Telehealth and Sepsis: Improving Access to High Quality Sepsis Care
Location
Center Atrium
Event Website
http://www.cvent.com/events/4th-annual-jefferson-sepsis-symposium/event-summary-712e2f09bc3549f4ae66df02ab28b6d5.aspx
Start Date
9-24-2019 12:00 PM
End Date
9-24-2019 12:45 PM
Description
This roundtable discussion will focus on how the use of real-time access to sepsis experts via a telemedicine network can decrease overall variation in care and improve clinical outcomes.
COinS
Sep 24th, 12:00 PM
Sep 24th, 12:45 PM
Telehealth and Sepsis: Improving Access to High Quality Sepsis Care
Center Atrium
This roundtable discussion will focus on how the use of real-time access to sepsis experts via a telemedicine network can decrease overall variation in care and improve clinical outcomes.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/sepsis/2019/sep24/9
Comments
Dr. Donald Yealy - Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Professor of Medicine and Clinical and Translational, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, School of Medicine
Dr. Yealy is Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Dr. Yealy has focused most of his research on clinical decision making and the early care of many life-threatening conditions, including community-acquired pneumonia, sepsis, acute heart failure and respiratory failure.
Dr. David Gaieski - Associate Professor, Thomas Jefferson University
David Gaieski, MD is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Vice Chair, Resuscitation Services, & Director of Emergency Critical Care in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Jefferson. His expertise and research interests are in optimal implementation of novel clinical care and large database analyses of severe sepsis patients and cardiac arrest patients. He lectures often on these topics both nationally and internationally. He attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and completed his residency there in Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Rajesh Aggarwal - Senior Vice President Jefferson Strategic Ventures, Professor of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University
Rajesh Aggarwal is a bariatric and minimally invasive surgeon at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He holds a PhD degree in virtual reality technologies for surgical education from the Imperial College of London. Along with being a practicing surgeon, he is also the Senior Vice President of Strategic ventures at Jefferson. His goal is to embed, co-develop and translate novel tools, technologies and platforms, into clinical and academic medicine.