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We are the future of Academic EM

“Your gift to SAEM Foundation allowed me to better understand the nuances of performing rigorous, simulation based educational research. Thanks for your support of me and my career.”

- Margaret Sande, MD, MS, University of Colorado, Denver

“I want to personally thank you for your support of my research training. Your gift is allowing me to address the controversial question of when EMS should intubate a patient in cardiac arrest, or if that patient should even be intubated. With your help, we can answer these questions and improve survival for out of hospital cardiac arrest patients worldwide.”

– Justin Benoit, MD, EMS Fellow, University of Cincinnati

“Your gifts to SAEM Foundation allowed me to learn how to better train trauma teams on resuscitation.

Advancing our understanding of how trauma teams function, and how best to train them, can directly improve the care of those patients. Thank you for supporting me and my career.”

- Jestin Carlson, MD, Gannon University

$10,000,000 IN SIGHT FOR SAEMF

Robert Hockberger, MD

The SAEMF was created out of a need that you identified to help support the careers of emergency medicine researchers — individuals who have committed their lives to finding ways to improve the care of patients during some of the most vulnerable times in their lives. Since its inception less than a decade ago, the SAEMF’s goal has been to increase our endowment from its original $1M to $10M in order to provide increasingly more significant grant opportunities for young researchers and educators in our specialty.

I am pleased to report that we are well on our way to meeting that goal.

There are a number of ways you can support our efforts to advance the career development of the next generation of emergency medicine researchers and educators, including:

YOUR GIFTS constitute between 15-30% of SAEMF income on average, which, when invested, generates more income for grants.

Because the amount of grants funded each year exceeds the amount of donations received,

INCOME PORTFOLIO — Jan. 1, 2015 - Sept. 30, 2015 $80,000

Research Fund Contributions $67,275

$60,000

$40,000

$20,000

Education Fund Contributions $21,061

Events $21,775

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we need more support from individuals (that

$(20,000)

means YOU) to continue offering these programs.

$(40,000)

Investment Income $(19,562)

NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID SAEM

INVESTMENTS

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As of October 31, 2015

A new year is beginning and we at the SAEM Foundation are looking forward to it being a milestone year.

Our academic EM leaders founded the SAEM Foundation in 2008.

The goal was to fulfill SAEM’s mission to lead the advancement of academic EM through research and education. With an initial endowment of $1 million, the Foundation Board of Trustees has diligently cared for and nurtured your gifts. Each donation you make is multiplied through investments in order to provide significant funding for research and educational training for you - the academicians.

See You In

$9,451,640

Donor Alliance Member Highlight

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

FINANCIAL SNAPSHOT

New Orleans

TOTAL ASSETS

2016: A Milestone Year

The SAEM Foundation and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine are working together to develop a strategy for expanding our programs in a way that has the largest impact on the field of academic emergency medicine.

SAEM ANNUAL MEETING MAY 10-13, 2016

$10,000,000

JANUARY 2016

As of October 31, 2015, the SAEM Foundation now holds over $ 9.4M. This incredible achievement can only be credited to the generous gifts that you have contributed over the years… And, if our projections are correct we will reach our $10M goal very soon!

— View videos from these grantees and more at www.saemfoundation.org —

GOAL

EXCLUSIVE

•M aking a gift online or with your SAEM membership renewal payment.

•D onating your grand rounds honoraria (or other honoraria) directly to the SAEMF. • Joining Dr. David Sklar in making a commitment to our new Legacy Society (Dr. Sklar describes his motivation for making his legacy donation to the SAEMF on page 3 of this newsletter).

We hope to have your continued support in 2016. On behalf of everyone at SAEMF, thank you for all that you do to improve emergency care through scientific discovery.

With Gratitude,

Robert Hockberger, MD Chair, SAEM Foundation Send us an email and let us know how we are doing! grants@saem.org

MISSION – The SAEM Foundation is a 501c3 public charity. The mission of the SAEM Foundation is to improve the emergency care of patients through medical research and scientific discovery; to enhance research capabilities within emergency medicine; and to help emergency physicians develop the skills to become successful investigators.

D. Matthew Sullivan, MD After 15 years in academics, Dr. Matthew Sullivan’s career is changing. Find out how he stays connected to academic EM. (Inside Page 2)

— SAEMF —

$1=$3

Each $1 for research training awarded by SAEMF generates more than $3 in subsequent federal funding to investigators.

Donor Alliance Member D. Matthew Sullivan You Can’t Do It All Forever Name:

Investing in our Future

$96,921 Raised for SAEMF $100K Challenge

David Sklar, MD, Founding Member, SAEMF Legacy Society

Over the summer, you donated $96,921 towards the SAEMF $100K Challenge! This is the greatest amount of donations SAEMF has ever received in one year! Because we came so close to meeting the goal, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine donated $100,000 to match your gifts. Thank you to all of the Challenge Champions who donated, and thank you to SAEM for matching our goal.

of what we do, we tend to imagine that we are somehow protected from such tragedies by an invisible shield, so we put off writing a will and perhaps exercise some more to toughen our shield instead.

Writing wills evokes in us the same sort of unpleasantness as reflecting on our ED tragedies. So we delay, figuring we’ll just wait until a more appropriate time, like when we are at least 90.

D. Matthew Sullivan, MD

Donor Alliance Status: Honorary President

After 15 years in academic emergency medicine, Dr. Matthew Sullivan’s career is taking him in a new direction. In this article, Dr. Sullivan explains how he stays connected to his academic community while taking on new adventures at Carolinas HealthCare System… And why he continues to support the work of the SAEM Foundation.

In 1998, I was a chief resident when John Marx encouraged me to attend the SAEM Chief Resident’s Forum in Chicago.

It was a really big deal for me to attend a national meeting with John, who was not only my chair and president of SAEM at the time, but would also become my mentor. I learned a lot about academic emergency medicine at that first meeting and saw first-hand what it might be like to be a clinician scientist. Being exposed to people who would one day be known as some of the “greats” in emergency medicine left a huge impression on me.

I saw people like John Younger and Susan Stern present research I didn’t understand.

I watched Jeff Kline, who would later become my research mentor, present his work in cardiac shock and pulmonary embolism. SAEM gave out a new award that highlighted the success of young investigators. It was a transformative experience for me and a driving force to become involved in academics and with SAEM, including the choice to do a research fellowship after residency.

Professional Title:

Director of Evidence-based Care

Institution:

Carolinas HealthCare System

It’s been 18 years since that impactful meeting and my career has since taken a new turn. I still see patients to maintain my skills, but I am no longer in an academic department, I am not teaching or mentoring residents, and I am not doing research. However, I think that my work in administration and advancing evidencebased care across multiple aspects of medicine and population health manage to accomplish and further each of those components of my previous work through a different lens.

