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network within their national cohort of ARMED peers and with leaders in emergency care research.

• Recent participants have received successful funding through a dedicated SAEMF grant and funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health.

Global Emergency Medicine Academy

President: Naz Karim, MD, MHA, MPH

○ Humanitarianism and International Medical Corps: A View from Emergency Medicine Physicians

○ Global Emergency Medicine Fellowships Overview

○ AHA Town Hall to Address Shared Challenges in Rural and Global Resuscitation

Membership Committee

Chair: V. Ramana Feeser

Member-at-Large, SAEM BOD Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center

@AvaPierceMD

Dr. Pierce is SAEM Board liaison for the following SAEM groups:

Advanced Research Methodology Evaluation and Design (ARMED)

Director: Danielle McCarthy, MD, MS

The Advanced Research Methodology Evaluation and Design (ARMED) course course is geared toward 1.) junior faculty with a foundational knowledge of emergency care research and 2.) fellows and senior residents with basic knowledge of research. The purpose of the course is to equip participants with the core principles and fundamental knowledge and skills to design high-quality research projects and obtain early career grant funding. The course runs for nine months, from September through May, and includes three workshops and monthly virtual webinars. Applications are due July 31.

Notable Accomplishments

• Since 2017, over 160 emergency physicians have been trained through the ARMED course.

• Each year ARMED focuses on teaching research methodology, grant writing skills, and professional development.

• Participants in the three, in-person sessions not only gain research skills, but also have an opportunity to

SAEM's Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA) focuses on improvement of the worldwide delivery of emergency medical care. There are eight committees/task forces within GEMA that help further their stated goals.

Notable Accomplishments

• SAEM/Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship Consortium (GEMFC) Merger

○ SAEM welcomed the GEMFC as a new committee within the SAEM Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA)

○ There are 36 active global EM fellowships within the consortium

○ One representative from the consortium is invited to serve on the SAEM Fellowship Approval Committee

○ NRMP Match

○ A new application portal and section of the SAEM website was launched for global EM fellowships. Residents may now apply using a standardized application through the SAEM application portal.

• GEMA -supported awards and recipients:

○ GEMA-AWAEM: 42 applicants

 Dr. Olita Shilpakar from Nepal

 Dr. Salote Behr from Fiji

○ GEMA-SAEMF Research: Adam Laytin, MD, MPH

○ ARMED: Jonathan Dyal, MD, MPH

○ ARMED MedEd: Michelle Feltes, MD

• Webinars

○ Research in the Humanitarian Context: Designing and Evaluating Health-Related Interventions in Complex Settings

The SAEM Membership Committee is responsible for ensuring that SAEM meets the growing and changing needs of its members. Additionally, the committee strives to increase academic emergency medicine faculty, resident, and allied health care professional membership in the Society. Through the review of membership statistics, surveys, and trends, the SAEM Membership Committee identifies potential new members and develops mechanisms for membership recruitment and retention.

Notable Accomplishments

• Celebrating a new record for SAEM Membership: 8400+ total members

3,227 Residents

3,292 Faculty Members

1,042 Medical Students

174 Chairs

275 Fellows

8,400+ Total Members

141 Administrators

59 Associates

Wellness Committee

Chair: Al’ai Alvarez, MD

192 Young Physicians

The SAEM Wellness Committee is charged with collaborating with National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and the Emergency Medicine Physician Wellness and Resilience Summit. The committee members are responsible for addressing physician wellness and resilience, building a knowledge hub of information, resources, models, and tools to be used at the individual and organizational level, and creating a series of discussion papers, perspectives papers and white papers to address physician wellness.

Notable Accomplishments

• Establishing October as #StopTheStigmaEM month in support of the Stop the Stigma EM campaign Lead: Dr. Amanda Deutsch. The effort comprised 13 national and international emergency medicine organizations that make up the EM Mental Health Collaborative and collectively agree with and commit to assiduously working toward promoting the following key messages:

○ Mental health strain in emergency medicine is a threat to clinicians, teams, and patient care

○ Identifying mental health stress and distress early is critical for individuals to get the support they need to sustain their health and careers

○ Significant stigma exists across EM in acknowledging the impact of the field on our mental health and in accessing mental health support

○ Normalizing the conversation about mental health in EM is an essential first step

○ Lowering the barriers to mental health care and promoting self-care will improve and strengthen our teams, ourselves, and patient care

• Break-taking behaviors among EM residents Lead: Dr. Wendy Sun in collaboration with SAEM RAMS

• Understanding the role of defusion after critical events Lead: Dr. Christine Stehman

• Sleep impairment and circadian rhythm disruptions Lead: Dr. Katren Tyler

• Addressing moral injury in the context of current events Lead: Dr. Cindy Bitter

• Development of a wellness consultation Lead: Dr. James O’Shea in collaboration with the SAEM Consultation Committee.

