Emergency department initiatives to improve the public health.

Abstract

Each year, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the American Board of Emergency Medicine co‐sponsor an educational session at the Association of American Medical Colleges Annual Meeting. The 1997 session was entitled “Emergency Department Initiatives to Improve the Public Health,” and included presentations by 4 invited speakers: Dr. Lewis Goldfrank, Director of Emergency Medicine at Bellevue Hospital Center and New York University Medical Center; Dr. Dennis Andrulis, Director of the Office of Urban Populations at the New York Academy of Medicine; Dr. Robert D'Alessandri, Vice President for Health Sciences and Dean of the School of Medicine at West Virginia University; and Dr. Arthur Kellermann, Acting Chief of Emergency Medicine at Emory University. Each speaker focused on a particular aspect of emergency medicine and the health of the public. The following article summarizes some of the session's ideas and themes.