In my new position, I am grateful for my background in research and education as it helps me to evaluate the impact of decisions; I think about policy change and workflow with the mentality of a scholar and a clinician. I have found my career evolution to be an interesting ride. In medicine, we often think about career as a linear process; however, emergency medicine and academics in particular prepare one for a life-long career of learning and exploring. I have watched the twists and turns of many in EM with fascination and am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to SAEM as my foundation for a life of meaningful work. My own involvement with SAEM and my investment in the work of the SAEM Foundation allows me to support our specialty, stay up-to-date on new advancements, and encourage the academic growth of the clinicians in training.

The SAEM Foundation is important to me for two main reasons: 1. recipients of SAEMF research funding have been successful in obtaining federal funding, 2. the Foundation has seen a return on its investment of over 200% in terms of federal funding success (Safdar B., Paradise S., et al. Influence of Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Grant Mechanisms on Postaward

Academic Productivity. Acad Emerg Med. 2015;22:150-156). This success rate shows that SAEMF has a track record of building careers in a way that is positive and sustaining – a huge value to the long-term health of our specialty and contribution to the science of the discipline. There are no shortages of places that will take your money, so the question is “What do these places do with your money and what does that mean to you?” When you give money to the SAEM Foundation, it furthers the careers of those in your own specialty and, in so doing, improves the specialty overall.

Thus, in a way, when you donate to SAEMF, you contribute to your own success!

Our specialty has been blessed with a number of great researchers over the years, but as they age out, who will replace them? We need to continue to invest in our specialty by building and supporting today’s young faculty members — the next generation of great academicians who will be making a difference long after the rest of us retire. If we invest in their future wisely — with the right mentorship and funding — then the researchers and educators of today will turn out to be even better than those before them. Isn’t that what our end goal should be: to invest in the next generation and make them better than us? I was fortunate to have great mentors: Jeff Kline and John Marx.

Donating to the SAEM Foundation is one way I can play a part in investing in people who will have the same impact on the next generation as these mentors did for me.

I have learned a few important things in the last two decades: You can’t do it all and you can’t do anything forever. However, you can be a force multiplier in very tangible ways. By advancing the careers of young investigators through contributions to the SAEM Foundation, our work goes on and our specialty is sustained. This is what the legacy of emergency medicine is all about.

Dr. David Sklar is the Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of Academic Medicine. During his distinguished career in academic emergency medicine, he has served as the president of SAEM, the president of CORD, and chair of the Board of Directors of ACEP. None of us likes to think about dying, particularly after a difficult emergency department shift that ends in tragedy and is followed by conversations with grieving family members who are trying to make some sense of it all. Because

For a long time that was me, but over the years I have watched several colleagues in my department die unexpectedly, and some SAEM former presidents who were good friends also died. So when the EMF Board asked me to consider giving part of my estate to EMF, it seemed like a reasonable idea and I decided to do the same for the SAEM Foundation.

I was fortunate to have held leadership positions in both of these organizations and have watched them grow and mature into valuable resources for emergency medicine scholarship. I have always felt blessed to be able to contribute to the growth of our specialty through my leadership positions but often felt frustrated that emergency medicine researchers lacked access to some of the funds available to researchers in other specialties. Such funds could have helped us in those early years to address some important questions about emergency care that needed answers. So I decided

to dedicate a portion of my estate to the SAEM Foundation to support our future researchers as they develop scholarly expertise and continue to build our specialty. We are a specialty that grew out of a serious clinical need, but our future will include important contributions about the time course of acute illness, how to change that trajectory as well as an understanding of the various social contributors to illness and injury. I hope many of you will join me in supporting our specialty and our future through building the endowment of the SAEM Foundation.

When is the right time to write a will?

It’s never too early to plan for the future. An emergency can happen at any moment, and at a time of crisis, financial planning is an added burden. The best time to write, or re-write, your will is during the significant events in your life, such as when you become financially independent from your parents, get married, have children, become divorced, or get remarried. If you have not yet written your will, now is a good time.

For further information on how to include SAEM Foundation in your charitable giving plans, please contact Melissa McMillian, Grants and Foundation Manager, Phone: 847-257-7233, Email: mmcmillian@saem.org.

If you have already included the Foundation in your estate plan, please let us know. If you haven’t, it isn’t too late.

CHALLENGE CHAMPIONS Donated April 1, 2015 – September 30, 2015 Individual Champs Beau Abar, PhD James G. Adams, MD Srikar Adhikari,MD, MS Tahroma Elaine Alligood, MPH Harrison J. Alter, MS, MD David Josef Amin, MD Nana Yaw Michael Berko Appiah, Pharm.D. Kavita Babu, MD David Barbic, MD Jill M. Baren, MD William Barsan, MD Rebecca A. Bavolek, MD Francesca Beaudoin, MD David G. Beiser, MD Justin Benoit, MD

Steven Casto, EdD

Matthew Gratton, MD

Richard C. Levy, MD

Brian O’Neil, MD

Peter E. Sokolove, MD

Andrew K. Chang, MD

George Greaves

Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD

Elizabeth Oshinson

Lauren Southerland, MD

Douglas Char, MD

Walter L. Green, MD

Resa Lewiss, MD

Susan Stern, MD

David Cheng, MD

Maryanne Greketis, CMP

Rochelle Lima-Babigian, MD

Monica M. Orozco White, MCP/MCDST

Kataryna Christensen

Danielle Hart, MD

Alexander T. Limkakeng, Jr., MD

Daniel Pallin, MD, MPH

D. Matthew Sullivan, MD

Theodore A. Christopher, MD

Phillip M. Harter, MD

Andrew Liteplo, MD

Kathleen J. Clem, MD

Kate Heilpern, MD

Kory London, MD

Stewart Coffman, MD

Debra Heitmann, MD

Bernard Lopez, MD, MS

Bernadette Colas

A. Zach Hettinger, MD

Tracy Madsen, MD

Darian Collins, BSN

Holly Hinson, MD

Marilyn Mages

D. Mark Courtney, MD

Cherri D. Hobgood, MD

Keith Marill, MD

Cameron Crandall, MD, PhD

Robert S. Hockberger, MD

Jennifer Lynn Martindale, MD

James W. Hoekstra, MD

Brandon Maughan, MD, MHS

Chad Darling, MD Theodore R. Delbridge, MD, MPH M. Kit Delgado, MD Deborah B. Diercks, MD, MSc Alan Dimick, MD

Judd E. Hollander, MD James F. Holmes, MD, MPH Jeffrey B. Hopkins, MD Jason Hoppe, DO

