First Timers Experience

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

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

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

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