By donating to Emory University's Department of Emergency Medicine, you are helping the team pursue excellence in clinical medicine, innovation, research, and training. With your help, we can make a difference in the lives of patients, students, faculty, and communities.
Dr. David Wright, Chair of Emory EM, reflected on the future of emergency medicine and said, "The EM team has a vanguard role in telemedicine and health design’s nascent arenas. Our vision revolves around revolutionizing how patients interface with the healthcare system, ensuring holistic care anytime, anywhere. Simultaneously, we’re sculpting the future by preparing budding clinicians to assimilate tech-centric care and novel care paradigms. Emory EM is at the forefront championing technology’s potency in enhancing accessibility and ensuring care delivery remains seamless—whether you’re at home, work, or on the move."
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More About the Emergency Medicine Funds
Dr. Lowery-North Mentorship Fund
Dr. Douglas Lowery-North was a charismatic teacher, mentor, leader, caring physician, father, husband, and friend. He impacted many careers through his devotion to inspiring medical providers at Emory and beyond. His emphasis on individual, professional and personal goals provided his protegees the understanding to balance all aspects of life.
In 1996, Doug, as we fondly called him, was the first physician Medical Director of the Emory University Hospital Emergency Department (ED) and transformed it from a treatment room to a full standing ED. In this role, he developed a model of care centered on the patient and family. His insightful understanding and critical decision-making skills steered the department and its faculty and staff to success.
In his memory, the Dr. Douglas Lowery-North Mentor of the Year Award recognizes an Emory Department of Emergency Medicine member who has demonstrated a commitment to fostering the intellectual, scholarly, and professional growth of mentees. The recipient contributes to the EM mission and is an outstanding role model consistently going above and beyond in helping others to develop their Emergency Medicine careers. Candidates are evaluated on the extent, quality, and effectiveness in their mentoring contributions. This award contributes to the Department’s continued effort to cultivate a culture of mentoring.
MUSE - Mentoring and Uplifting Students in Emergency Medicine
Support this longitudinal mentoring program for all rising clinical year medical students who have an interest in pursuing an Emergency Medicine career.
Research and Development Fund
Innovation and discovery are an integral part of the Department of EM. The team works to remove barriers to research and your gift will help increase faculty, advanced practice providers, and learners engagement in research. The research team offers writing days, helps with study design and IRB, proposal development, statistics, and a scholars program. With a new Emory Neurotrauma Translational Research Center (ENTiRE) accelerating the discovery and translation of groundbreaking therapies for neurotrauma and a Translational Neurotrauma Research Laboratory, the Department of EM is on the forefront of neurotrauma research.
Help the team develop groundbreaking translational and public health research!
Wellness, Teaching and Education Fund
This fund will support our faculty, advanced practice providers and learners as we continue to grow and thrive. Our residents rotate through state-of-the-art facilities at Emory University Hospital Clifton, Emory University Hospital Midtown, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, Children's Hospital of Atlanta at Scottish Rite, and Grady Memorial Hospital.
We have outstanding residents who chose to train at Emory/Grady, where they graduate with a strong foundation in education, research, service/advocacy, and wellness/resiliency. Recently, we expanded the resident's international
Our goal is to be able to send every resident to a major conference every year. These conferences include the Georgia College of Emergency Physicians, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.
Your help can make a huge impact in Emergency Medicine!