Steven Bernstein, MD

Gail D’Onofrio, MD and Robert Galvin

Simon Berthelot, MD MSc

Steve Dronen, MD

Sara C. Bessman

Jeffrey Phillip Druck, MD

Edward S. Bessman, MD, MBA

Thomas Evans, MD

Kevin Biese, MD, MAT

Lawrence P. Fannon, MD

Steven B. Bird, MD

Christopher Fee, MD

Bory Kea, MD

Michelle Biros, MD

Robert P. Ferm, MD

Mark Bisanzo, MD

Ula Hwang, MD, MPH Andy Jagoda, MD

James McCarthy, MD Robert McCormack, MD Melissa McMillian, CNP Jason T. McMullan, MD Zachary Meisel, MD, MPH, MSc Edward R. Melnick, MD

Edward Panacek, MD Jim Pearson Ava Pierce, MD Timothy F. Platts-Mills, MD Marc A. Probst, MD, MS Susan Promes, MD Michael Pulia, MD Michael Puskarich, MD Megan Ranney, MD, MPH Douglas Ray Michael Reed Marc C. Restuccia, MD Stacy L. Reynolds, MD Sean Rhyee, MD

Michael Menchine, MD, MPH

Lynne Richardson, MD

Roland Clayton Merchant, MD, MPH, ScD

Kristin Rising, MD, MS Stacey Roseen

Joseph Miller, MD

Brett A. Rosen, MD

Andrew Milsten, MD

Christopher Ross, MD

Taryn Kennedy, MD

Ronald S. Moen

Kirsten L. Rounds, RN, MS

Nathan Finnerty, MD

Christopher King, MD

Nicholas M. Mohr, MD

Susan Rowell, MD

Michelle Blanda, MD

Ray Fowler, MD

Ryan Kirby, MD

Andrew Monte, MD

Stephen Sanko, MD

Andra Blomkalns, MD

Doug Franzen, MD

Paul Kivela

Anthony Montoya, MD

Robert W. Schafermeyer, MD

Michael A. Bohrn, MD

Jennifer Frey, PhD

Nicholas Kman, MD

Robert Muelleman, MD

Megan Schagrin, CAE, CFRE

William F. Bond, MD

Adam Frisch, MD

Keith Kocher, MD

Bryn Mumma, MD

Kinjal Sethuraman, MD, MPH

Jesica Bravo

E. John Gallagher, MD

Terry Kowalenko, MD

Paul Musey, MD

Manish Shah, MD, MPH

Michael Brown, MD

Romolo Gaspari, MD

Nathan Kuppermann, MD, MPH

Toby J. Nagurney, MD MPH

Willard Sharp, MD, PhD

Elizabeth Rhea Erwin Burner, MD

Marc Gautreau, MD

Michael C. Kurz, MD, MS

Ana Navio, MD, PhD

Robert Shesser, MD

Patrick Burnside, MD

Sharhabeel Jwayyed, MD Chris Kabrhel, MD, MPH Amy H. Kaji, MD, PhD

Rory Patrick Stuart, MD Jean Sun Thomas Terndrup, MD Sophie Terp, MD, MPH Benjamin Terry, MD William F. Toon, Ed.D., NRP Vicken Y. Totten, MD, MS Joseph Adrian Tyndall, MD J Scott VanEpps, MD, PhD Gregory A. Volturo, MD Matthew Walsh, MD Scott Weiner, MD Scott T. Wilber, MD, MPH David Wilcox, MD Richard E. Wolfe, MD Kabir Yadav, MDCM MS MSHS Richard Zane, MD Shahriar Zehtabchi, MD David Zhou, MD Brian J. Zink, MD Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous

Organizational Champs CORD Massachusetts General Hospital

Nina Gentile, MD

Nancy Kwon, MD,MPA

Craig D. Newgard, MD

Jeffrey Siegelman, MD

Holly Byrd-Duncan

W. Brian Gibler, MD

Shana Laborde

Constance Nichols, MD

Greg Simsarian, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals

Jestin Carlson, MD

Lewis Goldfrank, MD

Charlotte Lawson, MD

Andrew S. Nugent, MD

Richard H. Sinert, DO

Summa Akron City Hospital

DONATE YOUR HONORARIUM Save money at tax time by donating the honoraria you receive from grand rounds, professional speaking engagements, and other activities to the SAEM Foundation… It is one easy way to help our specialty grow. Contact Melissa McMillian at mmcmillian@saem.org to donate your honorarium.

Donor Alliance Member D. Matthew Sullivan You Can’t Do It All Forever Name:

Investing in our Future

$96,921 Raised for SAEMF $100K Challenge

David Sklar, MD, Founding Member, SAEMF Legacy Society

Over the summer, you donated $96,921 towards the SAEMF $100K Challenge! This is the greatest amount of donations SAEMF has ever received in one year! Because we came so close to meeting the goal, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine donated $100,000 to match your gifts. Thank you to all of the Challenge Champions who donated, and thank you to SAEM for matching our goal.

of what we do, we tend to imagine that we are somehow protected from such tragedies by an invisible shield, so we put off writing a will and perhaps exercise some more to toughen our shield instead.

Writing wills evokes in us the same sort of unpleasantness as reflecting on our ED tragedies. So we delay, figuring we’ll just wait until a more appropriate time, like when we are at least 90.

D. Matthew Sullivan, MD

Donor Alliance Status: Honorary President

After 15 years in academic emergency medicine, Dr. Matthew Sullivan’s career is taking him in a new direction. In this article, Dr. Sullivan explains how he stays connected to his academic community while taking on new adventures at Carolinas HealthCare System… And why he continues to support the work of the SAEM Foundation.

In 1998, I was a chief resident when John Marx encouraged me to attend the SAEM Chief Resident’s Forum in Chicago.

It was a really big deal for me to attend a national meeting with John, who was not only my chair and president of SAEM at the time, but would also become my mentor. I learned a lot about academic emergency medicine at that first meeting and saw first-hand what it might be like to be a clinician scientist. Being exposed to people who would one day be known as some of the “greats” in emergency medicine left a huge impression on me.

I saw people like John Younger and Susan Stern present research I didn’t understand.

I watched Jeff Kline, who would later become my research mentor, present his work in cardiac shock and pulmonary embolism. SAEM gave out a new award that highlighted the success of young investigators. It was a transformative experience for me and a driving force to become involved in academics and with SAEM, including the choice to do a research fellowship after residency.

Professional Title:

Director of Evidence-based Care

Institution:

Carolinas HealthCare System

It’s been 18 years since that impactful meeting and my career has since taken a new turn. I still see patients to maintain my skills, but I am no longer in an academic department, I am not teaching or mentoring residents, and I am not doing research. However, I think that my work in administration and advancing evidencebased care across multiple aspects of medicine and population health manage to accomplish and further each of those components of my previous work through a different lens.

