Hackensack University Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residents and Faculty Present Research at National Conference

What You Need To Know

Emergency medicine resident physicians and faculty members presented the results of their research at the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Research Forum, held in Philadelphia October 9-10. The ACEP conference is the premier, most attended annual scientific meeting for emergency medicine physicians and attracts participants from across the country and around the world. 

Seven poster abstracts were presented, four of which were also given orally. The studies included:

• Unique Implementation of an Emergency Department Human Immunodeficiency Virus Routinized Screening Program (oral presentation): Michael Ullo, MD, Emergency Medicine Medical Director, presenter
• Addressing Substance Use Disorder to Decrease Hospital Readmissions and Improve Behavioral Health Patient Outcomes (oral presentation): Jenny Bernard, DNP, MSN, RN-BC, AGNP-BC, Quality Improvement Director, and Chinwe Ogedegbe, MD, MPH, MBA, FACEP, Section Chief for Emergency Medicine Research, presenters
• Trends in Cannabis Use in New Jersey: Effects of COVID and Cannabis Legalization (oral presentation): Raj Patel, DO, Emergency Medicine Resident, presenter
• Assessing ED Provider Confidence in Identifying Alcohol Use Disorder and Prescribing Medically Assisted Treatment (oral presentation): Rose-Ann Weick, DO, Emergency Medicine Resident, presenter
• Descriptive Study of Utilization of Urine Drug Screen for Abdominal Pain Complaints in the Emergency Department: Sung Choi, MD, Emergency Medicine Resident, poster presenter
• Peer Review and Second Victim Syndrome: Alisha Sherwani, DO, M.Sc, Emergency Medicine Resident, poster presenter
• Comparison of Resource Utilization between Geriatric Falls on Anticoagulation Evaluated at Trauma Centers versus Non-trauma Centers: Parth Majmundar, DO, Emergency Medicine Resident, poster presenter

For photos of all of our presenters, click here.