Leaders in Geriatric Emergency Medicine
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Katie Buck, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University
Katie Buck, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor at Ohio State University and Director of the Level 1 Geriatric Emergency Department. She received her medical degree from the University of Virginia and completed EM residency and a research fellowship at Ohio State University. She is a current NIA Beeson K76 award recipient. Her research focus is improving diagnostic accuracy in older adult ED patients with current work on pneumonia. She has been involved in geriatric EM and AGEM since she was an undergraduate student. -
Katie Davenport
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Shan Liu, MD, SD
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Shan W. Liu, MD, SD, is an associate professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the Geriatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director and attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. She co-leads the Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines project, is a past-President of AGEM, and has served on the executive boards of the IFEM and ACEP geriatric sections. She is the author of the award-winning illustrated children's book Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-teh Invented the Mask and Ended an Epidemic, a story about how her great-grandfather invented the first respirator mask.
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Surriya Ahmad, MD
Attending Physician
New York
Surriya Ahmad, MD, completed a five year combined Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine residency at the State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University and Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY, and is double board certified in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine. She completed a Geriatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Weill Cornell/New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. She has been a member of SAEM and AGEM for five years, serving on the AGEM Executive Committee for three years, and is the current Secretary of AGEM. Between taking care of patients in public inner-city Level 1 Trauma Centers and Tertiary Care Centers in Brooklyn and New York over the last seven years, and through her experience spending time with her father and grandmother, she grew more interested in how to best optimize the care of older adults in the ED, including prioritizing communication with patients and families, comfort-mental and physical, and overall experience and wellness.
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Christina Shenvi
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Tony Rosen
New York Presbyterian Hospital
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Scott Dresden
Director
Geriatric Emergency Department Innovations (GEDI), Northwestern Medicine
Director, Geriatric Emergency Department Innovations (GEDI),Northwestern Medicine -
Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH
Chief, Geriatric Emergency Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH, is Chief of the division of Geriatric Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kennedy's clinical, education, and research endeavors focus on improving emergency care for older adults, with specific focus on those with cognitive impairment. She has conducted research into geriatric emergency departments, the detection and management of delirium in older ED patients, and care of persons with dementia in the ED setting. She currently serves as the Chair of the Geriatric Emergency Medicine section for the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), is on the board of governors for ACEP's Geriatric ED Accreditation program, and is a past-president of the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM). -
Kevin Biese
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine