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On Tuesday night, July 22nd, Mount Sinai will be hosting an remarkable event featuring three prominent researchers in EM, discussing study design and the impact of research on our field.

The forum will be in Hatch Auditorium in the Guggenheim Pavilion at Mount Sinai. The dinner begins at 6:30 and the ‘journal club’ starts an hour later.

The speakers and their paper topics are listed below:

Judd E. Hollander, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

• Enoxaparin vs unfractionated heparin in high-risk patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes managed with an intended early invasive strategy: primary results of the SYNERGY randomized trial. JAMA 2004;292:45-54

Lynne D. Richardson, MD,  Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine

• Public-Access Defibrillation and Survival after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. N Engl J Med 2004;351:637-46.

Joshua M. Kosowsky, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

• Clevidipine, an Intravenous Dihydropyridine Calcium Channel Blocker, Is Safe and Effective for the Treatment of Patients With Acute Severe Hypertension. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2008 Jun 4 [in press].

Additionally, the speakers have agreed to be panelists for a discussion on the ethics of industry support and medical education.

Residents: To access the journal articles above, click on the links and enter the login and password in my email.

This is a great opportunity for New York City’s EM residents to come together, get to know each each other, and learn something.