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The Department will have a robust presence at the SAEM Annual Meeting, held from May 13-16 in Philadelphia. 19 faculty members are presenting a total of 31 didactics, oral presentations, and poster presentations.  A total of 7 faculty members and 12 staff are contributing as co-authors to presentations. A complete schedule of all WCM EM presentations at the conference is available...
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The Department of Emergency Medicine is pleased to announce that it has been ranked 10th in National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding for 2024 by Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. This is a tremendous milestone for the department, which was unranked in 2019, climbed to #14 in 2023 and rose four more spots to our highest...
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Though using large language models (LLM) that drive artificial intelligence (AI) to draft patient notes show promise in saving physicians time, they will still need to review and edit these summaries for accuracy, according to researchers and colleagues at Weill Cornell Medicine. Their findings suggest that as the LLM system is refined to handle documentation more accurately, physicians will have more time to focus on patient care, if they only need to review AI-generated notes versus manually...
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Joining just a handful of other institutions in the United States, investigators from Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, and SUNY Upstate have established a multidisciplinary, translational Resuscitation Science laboratory to study human cardiac arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).Cardiac arrest is the abrupt cessation of cardiac activity that quickly leads to a complete loss of blood flow and represents a leading cause of death in the U.S. and worldwide.  Only one out of...
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The Department will have a robust presence at the ACEP Annual Meeting, held from Sept. 29 – Oct. 2, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. 7 faculty members, 5 residents, 2 students, and 1 PA are presenting a total of 15 didactics, oral presentations, and poster presentations. A total of 20 faculty members, 5 residents, 3 students, and 7 staff members are contributing as co-authors to presentations. A complete schedule of all presentations at the conference is available ...
Global Health Research Uses Culture to Bring Care to the Home
Before Dr. Radhika Sundararajan earned her medical degree and began her work in emergency medicine, she discovered her passion for understanding social and cultural norms across the globe and obtained her PhD in anthropology.Now, she is committed to using her knowledge and experience to keep people from impoverished nations out of the hospital by bringing preventive testing and care to those who may not otherwise have access to it or trust that care.“We know what works and how to deliver it,”...
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The Department will have a robust presence at the SAEM Annual Meeting, held from May 14-17 in Phoenix, AZ. 22 faculty members are presenting a total of 27 didactics, oral presentations, and poster presentations. A total of 20 faculty members and 5 staff are contributing as co-authors to presentations. A complete schedule of all WCM EM presentations at the conference is available...
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Faculty, fellows, residents, medical students and staff from the Department of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine will be presenting at the upcoming Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) 2023 Annual Meeting in Austin, TX.We are excited to present the full list of posters, oral presentations and abstracts below.At this year's meeting, our Division of Research will be awarded the 2023 GEMA Outstanding Contributions to Global Emergency Medicine Research Award. The award...
VEPT
We are excited to announce that the Vulnerable Elder Protection Team (VEPT), led by Dr. Tony Rosen, has received over $1.8 million in funding from the New York State Office of Victim Services (OVS) for October 2022 – September 2025. VEPT is a first-of-its-kind ED/hospital-based multi-disciplinary team designed to address elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation. It is a consultation service available 24/7 to assess, treat, and ensure the safety of elder mistreatment victims while also collecting...
Brock + Lynn Grant
Dr. Brock Daniels, assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine, and Dr. Lynn Jiang, instructor in clinical emergency medicine, were recently awarded a $90,000 grant from the Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network 2.0 – Advancing Dementia Care (GEAR 2.0 ADC), a National Institutes of Aging (NIA) funded program focused on advancing the science supporting emergency care for people living with dementia. GEAR 2.0 ADC brings together key stakeholders from emergency medicine,...