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National Research Presentations

ACEP 2026

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Nicolas Kahl

Quantifying Critical Care Documentation Gaps and Assessing a Real-Time Intervention in the Emergency Department

Akash Desai

Domain-Specific Confidence Gains in Erector Spinae Plane Block Training Using a Novel Gel Phantom

Matthew Baniqued

Discrepancies in Last Known Normal Between Prehospital/Initial Assessment and Stroke Neurologist Evaluation in EMS-Activated Stroke Codes

Vaishal Tolia

Diagnostic Yield and Time to Arrhythmia Detection in Emergency Department‑Initiated 14-Day Ambulatory ECG Monitoring: A Nationwide Real-World Analysis

Ethan Schauer

At-Home Ultrasound-Guided Vascular Access Curriculum for Preclinical Medical Students: A Pilot Study

Rahul Nene

Grounded Evidence: Rethinking Helicopter Use for Stable Trauma Transfers

Jennifer Attias

Physical Resilience Testing in Older Patients Seen for a Fall in the Emergency Department: Initial Results

Frannie Rudolf, Rachna Subramony, Matthew Van Ligten

A Novel Interdisciplinary Practice Pages Curriculum to Improve Communication and Psychological Safety for Fourth-Year Medical Students

 

Paul Ishimine

Time of Day of Computed Tomography Use in Children With Minor Blunt Head Trauma

Christopher Coyne

Cancer-Specific Risk Stratification for Adverse Outcomes After Pulmonary Embolism in the Emergency Department

Gabriel Wardi

Improving Sepsis Alert Specificity Through Host-Response Profiling Following Artificial Intelligence Detection

James Killeen

Characteristics of Emergency Department Encounters for Patients taking GLP-1 Medications

Alan You

Impact of Candida auris Screening on Emergency Department Throughput in a Multi-Site Health System

Arthur Davis

Challenges of Studying Physical Resilience in Older Patients Seen for Falls Injuries

Michael Orcutt

A Head-to-Head Comparison of ED Propofol and Methohexital Sedation

Carina Mireles-Romo

 An Expedited Outpatient Radiology Pathway for Advanced Imaging from the Emergency Department

Elaine Yu

Accuracy of Ultrasound vs. Manual Palpation of Cricothyroid Membrane Identification in Emergency Medicine Trainees

Leslie Oyama

Mahalo-grams: Harnessing Gratitude To Strengthen Morale And Team Culture In The Emergency Department

Michael Self

Healthcare Worker Perception of a Large Language Model Sepsis Alert in the Emergency Department

Brian Kwan

AI-Assisted Physician Scheduling Improves Control, Performance, and Cost Compared with a Commercial Scheduling System

Brian Kwan

LLM-Augmented Emergency Department Documentation: A Multiplatform Evaluation of Efficiency, Productivity, and Coding Outcomes

Katherine Staats

Characterizing Cross-Border EMS Transfers of Care at US-Mexico Ports of Entry

James Ford

Pre-admission GLP-1 Use Is Associated with Lower In-Hospital Mortality Among Patients with Sepsis

James Ford

 An Emergency Department-Based Combined Hepatitis B Virus and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Screening Program: A Prospective Multicenter Study in Tanzania

SAEM 2026

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Authors 

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Ford, James

A Decade of the Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Early Management Bundle: A National Time-Series Analysis of Bundle Compliance and Sepsis Mortality

Trivedi, Jal

Assessing Emergency Airway Procedural Competency in Emergency Medicine Residents Through Longitudinal Online Review of Video Laryngoscopy

Wardi, Gabriel

Integrating A Large Language Model Into Sepsis Predictive Tool Improves Clinical Acceptance Without Delaying Antibiotics in the Emergency Department

Daniel, Michelle

Not All Reviews Are Created Equal: Lessons from Editors on What Makes Evidence Credible.

Ford, James

The PRECISIO Pipeline: Artificial Intelligence–Informed Precision IV Fluids in Sepsis

Coyne, Chris

CPR Readiness Among Emergency Department Patients: Training, Knowledge Gaps, Legal Awareness, and Willingness to Act

Daniel, Michelle

My Best Failure: Lessons from Careers in Medical Education Innovation, Research, and Administration. 

Kwan, Brian & Daniel, Michelle

 Every Click Tells a Story: Electronic Health Record–Based Assessment for Emergency Medicine Educators

Daniel, Michelle

 From Bias to Systems: Applying Cognitive Theory to Teach Diagnostic Reasoning in Emergency Medicine.

