AGEM Annual Research Awards
At the annual meeting, AGEM recognized the best geriatric emergency medicine abstracts with the Best Geriatric EM Abstract Awards. These are selected from the abstracts presented at SAEM each year!
Previous winners:
2022
Faculty: Colleen McQuown (Emergency Medicine Directed Post Emergency Department Visit to Promote Age Friendly Care)
Fellow: Sarra Keene (Feasibility of Light and Music Therapy in the Elderly for the Prevention of Hospital-Associated Delirium)
Resident: Matthew Hamilton (Risk of Fall is Associated with 30-day Mortality Among Older Adults in the Emergency Department)
Medical Student: Zay Smoler (Assessment of a tele-medicine enhanced community paramedicine intervention at a large academic medical center)
2021
Faculty: Lucas Oliveria J. e Silva (Risk Factors for Delirium in Older Adults in the Emergency Department: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis)
Resident/Fellow: Sarra Keene (Geriatric Emergency Medicine Assessment in the Emergency Department Results in Yearly Savings of $3 million)
Medical Student: Simon Yadgir (Automated Screening for Cognitive Impairment Among Older Adults at Emergency Department Presentation using Electronic Health Record Data)
2020
Faculty: Edward Castillo (Impact of an Emergency Nurse Geriatric Specialist on Admissions and Emergency Department Revisits)
Resident/Fellow: Cameron Gettel (Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research (GEAR) network: prioritizing research on falls)
Medical Student: Lily Berrin (Impact of a Two-Part Delirium Screening Tool in Geriatric Patients Admitted from the Emergency Department)
2019
Faculty: Kevin Munjal (A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Transport PLUS intervention)
Resident/Fellow: Elizabeth Kunjummen (Automated Palliative Care Trigger for Admitted Emergency Department Patients)
Medical Student: Daniel Wei (Patterns of Emergency Department Use After Hospital Discharge Among Geriatric Patients)
2018
Faculty: Ula Hwang
Resident/Fellow: Aubri Carman
Medical Student: Alexander Ulintz
2017
Faculty: Sara Arias (Patient and Visit Characteristics for Older Adults with Suicidal Ideation or Behavior in the Emergency Department)
Resident/Fellow: Christina Thorngren (Applying Age Adjusted D-Dimers for Pulmonary Embolus Across a Hospital Network)
Medical Student: Lauren Massimo (Use of Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation By An Advanced Emergency Telemedicine To Reduce Unnecessary Ambulance Transports And Emergency Department Visits from Skilled Nursing Facilities)
2016
Faculty: Jin Han (Delirium in the Emergency Department and Its Extension into Hospitalization (DELINEATE) Study: Effect on 6-month Functional Status and Cognition.)
Resident/Fellow: Sabrina Rahman (Efficacy of a Clinical Decision Unit in Avoiding 30-Day Hospital Readmission of Geriatric Patients)
Medical Student: Sarah Levy (Depression Screening for Older Adults in the Emergency Department)
2015
Faculty: Scott Dresden
Resident/Fellow: Tony Rosen
Medical Student: Christopher Reisig
2014
Faculty: Jim Han (The Relationship between a Chief Complaint of "Altered Mental Status" and Delirium in Older Emergency Department Patients)
Resident/Fellow: Tony Rosen (Injury Patterns in Physical Elder Abuse: Secondary Analysis of a Cohort of Victims Presenting to the Emergency Department)
Medical Student: Katherine Hunold (Ambulance Transport Rates for Older vs. Younger Adults after Motor Vehicle Collision: a Statewide Population-Based Study)
2013
Faculty: Jim Han (A Quick and Easy Delirium Assessment for Non-Physician Research Personnel)
Resident/Fellow: Derek Richardson (Predictive Value and Appropriate Ranges of Prehospital Physiologic Criteria for Identifying Seriously Injured Older Adults During Field Triage)
Medical Student: Shannon Matthews (Age-related Differences in Pain Recovery after Motor Vehicle Collision: A Prospective Longitudinal Study)