ACADEMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS Dr. Martin Confirmed to City of Milwaukee Board of Health Ian B. K. Martin, MD, MBA, professor with tenure and system chairman of the department of emergency medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), was confirmed this week by the Milwaukee Common Council’s Public Safety and Health Committee to the Board of Health of the City of Milwaukee. Recommended by Mayor Tom Barrett, Dr. Martin joins this governing board responsible for advising the city’s Ian B. K. Martin health department on priorities, taking public stances on public health policy issues, and being champions for public health in Milwaukee. Dr. Martin is the immediate past president of SAEM.
Dr. Adeoye Named Head of New Emergency Medicine Department at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Opeolu M. Adeoye, MD, has been named head of the new department of emergency Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (WUSTL) and the inaugural BJC HealthCare Distinguished Professor of Emergency Medicine, effective Feb. 1. Dr. Adeoye joins the WUSTL School of Medicine from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, where he is Opeolu M. Adeoye a professor of emergency medicine and of neurosurgery and vice chair for research in the department of emergency medicine.
Dr. Ouchi Receives Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging Kei Ouchi, MD, an assistant professor of emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School has been selected to receive the National Institution on Aging (NIA) Paul B. Beeson Emerging Kei Ouchi Leaders Career Development Award in Aging. The award is give to earlystage physicians and other health professional investigators with a commitment to aging and/or aging-related diseases to advance their research and leadership skills in their specialty and in the broader field of aging and geriatrics research. Dr. Ouchi is clinically active as an associate physician in the emergency department (ED) and a home hospital physician in the department of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Ouchi is a member of SAEM’s Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM).
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