Harvard Emergency Medicine Updates & Current Practices 2025

Overview

Harvard Emergency Medicine Updates & Current Practices 2025 is a comprehensive on-demand digital course originally delivered as a live-stream virtual postgraduate program by the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine. This course offers emergency physicians and other healthcare providers detailed updates across a broad spectrum of emergency medicine topics. Participants gain clinical insights through didactic presentations, case reviews, and problem-solving sessions designed to support integration of current best practices into clinical care. All sessions are recorded for asynchronous access, ensuring flexible learning schedules.

On-demand emergency medicine education — accessible anytime, anywhere.

Agenda

This course is structured over five days, providing a thorough review of key areas in emergency medicine. Sessions cover a range of clinical and operational topics delivered by experts in the field. All agenda sessions are in Eastern Time.

• Welcome — Calvin Huang, MD, MPH
• Personalized Management in Septic Shock — Hamid Shokoohi, MD, MPH
• Wilderness Medicine/ High Altitude Illness — N. Stuart Harris, MD, MFA
• Postpartum Hemorrhage — L. Suzanne Leslie, MD, PhD
• Burns — Robert Sheridan, MD
• Supporting Humanitarian Disasters with Digital Health — Jarone Lee, MD, MPH
• Predictive Model Evaluation — Sayon Dutta, MD, MPH
• STI’s — Donna Felsenstein, MD
• Vasopressors and Shock Pearls — Raghu Seethala, MD
• Sepsis Updates — Michael Filbin, MD, MS
• Airway Advances — Annette Ilg, MD
• Geriatric Falls — Shan Liu, MD, SD
• EMTALA, Medical Screening Exams, and Challenging Patients: Considerations for your Next Shift — Jonathan Sonis, MD, MHCM
• Pediatrics – Bronchiolitis: What’s Known and What’s New — Kevin Schwartz, MD, DTM&H
• ED Care of the Psychiatric Patient — Lauren Nentwich, MD
• Cardiac Arrest — Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH
• Clinical Informatics in Emergency Medicine — Shuhan He, MD
• POCUS – Procedures, U/S PIV and LP — Nicole Duggan, MD
• POCUS – e-FAST — Nour Al Jalbout, MD; Graciela Maldonado, MD
• POCUS – Cardiac & Lung — Carrie Walsh, MD; Calvin Huang, MD, MPH
• POCUS – Pediatric Cases — Sigmund Kharasch, MD
• Improving ED Patient Experience — Benjamin A. White, MD
• Innovating in Emergency Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities — Benjamin A. White, MD
• Operationalizing Health Equity in the ED — Thiago Oliveira, MD, MPH; Giovanni Rodriguez, MD; Regan Marsh, MD, MPH
• ARDS — Peter Hou, MD
• Frailty — Sarah Perelman, MD (Shan Liu, MD, SD as Faculty Mentor for Fellow)
• Atypical Presentations of Disease in Older Adults — Sarah Perelman, MD (Shan Liu, MD, SD as Faculty Mentor for Fellow)
• Mild Head Trauma — Pierre Borczuk, MD
• Update on Ventricular Fibrillation Cardiac Arrest — Keith Marill, MD, MS
• Acute Ischemic Stroke Updates — Kori Zachrison, MD, MSC
• Pulmonary Embolism — Christopher Kabrhel, MD, MPH
• Critical Care Double Feature: Push-Dose Pressors, and Phenobarbital for Severe Alcohol Withdrawal — Paul Jansson, MD, MS
• Approach to the Critically Ill Trauma Patient — Rama Salhi, MD, MHS, MSC
• Medical Jargon — Page Mieritz, MD
• Scrotal Pain — Andrew Eyre, MD, MS
• Social Determinants of Health: Why Health Equity is the Business of Emergency Medicine — Wendy Macias-Konstantpoulos, MD, MPH, MBA
• Environmental Impacts of Healthcare and What Emergency Physicians Can Do — Jonathan Slutzman, MD
• What’s New in PEM Literature — Nicole Nadeau, MD
• Current Practice in Newborn Fever — Jane Preotle, MD
• Acute Compartment Syndromes — David Peak, MD
• EKG’s — J. Toby Nagurney, MD, MPH

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Identify underlying tachy-dysrhythmia.
• Identify most up-to-date therapeutics for cardiac arrest.
• Integrate the latest evidence-based practice strategies in treating patients with acute hemorrhagic stroke.
• Utilize latest evidence-based algorithms and strategies in management of pulmonary embolism (PE) and deep vein thrombosis (DVT).

Speakers

This course features a distinguished faculty of emergency medicine specialists, researchers, and clinicians affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Their expertise spans the full spectrum of emergency medicine including critical care, pediatrics, clinical informatics, and health equity.

• Calvin Huang, MD, MPH
• Hamid Shokoohi, MD, MPH
• N. Stuart Harris, MD, MFA
• L. Suzanne Leslie, MD, PhD
• Robert Sheridan, MD
• Jarone Lee, MD, MPH
• Sayon Dutta, MD, MPH
• Donna Felsenstein, MD
• Raghu Seethala, MD
• Michael Filbin, MD, MS
• Annette Ilg, MD
• Shan Liu, MD, SD
• Jonathan Sonis, MD, MHCM
• Kevin Schwartz, MD, DTM&H
• Lauren Nentwich, MD
• Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH
• Shuhan He, MD
• Nicole Duggan, MD
• Nour Al Jalbout, MD
• Graciela Maldonado, MD
• Carrie Walsh, MD
• Sigmund Kharasch, MD
• Benjamin A. White, MD
• Thiago Oliveira, MD, MPH
• Giovanni Rodriguez, MD
• Regan Marsh, MD, MPH
• Peter Hou, MD
• Sarah Perelman, MD
• Pierre Borczuk, MD
• Keith Marill, MD, MS
• Kori Zachrison, MD, MSC
• Christopher Kabrhel, MD, MPH
• Paul Jansson, MD, MS
• Rama Salhi, MD, MHS, MSC
• Page Mieritz, MD
• Andrew Eyre, MD, MS
• Wendy Macias-Konstantpoulos, MD, MPH, MBA
• Jonathan Slutzman, MD
• Nicole Nadeau, MD
• Jane Preotle, MD
• David Peak, MD
• J. Toby Nagurney, MD, MPH

Target Audience

• Emergency Medicine Physicians
• Primary Care Physicians
• Specialty Physicians
• Physician Assistants
• Nurse Practitioners
• Nurses
• Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs)

Why This Topic Matters

Harvard Emergency Medicine Updates & Current Practices 2025 delivers key clinical updates across the full spectrum of emergency care, strengthening knowledge and practical skills of emergency medicine professionals. The evolving nature of emergency medicine demands continued learning to apply current evidence-based approaches in urgent care, enhancing the quality and safety of patient management.

Produced by a leading academic center, this course aligns with the needs of emergency medicine professionals seeking accessible, expert-level education through MedHub Central. It supports the advancement of practitioners’ expertise to address complex clinical scenarios and operational challenges common in emergency settings.