• The Intersection of Wellness and DEI

Lead: Dr. Logan Weygandt

Airway Interest Group

Chair: Alexander Bracey, MD

The SAEM Airway Interest Group serves as a gathering place for emergency physicians to discuss airway research, potential collaborations, and the influence of airway research and updates on clinical practice in emergency medicine in general. Its mission is to promote the communication of current ideas in the emergent management of airways in the field of emergency medicine.

Notable Accomplishments

• Fiberoptic course

Looking Ahead/Works in

Progress

• Airway video database

• Laryngoscopy education curriculum

• Speaker Series

Palliative Medicine Interest Group

Chair: Naomi George, MD

The mission of the SAEM Palliative Medicine Interest Group is to develop and share educational and assessment tools for medical student and resident education in dealing with the needs of patients and families in end-of-life (EOL) and palliative care

Notable Accomplishments

• Published Mapping the Future for Research in Emergency Medicine

Palliative Care: A Research Roadmap, by Emily L. Aaronson MD, MP, et al.

• Emergency Medicine-Palliative Care Medicine Expertise Database, with over 25 EM-PC experts

• EMS Care of Adult Hospice Patients- a Position Statement and Resource Document of NAEMSP and AAHPM resulted in five major recommendations:

1. EMS teams should receive hospice education

2. EMS medical directors should develop partnerships with local hospice orgs.

3. EMS and hospice orgs should do a needs assessment

4. Include EMS care of hospice in quality assurance

5. Reimbursement programs that compensate EMS for scene treatment, alt transfers

Looking Ahead/Works in Progress

• EM–Geriatric and Palliative Care Guidelines developed in partnership with the SAEM Academy of Geriatric Medicine and ACEP. Research questions being defined around EM-

PM using PICO strategy Lead: Dr. Kei Ouchi

• EM-PC Career Mentoring Roadmap

Lead: Dr. Chris Richardson

• Interprofessional Education in EM Palliative Care Lead: Dr. Rebecca Wright

• Concepts in Practice – Models of Care

Lead: Dr. Naomi George

• Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures for EM-PC Interventions Lead: Dr. Naomi George

Research Directors Interest Group

Chair: Kiran Faryar, MD, MPH

The mission of the Research Directors Interest Group is to promote, through education, advanced training, mentorship, and ethical conduct, the role of research in advancing emergency medicine.

Notable Accomplishments

• Successfully designed and piloted a survey that was disseminated to multiple SAEM interest groups and committees in Winter 2022, with plans to disseminate version two of the survey in 2023.

• The results of the pilot survey was presented in the May-June 2023 SAEM Pulse article, Describing the Current Landscape of Research Directors and Vice Chairs of Research: Results of the 2022 Research Director’s Interest Group Pilot Survey

• Didactic, “Rules of the Road for Publishing Quality Improvement Research” was presented at SAEM23.

• Cosponsored several other didactics with the SAEM Research Committee, which were presented at SAEM23

• Presented Research Learning Series (RLS) - Pearls and Pitfalls for Building an EM Research Program in June 2023

Looking Ahead/Works in Progress

• Preparing a Research Learning Series webinar for current and future research directors.

• Completing a data analysis of survey version 2 with goal of publishing in EM journal.

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Pooja Agrawal, MD, MPH

Member-at-Large, SAEM BOD

Associate Professor, Yale School of Medicine

@pagrawalmd

Dr. Agrawal is SAEM Board liaison for the following SAEM groups:

Program Committee

Chair: Ryan LaFollette, MD

The SAEM Program Committee is responsible for the overall planning and coordination of the SAEM Annual Meeting content. They ensure the didactics, abstracts, and unique learning sessions like IGNITE and Innovations are of high quality and represent the diverse expertise of the SAEM membership. They continue to innovate, engage new experts and learners in the process and have already begun planning for another excellent conference in Phoenix in 2024.

