Harvard Emergency Medicine Updates & Current Practices 2025

Join us for a dynamic one-week live-stream virtual postgraduate course hosted by the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Emergency Medicine. Designed for emergency physicians, specialty physicians, primary care doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and EMTs, this live-streaming course offers a unique opportunity to learn from leading experts in the field. Over the course of five days, you’ll delve into a comprehensive range of topics, including:

5 Tests to Consider Avoiding in Your PEM Patients: Why It’s Good for You And Good for Them
Acute Compartment Syndromes
Advances in the Treatment of Ventricular Fibrillation and Sudden Cardiac Death
Applying Systems Engineering and Innovation to Improve ED Patient Experience
Approach to the Sick Trauma Patient
ARDS
Burns
Cardiac Arrest
Circulatory Shock Quiz Bowl
Code ICH: The first hours of intracerebral hemorrhage
Considerations in Anticoagulation Reversal
Critical Care Double Feature: Push-Dose Pressors, and Phenobarbital for Alcohol Withdrawal
Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism
Emergency Medicine Burnout
Emergency Preparedness
Escalation Alert: Best Practice Communication to Keep ED Staff and Patients Safe
Eye Emergencies
Fever POCUS Algorithm
Geriatric Falls
Hand Emergencies
Managing Critically Ill Patients with Septic Shock
Mild Head Trauma
Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection
Neonatal Resuscitation
Pediatric Trauma & Concussion
Physiologically Difficult Airway Cases
Point-of-Care Ultrasound (EFAST, Cardiac, Lung, Procedures)
Postpartum Hemorrhage
Priapism Management
Reading Cardiac Ischemia on ECGs: the Basics
Scaling Humanitarian Aid, from Ebola to Ukraine
Sepsis Updates
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Shock and Awe: Six Strategies to Prevent Hemodynamic Collapse
The Digital Transformation of Emergency Medicine
Updates in Ischemic Stroke
Virtual Observation: Lessons Learned From Redefining The Walls of the ED

This interactive course will include didactic presentations followed by Q&A, review of cases, problem solving, and other engaging formats via remote learning. Learners will have many opportunities to develop new strategies they can incorporate into their practice setting. All lectures will be recorded and available for asynchronous viewing in case of time-zone/schedule conflicts.
Who Should Attend

Emergency Medicine Physicians
Primary Care Physicians
Other Specialty Physicians
Physician Assistants
Nurse Practitioners
Nurses
Others

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

Identify underlying tachy-dysrhythmia.
Identify most up-to-date therapeutics for cardiac arrest.
Integrate the latest evidence-based practice strategies in treating patients with acute hemorrhagic stroke.
Utilize latest evidence-based algorithms and strategies in management of PE and DVT.

 
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Monday, April 28, 2025

Day One

8:40-9:00 AM

Welcome
Calvin Huang, MD, MPH

9:00-9:40 AM

Personalized Management in Septic Shock
Hamid Shokoohi, MD, MPH

9:40-10:20 AM

Wilderness Medicine/ High Altitude Illness
N. Stuart Harris, MD, MFA

10:20-10:40 AM

Break

10:40-11:20 AM

Postpartum Hemorrhage
L. Suzanne Leslie, MD, PhD

11:20 AM-12:00 PM

Burns
Robert Sheridan, MD

12:00-1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00-1:40 PM

Supporting Humanitarian Disasters with Digital Health
Jarone Lee, MD, MPH

1:40-2:20 PM

Predictive Model Evaluation
Sayon Dutta, MD, MPH

2:20-2:40 PM

Break

2:40-3:20 PM

STI’s 
Donna Felsenstein, MD

3:20-4:00 PM

Vasopressors and Shock Pearls
Raghu Seethala, MD

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Day Two

9:00-9:40 AM

Sepsis Updates
Michael Filbin, MD, MS

9:40-10:20 AM

Airway Advances
Annette Ilg, MD

10:20-10:40 AM

Break

10:40-11:20 AM

Geriatric Falls
Shan Liu, MD, SD

11:20 AM-12:00 PM

EMTALA, Medical Screening Exams, and Challenging Patients: Considerations for your Next Shift
Jonathan Sonis, MD, MHCM

