What’s Hot and What’s Not in Our National Organizations: An Emergency Medicine Panel, Part 2

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Deborah B. Diercks, MD, President SAEM

New Chief Executive Officer (CEO). In the summer of 2015, SAEM was pleased to announce the hiring of Megan Schagrin, MBA, CAE, as the new CEO of SAEM. Ms Schagrin has extensive experience serving in leadership positions at several medical nonprofit organizations, most recently at the American College of Chest Physicians. Over the last 9 months, Ms Schagrin has transformed the staff of SAEM by adding needed expertise, setting high expectations, and providing the support needed for existing staff to meet its maximal potential. This includes leading SAEM into a new office headquarters later this year.

Implementation of a New Strategic Plan. SAEM completed a new strategic plan in early 2015. This plan focuses on four key areas: member and leader development, medical education, research and research grants, and virtual relevance. Under the guidance of our new CEO, we have established programs and metrics to reach our goals in each of these areas.

Updates on Our Journal Plus One. In January 2016, our journal, Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM), named a new editor-in-chief, Jeffrey A. Kline, MD. Dr Kline has worked diligently to establish an editorial board, increase the journal’s virtual presence, and develop new content. In addition, in early 2017, AEM will launch a second journal: Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training. This quarterly journal will be led by Editor Susan Promes, MD. AEM Education and Training will begin accepting high-quality education and research submissions in August 2016.

Refinement of our Annual Meeting. This year’s SAEM annual meeting will have a more focused format. To elevate the visibility of the best research and didactics in EM, the program committee, under the guidance of Ali Raja, MD, limited the number of accepted abstracts and didactic sessions. This will allow increased participation and engagement in these events and improve networking at the 2016 Annual Meeting, which will be held in New Orleans, May 10 to 13, 2016.

Editor’s Note: Physician wellness, continuing medical education, and increased resident involvement were some of the recurring themes of this panel discussion. For reports from the AAEM, AAEM/RSA, ABEM, and ACEP, see part 1 of this article in Emergency Medicine April 2016 (https://bit.ly/1VhZSKn). In an upcoming we will publish updates from the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians and the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine.

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