In my new position, I am grateful for my background in research and education as it helps me to evaluate the impact of decisions; I think about policy change and workflow with the mentality of a scholar and a clinician. I have found my career evolution to be an interesting ride. In medicine, we often think about career as a linear process; however, emergency medicine and academics in particular prepare one for a life-long career of learning and exploring. I have watched the twists and turns of many in EM with fascination and am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to SAEM as my foundation for a life of meaningful work. My own involvement with SAEM and my investment in the work of the SAEM Foundation allows me to support our specialty, stay up-to-date on new advancements, and encourage the academic growth of the clinicians in training.

The SAEM Foundation is important to me for two main reasons: 1. recipients of SAEMF research funding have been successful in obtaining federal funding, 2. the Foundation has seen a return on its investment of over 200% in terms of federal funding success (Safdar B., Paradise S., et al. Influence of Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Grant Mechanisms on Postaward

Academic Productivity. Acad Emerg Med. 2015;22:150-156). This success rate shows that SAEMF has a track record of building careers in a way that is positive and sustaining – a huge value to the long-term health of our specialty and contribution to the science of the discipline. There are no shortages of places that will take your money, so the question is “What do these places do with your money and what does that mean to you?” When you give money to the SAEM Foundation, it furthers the careers of those in your own specialty and, in so doing, improves the specialty overall.

Thus, in a way, when you donate to SAEMF, you contribute to your own success!

Our specialty has been blessed with a number of great researchers over the years, but as they age out, who will replace them? We need to continue to invest in our specialty by building and supporting today’s young faculty members — the next generation of great academicians who will be making a difference long after the rest of us retire. If we invest in their future wisely — with the right mentorship and funding — then the researchers and educators of today will turn out to be even better than those before them. Isn’t that what our end goal should be: to invest in the next generation and make them better than us? I was fortunate to have great mentors: Jeff Kline and John Marx.

Donating to the SAEM Foundation is one way I can play a part in investing in people who will have the same impact on the next generation as these mentors did for me.

I have learned a few important things in the last two decades: You can’t do it all and you can’t do anything forever. However, you can be a force multiplier in very tangible ways. By advancing the careers of young investigators through contributions to the SAEM Foundation, our work goes on and our specialty is sustained. This is what the legacy of emergency medicine is all about.

Dr. David Sklar is the Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of Academic Medicine. During his distinguished career in academic emergency medicine, he has served as the president of SAEM, the president of CORD, and chair of the Board of Directors of ACEP. None of us likes to think about dying, particularly after a difficult emergency department shift that ends in tragedy and is followed by conversations with grieving family members who are trying to make some sense of it all. Because

For a long time that was me, but over the years I have watched several colleagues in my department die unexpectedly, and some SAEM former presidents who were good friends also died. So when the EMF Board asked me to consider giving part of my estate to EMF, it seemed like a reasonable idea and I decided to do the same for the SAEM Foundation.

I was fortunate to have held leadership positions in both of these organizations and have watched them grow and mature into valuable resources for emergency medicine scholarship. I have always felt blessed to be able to contribute to the growth of our specialty through my leadership positions but often felt frustrated that emergency medicine researchers lacked access to some of the funds available to researchers in other specialties. Such funds could have helped us in those early years to address some important questions about emergency care that needed answers. So I decided

to dedicate a portion of my estate to the SAEM Foundation to support our future researchers as they develop scholarly expertise and continue to build our specialty. We are a specialty that grew out of a serious clinical need, but our future will include important contributions about the time course of acute illness, how to change that trajectory as well as an understanding of the various social contributors to illness and injury. I hope many of you will join me in supporting our specialty and our future through building the endowment of the SAEM Foundation.

When is the right time to write a will?

It’s never too early to plan for the future. An emergency can happen at any moment, and at a time of crisis, financial planning is an added burden. The best time to write, or re-write, your will is during the significant events in your life, such as when you become financially independent from your parents, get married, have children, become divorced, or get remarried. If you have not yet written your will, now is a good time.

For further information on how to include SAEM Foundation in your charitable giving plans, please contact Melissa McMillian, Grants and Foundation Manager, Phone: 847-257-7233, Email: mmcmillian@saem.org.

If you have already included the Foundation in your estate plan, please let us know. If you haven’t, it isn’t too late.

CHALLENGE CHAMPIONS Donated April 1, 2015 – September 30, 2015 Individual Champs Beau Abar, PhD James G. Adams, MD Srikar Adhikari,MD, MS Tahroma Elaine Alligood, MPH Harrison J. Alter, MS, MD David Josef Amin, MD Nana Yaw Michael Berko Appiah, Pharm.D. Kavita Babu, MD David Barbic, MD Jill M. Baren, MD William Barsan, MD Rebecca A. Bavolek, MD Francesca Beaudoin, MD David G. Beiser, MD Justin Benoit, MD

Steven Casto, EdD

Matthew Gratton, MD

Richard C. Levy, MD

Brian O’Neil, MD

Peter E. Sokolove, MD

Andrew K. Chang, MD

George Greaves

Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD

Elizabeth Oshinson

Lauren Southerland, MD

Douglas Char, MD

Walter L. Green, MD

Resa Lewiss, MD

Susan Stern, MD

David Cheng, MD

Maryanne Greketis, CMP

Rochelle Lima-Babigian, MD

Monica M. Orozco White, MCP/MCDST

Kataryna Christensen

Danielle Hart, MD

Alexander T. Limkakeng, Jr., MD

Daniel Pallin, MD, MPH

D. Matthew Sullivan, MD

Theodore A. Christopher, MD

Phillip M. Harter, MD

Andrew Liteplo, MD

Kathleen J. Clem, MD

Kate Heilpern, MD

Kory London, MD

Stewart Coffman, MD

Debra Heitmann, MD

Bernard Lopez, MD, MS

Bernadette Colas

A. Zach Hettinger, MD

Tracy Madsen, MD

Darian Collins, BSN

Holly Hinson, MD

Marilyn Mages

D. Mark Courtney, MD

Cherri D. Hobgood, MD

Keith Marill, MD

Cameron Crandall, MD, PhD

Robert S. Hockberger, MD

Jennifer Lynn Martindale, MD

James W. Hoekstra, MD

Brandon Maughan, MD, MHS

Chad Darling, MD Theodore R. Delbridge, MD, MPH M. Kit Delgado, MD Deborah B. Diercks, MD, MSc Alan Dimick, MD

Judd E. Hollander, MD James F. Holmes, MD, MPH Jeffrey B. Hopkins, MD Jason Hoppe, DO

