The day’s schedule is below:

9am Grand Rounds - Dr. Judd Hollander
11am Grand Rounds - Dr. Joshua Kosowsky
12pm EM / Neurology Joint Stroke Conference - Dr. Colum Avery
1pm M&M - Dr. Anita Vashi

Lunch will be served.

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.

We’ll meet up at 72nd Street and Central Park West at 10 AM sharp, and the adventure will begin soon thereafter. The fun will last a couple of hours, and then we’ll be having lunch and drinks at the Boat Basin afterwards.

Please watch for Evelyn’s emails regarding alternate locations, should rain be forecast.

The day’s schedule is below:

9am Grand Rounds - Dr. Ben Bobrow
11am Core Lecture: Head Trauma - Dr. Andy Jagoda
12pm Peds Core: Endocrine Emergencies - Dr. Karen Goodman
1pm Peds M&M - Dr. Marisa Oishi

Lunch will be served.

He has provided several recent publications in anticipation of his presentation:

• A straightforward overview of the research and current state of cardiac resuscitation, from Emergency Medicine Reports (May 12, 2008).
• His Minimally Interrupted Cardiac Resuscitation article in JAMA (March 12, 2008 - Vol 299, No. 10)
• Arizona’s SHARE program (Resuscitation 2007, Vol. 75, 68—75)
• Estabilishing Arizona’s cardiac arrest network (Prehospital Emergency Care, 12:3, 381 — 387)

These articles are available through this site, but behind password protection — see my email for access.

8am Policies and Procedures - Dr. Peter Shearer
9am Roles and Expectations for the PGY-1,2,3 and 4 classes (small-group breakout sessions)
10am Trauma Series - Dr. Ram Parekh
11am Core Lecture: Emergency Complications of Malignancy - Dr. Elaine Rabin
12pm M&M - Dr. Daniel Singer

Please note the early start time.

9am M&M - Dr. Constantine
10am Peds Core - Cardiac Emergencies: Dr. Lou Spina
11am Interesting Case - Dr. Trivedi
12pm EM-Neuro Stroke Conference - Dr. Shen
1pm Core Lecture: Skin and Soft Tissue Infections - Dr. Denise Nassisi

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Park, the Great Lawn is between 79th and 85th St. Once you arrive, look for the “Sinai Blue” balloons, or call Evelyn or me (Nick) to find our exact location on the Lawn. Our cell numbers are in the last email. And please RSVP if you haven’t already.

The Philharmonic’s program features Tchiakovsky, Mendelssohn, and Sousa. Lots and lots of Sousa.

8am Cardiology Conference - Dr. Sadati
9am Core Lecture: Controversies in Stroke / TIA Management - Dr. Reuben Strayer
10am Interesting Case - Dr. Zhong
11am Toxicology Series: Bradycardia — Dr. Beth Ginsburg
12pm Critical Care Series: Shock and Hypothermia — Dr. Scott Weingart & Dr. Phil Andrus

Please note the early start time.