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          SAEM Annual Meeting, Boston, MA - June 2-5, 2011  

NU EM Faculty, Fellows, and Residents are headed to Boston for this year's SAEM Annual Meeting. There they will be presenting their research and sharing their expertise with a host of their emergency medicine colleagues.

SAEM 2011: The links below highlight all research presented by NU EM faculty, fellows, and residents. Please keep in mind that only First Authors are listed.

• Didactic Sessions
• Accepted Abstracts/Poster Presentations

For more information concerning the 2011 SAEM Annual Meeting please check out the SAEM website.

           7^th Annual Lewis Landberg Research Day: April 7, 2011          

“Research Day is a campus-wide event to promote faculty and trainee development through sharing of exciting research and conversation with colleagues. Research Day also provides an opportunity to learn about the Research Cores and the full spectrum of support they provide for clinical and basic science research.” - Feinberg School of Medicine Research Office

• Navneet Cheema, MD, Kori Sauser, MD, Matt Pirotte, MD, Emilie Powell, MD, Erin Quattromani, MD, Rahul Khare, MD, D. Mark Courtney, MD: The Impact of DNR Status on Mortality and Aggressiveness of Care in Patients with Severe Sepsis
  
  Click HERE to read the abstract
   
• Tammie Quest, MD, Michael Gisondi, MD, Kirsten G. Engel, MD, Carolyn Goldstein, BA, Linda Emanuel, MD, PhD: Implementation of the Screening for Palliative Care Needs in the Emergency Department (SPEED) Instrument in Two Emergency Departments
  
    Click HERE to read the abstract
   
   

• Shelby A. Kaplan, MD, MBA, Julie J. Cooper, MD, Emilie S. Powell, MD, MBA, Peter S. Pang, MD: Resident Participation in a Process Improvement Initiative Provides Experiential Learning of Systems-Based Practice
• Mary McHugh,MD, Matthew Kippenhan, MD, and John Vozenilek, MD: An Improvement on Asynchronous Learning: Virtual Patient Simulation
• Natasha B. Wheaton, MD, David H. Salzman, MD, Michael A. Gisondi, MD and  John A. Vozenilek, MD: Standard Setting for an Assessment of Resident Competence in Death Notification Using the GRIEV_ING Checklist
• Nicholas D. Hartman MD MPH, David H. Salzman MD, Amer Z. Aldeen MD, John A. Vozenilek MD and Michael A. Gisondi MD: Simulation as an Adjunct to the Anesthesia Rotation in an Emergency Medicine Residence
• Kori Sauser, MD, Erin Quattromani, MD, Emilie S Powell, MD, MBA, Michael A. Gisondi, MD, Rahul Khare, MD, and D. Mark Courtney, MD: The Research College:Teaching Research Methods Through Experiential Team Learning
• David H. Salzman MD, Susan Eller RN, Heather Keirnan RN, Michael J. Schmidt MD, James G. Adams MD, and John A. Vozenilek MD: A Qualitative Analysis of Themes and Threats to Safety Revealed Using High-Fidelity Simulation Prior to Utilization of a New Care Space

Congratulations to Katrina Leone (’10) and Dave Salzman (’09) for winning “Best Fellow Research Presentation” at the 2011 CORD Academic Assembly last week in San Diego. Their study was entitled, “Evaluation of a Curriculum to Educate Emergency Medicine Residents in Informed Consent.” Co-authors included Kelly Williamson, Shera Teitge, and John Vozenilek.