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Department of Emergency Medicine

2017 in Review

Diversity in review

Here's to another wonderful year within the Emory Department of Emergency Medicine. We saw a wonderful turnout of our physicians at conferences and quite a few published articles and national appointments. 

Community Service

  • Advocacy Day: "Stop the Bleed" was the initiative this year: teaching schools and first responders on emergent wound care. Our PGY 3s (class of 2017) visited the state capitol in support, with Drs. Das and Oiyemhonian.
  • The South Georgia Farmworker Project:
    Our Emergency Department again had some representation in both the June and October clinics by Drs. Backster and Disla.

Mentorship

  • Dr. Illedare continues to lead the Morehouse EM interest group.
  • Emergency Medicine SNMA dinner: We welcomed the next generation of MDs with the Annual SNMA Emergency Medicine Dinner for students Oct 9, 2017. 
  • SNMA - The Student National Medical Association is Drs Ford and Osborne organized two men of color dinners for residents and students.
  • Drs Osborne and Backster organized one dinner for all underrepresented minority EM residents to kick off the residency year.
  • Dr. Heron again hosted the Emory Revisited Dinner. This is an annual dinner that aims to encourage already accepted underrepresented minority students to matriculate to the Emory SOM.

National AAHPM

Impactful contributions 

  • Dr. Isabel Malone (resident): AAEM co-chair for their diversity and inclusion task force. Drs. Heilpern and Heron were both selected to serve on the national American College of
    Emergency Medicine Physician’s Diversity and Inclusion Task Force.
  • Dr. Anwar Osborne is Chair of ACEP Observation Medicine Section.
  • Dr. Tammy Quest, President-elect of AAHPM, was named Visionary for 2018 by the American
    Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM).
  • The Grady Ladies: Drs. Liska, Gobbin, Sizemore, and Freeman won the 2017 ACEP national SIM Wars champions (pictured with team
    advisor/leader Dr. Minkhorst, far right, an Emory SOM and EM residency Alum).
  • Dr. Nicole Franks completed her first year as Chair-Elect of the National Medical Association (NMA) Emergency Medicine Section, she also served as Program Chair of the 2017 NMA Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly Emergency Medicine Section Program.
  • Dr. Heron was selected as the ACEP James Mills Lecturer; her signature talk was given at ACEP on “Overcoming Cognitive Blind Spots to Improve Outcomes.” Also her textbook Diversity & Inclusion in Quality Patient Care has been cited by Springer in the top 24% of publications downloaded.
  • Dr. Julio Lairet was promoted to Colonel in the GA Air National Guard, he also received the Air Force Longevity Service Ribbon in 2017.

Local (within Emory)

  • Dr. Kris Ford: winner EUM Faculty of the year 2017.
  • Dr. Jae Goines will be spearheading our Diversity Curriculum’s RIDE articles effort. RIDE stands for Research - Inclusion, Disparities, and Equity. These are article supplements for our weekly resident lectures that are topic related but hone in on aspects of Inclusion, Disparities, or Equity.
  • Dr. Jae Goines has agreed to become our EDIC Resident Chair.
  • Dr. Anwar Osborne appointed Associate Residency Director—in charge of research.
  • Dr. Heron remains a key Facilitator of Unconscious Bias Training for the SOM search committees (Chairs Search, Administrators, and Departments), she also serves as Co-Chair of the Executive Committee on Equity and Inclusion in the SOM.

National Presentations 

  • SNMA
    • Drs. Ford, Lall, and Kazzi went out to spread the message about Emergency Medicine and our wonderful program to students.
  • AAMC CGEA (central group on educational affairs) regional spring meeting
    • Drs. Renee Johnson, Meloy, Khan, Heron, Haggins, Clery, Hopson, Hogikyan, Smiley, Ahn, and Babcock. “Practice Informing Process: Emergency Medicine Resident Experiences Caring for Diverse Patient Populations and Development of Interpersonal Communication Competencies.” March 2017.
  • CORD
    • Dr. Heron Plenary - The Journey - Building Success and Enjoyment in Emergency Medicine.
    • Martina Caldwell MD, MS, Linda Camaj, Ayana Robinson MPH, Tim Guetterman PhD, Sheryl Heron MD, MPH, Adrianne Haggins MD, MS Gail D'Onofrio MD, MS, Fredirco Vaca MD, MPH, Ava Pierce, Down Boatright MD, MBA (Boatright). “Factors Associated with Racial and Ethnic Diversity among U.S Emergency Medicine Residency Programs”

See below “Addressing Healthcare Disparities Using Medical Interpreters in a Simulation Assessment.”

