Congratulations to Ellen Weber who  received  the award for the Best Faculty Presentation:  Impact Of England's Four Hour Emergency Throughput Target On Quality Of Care And Resource Use, at the SAEM Annual Meeting in Boston!

Congratulations to Renee Hsia who was awarded the Young Investigator Award for 2011 at the SAEM Annual Meeting in Boston!

Congratulations to Esther Chen who was one of 12 graduating Teaching Scholars honored at an awards ceremony and reception last month! 

Congratulations to the UCSF Fresno EM residents who received the following awards at the Housestaff graduation last month:

• Herb Bivins, MD received the UCSF Kaiser teaching award
• Warren Wiechmann, MD received the UCSF Fresno outstanding faculty teaching award
• Alfredo Urdaneta, MD received the Borba housestaff resident research award.   

Renee Hsia will be giving SFGH Grand Rounds "A bird's eye view of emergency care in the United States: the Haves and Have-Nots"  on Tuesday, July 19 from 12 - 1 PM in Carr.

Robert Rodriguez served as the University of California

Institute for Mexico and the United States physician representative to grant review committee.

Michael Callaham was Visiting Professor and Grand Rounds speaker in June at the UC San Diego EM program and annual Resident Research Presentations.

Congratulations to Caitlin Bilotti, Brooke Hensley, Eric Silman, and Dina Wallin who are the 2011 SimWars Champions!

Welcome to the Class of 2015! The new interns started on June 21, 2011; they will be in the Moffitt ED and SFGH ED during their first block. Please help us in welcoming them to the program.  

Class of 2015

• Alexa Bisinger, Stanford University
• Raphael Falk, Mount Sinai
• Scott Fischette, UC San Francisco
• Sean Kivlehan, New York Medical College
• Johnson Kwan, Albany Medical College
• Jennifer Lanning, University of Chicago
• Ross Levin, Georgetown University
• Brian Resler, New York Medical College
• Julian Villar, Emory University
• Nathan Wilson, University of Michigan
• Lauren Wooley, University of Maryland
• Cynthia Zamora, UC San Francisco     

Congratulations to Jenny Wilson for being accepted into the UCSF Critical Care Fellowship!

Hangyul Chung-Esaki's abstract was accepted for the 2011 ACEP Scientific Assembly (abstract title: "Validation of a prediction instrument for endocarditis in injection drug users with fever").  

Patrick Lenaghan's abstract was accepted for the 2011 ACEP Scientific Assembly (abstract title: "Point of Care Ocular Sonography to Detect Optic Disc Swelling").  

Julian Villar's abstract was accepted for the 2011 ACEP Scientific Assembly (abstract title: "Latino and African American Adolescent and Young Adult Homicide Mortality Peak: Data from the National Violent Death Reporting System 2005-2008").  

The 2011 Bay Area Wellness Event will be on Thursday, September 15, 2011.

PUBLICATIONS:

Govindarajan P, Lin L, Mcmullan JT, Landman A, Mcnally B, Sasson C. Practice variability among the EMS systems participating in Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) Accepted for publication in Resuscitation. ( Lisa Lin, a co-author is a medical student at UCSF)

Hsia RY, Kellermann A, Shen YC. Factors Associated With Closure of Emergency Departments in the United States. JAMA  2011; 305 (19): 1978-1985.

Shen YC, Hsia RY.  Association Between Ambulance Diversion and Survival Among Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction. JAMA 2011; 305 (23).

PRESENTATIONS:

Michelle Lin presented at 2 didactic sessions at the SAEM National Meeting (June 2011) in Boston: "Evidence-based learning and assessment workshop: articles that will change your educational practice" and "Innovations in Medical Student and Resident Education," highlighting her virtual simulation modules called Digital Instruction in Emergency Medicine (DIEM cases).  

Shen YC, Hsia RY. "Association Between Ambulance Diversion And Survival Among Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction," Podium presentation for Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, Seattle, WA, June 13, 2011.

Hsia RY, Shen YC. "Risk factors for closure of emergency departments across the United States and relationship to safety-net hospitals," Podium presentation for Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, Seattle, WA, June 13, 2011.

Kanzaria HR, Srebotnjak T, Maselli J, McCulloch C, Auerbach AD, Hsia RY. Risk Factors For Closure Of California Emergency Departments, 1998-2008. Presentation for Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, June 2, 2011. [Abstract] Acad Emerg Med 2011.

Westphalen A, Wang R, Hsia RY, Maselli J, Gonzalez R. Radiological Imaging Of Patients With Suspected Urinary Tract Stones: National Trends, Diagnoses, And Predictors. Presentation for Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, Boston, MA , June 2, 2011. [Abtract]  Acad Emerg Med 2011.

Hsia RY, Shen Yu-Chu. Are Safety-net Hospitals At Higher Risk Of Closing Their Emergency Departments Than Non-safety Net Hospitals?  Presentation for Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, June 2, 2011.[Abtract] Acad Emerg Med 2011.

Newgard CD, Kampp M, Nelson M, Zive D, Bulger E, Rea T, Liao M, Sherck J, Hsia R, Fleischman R, Heineman J, Barton E, Daya M, Kuppermann N. Deciphering the Predictive Value and Use of "EMS Provider Judgment" in Out-of-Hospital Triage: A Multi-site, Mixed Methods Assessment. [Abstract] Acad Emerg Med. 2011 (in press).

Newgard CD, Bulger E, Liao M, Staudenmayer K, Hsia R, Fleischman R, Holmes J, Mann NC, Gorman K, McConnell KJ. The Cost of Trauma Triage: A Multi-Site Evaluation of the Downstream Costs of Out-of-Hospital Triage Within and Between Hospitals. [Abstract] Acad Emerg Med. 2011 (in press).

Delgado K, Bhattacharya J, Hsia RY, Wang E, Staudemeyer K, Baker L, Spain D, Garber A. Comparative Effectiveness of Helicopter vs. Ambulance Transport on Trauma Mortality: Instrumental Variable Analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank. Oral presentation for Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, Seattle, WA, June 13, 2011.

Kanzaria HR, Srebotnjak T, Maselli J, McCulloch C, Auerbach AD, Hsia RY. Risk Factors For Closure Of California Emergency Departments, 1998-2008. Presentation for the UCSF Clinical Translational Sciences Institute Resident Research Symposium for Clinical and Translational Research, May 4, 2011.

INVITED LECTURES:

Hsia, RY: Panelist, "Navigating Large Datasets for EM Research Questions: A How-To Primer," Didactic session (organized by Dr. Esther Choo), Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, June 2, 2011.