Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Division Agenda
Wednesday October 16, 2013
Scientific Assembly
Location Sheraton Boren Room, 9:00am – 11:00am
Seattle, WA
Chair: Jessica Wall
Vice Chair: Ashley Strobel
Board Liaison: Ije Akunyili
Board of Directors
Cameron Decker, MD
President
Don Stader, MD
Immediate Past-President /
Treasurer
Jordan Celeste, MD
President-Elect
Stephanie Krema, MD
Secretary/EM Resident Editor
John Anderson, MD
ACEP Representative
Chadd Kraus, DO, MPH
Academic Affairs
Representative
Brandon Allen, MD
RRC-EM Representative
David Chiu, MD
Technology Coordinator
Sarah Hoper, MD, JD
Legislative Advisor
Kene Chukwuanu, MD
Membership Coordinator
Zach Jarou
Medical Student
Governing Council Chair
Matt Rudy, MD
Speaker of the Council
Ije Akunyili, MD
Vice-Speaker of the Council
Executive Director
Michele Packard-Milam, CAE
In Attendance:
Jessica Wall
Ashley Strobel (via phone)
Megan Reynolds
Matt Blickendorf
Guests:
Sean Fox – Chair of ACEP Peds Section
Business:
 Finalization of Division Objectives (Submitted for Approval)
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Improve membership awareness of pediatric emergency medicine
fellowship opportunities and dual pediatrics-emergency medicine
residency opportunities
Provide resources for pediatric patient management in the emergency
department
Provide references to sentinel articles in pediatric emergency
medicine
Provide information and advice from fellowship directors for
applicants into pediatric emergency medicine fellowship
Encourage pediatric emergency medicine research
Website Development
o Liaison to EMRA Website Developer
 Email list serve for a website coordinator
 Initial contact will be with Chalyce for aceess
 Further contact and design with Zach Jarou (msgc@emra.org)
o References
 Survey membership for links for education
 Post reference section on website
 Link Sean Fox (mirror hot seat/bear treats from ACEP)
 Repository for lectures
1125 Executive Circle
Irving, TX 75038-2522
Phone: 866.566.2492
Fax: 972.692.5995
www.emra.org
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Blog – approval from EMRA granted at board meeting
 Discussions about fellowship applications, hot topics in EM,
teaching points, etc
 Approved for Facebook page
Mentorship program
 Sign up for mentorship and mentee section
Applying for residency fellowship and residency
 Jen Walthall (Indiana) is a resource
 Megan to write a tool kit
Publication
o Liaison to EMRA Newsletter Editor
o Qwick card and reference text
 Contact editor for EMRA
 Contact Dale Woolridge
Outreach to external organizations
o ACEP Peds Section – Sean Fox
o ACEP Pediatric Emergency Medicine Committee
 Brett Rosen and Nadia M. Pearson (EMRA Reps to ACEP
Committee)
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PEMFellows
 Email list serve for liaison
AAP/SOEM (post-pone until ACEP Peds Section completed exchange)
Residency Section of AAP?
Upcoming Events:
SAEM 2014 – May 13-17 in Dallas Texas
Report to Board Members Discussion:
1. Work with ACEP about the Advanced Pediatric EM Course
2. Neonatology card
3. Basics of Pediatric EM pocket guide is in contract negotiations and
Michele Packard-Milam to follow-up
4. Twitter and Facebook approved
5. Mentorship program approved
6. Mirroring from ACEP Peds Section site approved