ER visits from prescription meds now equal to visits from illegal drugs
Robert Hendrickson, MD, Assistant Medical Director of Oregon's Poison Center was recently interviewed on News Channel 8, KGW, regarding the growing abuse of prescription medications. For the full story and video, read more .
David Spiro, M.D., M.P.H., Chief at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Pediatric Emergency Services was recently featured as a guest on AM Northwest on KATU demonstrating some vital steps to know when handling a summer emergency with a child. There are two available videos Read More
Administrative Fellowship in Emergency Medicine announced
OHSU's Department of Emergency Medicine has received approval for its new Administrative Fellowship starting in July of this year. "The Goal of the fellowship," said director Dan Handel, M.D., M.P.H, "is to develop leadership skills of future emergency department medical directors through practical experiences at OHSU in clinical operations, quality management, service excellence, general management and financial management."
Dr. Handel also serves as Clinical Director of the Emergency Department and is the Current President of OCEP.
Rachel R. Bengtzen, M.D., a Chief Resident in the Department of Emergency Medicine, was honored with a Golden ROSE (Recognizing Outstanding Service Excellence) Award in April by the OHSU Service Excellence Reward and Recognition Committee. Dr. Bengtzen was nominated by a patient she had seen in the ED earlier this year.
Sustaining a high quality training program requires a great deal of resources. To help secure this, we have established the John C. Moorhead Emergency Medicine Endowment Fund and the Jerris R. Hedges Emergency Medicine Endowment Fund . Our goal is to raise funds to the Endowed Professorship level to honor the many contributions that these two esteemed past Chairs have made nationally to Emergency Medicine.
Portland Monthly named John Ma, Robert Cloutier, Garth Meckler and David Spiro to their Top Doctors for 2010
The December annual Top Doctors issue of the Portland Monthly had an impressive showing from the OHSU Department of Emergency Medicine. The whole article kicked off with a spotlight on our own Chairman, John Ma. Read the whole story.
OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital now has a dedicated, kids-only Emergency Department (ED) with specially trained emergency medicine physicians and pediatric emergency nurses on site 24 hours a day. Read More....
The new ED Learners Calendar is a google schedule that lists all the learners that are scheduled to be in the department, faculty can email edlearners@gmail.com to get their student learners included on the calendar. View the calendar here.
OHSU's Department of Emergency Medicine has received approval for its new Administrative Fellowship starting in July of this year. "The Goal of the fellowship," said director Dan Handel, M.D., M.P.H, "is to develop leadership skills of future emergency department medical directors through practical experiences at OHSU in clinical operations, quality management, service excellence, general management and financial management."
Update on Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)
