Academic Announcements

University of Washington’s Dr. Kelli O’Laughlin Receives Grant for COVID Research

Kelli O’Laughlin, MD, MPH, assistant professor of emergency medicine and global health at the University of Washington and president of SAEM’s Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA) for SAEM, has received a grant from Elrha/R2HC to implement and evaluate an Interactive

Kelli O’Laughlin Voice Response (IVR) telephone-based COVID-19 symptom and exposure surveillance survey among refugees in Uganda. The team will validate a prediction model with COVID-19 testing, assess knowledge and perceptions of risk and explore barriers and facilitators to risk mitigation strategy adoption among refugees living in Uganda. Funders: UK Government Department for International Development, Wellcome Trust, UK National Institute for Health Research.

Dr. Sheryl Heron Appointed to Leadership Position in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Emory University

Sheryl Heron, MD, MPH has been appointed to the role of associate dean for community engagement, equity and inclusion at Emory University. Dr. Heron is a professor of emergency medicine in the school of medicine. She is an editor of two textbooks addressing diversity and inclusion

Sheryl Heron in quality patient care and is the recipient of numerous awards including the American College of Emergency Physician's National Faculty Teaching Award, the Woman in Medicine Award from the National Medical Association Council on The Concerns of Women Physicians, the Gender Justice Award from The Georgia Commission on Family Violence and the Outstanding Woman Award in the School of Medicine and the inaugural Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion award in the SOM. Her research interests include equity and inclusion in medicine, violence prevention, and wellness and well-being for the health care profession. Dr. Heron serves on the SAEM Wellness Committee and is a member of SAEM’s Academy for Diversity & Inclusion in Emergency Medicine and Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Kenton Anderson Promoted to Clinical Associate Professor of EM at Stanford

Kenton Anderson, MD has been promoted to clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Director of the Stanford Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship and director of emergency medicine ultrasound research, Dr. Anderson also served as a research

Kenton Anderson officer for the SAEM Academy of Emergency Ultrasound.

Stanford Professor Dr. Samuel Yang is Awarded $3.8 Million from NIH to Develop Sepsis Test

Samuel Yang, MD, associate professor of emergency medicine at Stanford department of emergency medicine has been awarded a $3.8 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health as principal investigator (PI). His study, “Changing Cultures in Sepsis,” aims to develop an amplification

Samuel Yang free, microfluidic system for broad pathogen detection, identification, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing directly from whole blood in a short timeframe. This will be Dr. Yang’s second R01 grant as PI. This work will be in collaboration with Dr. Pak Kin Wong, PhD in the Dept of Biomedical Engineering at Penn State University.

Dr. Sebok-Syer Receives Grant From Edward J. Stemmler, MD, Medical Education Research Fund

Stefanie Sebok-Syer, PhD, Stanford department of emergency medicine instructor, has received a two-year grant from the Edward J. Stemmler, MD, Medical Education Research Fund for a groundbreaking new project, “Conceptualizing and Assessing Interdependent Performance in Collaborative

Stefanie Sebok-Syer Clinical Environments,” in partnership with Lorelei Lingard, PhD, professor in the department of medicine, Western University. Dr. Sebok-Syer is also a co-founder of Stanford’s Precision Education and Assessment Research Lab.

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Dr. Sarah Williams Completes Master of Health Professions Education Program at UIC

Sarah R. Williams, MD, clinical professor of emergency medicine with the Stanford department of emergency medicine, has completed the Master of Health Professions Education (MHPE) at the University of Illinois, Chicago. MHPE is an educational leadership program for health professionals. Dr. Williams,

Sarah R. Williams previously program director for the emergency medicine residency program, has been on faculty at Stanford since 2000. She was founding director of the emergency medicine ultrasound program at Stanford and co-runs the multidisciplinary Stanford clinical teaching program. Her current focus is building a novel coaching program and serving as specialty career advisor at Stanford School of Medicine.

Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak Named Director of Stanford Emergency Medicine Residency

Sara Krzyzaniak, MD, has been named director of the Stanford University emergency medicine residency program. Prior to Stanford, Dr. Krzyzaniak served as associate program director for the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria emergency medicine residency. As part

Sara Krzyzaniak of her international work, Dr. Krzyzaniak helped develop a curriculum to improve care for acutely injured and ill children in regional hospitals in southern Vietnam. Her recent scholarly work focuses on gender issues in medicine, remediation of struggling learners, and medical education. Dr. Krzyzaniak is chief operating officer of the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine: Faculty Incubator.

Dr. Alex Manini is Awarded an RO1 Grant to Study Fentalog Overdoses

Alex Manini, MD, MS, professor of emergency medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York, has been awarded a five-year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH/NIDA). The project, entitled "Predicting Medical Consequences of Novel Fentanyl Analog Overdose Using the Toxicology

Alex Manini Investigators Consortium (ToxIC)" will utilize high volume geographically diverse ToxIC sites over the next 5 years to evaluate risk factors, treatment needs, and regional trends for fentalog overdoses. The project involves collaboration between his institution and the ToxIC national hospital network. Dr. Manini is also an attending physician in the emergency department at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, New York and a clinician-scientist with a research focus on the emergency medical and cardiovascular consequences of drug overdose.