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Grand Rounds Lectures

Listed below are our Grand Round topics and speakers from 2005-2009.  Please note that we invite faculty members from around the country to participate in our Grand Rounds. Grand Rounds are an important part of the education process and as such residents are excused from other clinical duties to attend these lectures.

Grand Rounds Speakers and Topics

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

January 19, 2005
Dr. Diane Birnbaumer
Associate Research Director of Emergency Medicine
Harbor/UCLA
"The Toxidrome Oriented Physical Exam"

January 26, 2005
Dr. Robert Suter
President
American College of Emergency Physicians
"Risk Management of Wounds and Fractures"

February 9, 2005
Dr. Vince Disabella
Team Physician
University of Delaware Student Health Services
"Chest and Abdominal Trauma in Sports"

February 16, 2005
Dr. Adam Singer
Professor and Vice Chairman, Research and Emergency Medicine
Stony Brook University and Medical Center
"Wound Controversies"

March 16, 2005
Dr. Paul Kolecki
Associate Professor, Director of Toxicology
Jefferson Hospital
"Spiders, Snakes and Envenomations"

March 30, 2005
Dr. Michael Silverman
Attending Physician
Morristown Memorial Hospital
"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy"

April 13, 2005
Dr. Frederick Blum
President-Elect
American College of Emergency Physicians
"Professional Liability"

April 20, 2005
Dr. David Brown
Associate Chief of Emergency Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
"Risk Stratification and Early Management of NSIEM"

May 11, 2005
Dr. Peter Jacoby
Chairman of Emergency Medicine
St. Mary's - Connecticut
Immediate Past Council Speaker - American College of Emergency Physicians
"Pain Control in the ED"

May 18, 2005
Dr. Baruch Krauss
Emergency Medicine
Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
"Capnography in the ED - Emerging Standard of Care"

June 8, 2005
Dr. Shkelzen Hoxhaj
Assistant Director
Mount Sinai Hospital
"Journal on Acid - A Rapid Response of Landmark Articles of the 21st Century"

June 22, 2005
Dr. Isaias Irgau
Physician, Surgery
Christiana Care Health System
"Complications of Gastric Bypass Surgery"

July 13, 2005
Dr. James Augustine
Clinical Assistant Professor
Emory University, Department of Emergency Medicine
"Disaster Management"

July 20, 2005
Dr. Brian Levine
Attending Physician
Christiana Care Health System
"Literature Update"

July 27, 2005
Dr. Charles Pollock
Chairman, Emergency Medicine
Pennsylvania Hospital
"Cardiovascular Disease"

August 10, 2005
Dr. Michael Blaivas
Chairman, CEP Ultrasound
Director, Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship
Chief, Section of Emergency Ultrasound
Medical College of Georgia
"Ultrasound"

August 24, 2005
Dr. Tom Scalea
University of Maryland
Shock Trauma ICU
"Hemorrhagic Shock"

September 14, 2005
Dr. Ed Dickinson
Director, EMS
University of Pennsylvania
"Penetrating Trauma an Blast Injuries"

October 12, 2005
Dr. Amal Mattu
Director, Emergency Medicine Residency
University of Maryland
"Unsuspected EKG Killers in the ED"
"Deadly Misdiagnosis in EKG Interpretation"

October 19, 2005
Dr. Andrew Perron
Program Director, Emergency Medicine
Maine Medical Center
"Head CT"

November 16, 2005
Dr. Erol Veznedaroglu
"Subarachnoid Hemorrhage"

November 30, 2005
Dr. John Powers
"Resistant Organisms"

December 14, 2005
Dr. Michael Chansky
"Acid/Base Status"

January 11, 2006
Dr. Mark Meredith
"ABEM"

January 25, 2006
Dr. Anand Panwalker
"HIV in the ED"

February 15, 2006
Dr. Steve Hargarten
"EM Leadership and Advocacy"

March 8, 2006
Dr. William Pinsky
"Hurricane Katrina/Disasters"

March 22, 2006
Dr. Lance Brown
"Pediatrics"

April 12, 2006
Dr. Robert Laskowski
CEO
Christiana Care Health System
"Quality and Safety Issues"

April 19, 2006
Dr. Doug McGee
"The Acute Scrotum"

May 3, 2006
Dr. Louis Binder

May 10, 2006
Dr. Stephen Thomas
"Statistics"

July 12, 2006
Dr. Thomas Barry, MD
"Death Telling and Managing the Delivery of Bad News"

July 26, 2006
Dr. Scott Penfil
"Pediatric Sepsis"

August 9, 2006
Dr. Kevin Waninger
"Sports Medicine "

August 23, 2006
Dr. Guy Nuki
"Wilderness Medicine"

August 30, 2006
Dr. Rob Rogers

September 20, 2006
Drs. Eppley, Munson, Iaia
"SAH"

September 27, 2006
Dr. Mark Moseley
"Top 10 Myths of Your First Year of Practice"

October 25, 2006
Dr. Paul Kolecki
"Spiders, Snakes, and Envenomations"

November 1, 2006
Dr. Jim Holliman
"International EM"

December 13, 2006
Dr. Joe Lex
""Avoiding Pitfalls in Using Some Newer Laboratory Tests""

 

January 3, 2007
Dr. Al Saccetti
"The Critical Care in the Community ED:  Life without Backup"

January 31, 2007
Dr. John Powers
"Food and Drug Administration"
February 14, 2007
Dr. Blatt
"Update in DVT"

March 28, 2007
Dr. Ari Schwell
"Trauma to the Hand"

April 18, 2007
Dr. Richard Scarfone
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia

