Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section Newsroom

August 29, 2023 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

GEDA Updates

The Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Program continues to thrive! With 465 GED accredited sites spanning 45 states and five countries, 24 health systems moving towards full accreditation f...

August 29, 2023 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

ACEP23 Geriatric EM Section Meeting

Philadelphia Convention Center, Room 109AB Wednesday, October 11, 2023 2:30-4:00 EST pm. The section meeting will be chocked full of information this year! Hear about GED Projects and Opportunities, S...

August 29, 2023 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

ACEP23 Conference Within a Conference

(Included with four-day ACEP23 registration) ROI in Geriatric Emergency Departments: It's more than just money 2.5 hours, Embedded in main conference, October 9, 2023 11:00 am- 1:30 pm EST

August 29, 2023

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?

August 29, 2023 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

Chair's Corner

The goal of the geriatric section is to bring together our members who are passionate about geriatric emergency medicine.

July 20, 2023 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

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?

Apply to join the Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section board as a resident or fellow member.

December 1, 2022 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

Introducing our new Section Chair: Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH

Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH, FACEP is an attending emergency physician and division chief of geriatric emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

December 1, 2022 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

Chair's Corner

Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH, FACEP The Geriatric EM Section is for you! The section aims to bring together our members who are passionate about geriatric emergency medicine and facilitate collaborations on...

December 1, 2022 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

GEMS Section Elections!

Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH, took over as the Section Chair during ACEP22. Chair-Elect: Luna Ragsdale, MD, MPH, FACEP; is to assume the position of Section Chair at ACEP24 (Las Vegas) and serve as an offic...

December 1, 2022 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

ACEP 2022 Recap

It was great to connect with many of you at ACEP 2022! There was a lot afoot- between the pre-conferences, didactics, research presentations and, of course, our section meeting!

December 1, 2022 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

Videos on Dementia and Delirium in the Emergency Department

AARP and the Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative teamed up to develop two short educational videos about dementia care and the risks of delirium, or sudden confusion, in the emergency departm...

December 1, 2022 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

GEDA Updates

The Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Program is thriving! With 380 GED accredited sites spanning 44 states and five countries, 24 health systems moving towards full accreditation for each ...

September 15, 2022 • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

Transforming Tricky Transitions: Optimizing care transitions for older patients in your emergency department

Confused by the alphabet soup of facilities and agencies that provide care to older adults?

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.
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