Tele-News Conference: Research Offers New Insights Into Violence In U.S. Emergency Departments

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --

                What:                    Tele-News Conference:  New research and polling
                                          data will be released during ACEP's annual
                                          meeting (ACEP18) in San Diego, Calif., providing
                                          insights into the scope and effects of emergency
                                          department violence.  Presenters will discuss
                                          what emergency physicians, nurses and patients
                                          are facing and how it is affecting patients.




                When:           
            
              9am PDT on Tuesday, October 2




                Who:                                Vidor Friedman, MD, FACEP, president-elect of
                                                     ACEP, to discuss the results of a nationwide
                                                     poll of emergency physicians on violence in the
                                                     emergency department.  He will present data
                                                     describing how common emergency department
                                                     violence is in the United States and how it
                                                     directly and indirectly affects patient care.




                                                   Terry Kowalenko, MD, FACEP, study author of
                                                     "Reassessment of Violence Against Emergency
                                                     Physicians," and a Michigan emergency physician.
                                                       He will discuss violence in Michigan emergency
                                                       departments and increasing concerns of feeling
                                                     "constantly fearful." Dr. Kowalenko is chair of
                                                     emergency medicine at Beaumont Hospitals, Royal
                                                     Oak, Troy, and Grosse Pointe, Michigan.  In
                                                     addition, he serves as professor of emergency
                                                     medicine at the Oakland University William
                                                     Beaumont School of Medicine.  Dr. Kowalenko has
                                                     focused his interests on workplace violence and
                                                     was a co-investigator on a Centers for Disease
                                                     Control/National Institutes of Health grant.




                                                   Leigh Vinocur, MD, FACEP, former chair of ACEP's
                                                     Emergency Department Violence Committee.  Dr.
                                                     Vinocur has served on the faculty at the
                                                     University of Maryland School of Medicine in
                                                     Baltimore and Louisiana State University Health
                                                     Science Center, School of Medicine in
                                                     Shreveport.  She has appeared regularly on
                                                     national media outlets such as the Today Show,
                                                     Fox News Channel, Dr. Oz Show. Like many
                                                     emergency medicine colleagues, she also has been
                                                     a victim of workplace violence.




                Where:          
            Dial in by phone




                                                    Dial-In Number 
              1-877-504-2732
                                           Ask to join Emergency Department Violence Tele-
                                            News Conference




                                         Or come to the San Diego Convention Center in San
                                          Diego, Calif.
                                Room 27B (News Media Workroom)




                                        After brief presentations, speakers will take
                                          questions from the floor and from the phone on
                                          this operator-assisted call.  For copies of the
                                          embargoed materials, contact Mike Baldyga at
                                          mbaldyga@acep.org




     ACEP is the national medical specialty society
      representing emergency medicine. ACEP is committed
      to advancing emergency care through continuing
      education, research and public education.
      Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, ACEP has 53
      chapters representing each state, as well as Puerto
      Rico and the District of Columbia. A Government
      Services Chapter represents emergency physicians
      employed by military branches and other government
      agencies.

     Media Contact: 
     Mike Baldyga


                     
     202-370-9288


                     
     
                mbaldyga@acep.org


                     
     
                newsroom.acep.org


                     
     @EmergencyDocs

View original content to download multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tele-news-conference-research-offers-new-insights-into-violence-in-us-emergency-departments-300714816.html

SOURCE American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)