| northwestern SWEEPS REGIONAL RESEARCH COMPETITIONS Congratulations to PGY4 residents Matthew Lazio and Jon Van Roo, and their faculty advisor Sanjeev Malik, 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 work, "Predicitive factors of successful summiting on Aconcagua." 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 (SAEM Midwest Regional Meeting)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 Senior): 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 (SAEM Midwest Regional Meeting)
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 |
