik, MD for being awarded first place at the 2009 ICEP Academic Forum. This award goes to the best resident presentation and we are very proud of their project entitled "Predictive Factors for a Successful Summiting on Aconcagua."
SAEM Midwest Regional Meeting - Ann Arbor, MI - September 21, 2009
The Northwestern Department of Emergency Medicine is also proud of the high quality work the Department presented at the SAEM Midwest Regional Meeting in Ann Arbor, MI.
Special congratulations to Emilie Powell, MD, MBA (alumni '09) and Brian Patterson, MD, MPH (PGY1) who tied for first place in the resident/fellow category, and Rahul Khare who won best faculty presentation.
Also, congratulations and thanks to Mike Gisondi, MD, Amer Aldeen, MD, Jim Kyriacou, MD, PhD, MPH, Sara Friedman, MD, Andy Foster, MD, Chris Richards, MD, and senior Northwestern University undergraduate Elizabeth Brezinski for attending and presenting their collaborative work.
Matthew Lazio, MD, Jeremy Branzetti, MD, Ben Sayers, MD, Kirsten Engel, MD, and James Adams, MD also contributed as co-authors to work presented.
Poster presentations
- Amer Aldeen, MD (Faculty): The Northwestern University Rotating Resident Curriculum (NURRC): A Novel Web-Based Didactic Program for Rotating Residents in the Emergency Medicine Program
- Elizabeth Brezinski (Northwestern University Undergraduate) and Michael Gisondi, MD (Faculty): Feasibility of Emergency Medicine Resident Participation in a Decelerated Graduate Degree Program
- Sara Friedman, MD (PGY3), Benjamin Sayers, MD (PGY3), Michael Gisondi, MD (Faculty), Matthew Lazio, MD (PGY4): Curriculum Design of a Knowledge Translation Shift for Emergency Medicine Senior Residents
- Christopher Richards, MD (PGY2): Palliative Care Symptom Assessment in the Emergency Department: Validation of the Screening for Palliative Care Needs in the Emergency Department (SPEED) Instrument
Oral presentations
- D. Mark Courtney, MD (Faculty): Clinical characteristics of patients with venous thromboembolism after initial negative ED evaluation for pulmonary embolism
- Rahul Khare, MD, D. Mark Courtney, MD, James Adams, MD (Faculty): The Relationship Between the Emergency Primary PCI Quality Measure and Inpatient Myocardial Infarction Mortality
- Jim Kyriacou, MD, PhD, MPH (Faculty), Brian Patterson, MD, MPH (PGY1), Rahul Khare, MD (Faculty), D. Mark Courtney, MD (Faculty): Cost-Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccination of Older Adults in the Emergency Department Setting
- Emilie Powell, MD, MBA (Fellow) and Rahul Khare, MD (Faculty): A Hospital-Wide Approach to Crowding: Altering Inpatient Discharge Practices to Decrease ED Boarding
NU Emergency Medicine receives arra funding from NHLBI
September 28, 2009
In September, the University of Pittsburgh, in consortium with Northwestern University and Carolinas Medical Center, was awarded a new project entitled "Outpatient Treatment of Low-Risk Patients with Pulmonary Embolism" by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Funds for this award came from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 (ARRA). Mark Courtney, MD is serving as the principle investigator here at Northwestern.
Of the 80 patients expected to be enrolled in the US, 30 will be enrolled at Northwestern over the next two years.
The objective of this multi-center project is to compare the efficacy and safety of outpatient treatment of low-risk patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) to inpatient treatment. Patients determined to be at low-risk for PE and wishing to participate may be enrolled. All subjects receive treatment with enoxoparin and warfarin; however, they will be randomized to receive treatment as an inpatient or an outpatient.
Questions regarding this study can be directed towards Mark Courtney (pgr 5-8898) or Nicole Klekowski (pgr 5-3046)
