Tele-News Conference: New research and polling data will be released during ACEP’s annual meeting (ACEP18)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --
What: Tele-News Conference: New research and polling
data will be released during ACEP's annual
meeting (ACEP18) in San Diego, Calif., providing
insights into the scope and effects of emergency
department violence. Presenters will discuss
what emergency physicians, nurses and patients
are facing and how it is affecting patients.
When:
9am PDT on Tuesday, October 2
Who: Vidor Friedman, MD, FACEP, president-elect of
ACEP, to discuss the results of a nationwide
poll of emergency physicians on violence in the
emergency department. He will present data
describing how common emergency department
violence is in the United States and how it
directly and indirectly affects patient care.
Terry Kowalenko, MD, FACEP, study author of
"Reassessment of Violence Against Emergency
Physicians," and a Michigan emergency physician.
He will discuss violence in Michigan emergency
departments and increasing concerns of feeling
"constantly fearful." Dr. Kowalenko is chair of
emergency medicine at Beaumont Hospitals, Royal
Oak, Troy, and Grosse Pointe, Michigan. In
addition, he serves as professor of emergency
medicine at the Oakland University William
Beaumont School of Medicine. Dr. Kowalenko has
focused his interests on workplace violence and
was a co-investigator on a Centers for Disease
Control/National Institutes of Health grant.
Leigh Vinocur, MD, FACEP, former chair of ACEP's
Emergency Department Violence Committee. Dr.
Vinocur has served on the faculty at the
University of Maryland School of Medicine in
Baltimore and Louisiana State University Health
Science Center, School of Medicine in
Shreveport. She has appeared regularly on
national media outlets such as the Today Show,
Fox News Channel, Dr. Oz Show. Like many
emergency medicine colleagues, she also has been
a victim of workplace violence.
Where:
Dial in by phone
Dial-In Number
1-877-504-2732
Ask to join Emergency Department Violence Tele-
News Conference
Or come to the San Diego Convention Center in San
Diego, Calif.
Room 27B (News Media Workroom)
After brief presentations, speakers will take
questions from the floor and from the phone on
this operator-assisted call. For copies of the
embargoed materials, contact Mike Baldyga at
mbaldyga@acep.org
ACEP is the national medical specialty society
representing emergency medicine. ACEP is committed
to advancing emergency care through continuing
education, research and public education.
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, ACEP has 53
chapters representing each state, as well as Puerto
Rico and the District of Columbia. A Government
Services Chapter represents emergency physicians
employed by military branches and other government
agencies.
Media Contact:
Mike Baldyga
202-370-9288
mbaldyga@acep.org
newsroom.acep.org
@EmergencyDocs
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SOURCE American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)
