Disaster Medical Sciences Award
Joseph F. Waeckerle, MD, FACEP
Dr. Waeckerle is clinical professor of emergency medicine at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine and editor emeritus of Annals of Emergency Medicine. He is residency trained and board certified in emergency medicine and sports medicine, with postgraduate work in exercise physiology. He has served emergency medicine organizations since the mid-1970s in many capacities and helped found the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association. A former member of the Board of Directors for ACEP and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Dr. Waeckerle chaired the task force on Domestic Preparedness Against Weapons of Mass Destruction for the Office of Emergency Preparedness in the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Waeckerle was invited by the Department of Defense to participate in the Defense Science Board’s Task Force on Defense Against Biological Weapons and by the Veterans Hospital Administration to serve on the Technical Advisory Committee on Domestic Preparedness.

Research Forum Award Recipients

Best Paper
Jody Vogel, MD
Denver Health Medical Center and University of Colorado School of Medicine
“Validation of the Denver Emergency Department Trauma Organ Failure Score to Predict Post-Injury Multiple Organ Failure”

Young Investigator
Faheem Guirgis, MD, FACEP
University of Florida
“Rapid Discharge of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Cocaine Chest Pain: Application of an Abbreviated Cardiac Enzyme Protocol in the Clinical Decision Unit”

Best Resident Paper
Shareen Ismail, MD
University of Florida College of Medicine
“Impact of Video Discharge Instructions from the Emergency Department in Regard to Caregiver Understanding of Their Child’s Fever and Closed Head Injury”

Best Medical Student Paper
Nathan Itoga
University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics
“Factors Affecting Nebulized Albuterol Aerosol Particle Sizes”

Section Awards

Outstanding Section Web Page
Emergency Ultrasound Section
Quality Improvement & Patient
Safety Section

Service to Section
Wilderness Medicine Section

Service to College
Young Physicians Section

Awards of Distinction, Service to College
Emergency Medicine Informatics Section
Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section
Quality Improvement & Patient
Safety Section

Promoting Section Membership
American Association of
Women Emergency Physicians

Outstanding Section Newsletter
Toxicology Section

Awards of Distinction, Outstanding Section Newsletter
Critical Care Medicine Section
Emergency Ultrasound Section
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Section

2013–14 Faculty Speaker Awards

From left to right: Drs. Granovsky, Bavolek, Bonomo, Gausche-Hill, and Klauer.

Outstanding Speaker of the Year
Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD, FACEP

Outstanding Speaker of the Year Honorable Mention
Kevin M. Klauer, DO, EJD, FACEP