  • SAEM
    • S Santen, R Hemphill, S Heron, Corita Grudzen; “Building leadership skills: consider a positive angle”
    • NMA Presentations by Drs: Erika Chowa, Nicole Franks, Sheryl Heron, Lisa Mack, Tricia Smith, Arthur Yancey Kristy Whyte – Resident Symposium
    • Dr. Daul Led SAEM 2017 didactic "Essentials of Transgender Emergency Care"
  • ACEP
    • Heron et al “Above us only sky: Exploring transitions, challenges, and strategies of women in Leadership Roles.”
    • Jackson, Moran, Lin, Ackerman, Salhi. “Prevalence of Homelessness and housing in an urban emergency department.”
    • Heron “Overcoming Blind spots to improve outcomes.” James D. Mills, Jr. Memorial Lecture.
    • Drs. Siegelman, Nagrani, Backster, Jackson, White, and Heron. “Addressing Healthcare Disparities Using Medical Interpreters in a Simulation Assessment.”

  • CORD oral (Dr. T. Jackson), NHMA poster (Dr. Backster), SAEM ADIEM oral (Dr. Siegelman), and the Inter-professional SIM conference poster (Dr. Siegelman).

Local

  • Dr. Daul: Grand Rounds on Transgender Health for Emory OB/GYN dept on 12/6/17
  • Drs. Backster and Ford: Implicit Bias EDIC exercise, for the ED Annual Residency, retreat 9/24/2017Dr. R. Libby: Annual Hispanic Heritage month Lecture to Emory students, on “Caring for Latino patients” 10/11/17

Articles for Publication/published

  • Chisolm-Straker, M., Daul, AD, et al. (2017). "Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Patients in the Emergency Department: What Physicians Know, Think, and Do." Ann Emerg Med.
  • S. Heron. “How Emergency Departments Can Embrace Diversity, Inclusion” ACEP Now 12-12- 2016. 
  • Samuels, E. A., Heron, SL, et al. (2017). "Clinical Vignettes Inadequate to Assess Impact of Implicit Bias: Concerning Limitations of a Systematic Review." Acad Emerg Med 24(12): 1531- 1532.
  • Madsen, T. E., Heron, SL, Lall,MD, et al. (2017). "Current Status of Gender and Racial/Ethnic Disparities Among Academic Emergency Medicine Physicians." Acad Emerg Med 24(10): 1182-1192.
  • Danner, O. K., Heron, S, Mack, L, et al. (2017). "Hospital-based, Multidisciplinary, youth mentoring and medical exposure program positively influences and reinforces health care career choice: "The Reach One Each One Program early Experience"." Am J Surg 213(4): 611- 616.
  • B. Jacobs. “A Female Physician “Shaken to my Core.” FeminEM 1-12-2017. 
  • Baehr, A., Martinez, R., et al. (2017). "Hospital Emergency Care as a Public Good and Community Health Benefit." Ann Emerg Med 70(2): 229-232.

Abstract

Daul, AD*, Freiman, H, Shah, B. “Opt-out HIV Testing in the Emergency Department: What’s the Impact for Black Men Who Have Sex With Men?” APHA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2017

Fun

  • February 2017, UniverSoul Circus outing
    Co-sponsored by the Wellness Committee, chosen for the circus’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. 39 people came out for an afternoon of fun and excitement.
  • The Annual O’Shea Home St Patrick’s Day get-together in March was a fun way to connect with colleagues and enjoy and learn a little about the Irish spirit.