Led by Laleh Gharahbaghian, MD & Daniel Imler, MD

Major Accomplishments

Initiated SHC Hospital at Home proposal: developing a clinical model, baseline targets and becoming an integral voice at SHC for its initiative.

Created ability to identify efficiency of charting and offer suggested improvements.

Current Efforts

Precision practice improvement: a new effort to provide individualized feedback and support to our clinicians based on their current practice patterns.

Coordinating with Stanford SURF to do data analysis and human factors process improvement.

Led by David Hao, MD & Sarah Williams, MD

Major Accomplishments

Worked with the Research SP to create and maintain the Collaborations / Research Department Seed Grant, funding a total of seven projects since 2020.

Worked with the Research and Digital Health SP teams to develop a Collaborative Opportunity Research Funnel / Process.

Designed and executed a Mini Lecture series at the 2022 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Western Regional Meeting (WSAEM) which featured an array of panels on topics related to innovation, patents, advice from venture capitalists, and opportunity funnel development.

Current Efforts

Ongoing work to refine, promote, and award the Collaborations / Research Department Seed Grant.

Ongoing work to develop a Collaborations intake form and roadmap to assist individuals within the department who are interested in developing a collaborative project.

Development of a database which houses current Collaborative projects led by faculty within the department.

Led by Sam Shen, MD and Ryan Ribeira, MD

Successes

Launch of Scheduled Video Visit partnership with SHC Clinical Advice Service for referrals to reduce avoidable ED visits

Expansion of video visit support to Walk in Clinic

Finalist for 2023 HIMMS Davies award for Video Visit Program

Publication of our Virtual Visit program in NEJM Catalyst of the Virtual Visit program with commentary in Telehealth news from MHealth Intelligence article

Successful 3rd STEMI X conference

Current Efforts

Further support of STEPP with the recruitment of a program manager

Follow-up Virtual visit study to evaluate patient experience, quality, and operational impact of video visits

Preparing for the presentation of our Virtual Visit Program at the 2023 Vizient Summitt and 2023 Emergency Nursing Association conference

Led by Maya Yiadom, MD

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Grew Foundational Support

Hired faculty and built administrative team to support grant submission, budget, and contract activities, and established dedicated research space at Porter.

Grew EM-Clinical Research Unit to facilitate collaboration and bedside clinical research.

Enhanced Research Pipeline

Integrated EMED faculty and Fellows into Spectrum research training programs to assist Fellowship scholarly projects.

Contributed to the research curriculum within the residency program.

Improved Research Metrics

Since 2020, 150 proposals were submitted, and 65 proposals were awarded. The overall grant funding awarded totals $25M.

The NIH Ranking for Stanford EMed in 2020 was #25. In 2021 we rose to #14, and in 2022 rose to #11.

The number of Stanford EMed publications (PubMed indexed) increased from 146 in 2020 to 207 in 2021, and 180 in 2022.

Grew the ED Data Analytics Committee

Pioneered a novel clinical data pipeline piloting a more decentralized model for department-level access to Epic data within the Stanford School of Medicine.

Developed an interdisciplinary 8-person (4 faculty and 8 staff) technical team to receive, mature and fulfill requests for clinical data (from Epic) towards precision care delivery, clinical practice education, research, administrative decision-making.

CURRENT EFFORTS

Recruiting staff for the EMED Study Design and Statistical Analysis Core to support the development of faculty projects and statistical analysis for grants and publications.

Ongoing clinical research and building EM-CRU operations. In two years, the EM-CRU has had 15 studies, 13+ faculty study leads, 1,684 patients enrolled, with 4 active studies.

Ensuring research support and processes are widely disseminated (providing findings from Grants Task Force and Fellows’ Workshop material to all faculty).

Led by Al’ai Alvarez, MD and Stephanie Edelman

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: Expansion of the Emergency Medicine Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Task Force into a Committee led by Dr. Eli Carrillo.

Faculty Engagement: Monthly Faculty Discussion Forums, A3 Gatherings, and implementation of the “Basic Faculty Expectations” guidelines document.

Physician Coaching: Development of the COACHME@Stanford program led by Dr. Sarah Williams in partnership with the Dean’s Office.

EM Wellness: COVID EM support and ongoing wellness checks for faculty and staff.

CURRENT EFFORTS

Psychological Safety: Defining and promoting psychological safety within the Department of Emergency Medicine.

Value Alignment Accountability: Clarifying faculty and staff expectations in relation to departmental core values.

Mentoring Program: Future launch of department faculty mentoring program

Led by Michael Gisondi, MD & Holly Caretta-Weyer, MD

Accomplishments

Incorporated Precision Emergency Medicine content into medical student, residency, and fellowship curricula and lectures.

Developed and implemented the ACGME Residency Faculty role.

Created the Precision Education and Assessment Research Lab (PEARL)

Current Efforts

Ongoing efforts to develop simulation-based mastery learning for students, residents, and faculty, including the development of an in situ simulation room, procedural checklists, and procedural competency training sessions for faculty.

Ongoing efforts to redesign the resident evaluation process, including the development of an assessment app and dashboards that will be used by the Clinical Competency Committee.

Audit the content (programs, curricula, assessment practices, etc.) that the team is delivering from a health equity lens to identify gaps that exist within education content within the Dept. of Emergency Medicine as they relate to health equity.