April 25, 2007
Dr. Drjun Chanmugan
Johns Hopkins University

May 9, 2007
Dr. Tracy Sanson
University of South Florida

May 16, 2007
Dr. Gerald O'Malley
Albert Einstein

June 6, 2007
Dr. David Karras
"Managing Severe HTN"

June 20, 2007
Dr. Kathy Shaw
"Improving Patient Sign-Out"

June 27, 2007
Marin Kollef
"Sepsis - Approach to ABX Therapy"

July 25, 2007
Dr. Anthony Munson
"Neurologic Emergencies"

August 8, 2007
Dr. Mike Baram
"Alternative Vent Strategies"

August 22, 2007
Dr. William Schoff
"Travel Medicine"

October 3, 2007
Dr. Jennifer Naticchia
"Sports Medicine Emergencies"

October 17, 2007
Dr. Reza Daughterty
"Intial Management of Pediatric Shock, Toxic Shock Syndrome"

October 31, 2007
Dr. John Goodill
"Palative Care and Hospice in the ED"

November 14, 2007
Dr. Joseph Zorc
Childrens Hospital of Pennsylvania

November 28, 2007
Dr. James Tsung
NYU Medical Center
"US of the Pediatric Abdomen"

November 28, 2007
Dr. Robert McAfee
Maine Medical Center
"Domestic Violence:  Doctor, I Need Your Help"

January 9, 2008
Dr. Matt Rice
Team Health
"Effective Communication and Professionalism""

January 23, 2008
Dr. Munish Goyal and Dr. David Gaieski
University of Pennsylvania
"Sepsis in the ED"

February 6, 2008
Dr. Levon Nazarian
Jefferson University
"Musculoskeletal US"

February 20, 2008
Dr. Tim Coakley
United States Navy
"Blast Injuries"

March 5, 2008
Dr. Al Sacchetti
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center
"Pediatric Procedural Sedation"

March 19, 2008
Dr. Ryan Arnold
Cooper Shock Research Fellow
"EM Research:  Bench to Bedside"

April 2, 2008
Dr. Michael Silverman
Director of Emergency Medicine - Harbor Hospital
"Patient Satisfaction"

April 16, 2008
Dr. Bill Frohna
Team Physician Baltimore Ravens - Washington Hospital
"Event Medicine and On-Field Emergencies"

May 14, 2008
Dr. David Seaberg
University of Florida Hospital
ACEP Board of Directors
"Six Sigma and the ED / ACEP Update"

May 28, 2008
Dr. Shkelzen Hoxhaj
Director of Emergency Medicine - Baylor College of Medicine
"So You are a Leader, Now What?"

June 11, 2008
Dr. Diane Birnbaumer
Associate Residency Director - Harbor UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine
"Pharma and the Physician / Effective Presentation and Pearls Bedside Teaching"

July 2, 2008
Dr. Dr. Heatherlee Bailey
Drexel University
"Submersion Injury"

July 23, 2008
Dr. Matt Rice
Team Health
"Medicolegal Aspects of Emergency Medicine"

August 6, 2008
Dr. Joe Lex
Temple University
"Avoiding Pitfalls in Newer Laboratory Tests"

August 20, 2008
Dr. Barbara Burke
Doctors without Borders
"Emergencies in Tropical Medicine"

September 3, 2008
Dr. Judd Hollander
University of Pennsylvania
"Risk Satisfaction of the ED Patient with Chest Pain"

September 17, 2008
Dr. Jody Crane
Mary Washington Hospital
"The 'Lean' ED"

September 24, 2008
Dr. Rick Bukata
EM Abstracts
"Massive Transfusion Strategies and Warafin Reversal Options"

October 15, 2008
Dr. Charles Pollack
University of Pennsylvania
"Update on the Management of NSTEMI and STEMI"

November 12, 2008
Dr. Tom Scalea
Maryland's Shock Trauma Center
"Traumatic Brain Injury"

November 26, 2008
Dr. Roy Alson
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
"Disaster Triage"

December 17, 2008
Dr. Charles Pollack
University of Pennsylvania
"Pulmonary Embolism"

January 7, 2009
Dr. Geoffrey Ling
Walter Reed/John Hopkins
"Stroke Care/Neurotrauma in Iraq"

January 21, 2009
Dr. Andrew Langsam, MD
Christiana Care Health System
"International EM in China"

February 18, 2009
Dr. Setul Patel
Memorial Herman NE Hospital
"Business in EM"

March 4, 2009
Dr. Kevin Osterhoudt
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
"Methemoglobinemia"

March 18, 2009
Dr. Ben Werdo
Winsconsin- LaCrosse
"Olympics"

April 29, 2009
Dr. Bob Hoffman
Bellvue/ NYU Hospitals
"The New Antidotes"

May 6, 2009
Dr. Peter DeBlieux
LSU Health Science Center
"Intraabdominal Infection and Critical Care Pearls"

May 13, 2009
Dr. Zach Kassutto
Capital Health Systems
"Ethics in the ED"

June 10, 2009
Dr. Jeff Kline
Carolinas Medical  Center
"Pulmonary Embolism"

June 24, 2009
Dr. Rob Strauss
Board Member of the American Board of Emergency Medicine
"The Role of ABEM in a resident's career"

July 8, 2009
Dr. Susan Thompson
Christiana Care Health System
"International Medicine"

July 22, 2009
Dr. Richard Shih
Morristown Memorial Hospital
"The Agitated Patient"

August 5, 2009
Dr. Mike Winters
University of Maryland
"Updates in Critical Care Medicine 2009"

September 16, 2009
Dr. Jim Roberts
Drexel University
"Diabetic Foot Ulcers"

September 30, 2009
Dr. Robert McNamara
Temple University
"The Current State of Emergency Medicine"

October 14, 2009
Dr. John Powers
George Washington University
"Issues related to Clinical Trials and Studying New Medications"

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