(PHILADELPHIA) – Judd E. Hollander, MD, professor and director of clinical research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has been selected to receive the 2011 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Leadership Award.
The award recognizes a SAEM member who has made exceptional contributions to emergency medicine through leadership in the field’s organizations and publications, research productivity, and advancement of the discipline of emergency medicine regionally, nationally or internationally.
A national leader in research on emergency care for patients with acute cardiac problems, Hollander has contributed significantly to the development of best practices in the use of CT angiography among patients with chest pain. The author of more than 300 publications in textbooks and peer reviewed journals, he has also conducted research on emergency room crowding and best practices in emergency care for patients experiencing chest pain, traumatic injury, pneumonia and other emergent illnesses. A longtime leader within SAEM, Hollander recently served as the organization’s president and has held roles in numerous SAEM projects and committees, from finance to industry relations, and he has worked to obtain federal funding for emergency medicine research and create and expand fellowship opportunities for emergency physicians to be trained in clinical research methods. Hollander also created Penn Medicine’s Academic Associate Emergency Medicine Research Program, providing opportunities for undergraduates and medical and nursing students to participate in and help gather data for a variety of emergency department research projects – a model which has been replicated by other leading institutions across the country.
He will be presented with the SAEM Leadership Award during the organization’s annual meeting in early June.
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