The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) has announced the winner of the third annual EBSCO/PEMSoft Achievement Award. The award is conferred annually upon an emergency physician or pediatric emergency medicine physician who has contributed significantly to evidence-based medicine in pediatric emergency care, and will be officially presented to Dr. Marianne Gausche-Hill in March 2016 at the Advanced Pediatric Assembly meeting in Orlando, Florida.
Dr. Gausche-Hill is the Medical Director for Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and the EMS Fellowship Director at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She is nationally known for her work as an EMS researcher and educator, and for her leadership in the field of EMS and pediatric emergency medicine. She is best known for her study of pre-hospital airway management for children published in JAMA 2000 and her work on the National Pediatric Readiness Project published in JAMA–Pediatrics in 2015. Dr. Gausche-Hill currently serves on the American Board of Emergency Medicine Board of Directors.
The EBSCO/PEMSoft Achievement Award includes an honoraria, for-registration, travel and hotel for ACEP's Pediatric Advanced Assembly and a year's subscription to PEMSoft, EBSCO's invaluable point-of-care clinical information resource. Nominees for the award need to have contributed first author publications and/or contributed to practice-changing innovations in electronic publication or technology, which have meaningfully enhanced emergency care of children.
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