Steven Bernstein, MD

Gail D’Onofrio, MD and Robert Galvin

Simon Berthelot, MD MSc

Steve Dronen, MD

Sara C. Bessman

Jeffrey Phillip Druck, MD

Edward S. Bessman, MD, MBA

Thomas Evans, MD

Kevin Biese, MD, MAT

Lawrence P. Fannon, MD

Steven B. Bird, MD

Christopher Fee, MD

Bory Kea, MD

Michelle Biros, MD

Robert P. Ferm, MD

Mark Bisanzo, MD

Ula Hwang, MD, MPH Andy Jagoda, MD

James McCarthy, MD Robert McCormack, MD Melissa McMillian, CNP Jason T. McMullan, MD Zachary Meisel, MD, MPH, MSc Edward R. Melnick, MD

Edward Panacek, MD Jim Pearson Ava Pierce, MD Timothy F. Platts-Mills, MD Marc A. Probst, MD, MS Susan Promes, MD Michael Pulia, MD Michael Puskarich, MD Megan Ranney, MD, MPH Douglas Ray Michael Reed Marc C. Restuccia, MD Stacy L. Reynolds, MD Sean Rhyee, MD

Michael Menchine, MD, MPH

Lynne Richardson, MD

Roland Clayton Merchant, MD, MPH, ScD

Kristin Rising, MD, MS Stacey Roseen

Joseph Miller, MD

Brett A. Rosen, MD

Andrew Milsten, MD

Christopher Ross, MD

Taryn Kennedy, MD

Ronald S. Moen

Kirsten L. Rounds, RN, MS

Nathan Finnerty, MD

Christopher King, MD

Nicholas M. Mohr, MD

Susan Rowell, MD

Michelle Blanda, MD

Ray Fowler, MD

Ryan Kirby, MD

Andrew Monte, MD

Stephen Sanko, MD

Andra Blomkalns, MD

Doug Franzen, MD

Paul Kivela

Anthony Montoya, MD

Robert W. Schafermeyer, MD

Michael A. Bohrn, MD

Jennifer Frey, PhD

Nicholas Kman, MD

Robert Muelleman, MD

Megan Schagrin, CAE, CFRE

William F. Bond, MD

Adam Frisch, MD

Keith Kocher, MD

Bryn Mumma, MD

Kinjal Sethuraman, MD, MPH

Jesica Bravo

E. John Gallagher, MD

Terry Kowalenko, MD

Paul Musey, MD

Manish Shah, MD, MPH

Michael Brown, MD

Romolo Gaspari, MD

Nathan Kuppermann, MD, MPH

Toby J. Nagurney, MD MPH

Willard Sharp, MD, PhD

Elizabeth Rhea Erwin Burner, MD

Marc Gautreau, MD

Michael C. Kurz, MD, MS

Ana Navio, MD, PhD

Robert Shesser, MD

Patrick Burnside, MD

Sharhabeel Jwayyed, MD Chris Kabrhel, MD, MPH Amy H. Kaji, MD, PhD

Rory Patrick Stuart, MD Jean Sun Thomas Terndrup, MD Sophie Terp, MD, MPH Benjamin Terry, MD William F. Toon, Ed.D., NRP Vicken Y. Totten, MD, MS Joseph Adrian Tyndall, MD J Scott VanEpps, MD, PhD Gregory A. Volturo, MD Matthew Walsh, MD Scott Weiner, MD Scott T. Wilber, MD, MPH David Wilcox, MD Richard E. Wolfe, MD Kabir Yadav, MDCM MS MSHS Richard Zane, MD Shahriar Zehtabchi, MD David Zhou, MD Brian J. Zink, MD Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous

Organizational Champs CORD Massachusetts General Hospital

Nina Gentile, MD

Nancy Kwon, MD,MPA

Craig D. Newgard, MD

Jeffrey Siegelman, MD

Holly Byrd-Duncan

W. Brian Gibler, MD

Shana Laborde

Constance Nichols, MD

Greg Simsarian, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals

Jestin Carlson, MD

Lewis Goldfrank, MD

Charlotte Lawson, MD

Andrew S. Nugent, MD

Richard H. Sinert, DO

Summa Akron City Hospital

DONATE YOUR HONORARIUM Save money at tax time by donating the honoraria you receive from grand rounds, professional speaking engagements, and other activities to the SAEM Foundation… It is one easy way to help our specialty grow. Contact Melissa McMillian at mmcmillian@saem.org to donate your honorarium.

Donor Alliance Member D. Matthew Sullivan You Can’t Do It All Forever Name:

Investing in our Future

$96,921 Raised for SAEMF $100K Challenge

David Sklar, MD, Founding Member, SAEMF Legacy Society

Over the summer, you donated $96,921 towards the SAEMF $100K Challenge! This is the greatest amount of donations SAEMF has ever received in one year! Because we came so close to meeting the goal, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine donated $100,000 to match your gifts. Thank you to all of the Challenge Champions who donated, and thank you to SAEM for matching our goal.

of what we do, we tend to imagine that we are somehow protected from such tragedies by an invisible shield, so we put off writing a will and perhaps exercise some more to toughen our shield instead.

Writing wills evokes in us the same sort of unpleasantness as reflecting on our ED tragedies. So we delay, figuring we’ll just wait until a more appropriate time, like when we are at least 90.

D. Matthew Sullivan, MD

Donor Alliance Status: Honorary President

After 15 years in academic emergency medicine, Dr. Matthew Sullivan’s career is taking him in a new direction. In this article, Dr. Sullivan explains how he stays connected to his academic community while taking on new adventures at Carolinas HealthCare System… And why he continues to support the work of the SAEM Foundation.

In 1998, I was a chief resident when John Marx encouraged me to attend the SAEM Chief Resident’s Forum in Chicago.

It was a really big deal for me to attend a national meeting with John, who was not only my chair and president of SAEM at the time, but would also become my mentor. I learned a lot about academic emergency medicine at that first meeting and saw first-hand what it might be like to be a clinician scientist. Being exposed to people who would one day be known as some of the “greats” in emergency medicine left a huge impression on me.

I saw people like John Younger and Susan Stern present research I didn’t understand.

I watched Jeff Kline, who would later become my research mentor, present his work in cardiac shock and pulmonary embolism. SAEM gave out a new award that highlighted the success of young investigators. It was a transformative experience for me and a driving force to become involved in academics and with SAEM, including the choice to do a research fellowship after residency.

Professional Title:

Director of Evidence-based Care

Institution:

Carolinas HealthCare System

It’s been 18 years since that impactful meeting and my career has since taken a new turn. I still see patients to maintain my skills, but I am no longer in an academic department, I am not teaching or mentoring residents, and I am not doing research. However, I think that my work in administration and advancing evidencebased care across multiple aspects of medicine and population health manage to accomplish and further each of those components of my previous work through a different lens.

