Austin is Waiting to Welcome You to SAEM23!

Just as music is a huge part of Austin's DNA, education and research are part of SAEM’s strong legacy and what makes our annual meeting THE premier event in academic emergency medicine. We invite you to create an SAEM23 soundtrack that’s all your own, by compiling a playlist from hundreds of sessions, including:

• More than a dozen half- and full-day workshops that aim to strengthen knowledge and skills in specific topic areas

• Dynamic didactics from the best minds in academic EM

• High-quality, cutting-edge research

• Ground-breaking, practice-changing plenary sessions

• Two keynote addresses by renowned speaker-influencers

• Focused educational forums that offer something for everyone, from seasoned faculty to medical students just starting their careers

• Educational and gamified experiential learning competitions like SimWARs and Sonogames®

SAEM annual meetings are renowned for the expansive networking events and career development opportunities they offer. Connect in person with your contemporaries and take advantage of opportunities like Speed Mentoring, Speed Mentoring for Educators, and the Residency & Fellowship Fair to talk to peers, leaders, and others who can help you take your career to the next level.

SAEM is excited to announce that our emergency medicine pharmacy colleagues will in the house with us for the EMPoweRx (Emergency Medicine Pharmacotherapy with Resuscitation) Conference — a hybrid conference that presenting the latest resuscitation, emergency medicine pharmacotherapy, and administrative issues that are unique to the ED.

We like to think of SAEM as a family, and in that spirit we are providing family-centric annual meeting services such as on- site childcare (sign up ends March 14!) and a private “family room” equipped with everything to meet the needs of baby and parent(s).

Once you've eaten your weight in barbecue, heard a band that's this close to blowing up, and slammed a Lone Star or two at the city’s hottest honky tonks, you’ll understand why Austin is not only one of America’s the fastest-growing and best cities to visit, it’s also the perfect place to hold an annual meeting that promises to be as big-hearted and boast-worthy as the state of Texas.

The Lone Star State's shining capital is waiting with open arms to welcome you and so are we! On behalf of the Program Committee and SAEM leadership, we can’t wait to see you in Austin!

Register by March 14 to secure your early bird discount!

Abstracts present research data, including study background and methodology, research limitations and results, and the conclusions/significance of the study. Abstract session lengths vary depending on the presentation type: plenary (15 minutes), full oral (12 minutes), lightning oral (eight minutes), ePoster (seven minutes). The SAEM23 Program Committee is pleased to announce the top eight abstracts selected to be presented during special plenary sessions to be held immediately following the keynote addresses on Wednesday and Thursday. These eight abstracts were chosen as the best from among 1200+ submissions.

Wednesday, May 17, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT

1. Erector Spinae Plane Block for Low Back Pain Reduces Pain and May Reduce Opioid Consumption

Andrew Wayment, Robert Steele, Jacob Avila, Ryan Itoh

2. Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act Citations for Failure to Accept Appropriate Transfer, 2011-2022

Jasmeen Randhawa, Genevieve Santillanes, Sameer Ahmed, Zachary Reichert, Katie Hawk, Sarah Axeen, Jesse Pines, Seth Seabury, Michael Menchine, Sophie Terp

3. Emergency Medicine Workforce Attrition Differences by Age and Gender

Cameron Gettel, D Mark Courtney, Pooja Agrawal, Tracy Madsen, Arjun Venkatesh

4. Derivation of a Clinical Decision Rule to Guide Neuroimaging in Older Adults Who Have Fallen

Kerstin de Wit, Mathew Mercuri, Natasha Clayton, Éric Mercier, Judy Morris, Rebecca Jeanmonod, Debra Eagles, Catherine Varner, David Barbic, Ian Buchanan, Mariyam Ali, Yoan Kagoma, Ashkan Shoamanesh, Paul Engels, Sunjay Sharma, Andrew Worster, Shelley McLeod, Marcel Émond, Ian Stiell, Alexandra Papaioannou, Sameer Parpia View full abstracts.

Jane Scott, ScD, MSN, renowned and respected for her work as a leader in emergency medicine research funding and training, will present the SAEM23 Dr. Peter Rosen Memorial Keynote Address, “Advancing Emergency Care Research: Reflecting on Our Past, Looking to Our Future,” from 9:30-10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 17 during the SAEM23 opening session.

Dr. Scott began her career in the emergency care setting as a nurse at the Duke University Emergency Department in the Hillsborough, NC volunteer EMS squad and then as a nurse practitioner at the Johns Hopkins emergency department. She presented her first research abstract in 1981 at the University Association of Emergency Medicine meeting, which was followed by numerous emergency care publications. After obtaining a doctorate from Hopkins School of Public Health, Dr. Scott joined the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as a program officer. In 1995 she joined the University of Maryland National Study Center for Trauma and EMS followed by serving as research director of the program in trauma at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. In 2005 Dr. Scott joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as director of the Office of Research Training and Career Development, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). In 2008 she created the NHLBI K12 program in emergency care research, which she managed until her recent retirement, working extensively with the emergency medicine researchers at the eight training programs that have trained over 50 K12 scholars.

