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Chair’s Report to the Board
Welcome to the 6th Annual Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute (SREMI) International Advisory Board (IAB) Meeting. History will remember 2020 as the year when a catastrophic viral pandemic cost humanity dearly, and a time when society relied upon medical science to generate evidence-based solutions at an unprecedented pace. As the front porch to the hospital, emergency medicine stood at the center of this population storm and stood tall during our generation’s darkest hours, despite inadequate supplies of almost every resource required to combat COVID-19. The clinical researchers and educators at the foundation of SREMI provided a beacon of continued awe-inspiring scholarly productivity despite COVID-19. Director Dr. Bjug Borgundvaag and Research Director Dr. Shelley McLeod never lost focus on SREMI’s mission, while adjusting to confront COVID-19 head-on. This report highlights a portion of SREMI’s accomplishments and 2020 progress in the midst of historical challenges.
NYGH AND SINAI HEALTH COLLABORATION – EDAC
Immediately following the IAB meeting in 2019, the annual two-day EDAC occurred again at the Toronto of ce of the Ontario Medical Association. The conference featured several
members of the IAB, exhibiting the intercontinental transdisciplinary leadership available to SREMI. The conference also included SREMI scholar Catherine Varner as part of a panel discussion reviewing early pregnancy care in the emergency department. This year, EDAC will be held virtually on November 24, with a focus on COVID-19 and the impact of technology to overcome the pandemic, rapid change agents, and maintaining healthcare team wellness while surviving an international tragedy.
SREMI RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
SREMI has arrived as a hub of innovative international healthcare outcomes investigators. SREMI investigators were authors on three of the four CAEP 2020 plenary abstracts, and Dr. Catherine Varner received the CAEP Top New Investigator Award. Dr. Rebecca Schonnop received a CAEP Junior Investigator Award to evaluate the under-recognition of emergency department delirium.
Between November 2019 and October 2020, SREMI investigators published 56 manuscripts, including original research in prestigious journals like The BMJ, Lancet, Age and Ageing, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Critical Care Medicine, Annals of Emergency Medicine, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal. For perspective, the early career assistant professor academic emergency physician in the United States who publishes one manuscript per year is in the 95th percentile for productivity and the 99th percentile is 4.2 manuscripts per year. SREMI scholars remain impressively proli c over a broad range of topics including resuscitation, geriatrics, triage, and trauma, as well as emergency medicine’s response to COVID-19.
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