Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative Webinar: Boarding and the Geriatric ED
The Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative (GEDC) is holding a webinar May 11 on “Boarding and the Geriatric Emergency Department (ED).”
The webinar will address the system-wide issue of ED boarding and its disproportionate impact on older adult patients. Presenters will introduce strategies for mitigating the risks for this patient population, and review system-level approaches to addressing boarding.
The expert panel is moderated by Danya Khoujah, MBBS, MEHP and includes:
- Stony Brook Medicine:
- Samita Heslin, MD, MBA, MPH, MA, MS, Deputy Chief Medical Information Officer, Chief, Division of Quality & Informatics, Medical Director, Geriatric ED (ACEP Level 1), Assistant Professor and Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine & Biomedical Informatics
- Candice King, DNP, AGNP-C, CEN, CCRN, Administrator of Nursing Emergency Services
- Eric Morley, MD, MHA, MS, CPHQ, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine
- The University of Alabama at Birmingham:
- Heidi Martin, DNP, RN, GERO-BC, Director UAB Highlands ED
- Whitney McNeil Turner, MD, FACEP, Assistant Professor, Medical Director, Highlands ED
- Emily Simmons, MSN, RN, CNL, Director of Program Development
- Christina Shenvi, MD, PhD, MBA, FACEP, Professor of Emergency Medicine, President of the UNC Academy of Educators, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Sandra Schneider, MD, FACEP, Chief Medical Officer, American College of Emergency Physicians
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