AAP Presentation in 2014 about the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee (http://www.pemcrc.org/)

1. American Academy of Pediatrics
Section on Emergency Medicine
May 4th, 2014

2. Overview
• Introductions
• Report from Steering Committee
• Report from Collaborators
• New Studies
• Discussion

3. Steering committee
Chair: Anupam Kharbanda
Associate Chair: Lise Nigrovic
Data Center: Andrea Cruz
Membership/Roster Website Maintenance: Todd Chang
Mentorship: Joseph Zorc, Rachel Stanley, and Denise Dowd
PERN: Charles Macias
Professional Societies Liaison: Lei Chen, Marc Auerbach
Research Networks Liaison: Prashant Mahajan
Surveys: Rakesh Mistry

4. AGENDA
• Report from Steering Committee
– Ken Graff award
• 19 applicants/9 full proposals
– NEDARC grant workshop award
– Survey competition

5. AGENDA
• Update from International Collaborators (10
minutes)
– REPEM – Research in European Emergency
Medicine: Santi Mintegi
– PERN: Charles Macias
• Report from Survey Competition Winner (5
minutes)
– Michelle Pickett

6. AGENDA
• New Studies (20 minutes)
– Bedside Ultrasound for Intussusception
• Keith Cross
– HSV Study
• Andrea Cruz

7. STUDY Update
Study
Collaborative
Number of
Institutions
Number
of
patients
Number of
publications
Related Studies
UTI 19 2477 2
1 paper under review
1 additional paper planned
Appendicitis 10 2605 5
1. CT/Contrast in progress
2. Time to imaging in
progress
POISE 25 527
(interns)
2 abstracts 12 posters/6 pubs
H1N1 PERN
Study
75 321 1 publication
2 abstracts

8. Issues/Discussion
• Changes to Data-Center
– Cost-sharing
– Award option
• Increasing participation
– Website updates
– Mentorship
– Increasing fellow participation

9. Next Meeting
Annual Meeting
AAP
Sunday 12-1:30pm, October 12th