Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section Newsroom

June 8, 2022 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

ACEP Geriatric Emergency Medicine

Watch ACEP Geriatric Emergency Medicine discuss how to have our emergency medicine providers age in place. Think you may be aging out of night shifts? Hear about policies at different institutions to ...

March 31, 2022 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

Chair's Corner

Lauren Southerland, MD, FACEP The Geriatric EM Section is active with tremendous momentum from the section members involved in daily geriatric emergency patient care. The section’s goal is simple; to ...

March 31, 2022 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

Fellow Spotlight: Rachel Skains, MD, MSPH

Rachel Skains, MD, MSPH; is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with an Instructor Fellow appointment in the Department of Emergency Medicine (EM) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)...

March 31, 2022 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

Feature Piece: Veterans Health Administration

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health care system in the United States providing care to over 9 million Veterans annually.   The health care system includes 111 eme...

March 31, 2022 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

Save the Date! June 21, 2022, Live Webinar: Talking ‘Bout my Generation

This webinar hosted by the GEM Section will focus on the burden of night shifts in older emergency physicians. Stay tuned for more details. Tuesday, June 21, 2022: noon EST/11am CST / 9am PST. CME wil...

March 31, 2022 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

GEDA Updates

The Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Program is thriving! With 305 GED accredited sites spanning 42 states and four countries and more that 300 EDs on the interest list, these EDs are crea...

October 7, 2021

ACEP21 Geriatric Pre-Conference Agenda (PDF)

The 4Ms and Geriatric Emergency Care - Sunday, October 24, 2021; 10:30 EST- 2:00

August 6, 2021

GEDA Updates

The Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Program is thriving!

July 27, 2021

Resident and Fellow Elections

Do you know a resident or fellow who wants to have fun, work with a great team, and guide the future of Geriatric Emergency Medicine?

April 21, 2021

Geriatric-Friendly Order Sets Webinar

Interested in learning how other Geriatric EDs manage order sets?

February 22, 2021

Geriatric Education and GEDA Requirements

Interested in seeking Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation and curious as to what education is needed to apply?

February 22, 2021

Feature Piece

Geriatric Experts: Nicole Cimino-Fiallos, MD, FACEP; Cameron Gettel, MD.

February 22, 2021

Chair’s Corner

The Geriatric EM Section is active with tremendous momentum from the section members involved in daily geriatric emergency patient care.

February 20, 2021

ACEP Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section Teams with Emergency Medical Abstracts

With over 3500 new manuscripts popping up on PubMed every day, emergency physicians confront a significant challenge in keeping abreast of the latest research. Geriatric emergencies are no exception.

February 20, 2021

COVID-19 is a geriatric emergency.

This peer-reviewed edition of J Geriatric Emergency Medicine has been prepared to share the most up-to-date (as of March 18, 2020) information possible regarding emergency treatment of older adults in...

July 30, 2020

COVID-19 Resources

Numerous health care provider, patient and caregiver resources aimed at improving the care of older adults impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of these resources include: For providers: The Americ...

July 30, 2020

Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section Election Information

This year the section will be holding officer elections. With Lauren Southerland, MD FACP becoming the Section Chair this year, available positions include: Chair-Elect: To assume the position of Sect...

December 11, 2019

The Capacity to Understand Capacity

The following case is based on a true patient encounter: Case: You are working the evening shift in your emergency department (ED). Your next patient, Mr. Stevens, is an 86 year-old male who is brough...

December 11, 2019

Chair’s Message

I am so grateful to all our section members for our shared success over the last couple years.

July 3, 2019

GEDA Update

The Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Program continues to have momentum with 62 GED accredited sites (through June 27, 2019) and more that 185 EDs on the interest list.

July 3, 2019

GEDA Journal

Sturdy Memorial Hospital is an independent community hospital whose emergency department (ED) sees almost 50,000 patients a year with an ever-increasing population over the age of 65.

July 3, 2019

Fellow’s Corner

Dr. Paul Herman, a fourth-year resident at Johns Hopkins Department of Emergency Medicine, will be pursuing further training in geriatric emergency medicine (GEM) as part of his Focused Advanced Speci...

July 3, 2019

Chair’s Corner

The Geriatric EM Section is active and growing with increasing attention and focus by clinicians and healthcare systems in geriatric emergency patient care.

February 6, 2019

International Minimum Standards for Care of Older People Statement from IFEM

The International Federation of Emergency Medicine, of which ACEP was a founding organization, is the body which represents all the national organizations of countries where Emergency Medicine is both...

February 6, 2019

Fellow’s Corner

Dr. Evan Chong: Third year family medicine fellow in care of the elderly, Toronto, Canada.