In the coming decades, the number of older adults in your ED will more than double...are you ready?

Founded in 2009, the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM) provides a forum for the collaborative exchange of ideas among emergency medicine researchers, educators, trainees, and clinicians.

AGEM can help you:

•  Improve your clinical care of older patients
  • Learn about The Geriatric ED Guidelines initiative (a collaboration between SAEM, ACEP, ENA, and AGS), which covers resources, staffing, environment, and policies for Geriatric EDs
•  Prepare your trainees to care for older patients through our educational materials:
  • Lectures, training curricula, and simulation cases available
  • Geriatric EM Journal Club: Modeled after the highly successful ACP Journal Club, it provides expert review and commentary on articles critical to geriatric EM
  • Connect with AGEM members available to give grand rounds talks
• Advance your research agenda
  • Connect with AGEM investigators (NIH and foundation-funded, including 8 with K23 grants)
  • Receive mentoring and counseling (for junior and mid-career investigator members of AGEM)

2022-2023 AGEM Executive Committee

President: Lauren Cameron Comasco, MD
President-Elect: Elizabeth M. Goldberg, MD, ScM
Treasurer: Surriya C. Ahmad, MD
Secretary: Kalpana Narayan Shankar, MD, MSc, MS
Immediate Past President: Scott M. Dresden, MD, MS
Member-at-Large: Katherine Hunold Buck, MD
Member-at-Large: Fernanda Bellolio, MD, MS
Member-at-Large: Mary Mulcare, MD
Member-at-Large: Thom Ringer, MD, JD, CCFP
Resident Representative: Kyle R. Burton, MD, MPP
Medical Student Representative: Sarah E. Pajka

Board Liaison: Ali S. Raja, MD
Staff Liaison: Melissa McMillian, CAE, CNP