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Department of Surgery
Division of Emergency Medicine

The University of Utah Hospital Emergency Department is a fully approved Level 1 Trauma facility and tertiary referral center that is staffed by physicians 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The department has a census of about 36,000 patient visits annually and provides excellent care for acute emergencies in all subspecialties of medicine and surgery. Patients from all over Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho and western Colorado are referred to the emergency department for definitive medical care.

All full-time faculty in the division are trained in emergency medicine and certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Attending faculty are on duty 24 hours a day and are directly involved in the clinical training of housestaff and medical students. Academic faculty in the division are active in ongoing clinical trials and research at the University. The division also has a Research Fellowship Training Program and Clinical Toxicology Consult Service. Other specialties within the division include Directors of Emergency Medical Ambulance Services and Disaster Medicine. The Division of Emergency Medicine also runs the AirMed Patient Transport Service.

Western States Winter Conference on Emergency Medicine Jan. 31-Feb. 4, 2010 in Park City, Utah!

Read our Spring / Summer 2009 EM Newsletter!

Read our Summer 2009 Research Newsletter!

  

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October/November Updates

In October, Dr. Carl Seger will be in Ghana for the start of the countries first Emergency Medicine Residency. In addition, in combination with the University of Michigan, Dr. Seger will be giving a lecture series on the Emergency management of Trauma. 

In November, Dr. Erik Barton, Dr. Stephen Hartsell and Dr. Carl Seger will be traveling to the University of Michigan to discuss our join progression with the Ghana Emergency Medicine Collaboration (GEMC). They will be joining others from Infectious Disease, Public Health and Family Practice. 

Congratulations to Dr. Scott Youngquist, from the Division of Emergency Medicine, for receiving the "Young Investigators Award" from the American Heart Association this year! We are very proud of the work he has done and the recognition he has brought to our department and our institution!

Dr. Erika Schroeder was selected for an Indo-US Grant for Global Emergency Medical Sciences and as a part of the grant will be presenting a talk on Splenic Trauma at the Assembly of the INDO-US Academic Council for Emergency & Trauma in Coimbatore, India at the end of October.

Dr. Eric Swanson will be awarded the Air Medical Physician's Association Distinguished Physician Award at the Air Medical Transport Conference in San Jose, CA on October 26th. The Distinguished Physician Award was established to recognize a physician who has significantly contributed to the Air Medicine profession and to recognize lifetime achievement and service to the Air Medical community.

Dr. Scott Youngquist will be presenting "The Distribution of Air Medical Transport Times and Advanced Cardiac Life Support Interventions During the Interfacility Transfer of Patients with Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction" by Youngquist, McIntosh, Swanson and Barton at the Air Medical Transport Conference in San Jose, CA

Dr. Scott McIntosh will be traveling to Japan in November to give a talk to the Japanese Society for Aeromedical Services on "Survival Skills for Air Medical Personnel

Dr. Eric Swanson will be giving two lectures at the Air Medical Transport Conference "Airway Management in Air Medical Transport" and "Getting Published in a Professional Forum"

 Dr. Erika Schroeder has been voted in as the new Vice-Chair of the EMRA International Medicine Interest Group.

Dr. Scott McIntosh is now the Medical Director of Summit County

 Dr. Michael Mallin wrote a paper titled "Utility of the Emergency Department Observation Unit in Ensuring Stress Testing in Low-Risk Chest Pain Patients" that was recently accepted for publication in Critical Pathways in Cardiology.