UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine

UCSF Health Ranks Among Nation's Best for 2025-26 U.S. News & World Report ranked UCSF No. 1 in CA & Top 20 in the nation.

👏 The rankings are in! We’re proud to be among the nation’s #BestHospitals — and the No. 1 hospital in California and San Francisco, according to @usnews.com! 🎉

Dr. Meghan Hewlett is one of eight UC San Francisco faculty members selected to become a 2025 John A. Watson Faculty Scholar. She will use her Watson funding to advance care delivery models to reduce health care disparities among vulnerable populations in San Francisco.

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‼️ We're excited to share that Dr. Aaron Harries has been elected to California ACEP's 2025 – 2026 Board of Directors!
He joins fellow UCSF emergency medicine faculty, Dr. Nida Degesys, of UCSF, and Sue Spano, MD, of UCSF Fresno, who will serve another term on the Board.

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Our team proudly provided medical coverage at the 2025 San Francisco Pride Celebration. From sprained ankles and sunburns to asthma, allergic reactions, and eye injuries, our providers saw more than 200 encounters each day.

We’re honored to support the health and well-being of our community. 🌈🩺

🩺🗓️Join us from September 3 – 4 for a FREE two-day, standardized, national-level pediatric disaster preparedness training at UC San Francisco, offered in partnership with the Pediatric Pandemic Network at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals.

Credit is available (see flyer). Register: bit.ly/3HUyTF8

🩺🌍Now in its fourth year, the two-day UCSF Building a Career in Global Health CME conference returns to San Francisco this Nov. 7 – 8, and is open to ALL health care professionals interested in global health.

Learn more & register: emergency.ucsf.edu/ucsf-buildin...

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High Risk Emergency Medicine Conference Celebrates 25 Years

How did High Risk Emergency Medicine Hawaii become an annual tradition? Discover the story behind our CME conference in a profile featured in our department's 2024 Annual Report 🌊🌴

Read: emergency.ucsf.edu/news/high-ri...

High Risk returns to The Kahala Hotel & Resort from March 10 – 14, 2026.

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In a Q&A, Dr. Theresa Cheng, the recipient of the 2025 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award, reflects on her dual training, global advocacy work, and how her dedication to treating the whole person informs her practice in the emergency department: tinyurl.com/mr2sv4zb

CARESTAR Foundation Awards $300,000 Grant to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals to Advance Equitable Emergency Care for Children in Crisis Berkeley, California – June 3, 2025 – UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the CARESTAR Foundation to launch a first-of-its-kind study examining emergency medical s...

The CARESTAR Foundation has awarded a $300,000 grant to UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals to launch a first-of-its-kind study, led by Dr. Ashley Foster, examining EMS providers' perspectives on caring for children in acute agitation.

Read: tinyurl.com/CARESTARUCSF

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Sun, surf, and CME ☀️🌊

Don’t miss HREM Hawaii 2026 — early-bird pricing is live now:

🔹Practicing Physicians: $950
🔹Advanced Health Practitioners, Military, Nurses, Physician Assistants, Physicians-in-Training, Residents/Fellows: $690

Register: direc.to/niVw

🩺🌍Now in its fourth year, the two-day UCSF Building a Career in Global Health CME conference returns to San Francisco this Nov. 7 – 8, and is open to ALL health care professionals interested in global health.

Learn more & register: emergency.ucsf.edu/ucsf-buildin...

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At SAEM25, members of our department delivered a total of 20 presentations, and two received awards.

Check out a few pictures and read our department's recap below for all the details on our SAEM25 activities this year: emergency.ucsf.edu/news/ucsf-de...

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⭐ Congratulations to Dr. Eric Silverman for receiving the 2025 EMS Hospital Provider Award. ⭐

This award honors emergency department (ED) staff who demonstrate exceptional patient care. It was established to highlight the often-unseen work of ZSFG and its EMS partners.

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Curious about what attending our conference is like? 🌺

Get a glimpse in our 2025 High Risk Emergency Medicine Hawaii recap below⤵️

highriskem.ucsf.edu/2025-recap

2026 registration is now open, with early-bird pricing available for a limited time. We hope you'll join us in Honolulu!