In my new position, I am grateful for my background in research and education as it helps me to evaluate the impact of decisions; I think about policy change and workflow with the mentality of a scholar and a clinician. I have found my career evolution to be an interesting ride. In medicine, we often think about career as a linear process; however, emergency medicine and academics in particular prepare one for a life-long career of learning and exploring. I have watched the twists and turns of many in EM with fascination and am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to SAEM as my foundation for a life of meaningful work. My own involvement with SAEM and my investment in the work of the SAEM Foundation allows me to support our specialty, stay up-to-date on new advancements, and encourage the academic growth of the clinicians in training.

The SAEM Foundation is important to me for two main reasons: 1. recipients of SAEMF research funding have been successful in obtaining federal funding, 2. the Foundation has seen a return on its investment of over 200% in terms of federal funding success (Safdar B., Paradise S., et al. Influence of Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Grant Mechanisms on Postaward

Academic Productivity. Acad Emerg Med. 2015;22:150-156). This success rate shows that SAEMF has a track record of building careers in a way that is positive and sustaining – a huge value to the long-term health of our specialty and contribution to the science of the discipline. There are no shortages of places that will take your money, so the question is “What do these places do with your money and what does that mean to you?” When you give money to the SAEM Foundation, it furthers the careers of those in your own specialty and, in so doing, improves the specialty overall.

Thus, in a way, when you donate to SAEMF, you contribute to your own success!

Our specialty has been blessed with a number of great researchers over the years, but as they age out, who will replace them? We need to continue to invest in our specialty by building and supporting today’s young faculty members — the next generation of great academicians who will be making a difference long after the rest of us retire. If we invest in their future wisely — with the right mentorship and funding — then the researchers and educators of today will turn out to be even better than those before them. Isn’t that what our end goal should be: to invest in the next generation and make them better than us? I was fortunate to have great mentors: Jeff Kline and John Marx.

Donating to the SAEM Foundation is one way I can play a part in investing in people who will have the same impact on the next generation as these mentors did for me.

I have learned a few important things in the last two decades: You can’t do it all and you can’t do anything forever. However, you can be a force multiplier in very tangible ways. By advancing the careers of young investigators through contributions to the SAEM Foundation, our work goes on and our specialty is sustained. This is what the legacy of emergency medicine is all about.

Dr. David Sklar is the Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of Academic Medicine. During his distinguished career in academic emergency medicine, he has served as the president of SAEM, the president of CORD, and chair of the Board of Directors of ACEP. None of us likes to think about dying, particularly after a difficult emergency department shift that ends in tragedy and is followed by conversations with grieving family members who are trying to make some sense of it all. Because

For a long time that was me, but over the years I have watched several colleagues in my department die unexpectedly, and some SAEM former presidents who were good friends also died. So when the EMF Board asked me to consider giving part of my estate to EMF, it seemed like a reasonable idea and I decided to do the same for the SAEM Foundation.

I was fortunate to have held leadership positions in both of these organizations and have watched them grow and mature into valuable resources for emergency medicine scholarship. I have always felt blessed to be able to contribute to the growth of our specialty through my leadership positions but often felt frustrated that emergency medicine researchers lacked access to some of the funds available to researchers in other specialties. Such funds could have helped us in those early years to address some important questions about emergency care that needed answers. So I decided

to dedicate a portion of my estate to the SAEM Foundation to support our future researchers as they develop scholarly expertise and continue to build our specialty. We are a specialty that grew out of a serious clinical need, but our future will include important contributions about the time course of acute illness, how to change that trajectory as well as an understanding of the various social contributors to illness and injury. I hope many of you will join me in supporting our specialty and our future through building the endowment of the SAEM Foundation.

When is the right time to write a will?

It’s never too early to plan for the future. An emergency can happen at any moment, and at a time of crisis, financial planning is an added burden. The best time to write, or re-write, your will is during the significant events in your life, such as when you become financially independent from your parents, get married, have children, become divorced, or get remarried. If you have not yet written your will, now is a good time.

For further information on how to include SAEM Foundation in your charitable giving plans, please contact Melissa McMillian, Grants and Foundation Manager, Phone: 847-257-7233, Email: mmcmillian@saem.org.

If you have already included the Foundation in your estate plan, please let us know. If you haven’t, it isn’t too late.

CHALLENGE CHAMPIONS Donated April 1, 2015 – September 30, 2015 Individual Champs Beau Abar, PhD James G. Adams, MD Srikar Adhikari,MD, MS Tahroma Elaine Alligood, MPH Harrison J. Alter, MS, MD David Josef Amin, MD Nana Yaw Michael Berko Appiah, Pharm.D. Kavita Babu, MD David Barbic, MD Jill M. Baren, MD William Barsan, MD Rebecca A. Bavolek, MD Francesca Beaudoin, MD David G. Beiser, MD Justin Benoit, MD

Steven Casto, EdD

Matthew Gratton, MD

Richard C. Levy, MD

Brian O’Neil, MD

Peter E. Sokolove, MD

Andrew K. Chang, MD

George Greaves

Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD

Elizabeth Oshinson

Lauren Southerland, MD

Douglas Char, MD

Walter L. Green, MD

Resa Lewiss, MD

Susan Stern, MD

David Cheng, MD

Maryanne Greketis, CMP

Rochelle Lima-Babigian, MD

Monica M. Orozco White, MCP/MCDST

Kataryna Christensen

Danielle Hart, MD

Alexander T. Limkakeng, Jr., MD

Daniel Pallin, MD, MPH

D. Matthew Sullivan, MD

Theodore A. Christopher, MD

Phillip M. Harter, MD

Andrew Liteplo, MD

Kathleen J. Clem, MD

Kate Heilpern, MD

Kory London, MD

Stewart Coffman, MD

Debra Heitmann, MD

Bernard Lopez, MD, MS

Bernadette Colas

A. Zach Hettinger, MD

Tracy Madsen, MD

Darian Collins, BSN

Holly Hinson, MD

Marilyn Mages

D. Mark Courtney, MD

Cherri D. Hobgood, MD

Keith Marill, MD

Cameron Crandall, MD, PhD

Robert S. Hockberger, MD

Jennifer Lynn Martindale, MD

James W. Hoekstra, MD

Brandon Maughan, MD, MHS

Chad Darling, MD Theodore R. Delbridge, MD, MPH M. Kit Delgado, MD Deborah B. Diercks, MD, MSc Alan Dimick, MD

