EM Technology and AI Innovation & News
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Profile in Innovation: Pediatric EM Physician Dan Imler, MD
Daniel Imler, MD of Stanford’s Department of Emergency Medicine was awarded the American Academy of Pediatrics EBSCO Health/DynaMed Plus Award for Technological Innovations in Pediatric Emergency Medicine Award for his work in creating Curbside, an online physicians-first decision optimization tool.
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Rising to the Challenges of Covid-19 Through Telehealth
One of Stanford’s first steps toward virtual emergency care was to establish a drive-through alternative care site for COVID-19 testing in 2020, supported by a remote emergency medicine physician.
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Using Digital Devices to Expand Care Beyond the Emergency Department
As an associate professor of emergency medicine, Brian Suffoletto, MD sees emergency department (ED) patient encounters as opportunities to identify individuals with specific risks and connect them to effective interventions that help them adopt behavioral changes after they leave the ED.
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Using Phenotypes to Improve TBI Treatment
Angela Lumba-Brown, MD, associate professor in Emergency Medicine is defining new best practices for diagnosing and treating traumatic brain injury (TBI), including concussion, using phenotyping.
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Training Health Care Providers Around the Globe
Matthew Strehlow, MD helped to develop a free, online, 15-module COVID-19 training now used by more than 120,000 learners in low- to middle-income countries.
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COVID-19: A Race to Research
Andra Blomkalns, MD, MBA, Chair of Stanford School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine shares how rapid efforts to overcome hurdles in the first weeks of the pandemic led to the creation of one of the first COVID-19 biobanks in the country at an academic institution.
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Innovating Ultrasound Training
Laleh Gharahbaghian, MD, director emeritus of the emergency ultrasound program and fellowship, led the five-year development of the online, case-based training game, SonoDocGame.com, for point-of-care ultrasound education.
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Concussion summit focuses on science behind brain injury
Stanford's one-day Stanford Sports Concussion Summit explored advances in the diagnosis and management of mild traumatic brain injury. "This was the first real opportunity to engage the public in showcasing advances in concussion research and clinical care originating at Stanford," according to Angela Lumba-Brown, MD, event chair and co-director of the Stanford Brain Performance Center.