Quality and Patient Safety is essential in order to improve care and prevent injuries. Find out how your state graded in the recent ACEP EM report card.
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- Segment Number 4
- Audio File ER_101/1403er5d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Lynne D. Richardson, MD
- Organization American College of Emergency Physicians
- Guest Bio Dr. Lynne D. Richardson is Professor of Emergency Medicine, Professor of Health Evidence & Policy, and Vice Chair for Academic, Research and Community Programs, Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. A native New Yorker, she attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S. Life Sciences; B.S. Management) and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (MD). Dr. Richardson is a practicing board-certified, emergency physician and a nationally recognized health services researcher focused on access to care and healthcare disparities.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Leigh Vinocur, MD
Is your state doing everything it can to keep you safe and healthy? From smoking rates to seat belt and child safety seat laws, find out how you can do more.
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File ER_101/1403er5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Joshua Moskovitz, MD
- Organization American College of Emergency Physicians
- Guest Bio Dr. Joshua Moskovitz is a full time emergency physician at the north shore university health system. He returned to New York after training at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. He currently holds appointments as an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Hofstra North Shore School of Medicine and as an adjunct assistant professor of public health at the Hofstra School of Public Health. He served on ACEP’s 2014 Report Card Task Force.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Leigh Vinocur, MD
Where does your state rank in disaster preparedness? How about our nation as a whole? It's not as good as you'd think.
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File ER_101/1403er5b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Paul Kivela, MD
- Organization American College of Emergency Physicians
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Guest Bio
Dr. Paul Kivela is a member of ACEP’s Board of Directors and currently serves as Secretary-Treasurer of ACEP. He is managing partner of the Napa Valley Emergency Medical Group in California. Dr. Kivela is also medical director of Medic Ambulance and currently serves on the board of the Queen of the Valley Medical Center. He is former president of the Napa County Medical Association.
Dr. Kivela has been actively involved in the ACEP council for more than 15 years and has worked with the Reimbursement Committee on fair payment issues and has been an ACEP councilor or alternate since 1994. On the state level, he has served as president of the California chapter of ACEP. On the national level, he has served as chair of the ACEP state legislation and regulatory committee for the past three years.
Dr. Kivela is a graduate of the University of Illinois where he also earned his medical degree. He completed his emergency medicine residency at UCLA. He received his MBA at the University of Tennessee. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Leigh Vinocur, MD
The annual report card on the Nation's Emergency Care System was just released. How did your State do?
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File ER_101/1403er5a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Angela Gardner, MD
- Organization American College of Emergency Physicians
- Guest Bio Dr. Angela Gardner is a former president of the American College of Emergency Physicians. She is an emergency physician at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas. In 2006, Dr. Gardner served as Chair for ACEP’s Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine. She earned her medical degree at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas and completed her residency in emergency medicine at the Texas Tech Regional Academic Health Center in El Paso.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Leigh Vinocur, MD
Recent panic arose when a passenger loaded a plane while sick with TB. Is there an epidemic on the horizon? Or is this worry for no reason?
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- Segment Number 5
- Audio File ER_101/1349er5e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Greg Moran, MD
- Organization American College of Emergency Physicians
- Guest Bio Greg Moran, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is Director of Research in the Dept. of Emergency Medicine, and faculty in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Moran is board certified in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Infectious Diseases, and is particularly interested in infectious disease problems in the Emergency Department. He is an Associate Editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine, and was a medical advisor for the NBC television program ER.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Leigh Vinocur, MD
Are free standing emergency departments as good as the real thing?
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- Segment Number 4
- Audio File ER_101/1349er5d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Henry Higgins, MD
- Organization American College of Emergency Physicians
- Guest Bio Dr Henry Higgins has been a full-time emergency physician since 1997 after graduating from West Virginia University Medical School and Residency programs. He has been the Medical director of several emergency departments as well as the Medical Director of Midlevel providers. He has worked in West Virginia, Oklahoma and Texas. He has practiced in Texas since 2003 primarily in a major trauma center. He is currently the owner of the Cedar Park Emergency Center in Greater Austin, Texas, and founder of the Journal of Freestanding Emergency Medicine.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Leigh Vinocur, MD
Do you know when you should be going to the ER? Perhaps your medical emergency is best suited for a free-standing or urgent care center?