Chen, Alice

Hyperlipidemia Reduces Sepsis Risk Differently Across Infection Sources: Evidence From a Retrospective Cohort Study 

Desai, Akash

Global Impact of a Multiblock Ultrasound Guided Nerve Block Training Program on Emergency Medicine Learner Self Efficacy

ACEP 2025

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Joelle Donofrio

EMS Course Tract

Rahul Nene

Use of Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry in Geriatric Emergency Department Patients,

Christopher Coyne

Risk Stratification Following PE in Patients With Cancer: How Do Current Tools Perform?,

Gabriel Wardi

Association of Crystalloid Use and Favorable Neurologic Outcome After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Christian Dameff

Panel: Event medicine with an emphasis on real world cyber attacks

Rahul Nene

Award Presentation: Best Early Career Abstract

Allyson Kreshak

 Physician Orders Associated with an Emergency Department Telehealth Transitions of Care Program

Alan You

Impact of Insurance Network Narrowing at a Neighboring Health System on Emergency Department Volume

Rahul Nene

Impact of Aspirin Use on the Management of Mild Low-Risk Traumatic Brain Injury

Bingren Hu

Intestinal Cooling Prevents Sepsis Without Coagulopathy During REBOA Management of Hemorrhage

Nico Kahl

Emergency Department Telehealth Follow-Up Visits’ Impact on 30-day Hospitalizations

Jal Trivedi

A Practical Framework for Emergency Department–Led Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (ED-ECPR)

Richard Childers

Drop the Mic Competition

Bingren Hu

Targeted Intestinal Cooling Offers Superior Brain Protection in the Mouse Stroke Model

James Ford

Who Gets Funded? Emergency Medicine Underrepresented in NIH-Funded Sepsis Research

Matthew R Baniqued

A Description of Short-Stay Admissions from the Emergency Department Among a Managed Care Population

Michael Self

Impact of an ECPR Program on Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Ambulance Arrivals to the Emergency Department

Michael Orcutt

A Descriptive Study of a Urine Reflex to Culture System at an Academic Medical Emergency Department

Christian Dameff

Cybersecurity for the Emergency Physician

Michelle St. Romain

Social Work Consultations for Patients Screening Positive for Intimate Partner Violence

SAEM 2025

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Authors 

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Bingren Hu, Yujung Park, Chunli Liu, Kurt Hu, Yamileck Olivas-Garcia 

Intestinal Cooling With Hextend Resuscitation Offers Superior Protection in the Rat Model of Hemorrhage Management 

Alice Y. Chen, Sahana Kumar(MS), David Strong 

Associations between disabling conditions and SUD in unhoused populations 

Brian Kwan, Matthew J. Hays, Alexzandra Nicolarsen, Miriam,Tonner, James P. Killeen, Christopher A. Longhurst, Theodore C. Chan 

Reduction in Time Required for Provider Electronic Health Record Training Using an Adaptive E-Learning Platform 

Allison Donahue(PGY3), Ben Gross, Xiaolei Lu, Aaron Boussina, Kai Zheng, James Ford, Atul Malhotra, Shamim Nemati, Gabriel Wardi 

Multicenter Cohort Study of Machine Learning to Examine Surviving Sepsis Campaign Antibiotic Timing on Mortality 

Moira E S. Smith, Brian Kwan, Robert W. Turer 

Creating a clinical informatics elective (didactic). 

Davis, Arthur 

Impact of home health visits ... 

Matthew R. Baniqued (PGY2), Jonathan Ortega, Christine E. Eberts, Gabriella Hernandez, Andrew LaFree, Rahul V. Nene 

Demographic Analysis of Patients Diagnosed With Cerebral Infarction in a Rural Critical Access Hospital 

Anna Leone Lussier, Melanie Estrella, Peter Lindholm 

Drowning Mortality Among Migrants in a Border County: Analysis of San Diego County Autopsy Reports 

 