Notable Accomplishments

• 3890 participants/attendees

• 17 workshops, plus the Consensus Conference

• 155 didactics

• 205 e-poster abstracts

• 8 plenary abstracts

• 100 oral abstracts

• 518 lightning oral abstracts

Awards Committee

Chair: Ryan Pedigo, MD, MHPE

The SAEM Awards Committee manages all the SAEM and RAMS awards presented at the SAEM Annual Meeting in recognition of excellence in the field of academic emergency continued from Page 5 medicine and contributions that improve the health of society and/or academic achievement. These awards seek to recognize outstanding individuals in EM across all domains: leadership, service, research, education, patient care, advocacy, and more.

Notable Accomplishments

• 133 total nominations received

• 30 awards presented

• Looking Ahead/Works in Progress

• Increase transparency of awards criteria

• Reduce barriers to applying and increasing the number of institutions who nominate for awards by:

○ designing templates for letters of reference to facilitate nominations

○ curating or creating new resources to help new nominators prepare more effective applications

○ re-evaluating the entirety of award offerings to identify potential gaps

Simulation Academy

Chair: Sara Hock

SAEM's Simulation Academy is a national educational organization that focuses on the development and use of simulation in emergency medicine education, research, and patient care. There are six committees within the Simulation Academy that help further their stated goals.

Notable Accomplishments

• Regular simulation faculty development sessions

• Research and innovation e-consultation services, including teaching debriefing skills

• Support for research grant funding (ARMED and ARMED MedEd course scholarships, annual awards, travel scholarships)

• Fellow’s Forum, SimWars, Mentoring Mixer at the SAEM Annual Meeting

• Membership growth to over 300 members

• Addition of a Young Physicians Subcommittee

• Creation of a simulation grant guide, novel model research group, INSPIRE research group, DEI Sim development

Oncologic Emergencies Interest Group

Chair: Jason Bischof, MD

The SAEM Oncologic Emergencies

Interest Group is focused on increasing awareness of supportive care guidelines and improving education and research related to oncologic topics.

Looking Ahead/Works in Progress

• Multicenter study evaluating acute oncology education of EM providers

• Highlighting the addition of immunotherapy complications in the 2022 ABEM Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine (EM Model)

• Recent IG member publications:

○ Narrative review of acute oncology training

○ Oncologic emergencies and urgencies: A comprehensive review

Toxicology Interest Group

Chair: Kyle Suen, MD

The SAEM Toxicology Interest Group provides a forum for discussion, networking, education, scholarship, and research collaboration in medical toxicology.

Looking Ahead/Works in Progress

• Increase medical student and resident exposure to medical toxicology opportunities

• Expand on the group’s collaboration with medical toxicology professional organizations

• Create unique educational opportunities for those interested in applying to a medical toxicology fellowship

• Supply more EM related toxicology content for future SAEM Pulse issues

Emergency Medicine

Transmissible Infectious Diseases and Epidemics Interest Group

Cochair: Michael Waxman, MD

Cochair: Michael Lyons, MD

The SAEM Emergency Medicine

Transmissible Infectious Diseases and Epidemics (EMTIDE) Interest Group builds a coordinated network of individuals and institutions with capacity to mobilize emergency departments rapidly and efficiently for early detection and response to transmissible infectious disease threats. The interest group builds innovation in research, practice and policy to improve the health of individuals and the public.

Looking Ahead/Works in Progress

• Collaboration on infectious disease-related topics including emergency department HIV/ HCV screening and COVID-19 vaccination

• Multisite ED Mpox (monkeypox) case reporting

• Operations and outcomes of ED syphilis screening

Learn More About SAEM Academies

• Academy of Administrators in Academic Emergency Medicine (AAAEM)

• Academy for Diversity & Inclusion in Emergency Medicine (ADIEM)

• Academy of Emergency Ultrasound (AEUS)

• Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM)

• Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM)

• Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine (CDEM)

• Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA)

• Simulation Academy

Join an Interest Group and Explore a Specific Specialty Area

Members wanting to explore a specialty area, share ideas, and network in a relatively unstructured and informal fashion, are encouraged to join one or more of SAEM’s 29 Interest Groups. Interest groups generally conduct business virtually and may meet in person at the SAEM Annual Meeting.

Committee Participation Furthers Your Professional Development

One of the most valuable benefits of membership in SAEM is the opportunity to participate on one or more of SAEM’s committees. Serving on an SAEM committee furthers your professional development by providing leadership experience, expanding your professional network, and strengthening your ties within the specialty. Great things happen when we work together. We invite you to review the SAEM Committee Descriptions and considering joining a committee when the sign up window opens in October!