EM Practice Guidelines Update

Editorial Board - EM Practice Guidelines Update

	Editor-in-Chief Sigrid Hahn, MD, MPH received her medical degree from New York University and completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY. She has been a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Clinical Policy Committee since residency, and most recently co-authored ACEP's Clinical Policy on Early Pregnancy. In addition to her work on practice guidelines, she has also aided in the development of the global health program at Mount Sinai Hospital, and is now the director of a new global health fellowship and global health "Dean's Scholar" program for medical students. She is also an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and an Editorial Board member for the International Journal of Emergency Medicine.
	Luke K. Hermann, MD, is an Associate Professor and the Director of Quality and Finance in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He trained in emergency medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and has completed a Greater New York Hospital Association / United Hospital Fund Clinical Quality Fellowship. His research and scholarly interests are focused on emergency cardiology and in this area he has published multiple articles (both review and original research) and served as guest editor of both the Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine and Current Cardiology Reviews for theme issues that focus on emergency cardiology. He has presented at multiple national meetings including an invited presentation at the 2010 American College of Cardiology Scientific Assembly. Dr. Hermann is the emergency medicine representative to the American College of Cardiology guideline writing committee for thoracic aortic disease and serves on the steering committee of the Thoracic Aortic Disease Coalition. Dr. Hermann is also the coauthor of 2 emergency care guides, Baby Medbasics and Toddler Medbasics. Written with his wife after having to save their own son during a choking episode, these guides are designed to walk parents and caregivers through common medical emergencies.
	Andy Jagoda, MD, FACEP received his Medical degree from Georgetown University in 1982, completed an internship at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda Maryland (NHB) in Basic Medicine in 1983, and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Georgetown University / George University / MIEMMS in 1987. Dr. Jagoda is currently Professor and Chair of Academic Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. His neurological research has focused on the diagnosis and management of seizure disorders in the emergency department and the management of traumatic brain injury. His other research interests focus on practice guideline development and implementation. Dr. Jagoda is the co-author of the textbook, Neurologic Emergencies (McGraw-Hill) and of The Prehospital Management of Traumatic Brain Injury (Brain Trauma Foundation Publication). He has edited several issues of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America dealing with neurological emergencies including Seizures in the Emergency Department, Neurologic Emergencies, and Psychiatric Emergencies. He was the editor of the Neurologic Emergencies section in the textbook Emergency Medicine published by Saunders. He is Editor-in-Chief of the monthly publication Emergency Medicine Practice, and is currently on the Editorial board of Annals of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Jagoda is a member of the Executive Committee of the Brain Attack Coalition at the National Institute of Neurologic Diseases and Stroke, and he is the Co-Director of Clinical Policies Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He was on the Advisory Panel for the Guidelines for the Management of Severe Brain Injury, and for the Stroke Workshop Syllabus developed by the American Academy of Neurology. Dr. Jagoda is an active member of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the Council of Residency Directors, and the New York Academy of Medicine.
	Eddy Lang MDCM CCFP(EM) CSPQ is an academic emergency physician at the SMBD Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine at McGill University, and Senior Researcher in the division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Calgary. His areas of interest are Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and Knowledge Translation (KT). He served as principal co-chair of the 2007 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference on Knowledge Translation and is now the Research Chair for the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians. He is a founding member of the GIN Emergency Care Interest Group and has been working with US-based federally funded agencies to develop GRADE-based clinical practice guidelines. Dr. Lang is also an award-winning educator having received recognition at both the university, national, and international levels. He also serves as an associate editor for the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine and Academic Emergency Medicine. He has coordinated the McGill undergraduate course in EBM for the past 6 years as well as CME conferences on EBM and now co-writes a bi-monthly column for the Montreal Gazette on EBM as it relates to the latest discoveries in medical research that are important to the public.
	Trevor Lewis, MD, FACEP, is the Emergency Medicine Director at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital in Chicago, IL and the Director of Observational Medicine as well as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rush Medical College. He completed his residency at Cook County Hospital, and his clinical expertise encompasses the areas of direct patient care, emergent conditions, and adult emergency services. Dr. Lewis has given multiple national presentations and authored many textbook chapters.
	Gregory M. Press, MD, RDMS is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Houston Medical School. He is the Emergency Ultrasound Director and Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship. He is co-director of research for the department of emergency medicine. Dr. Press graduated from the University of Texas at Houston Medical School. He completed his emergency medicine residency and emergency ultrasound fellowship at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospitals in New York City.
	Christopher R. "Kit" Tainter, MD, RDMS received his medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, WA. He completed his Emergency Medicine residency training at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY. He then served as the Assistant Residency Director and Director of Undergraduate Medical Education at the University of Oklahoma Department of Emergency Medicine in Tulsa, OK. He is currently a Critical Care Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, and his areas of interest include medical education, point-of-care ultrasound, resuscitation, and aspects of critical care medicine.
	Scott M. Silvers, MD received his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, New York and then completed his residency in Emergency Medicine in 2001 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard) in Boston, Massachusetts. He received an award for his service as the Chief Resident in 2000-2001. Dr. Silvers has participated extensively in resident education and has received multiple academic awards and honors, including Best Teacher of Emergency Medicine in 2004. He has been a long-standing member of the national and international Office of Emergency Preparedness teams. Dr. Silvers’ additional clinical interests lie in the areas of heat illness, hyperbaric medicine, and stroke. Before becoming a physician, early career choices for Dr. Silvers included being a paramedic and a hyperbaric chamber inside attendant. In 1999, he completed his hyperbaric medicine training at the Jefferson Davis Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center in San Antonio, Texas. He is active in stroke research and participates in clinical trials as a site principal investigator.
	Scott Weingart, MD, FACEP received his Medical degree and completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He then went on to a fellowship in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. He is currently an attending in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Elmhurst Hospital Center, as well as occasional stints in the SICU. He is the director of ED Critical Care at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is the author of the first monograph on critical thinking in Emergency Medicine, titled Emergency Medicine Decision Making , and he hosts a biweekly podcast on ED Critical Care called the EMCrit Podcast, which can be found at blog.emcrit.org or on itunes.