ACEP 2024

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Gabriel Wardi Use of a Large-Language Model to Automate a Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock (SEP-1) Abstraction
Brian Kwan  Deployment of an Automated Resident Procedure Logging System is Not Associated with Changes in Rates of Off-site Procedure Logging 
Alyssa Vilke What is the Best Method to Identify Older Patients at Risk in a Geriatric Emergency Department
Alice Chen Anticoagulant Drug Use Is Associated with Increased Short-Term Bounceback Sepsis Admission
Richard Childers Testing in Urgent Care Patients with Respiratory Infections: Data from a Randomized Trial
Rahul Nene Implicit Bias In The Patient Descriptor “Homeless,” And Its Association With Emergency Department Opioid Administration And Disposition
Gabriel Wardi Use of Wearable Data to Predict Emergency Department Revisits
Andrew Wong-Rolle Potential Impact of Direct to Waiting Room Triage on Ambulance Offload Delay
Arthur Davis ISAR Screening: Implications for Older Patients Seen in the Emergency Department for Fall and Injuries
Philip S Fallah Ultrasound-Guided Erector Spinae Plane Block for Breakthrough Cancer Pain in the Emergency Department: Case Series
Christopher Coyne Cancer Pain in the Emergency Department: What role does compassion play?
Alan You Comparison of Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry (MCOT) Initiated from the Emergency Department Versus Other Settings
Kylie Van Hoesen Assessing Sleep in Emergency Department Healthcare Workers
Allyson Kreshak An Emergency Department-Based Care-at-Home Program Increases Access to Post-Discharge Primary Care Appointments

SAEM 2024

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Coyne CJ, Miller R, Dong K, Brennan J, Castillo E, Vilke G Electronic Medical Record-Based Cancer Pain Management and Emergency Department Return Visits
Johnson A, Sobel J, Santodomingo M, Rudolf F, Pelucio M Compassion in Core Curriculum: Teaching Trauma Informed Care to Emergency Medicine Residents
Childers RC, Brownstein D, Brennan JJ, Vilke GM, Castillo EM, Coyne CJ Patterns in NIH Stroke Scale Scoring over 10 Years at a Regional Stroke Center
Chen AY, Taub P, Criqui MH, Coyne C, Henrod B, Vilke GM, Allison M.  Statin Use Is Associated With Increased Severity of Sepsis During Bounceback Sepsis Admission
Yu E, Fica Z, Childers R, Supat B, Medak A, Singh S Ultrasound Dynamic Range Improvement in Vascular Education (UDRIVE)
Johnson A, Sobel J, Santodomingo M, Rudolf F, Pelucio M Training Emergency Medicine Residents in Trauma Informed Care Phase 1: Intimate Partner Violence History and Physical Exam
Johnson A, Sobel J, Santodomingo M, Rudolf F, Pelucio M Training Emergency Medicine Residents in Trauma Informed Care Phase 2: Multidisciplinary Approach to Intimate Partner Violence
Austin Powell, John F. Ryan, Amir Aminlari, Benjamin Supat Building an Immediate Feedback Simulation Model for In-Plane Needle Guidance Training (AEUS and Simulation Academy Sponsored)
Childers RC, Supat B, Brennan JJ, Castillo EM, Coyne CJ, Vilke GM Emergency Department Operational Implications of Increasing Stroke Codes
St Romain M, Pelucio M, Coyne CJ Enhancing IPV Screening Adherence in Hospital Admissions: A Quality Improvement Initiative
Daniel M, Spadafore M, Preiksaitis C, Kwan B, Haas M Revolutionizing Education in Emergency Medicine: Unleashing AI’s Power
Kahl N, Tolia, VM, Kwan B, Chan TC, Coyne CJ, Agnihotri P, Kreshak AA Is More Better? Does Number of Televideo Visits in Care-at-Home Program Affect ED Return Rate
Supat B, Wong-Rolle A, Silas A, Vilke GM, Castillo EM, Childers R Price-Sensitivity of Urgent Care Patients With Respiratory Infections: A Randomized Trial
Santodomingo M, Brennan JJ, Davis A, Fiebert J, Killeen JP, Castillo EM Trends of Anxiety-Related Emergency Department Visits Before and During COVID: A Multi-Year Comparison Between Young People and Older Adults
Ashcraft E, Wong MT, Ryan JF, Powell A, Abdou W, Aminlari A, Supat B A Custom, Homemade Pericapsular Nerve Group Block Trainer for Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia

ACEP 2023

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Kreshak A, Kwan B, Chan T, Pierce L, Agnihotri P, Tolia V. The Use of Emergency Physician Televideo Visits
to Provide Care-at-Home After Emergency Department
Discharge
Santodomingo M, Brennan J, Tolia V, Davis A, Ma M, Castillo E Characteristics of Patients Identified with at Risk for Malnutrition in a Geriatric Emergency Department 
Suto D, Xiao J, Bellinghausen A, Odish M, Sweeney D, Owens R Increasing Incidence of Methamphetamine Use in
Hospitalized and Critically Ill Patients 
Dameff C, Kahl N, Kwan B, Castillo E, Killeen J, Tully J, Chan T Regional Impacts on Digital Health Information
Exchange During a Ransomware Attack
Wardi G, Shashikumar S, Boussina A, Nemati S Development of a Novel Deep Learning Model to
Predict Physiologic Deterioration in Emergency Department
Patients
Vilke G, Santodomingo M, Castillo E Acute Healthcare Utilization among Schizophrenia or Related Conditions and Bipolar Disorder Before and After COVID-19
Santodomingo M, Brennan J, Vilke G, Castillo E Race and Ethnic Differences in Anxiety-Related Emergency Department Visit Trends
Nene R, Nene R, Corbett B, Lambert G, LaFree A, Steinbert J, Costantini T Identification of Patients Eith Low-Risk Traumatic
Brain Injury Initially Treated at a Rural Emergency
Department
Coyne C, Gruber M, Henroid B, Li P, Brennan J, Shatsky R Performance of the Khorana Score in the Prediction
of Pulmonary Embolism in Emergency Department Patients
With Cancer
Chen A, Lemus H, Puskarich M, Coyne C, Vilke G, Castillo E, Brennan J, Taub P,
Criqui M, Allison M
Increased Burden of Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Factors Associated With Short Term Emergency Department
Bounceback Admission Related to Sepsis
Tolia V, Kreshak A, Santodomingo M, Brennan J, Vilke G, Castillo E Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments in the Emergency Department Impact Inpatient Length of Stay 

SAEM 2023

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Santodomingo M, Chan TC, Brennan JJ, Schwarz L, Benmarhnia T, Castillo EM Heat Waves and Emergency Department Visits Among Elderly Population in San Diego
Coyne CJ, Han E, Katoulla J Effects of COVID-19 on Emergency Department Opioid Use Disorder Presentations and Treatment
Coyne CJ, Vega E, Brennan JJ, Castillo EM, Vilke GM Characterizing Perceptions and Prevalence of Vaping Among Emergency Department Patients
Dhillon N, Brennan J, Hryniewicki A, Vilke G, Castillo E, Coyne C, Childers R Temporal Trends in Imaging, Treatment, and Diagnosis Among Emergency Department Stroke Code Patients
Vilke GM, Santodomingo M, Stanfield H, Castillo EM Factors Associated with Longer Length of Stay for Patients with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
Santodomingo M, Castillo EM, Brennan JJ, Schwarz L, Benmarhnia T, Chan TC Are Heat Waves Exasperating Acute Renal Failure in Elderly Population? 
Castillo EM, Brennan JJ, Santodomingo M, Schwarz L, Benmarhnia T, Chan TC Impact of Heat Waves on Healthcare Utilization in California among Seniors
Coyne CJ, Rourke K, Gruber M, Li P, Henroid B, Shatsky R The Simplified Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index Score and 30-Day Mortality Risk Among Cancer Patients With Pulmonary Emboli
Chen AY, Coyne CJ, Allison M, Puskarich M, Taub P, Castillo EM, Brennan JJ, Santodomingo M, Vilke GM, Criqui M, Lemus H, Oren E, Wardi G Risk Factors that Predict Short Term Bounceback Sepsis Admission Following Emergency Department Discharge
Castillo EM, Santodomingo M, Brennan J, Kreshak A, Han B. Emergency Department Visits Related to Cocaine and Other Stimulants in Older Adults
Dameff C, Kwan B, Killeen JP, Rudkin S, Longhurst C, Adler-Milstein J Emergency Physician Health Information Exchange Access Rates and Patient Care Impacts
Dhillon N, Hryniewicki A, Brennan JJ, Vilke GM, Castillo EM, Coyne CJ, Childers RC  Increased Incidence of Stroke Codes at a Regional Stroke Center
Vilke GM, Billberry E, Bongbong DN, Castillo EM, Chan TC Weapons Identified in an Urban Emergency Department Increased by a More Stringent Screening Protocol
Chan TC, Santodomingo M, Tolia VM, Brennan JJ, Kreshak AA, Vilke GM, Castillo EM, Killeen J Patients Admitted through the Emergency Department with and without a Primary Diagnosis of COVID-19 Infection