Judd E. Hollander, MD James F. Holmes, MD, MPH Jeffrey B. Hopkins, MD Jason Hoppe, DO

Steven Bernstein, MD

Gail D’Onofrio, MD and Robert Galvin

Simon Berthelot, MD MSc

Steve Dronen, MD

Sara C. Bessman

Jeffrey Phillip Druck, MD

Edward S. Bessman, MD, MBA

Thomas Evans, MD

Kevin Biese, MD, MAT

Lawrence P. Fannon, MD

Steven B. Bird, MD

Christopher Fee, MD

Bory Kea, MD

Michelle Biros, MD

Robert P. Ferm, MD

Mark Bisanzo, MD

Ula Hwang, MD, MPH Andy Jagoda, MD

James McCarthy, MD Robert McCormack, MD Melissa McMillian, CNP Jason T. McMullan, MD Zachary Meisel, MD, MPH, MSc Edward R. Melnick, MD

Edward Panacek, MD Jim Pearson Ava Pierce, MD Timothy F. Platts-Mills, MD Marc A. Probst, MD, MS Susan Promes, MD Michael Pulia, MD Michael Puskarich, MD Megan Ranney, MD, MPH Douglas Ray Michael Reed Marc C. Restuccia, MD Stacy L. Reynolds, MD Sean Rhyee, MD

Michael Menchine, MD, MPH

Lynne Richardson, MD

Roland Clayton Merchant, MD, MPH, ScD

Kristin Rising, MD, MS Stacey Roseen

Joseph Miller, MD

Brett A. Rosen, MD

Andrew Milsten, MD

Christopher Ross, MD

Taryn Kennedy, MD

Ronald S. Moen

Kirsten L. Rounds, RN, MS

Nathan Finnerty, MD

Christopher King, MD

Nicholas M. Mohr, MD

Susan Rowell, MD

Michelle Blanda, MD

Ray Fowler, MD

Ryan Kirby, MD

Andrew Monte, MD

Stephen Sanko, MD

Andra Blomkalns, MD

Doug Franzen, MD

Paul Kivela

Anthony Montoya, MD

Robert W. Schafermeyer, MD

Michael A. Bohrn, MD

Jennifer Frey, PhD

Nicholas Kman, MD

Robert Muelleman, MD

Megan Schagrin, CAE, CFRE

William F. Bond, MD

Adam Frisch, MD

Keith Kocher, MD

Bryn Mumma, MD

Kinjal Sethuraman, MD, MPH

Jesica Bravo

E. John Gallagher, MD

Terry Kowalenko, MD

Paul Musey, MD

Manish Shah, MD, MPH

Michael Brown, MD

Romolo Gaspari, MD

Nathan Kuppermann, MD, MPH

Toby J. Nagurney, MD MPH

Willard Sharp, MD, PhD

Elizabeth Rhea Erwin Burner, MD

Marc Gautreau, MD

Michael C. Kurz, MD, MS

Ana Navio, MD, PhD

Robert Shesser, MD

Patrick Burnside, MD

Sharhabeel Jwayyed, MD Chris Kabrhel, MD, MPH Amy H. Kaji, MD, PhD

Rory Patrick Stuart, MD Jean Sun Thomas Terndrup, MD Sophie Terp, MD, MPH Benjamin Terry, MD William F. Toon, Ed.D., NRP Vicken Y. Totten, MD, MS Joseph Adrian Tyndall, MD J Scott VanEpps, MD, PhD Gregory A. Volturo, MD Matthew Walsh, MD Scott Weiner, MD Scott T. Wilber, MD, MPH David Wilcox, MD Richard E. Wolfe, MD Kabir Yadav, MDCM MS MSHS Richard Zane, MD Shahriar Zehtabchi, MD David Zhou, MD Brian J. Zink, MD Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous

Organizational Champs CORD Massachusetts General Hospital

Nina Gentile, MD

Nancy Kwon, MD,MPA

Craig D. Newgard, MD

Jeffrey Siegelman, MD

Holly Byrd-Duncan

W. Brian Gibler, MD

Shana Laborde

Constance Nichols, MD

Greg Simsarian, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals

Jestin Carlson, MD

Lewis Goldfrank, MD

Charlotte Lawson, MD

Andrew S. Nugent, MD

Richard H. Sinert, DO

Summa Akron City Hospital

DONATE YOUR HONORARIUM Save money at tax time by donating the honoraria you receive from grand rounds, professional speaking engagements, and other activities to the SAEM Foundation… It is one easy way to help our specialty grow. Contact Melissa McMillian at mmcmillian@saem.org to donate your honorarium.

We are the future of Academic EM

“Your gift to SAEM Foundation allowed me to better understand the nuances of performing rigorous, simulation based educational research. Thanks for your support of me and my career.”

- Margaret Sande, MD, MS, University of Colorado, Denver

“I want to personally thank you for your support of my research training. Your gift is allowing me to address the controversial question of when EMS should intubate a patient in cardiac arrest, or if that patient should even be intubated. With your help, we can answer these questions and improve survival for out of hospital cardiac arrest patients worldwide.”

– Justin Benoit, MD, EMS Fellow, University of Cincinnati

“Your gifts to SAEM Foundation allowed me to learn how to better train trauma teams on resuscitation.

Advancing our understanding of how trauma teams function, and how best to train them, can directly improve the care of those patients. Thank you for supporting me and my career.”

- Jestin Carlson, MD, Gannon University

$10,000,000 IN SIGHT FOR SAEMF

Robert Hockberger, MD

The SAEMF was created out of a need that you identified to help support the careers of emergency medicine researchers — individuals who have committed their lives to finding ways to improve the care of patients during some of the most vulnerable times in their lives. Since its inception less than a decade ago, the SAEMF’s goal has been to increase our endowment from its original $1M to $10M in order to provide increasingly more significant grant opportunities for young researchers and educators in our specialty.

I am pleased to report that we are well on our way to meeting that goal.

There are a number of ways you can support our efforts to advance the career development of the next generation of emergency medicine researchers and educators, including:

YOUR GIFTS constitute between 15-30% of SAEMF income on average, which, when invested, generates more income for grants.

Because the amount of grants funded each year exceeds the amount of donations received,

INCOME PORTFOLIO — Jan. 1, 2015 - Sept. 30, 2015 $80,000

Research Fund Contributions $67,275

$60,000

$40,000

$20,000

Education Fund Contributions $21,061

Events $21,775

$-

we need more support from individuals (that

$(20,000)

means YOU) to continue offering these programs.

$(40,000)

Investment Income $(19,562)

NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID SAEM

INVESTMENTS

2340 S. River Road, Suite 208 Des Plaines, IL 60018

As of October 31, 2015

A new year is beginning and we at the SAEM Foundation are looking forward to it being a milestone year.

