What if? A few months ago some of the Division of Aging team took a road trip with me to Ft. Wayne, Indiana to see firsthand the cool stuff we have been hearing about a community based organization called Aging…
The workshop get-a-way organized by the powerhouses of FemInEM this February brought together women in healthcare from across the country for three days of refreshing personal and professional enrichment. As a female emergency medicine provider in a small community hospital…
My nightmare is waking up to a phone call in the middle of the night with a frantic chief resident on the other end of the line telling me that one of our residents is dead. I am a lifelong…
Valerie Dobiesz, MD, MPH is Director of Internal Programs for STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and core faculty at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative where she co-leads a program on education in conflict. According to World…
Telehealth, using video to have an acute medical care visit, puts some of the power of choice back into our patient’s hands. To best frame telehealth and its use cases, the NQF published a report in 2017, outlining the following…
Emergency medicine is tough. The world expects perfection, and we know perfection isn’t possible. Complicated patients and a dysfunctional health care system make matters worse. The sad outcome is that too many physicians are unhappy, burned out, and the rate…
Dr. Kelli O’Laughlin is one of the women I most respect and admire on the planet. In addition to being a FemInEM and FIX17 speaker, she is my cousin. At our family dinners, she shows me how to balance being…
Congratulations to Dr. Michelle Romeo for her winning submission to the Essentials of Emergency Medicine Fellowship Blog Competition. Check out her winning blog post on “Equity” below! Would you believe it if I told you that by having me, a…
Dr. Patricia C. Henwood
Thomas Jefferson Point-of-Care Ultrasound Educator of the Month Series - January 2019
Amy Zeiden, MD 
Penny Lema 
Abigail Hankin-Wei, MD 
Angela Jarman, MD 
Jennifer Walthall, MD, MPH 
Haleh Van Vliet, MD 
Arlene Chung, MD, MACM 
Jenny Beck-Esmay, MD 
Aditi Joshi MD, MSc 
Carolyn McClanahan, MD 
Elyse Portillo, MD, MPH 
Michelle Romeo, MD 
