Community News & Organizations

Medelita and FemInEM are delighted to announce the winners of this first annual contest to celebrate and recognize the amazing efforts of women in emergency medicine.

Kelly Quinley has been recognized for her development of an emergency physician training program focused on the management and counseling of patients presenting with first trimester miscarriage, including the use of manual uterine aspiration.

Carrie Jurkiewicz has been recognized for her work with ACEP’s Wilderness Medicine Society in the development of a Wilderness Medical Adventure Race to be held at the ACEP Scientific Assembly this October.

Kentucky’s Medicaid patients cost taxpayers a whopping $9.3 million by inappropriately visiting the ER almost 200,000 times in 2015. 

Erica Tabakin, MD has been recognized for her quality improvement project focused on provider communication behavior and the patient experience.

Baltimore, the city that saw a nearly record-breaking 344 homicides, and 900 people shot in 2015, piloted the Safe Streets Program in an effort to reduce street violence, a leading factor for much of the city’s ER overcrowding.

Erica Flores Uribe MD MPH has been recognized for developing an evidence-based language services program to decrease health disparities and improve medical outcomes.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month marks a time during the year dedicated not only to raising support for those currently fighting cancer, but to promote breast cancer education and prevention for all women.

Angharad Spencer, MBChB, MRCEM, DRCOG, DTM&H, has been recognized for the development, implementation and study of two training programs for pre-hospital emergency responders in Malawi.

These type of mergers and acquisitions provide a hospital system almost a one-stop shop from service standpoint.