IU Physician On Deck to Lead National ER Society
INDIANAPOLIS - Carey Chisholm, M.D., clinical professor of emergency medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, is the president-elect of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM).
Chisholm directs the IUSM Emergency Medicine and Combined Emergency Medicine-Pediatrics residencies.
He will assume his duties as president of SAEM in May 2004. Chisholm currently serves on that organization's board of directors. SAEM is dedicated to the improvement of care for the acutely ill and injured patient through improvements in research and education.
It's not the first leadership post Chisholm has held in his medical specialty. He is the former president of the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors, from which he received a special award in 1998. He's also a past member of the board of directors for the Government Services and Indiana chapters of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Chisholm was the recipient of the 2002 Program Director of the Year award from the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. He also is editorial reviewer for the Annals of Emergency Medicine and the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. He is an associate editor for SAEM's journal Academic Emergency Medicine.
A 1980 graduate of the Medical College of Virginia, Chisholm completed residency training at Madigan Army Medical Center at Fort Lewis, Wash. He later served as residency director at the Joint Military Medical Command-Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.
For more information about the IU Department of Emergency Medicine, go to http://emergencymedicine.iusm.iu.edu/. More details about SAEM can be found at www.saem.org/.
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