12:00-1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00-1:40 PM

Pediatrics – Bronchiolitis: What’s Known and What’s New
Kevin Schwartz, MD, DTM&H

1:40-2:20 PM

ED Care of the Psychiatric Patient
Lauren Nentwich, MD

2:20-2:40 PM

Break

2:40-3:20 PM

Cardiac Arrest
Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH

3:20-4:00 PM

Clinical Informatics in Emergency Medicine
Shuhan He, MD

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Day Three

9:00-9:40 AM

POCUS – Procedures, U/S PIV and LP
Nicole Duggan, MD

9:40-10:20 AM

POCUS – e-FAST
Nour Al Jalbout, MD; Graciela Maldonado, MD

10:20-10:40 AM

Break

10:40-11:20 AM

POCUS – Cardiac & Lung
Carrie Walsh, MD; Calvin Huang, MD, MPH

11:20 AM-12:00 PM

POCUS – Pediatric Cases
Sigmund Kharasch, MD

12:00-1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00-1:40 PM

Improving ED Patient Experience
Benjamin A. White, MD

1:40-2:20 PM

Innovating in Emergency Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities
Benjamin A. White, MD

2:20-2:40 PM

Break

2:40-3:20 PM

Operationalizing Health Equity in the ED
Thiago Oliveira, MD, MPH; Giovanni Rodriguez, MD; Regan Marsh, MD, MPH

3:20-4:00 PM

ARDS
Peter Hou, MD

Thursday, May 1, 2025

Day Four

9:00-9:40 AM

Frailty
Sarah Perelman, MD (Shan Liu, MD, SD as Faculty Mentor for Fellow)

9:40-10:20 AM

Atypical Presentations of Disease in Older Adults
Sarah Perelman, MD (Shan Liu, MD, SD as Faculty Mentor for Fellow)

10:20-10:40 AM

Break

10:40-11:20 AM

Mild Head Trauma
Pierre Borczuk, MD

11:20 AM-12:00 PM

Update on Ventricular Fibrillation Cardiac Arrest 
Keith Marill, MD, MS

12:00-1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00-1:40 PM

Acute Ischemic Stroke Updates
Kori Zachrison, MD, MSC

1:40-2:20 PM

Pulmonary Embolism
Christopher Kabrhel, MD, MPH

2:20-2:40 PM

Break

2:40-3:20 PM

Critical Care Double Feature: Push-Dose Pressors, and Phenobarbital for Severe Alcohol Withdrawal
Paul Jansson, MD, MS

3:20-4:00 PM

Approach to the Critically Ill Trauma Patient
Rama Salhi, MD, MHS, MSC

Friday, May 2, 2025

Day Five

9:00-9:40 AM

Medical Jargon
Page Mieritz, MD

9:40-10:20 AM

Scrotal Pain
Andrew Eyre, MD, MS

10:20-10:40 AM

Break

10:40-11:20 AM

Social Determinants of Health: Why Health Equity is the Business of Emergency Medicine
Wendy Macias-Konstantpoulos, MD, MPH, MBA

11:20 AM-12:00 PM

Environmental Impacts of Healthcare and What Emergency Physicians Can Do
Jonathan Slutzman, MD

12:00-1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00-1:40 PM

What’s New in PEM Literature
Nicole Nadeau, MD

1:40-2:20 PM

Current Practice in Newborn Fever
Jane Preotle, MD

2:20-2:40 PM

Break

2:40-3:20 PM

Acute Compartment Syndromes
David Peak, MD

3:20-4:00 PM

EKG’s
J. Toby Nagurney, MD, MPH