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.

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

This interactive course will include didactic presentations followed by Q&A, review of cases, problem solving and other engaging formats via remote learning. Learners will have many opportunities to develop new strategies they can incorporate into their practice setting.

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 Harvard 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 Harvard 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.

Harvard Emergency Medicine Updates & Current Practices 2025