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File ER_101/1349er5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Henry Higgins, MD
- Organization American College of Emergency Physicians
- Guest Bio Dr Henry Higgins has been a full-time emergency physician since 1997 after graduating from West Virginia University Medical School and Residency programs. He has been the Medical director of several emergency departments as well as the Medical Director of Midlevel providers. He has worked in West Virginia, Oklahoma and Texas. He has practiced in Texas since 2003 primarily in a major trauma center. He is currently the owner of the Cedar Park Emergency Center in Greater Austin, Texas, and founder of the Journal of Freestanding Emergency Medicine.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Leigh Vinocur, MD
Molly or MDMA, also known as ecstasy, is a very dangerous drug that your teen may be more familiar with than you know.
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File ER_101/1349er5b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Jose Torradas, MD
- Organization American College of Emergency Physicians
- Guest Bio Dr. Jose Torradas was born in Houston, TX and raised near Philadelphia, PA. He attended MIT for undergrad, and graduated medical school from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. Dr. Torradas completed his residency at North Shore University Hospital in New York in June 2013, and is now living in San Francisco. He has been working clinically in various hospitals around Northern California. Dr. Torradas has been an active ACEP member since 2010, and public relations committee member since 2011. He has done a number of interviews for television and written press, in both English and Spanish.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Leigh Vinocur, MD
Is your teen using drugs or trying your prescription medications? One study shows they just might be.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File ER_101/1349er5a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Jose Torradas, MD
- Organization American College of Emergency Physicians
- Guest Bio Dr. Jose Torradas was born in Houston, TX, and raised near Philadelphia, PA. He attended MIT for undergrad, and graduated medical school from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. Dr. Torradas completed his residency at North Shore University Hospital in New York in June 2013, and is now living in San Francisco. He has been working clinically in various hospitals around Northern California. Dr. Torradas has been an active ACEP member since 2010, and public relations committee member since 2011. He has done a number of interviews for television and written press, in both English and Spanish.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Leigh Vinocur, MD
Cardiologist, Dr. Tim Fischell, weighs in on the new guidelines for preventing heart attack and stroke.
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- Segment Number 5
- Audio File ER_101/1347er5e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Tim Fischell, MD
- Organization American College of Emergency Physicians
- Book Title Burn Calories While You Sleep; Change Your Metabolism to be Thin, Fit, healthy and live Longer
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Guest Bio
Dr.Tim Fischell is Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University and Medical Director of the Department of Cardiovascular Research as well as Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program at the Borgess Heart Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He also has an active practice as an interventional cardiologist at the Heart Center For Excellence in Kalamazoo.
After receiving his medical degree from Cornell University Medical Center in New York City, Dr. Fischell completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University in Boston, and then completed his interventional cardiology fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, California. He was on the faculty at Stanford for five years, and then Director of the cardiac cath labs and interventional cardiology at Vanderbilt University from 1992-1996.
Dr. Fischell is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular medicine and interventional cardiology. He is the inventor or co-inventor of more than 80 patented medical devices. He has served as principal investigator for three National Institutes of Health grants, as well as several other research grants. Dr. Fischell has presented more than 200 papers in the United States and abroad. A member of the editorial board of Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine, Journal of Invasive Cardiology, and the Journal of Interventional Cardiology, Dr. Fischell has authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and more than 27 book chapters. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Thorax Center Andreas Gruntzig Award for Inventor of the Year in 1997. He has had a longstanding interest in health and fitness and the effects on heart disease. Most recently he has authored the health and fitness book Burn Calories While You Sleep; Change Your Metabolism to be Thin, Fit, Healthy and Live Longer, with forward by Dr. Dean Ornish.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Leigh Vinocur, MD
