AAWEP Summer Webinar Series

Join your AAWEP colleagues for three special webinars this summer designed to inspire, empower, and reinvigorate your passion for medicine and leadership. You’ll leave each session with new tools and new connections to ensure you thrive professionally and personally. Join one or all three sessions. Save your spot today!

The Waiting Game: Mental Health Patients and Issues

June 26, 2024 12:30-1:30 PM CST

Join Michael Wilson, MD, PhD, FAAEM, FACEP, Kelsey Morgan, MD and Dana Im, MD, MPP, MPhil as they discuss mental health patients in our EDs. They will highlight points such as:

• Boarding of mental health patients; what can we do, is telepsychiatry the answer
• When, if and how to start psychiatric medications
• The mental health of our country, what is going on and what we can do about it in the ED visit
• To hold or not hold, different legal issues across state lines, case based discussions

From the Frontlines! Our ED Boarding Crisis

July 31, 2024 12:30-1:30 PM CST

Join Shannon Findlay, MD, Erin Muckey, MD, MBA, and Heidi Knowles, MD, FACEP as they discuss our emergency department boarding crisis and highlighting points such as:

• Successful solutions from today's problem solvers
• ED boarding is NOT an ED problem
• Challenges identified from both admin types and docs on shift, sharing misery and ideas for improvement

What Now? Care of the Pregnant Patient in the Emergency Department

August 28, 2024 12:30-1:30 PM CST

Join Speakers Kelly Quinley, MD, Diana Nordlund, DO, JD, FACEP, and Sarah Hoper, MD, JD, FACEP and Monica Saxena, MD, JD as they discuss how to care for an expecting mother in your emergency department and highlighting things such as:

• She's pregnant, what do I do now? (discuss pregnancy counseling, options available for pregnancy (including ectopic and missed AB/incomplete AB) legalities to consider since Dobbs decision)
• When and how to get OB into the ED? Discuss when following up is not acceptable, has anything changed since the Dobbs decision?
• Not the usual options in ED (Discuss some of the work Kelly is doing, the future she envisions, her success/challenge in adding another procedure to her skill set.