Dr. Scott has served on the SAEM Research Committee, ACEP-SAEM Federal Research Funding Workgroup, and as faculty at the EMF-SAEMF Grantee Workshop for over eight years. She has educated and mentored countless SAEM members on the K12 programs, presented at numerous SAEM annual meetings, worked closely with program officers on NIH-related matters, and taught many of our investigators how to become independently funded.

Susan Promes, MD, MBA, editorin-chief of Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training journal, and a recognized leader in emergency medicine education, with 25 years of experience, will present the SAEM23 Education Keynote Address, “Perspectives in Medical Education: Past Experiences, Future Possibilities,” on Thursday, May 18 from 9:30-10 a.m.

Dr. Promes is a tenured professor at Penn State University Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and has served as chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine since 2014. Prior to 2014, she spent seven years at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) where she served as vice chair for education, emergency medicine residency program director, and director of curricular affairs in the graduate medical education office. Additionally, Dr. Promes was the inaugural emergency medicine residency program pirector at Duke University and director of the medical school capstone course.

Promes, a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., earned her medical degree from Penn State College of Medicine and did her residency training at Alameda County Medical Center, Highland General Hospital where she served as chief resident.

She is course director for the American College of Emergency Physicians Teaching Fellowship and the inaugural editor-in-chief of Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training, a journal dedicated to medical education scholarship in emergency medicine which debuted in 2017.

Her scholarly work has centered around topics germane to emergency medicine medical education and clinical guidelines for the practicing emergency physician. In addition to many peer review publications, she has edited multiple McGraw Hill board review books to prepare physicians for the emergency medicine board exam.

An internationally recognized leader in academic EM, Dr. Promes has received numerous awards and honors for excellence in teaching, leadership, and service. She is a graduate of the UCSF Teaching Scholars Program, a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, and the recipient of the Academy’s Teaching Excellence Award. In 2020 she received the SAEM Hal Jayne Excellence in Education Award and is also the recipient of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Courage to Teach Award.

Thursday, May 18, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT

5. Emergency Medicine Bound Fourth-Year Medical Student Performance on a Standardized Substance Use Disorder Patient Case

Tomohiro Ko, Amanda Esposito, Brennan Cook, Archana Pradhan

6. Facilitating Adaptive Expertise in Learning Computed Tomography: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

Leonardo Aliaga, Rebecca Bavolek, Benjamin Cooper, Amy Mariorenzi, James Ahn, Aaron Kraut, David Duong, Michael Gisondi

7. Geographic Distribution of Emergency Residency Training in Medically Underserved Areas and Current Practice

Mary Haas, Laura Hopson, Caroline Kayko, John Burkhardt

8. Data-Driven Learning: Understanding How Medical Students Utilize a Data Dashboard

Daniel Owens, David Scudder, Wendy Christensen, Rachael Tan, Tai Lockspeiser View full abstracts.

SAEM Annual Meeting abstracts represent the work of thousands of researchers and educators who have created new knowledge and thinking about emergency care that adds valuable confirmation of previous work, presents evidence that might change the practice of EM emergency medicine for the better, and elevates the outcomes and experiences of every patient who seeks emergency medical care. Collectively they reflect a global experience of emergency care that together tell the story of important challenges and the need for more knowledge.

· Plenaries, May 17 and 18, 2023

· Orals, May 17 and 18, 2023

· Lightning Orals, May 17-19,

· ePosters, May 17-19, 2023

Advanced EM Workshop Day

Tuesday, May 16, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT

Advanced EM Workshops are intensive educational sessions that focus on techniques, skills, and practical aspects of the specialty. This year’s Advanced EM Workshop Day offerings includes 18 half- and full-day sessions that cover specialized areas in emergency medicine and strengthen knowledge and skills in specific topic areas. Add any workshop when you register for SAEM23

Full-Day Workshops

• Bringing the Outside In: Incorporating Wilderness Medicine Into Your Curriculum

• EMPoweRx Conference

• Grant Writing Workshop

• SAEM23 Consensus Conference

• World Health Organization Basic Emergency Care Training of Trainers

Half-Day Morning Workshops

• Beyond Microaggressions: Upstander Training for Allyship

• Clerkship Directors Bootcamp

• Emergency Department Operations On-Ramp: A Crash Course

• Medical Education Research Bootcamp

• Simulation Hacks: Building and Validating Do-it-yourself Models

• Ultrasound-guided Nerve Block

Half-Day Afternoon Workshops

• Be the Best Teacher: Medical Education Bootcamp

• Become an Excellent Peer Reviewer

• Developing Effective Education for the Next Generation

• Figuring Out Fiberscope

• Not Your Mother’s Ethics Course: Teaching Medical Ethics

• Virtual Reality Training in Mass Casualty Response

• Vice Chairs Workshop