Our academic EM leaders founded the SAEM Foundation in 2008.

The goal was to fulfill SAEM’s mission to lead the advancement of academic EM through research and education. With an initial endowment of $1 million, the Foundation Board of Trustees has diligently cared for and nurtured your gifts. Each donation you make is multiplied through investments in order to provide significant funding for research and educational training for you - the academicians.

See You In

$9,451,640

Donor Alliance Member Highlight

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

FINANCIAL SNAPSHOT

New Orleans

TOTAL ASSETS

2016: A Milestone Year

The SAEM Foundation and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine are working together to develop a strategy for expanding our programs in a way that has the largest impact on the field of academic emergency medicine.

SAEM ANNUAL MEETING MAY 10-13, 2016

$10,000,000

JANUARY 2016

As of October 31, 2015, the SAEM Foundation now holds over $ 9.4M. This incredible achievement can only be credited to the generous gifts that you have contributed over the years… And, if our projections are correct we will reach our $10M goal very soon!

— View videos from these grantees and more at www.saemfoundation.org —

GOAL

EXCLUSIVE

•M aking a gift online or with your SAEM membership renewal payment.

•D onating your grand rounds honoraria (or other honoraria) directly to the SAEMF. • Joining Dr. David Sklar in making a commitment to our new Legacy Society (Dr. Sklar describes his motivation for making his legacy donation to the SAEMF on page 3 of this newsletter).

We hope to have your continued support in 2016. On behalf of everyone at SAEMF, thank you for all that you do to improve emergency care through scientific discovery.

With Gratitude,

Robert Hockberger, MD Chair, SAEM Foundation Send us an email and let us know how we are doing! grants@saem.org

MISSION – The SAEM Foundation is a 501c3 public charity. The mission of the SAEM Foundation is to improve the emergency care of patients through medical research and scientific discovery; to enhance research capabilities within emergency medicine; and to help emergency physicians develop the skills to become successful investigators.

D. Matthew Sullivan, MD After 15 years in academics, Dr. Matthew Sullivan’s career is changing. Find out how he stays connected to academic EM. (Inside Page 2)

— SAEMF —

$1=$3

Each $1 for research training awarded by SAEMF generates more than $3 in subsequent federal funding to investigators.

We are the future of Academic EM

“Your gift to SAEM Foundation allowed me to better understand the nuances of performing rigorous, simulation based educational research. Thanks for your support of me and my career.”

- Margaret Sande, MD, MS, University of Colorado, Denver

“I want to personally thank you for your support of my research training. Your gift is allowing me to address the controversial question of when EMS should intubate a patient in cardiac arrest, or if that patient should even be intubated. With your help, we can answer these questions and improve survival for out of hospital cardiac arrest patients worldwide.”

– Justin Benoit, MD, EMS Fellow, University of Cincinnati

“Your gifts to SAEM Foundation allowed me to learn how to better train trauma teams on resuscitation.

Advancing our understanding of how trauma teams function, and how best to train them, can directly improve the care of those patients. Thank you for supporting me and my career.”

- Jestin Carlson, MD, Gannon University

$10,000,000 IN SIGHT FOR SAEMF

Robert Hockberger, MD

The SAEMF was created out of a need that you identified to help support the careers of emergency medicine researchers — individuals who have committed their lives to finding ways to improve the care of patients during some of the most vulnerable times in their lives. Since its inception less than a decade ago, the SAEMF’s goal has been to increase our endowment from its original $1M to $10M in order to provide increasingly more significant grant opportunities for young researchers and educators in our specialty.

I am pleased to report that we are well on our way to meeting that goal.

There are a number of ways you can support our efforts to advance the career development of the next generation of emergency medicine researchers and educators, including:

YOUR GIFTS constitute between 15-30% of SAEMF income on average, which, when invested, generates more income for grants.

Because the amount of grants funded each year exceeds the amount of donations received,

INCOME PORTFOLIO — Jan. 1, 2015 - Sept. 30, 2015 $80,000

Research Fund Contributions $67,275

$60,000

$40,000

$20,000

Education Fund Contributions $21,061

Events $21,775

$-

we need more support from individuals (that

$(20,000)

means YOU) to continue offering these programs.

$(40,000)

Investment Income $(19,562)

NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID SAEM

INVESTMENTS

2340 S. River Road, Suite 208 Des Plaines, IL 60018

As of October 31, 2015

A new year is beginning and we at the SAEM Foundation are looking forward to it being a milestone year.

Our academic EM leaders founded the SAEM Foundation in 2008.

The goal was to fulfill SAEM’s mission to lead the advancement of academic EM through research and education. With an initial endowment of $1 million, the Foundation Board of Trustees has diligently cared for and nurtured your gifts. Each donation you make is multiplied through investments in order to provide significant funding for research and educational training for you - the academicians.

See You In

$9,451,640

Donor Alliance Member Highlight

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

FINANCIAL SNAPSHOT

New Orleans

TOTAL ASSETS

2016: A Milestone Year

The SAEM Foundation and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine are working together to develop a strategy for expanding our programs in a way that has the largest impact on the field of academic emergency medicine.

SAEM ANNUAL MEETING MAY 10-13, 2016

$10,000,000

JANUARY 2016

As of October 31, 2015, the SAEM Foundation now holds over $ 9.4M. This incredible achievement can only be credited to the generous gifts that you have contributed over the years… And, if our projections are correct we will reach our $10M goal very soon!

— View videos from these grantees and more at www.saemfoundation.org —

GOAL

EXCLUSIVE

•M aking a gift online or with your SAEM membership renewal payment.

•D onating your grand rounds honoraria (or other honoraria) directly to the SAEMF. • Joining Dr. David Sklar in making a commitment to our new Legacy Society (Dr. Sklar describes his motivation for making his legacy donation to the SAEMF on page 3 of this newsletter).

We hope to have your continued support in 2016. On behalf of everyone at SAEMF, thank you for all that you do to improve emergency care through scientific discovery.

With Gratitude,

Robert Hockberger, MD Chair, SAEM Foundation Send us an email and let us know how we are doing! grants@saem.org

MISSION – The SAEM Foundation is a 501c3 public charity. The mission of the SAEM Foundation is to improve the emergency care of patients through medical research and scientific discovery; to enhance research capabilities within emergency medicine; and to help emergency physicians develop the skills to become successful investigators.

D. Matthew Sullivan, MD After 15 years in academics, Dr. Matthew Sullivan’s career is changing. Find out how he stays connected to academic EM. (Inside Page 2)

— SAEMF —

$1=$3

Each $1 for research training awarded by SAEMF generates more than $3 in subsequent federal funding to investigators.