First Timers Experience

Experiences Suggested Specifically for First Timers

If this is your first time attending the ACEP annual meeting, with so many choices, events and activities, we know the week can seem a little overwhelming.

So ACEP’s Social Media Ambassador Team offer their recommendations about what they think are can’t-miss courses, expereienes and faculty this year.

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Monday, Oct. 9

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Time

Event

8:00 am - 9:50 am

Mothers and Babies: Emergent Delivery and Pediatric Resuscitation Lab (Seperate Fee)
Joelle Borhart, MD, FACEP; Amanda B. Price, MD

9:00 am- 10:20 am

Opening General Session: You vs. Your Brain
Helena Boschi, PhD, MSc

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Visit the Exhibit Hall - more than 250 companies, as well as ACEP Central  

12:30 pm - 1:20 pm

Acute Decompensated Heart Failure "Never a Dry Topic"    
Amal Mattu, MD, FACEP

1:30 pm - 1:55 pm

Soundwaves and Soft Tissues
Jailyn Avila MD, RDMS

2:00 pm - 2:25 pm   

Head CTs in the ED: What You Need To Know           
Benjamin C. Smith, MD, FACEP

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm  

Visit Studio ACEP in the Exhibit Hall and get a free professional headshot  

3:30 pm - 3:55 pm    

Check YOUR Pulse Before the Patients: Bedside Resuscitation Leadership  
Mike Winters, MD

4:00 pm - 4:25 pm  

Aortic Dissection: Don't Miss This Diagnosis 
George C. Willis, MD, FACEP

4:30 pm - 5:20 pm

The Expected Difficult Airway: From Micrognathia to Morbid Obesity
Colin G. McCloskey, MD

7:30 pm - 11:00 pm  

ACEP23 Kickoff Party

Tuesday, Oct. 10

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Time

Event

8:00 am - 8:50 am

Is the LP Dead in the Evaluation of SAH?
Roderick Fontenette, MD, FACEP; Andrew D. Perron, MD, FACEP

9:00 am - 9:50 am

Life-Saving Trauma Procedures
Starr Knight, MD

10:00 am - 10:25 am

How to Evaluate a New Job and Negotiate the Contract
Arlene Chung, MD, FACEP; Christopher S. Kang, MD, FACEP

10:30 am - 10:55 am

Effectively Implementing Brain Injury Guidelines (BIG) for Isolated Traumatic Brain Injury
Michael K. Abraham, MD

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Visit the Exhibit Hall and test your EM knowledge in the High Score Lounge and explore a VR sim lab

12:30 pm - 12:55 pm

ECLS and Extraordinary Measures in Cardiac Arrest
Jennifer G. Wilson, MD, FACEP

1:00 pm - 1:25 pm

Emergency Care for Transgender Patients
Lauren M. Westafer, DO, FACEP

1:30 pm - 2:20 pm

Research Forum State-of-the-Art III: Setting the Record Straight on Crowding
Benjamin C. Sun, MD, FACEP; Arjun Venkatesh, MD, MBA

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Check out the Learning Labs and the Expert Theaters in the Exhibit Hall for quick, non-CME learning

3:30 pm - 3:55 pm

Pain Pearls for Patients on Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
Alexis M. LaPietra, DO, FACEP

4:00 pm - 4:25 pm

Junky Joints: The Challenges in Diagnosing Septic Joints
Melissa Leber, MD, FACEP

4:30 pm - 5:20 pm

Clinical Pearls from the Recent Medical Literature 2023: Part 2
W. Richard Bukata, MD (Moderator); Ken Milne, MD; Jan Shoenberger, MD

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Knowledge Bowl / Trivia Night

Wednesday, Oct. 11

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Time

Event

8:00 am - 8:50 am

Fatal Imaging Myths That Will Change Your Practice Emergency Imaging
Kevin M. King, MD, FACEP

9:00 am - 9:50 am

Crashing Tox Patient
Gillian A. Beauchamp, MD

10:00 am - 10:50 am

Emotional Intelligence: Augment Your EI Through Mindful Listening
Christopher I. Doty, MD, FACEP

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Last day to visit the Exhibit Hall!

12:30 pm - 12:55 pm

Dead Tired: The Impact of Fatigue on Patient Safety and Physician Wellness
Torree M. McGowan, MD, FACEP

1:00 pm - 1:25 pm

Know Your Worth: How Being the Junior Attending Makes You an Asset
Frosso Adamakos, MD, FACEP

1:30 pm - 2:20 pm

Closing General Session: Private Equity, Group Structure & Other Holiday Dinner Topics
Lawton R. Burns, PhD, MBA

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Visit the HackED! space and see who won the hackathon and their EM innovation

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm-ish

Movie Night: Rocky / Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Thursday, Oct. 12

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Time

Event

8:00 am - 8:50 am

Top 10 Antibiotic Mistakes in the ED
Bryan D. Hayes, PharmD, FAACT, FASHP

9:00 am - 9:50 am

Stroke Care 2023: State of the Art
Andrew William Asimos, MD, FACEP

10:00 am - 10:50 am

Ventilator Management: Where's the Easy Button?
Maxwell A. Hockstein, MD, FACEP

11:00 am - 11:25 am

The Physiologically Difficult Airway: Steps to Prevent Your Patient's Inevitable Demise
Steven T. Haywood, MD, FACEP

11:30 am - 11:55 am

Bradycardias: Moving Fast When Your Patient is Slow
William J. Brady, MD, FACEP

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm

Visual Diagnosis: Head and Neck
Lauren M. Westafer, DO, FACEP

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