⭐ Congratulations to our Chair, Dr. Peter Sokolove, who has been named a recipient of the UCSF School of Medicine's 2025 Holly Smith Award for Exceptional Service. ⭐

Read about Dr. Sokolove's leadership and contributions: medschool.ucsf.edu/our-people/s...

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Hear from our Program Directors about what makes High Risk Emergency Medicine Hawaii, now in its 26th year, a unique opportunity to sharpen your skills.

Our annual CME conference returns to Honolulu from March 10 – 14, 2026🥼

Details: direc.to/niVw

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Save the Date!🗓️

Our annual CME conference returns to Honolulu March 10 – 14, 2026.

Join us to enhance your practice in paradise with our world-class speakers and hands-on learning labs (EKG, ultrasound, airway). Registration is now open: direc.to/niVw

#HREMHawaii2026

UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine Showcases Pediatric Research at PAS 2025

🩺 📃 Our department was well-represented at the 2025 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting in Honolulu, with 15 presentations from members of our Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

Read about our department’s activities at the annual meeting ⤵️
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Last week, 2024 ASCI/Marian W. Ropes, MD, Award recipient Dr. Renee Hsia gave the award's annual lecture at the AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting. Her talk was titled “From Dispatch to Discharge: Addressing Systemic Dysfunction in the U.S. Health Care System.”

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A study led by Dr. Melanie Molina and published in JAMA Network Open found that few U.S. EDs screen for adverse social determinants of health, and many lacked policies requiring a response to positive screens, despite the high prevalence of unmet social needs in ED populations.

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From April 10-11, some members of our department headed south to present at the 2025 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Western Regional Meeting, hosted by UC Irvine and co-sponsored by our department.

Thanks to all who came out to hear them!🙂
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What an ER Doctor Who’s Worked Multiple Mass Shootings Thinks of Those Episodes of The Pitt Dr. Christopher Colwell, who worked Columbine and Aurora and the 2017 UPS shootings, tells us what the hit show gets right and wrong.

🔺Trigger warning: gun violence🔺

Ever wonder what TV medical dramas get right and wrong?🩺

Dr. Christopher Colwell tells @slate.com how realistically the hit Max show The Pitt depicts emergency room staff's care of victims of a mass shooting in the Q&A below⤵️

slate.com/culture/2025...

We’re looking forward to the 2025 SAEM Western Regional Meeting, hosted by UC Irvine! Our department is among the meeting’s sponsors and is excited to travel to SoCal for 2️⃣ days of leading emergency medicine research and skill-enhancing education.

Register: www.saem.org/meetings-and...

Congratulations to Drs. Aaron Kornblith & Margaret Lin-Martore, who received the following P2 Network awards for their contributions to PEM POCUS research and education, respectively:

⭐️Dr. Kornblith: Research Impact Award
⭐️Dr. Lin-Martore: Golden Probe for Innovation in Education Award

On Tues., March 25, Dr. Robert Rodriguez will be a panelist on the FREE Society for Academic Emergency Medicine webinar, “Building the Ideal Mentor-Mentee Relationship: Strategies for Successful Resident Research.”

Register here (Zoom link to follow): lnkd.in/euyiszuB

Time: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. PDT

Around this time last week, we were wrapping up our 25th-annual HREM Hawaii in Honolulu🌴

We're already thinking about next year, when we'll return to The Kahala Hotel & Resort from March 10-14. Join our mailing list to receive timely updates & important details about HREM Hawaii 2026: rb.gy/5pjikj

That’s a wrap on our 25th-annual HREM Hawaii CME conference! It was a pleasure seeing you all in Honolulu, and we look forward to welcoming you back next year 🌺🌴

Mark your calendars — we’ll return to The Kahala Hotel & Resort from March 10-14, 2026. Stay tuned for more information.

EVENT REMINDER🗓️ 🚨

Dr. Hilary Ong's webinar is TOMORROW, March 11. Register for the free National Academy of Medicine event below.

MEET THE SPEAKER📢

Medical toxicologist Dr. Paul Ehlers is our final speaker highlight ahead of #HREMHawaii2025. Join us to hear from the very best in the field, including him!

Registration closes at 5 pm PST TOMORROW (March 6). Register to attend in-person or remotely: highriskem.ucsf.edu