With emergency department visits increasing every year, acute healthcare has come to
play a larger role in outpatient medical care. This course will overview questions about your
acute healthcare needs such as warning signs of a stroke or heart attack, what to watch
out for during your wilderness travels or if you are taking care of children, as well as agents
of bioterrorism and emerging infections that have been most recently covered in the media.
We will also discuss how these acute care needs are met through our emergency response
system and medical disaster relief.
Course Chairs: Malini K. Singh, MD, MPH, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
School of Medicine; Clinical Attending, San Francisco General Hospital Emergency Services
Christopher W. Barton, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine; Medical Director, Emergency
Services, San Francisco General Hospital
May 8
First Response: Emergency Medical
Service From 911 to Disaster Relief
John F. Brown MD, MPA, FACEP, Assistant Clinical
Professor of Medicine, SFGH Emergency Services;
Medical Director, San Francisco EMS Agency
Clement Yeh, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor
of Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine; Medical
Director, San Francisco Department of Emergency
Management
May 15
Into the Wild: Backcountry
Medicine 101
Judith Klein, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of
Medicine , UCSF School of Medicine; Section Editor,
Journal of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine
May 22
Kids Care: Common Maladies and
Misadventures in Children
Ronald Dieckmann, MD, Professor of Emergency
Medicine and Pediatrics, UCSF School of Medicine;
Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
May 29
Bug Attack: From Emerging
Infections to Agents of War
Malini K. Singh, MD, MPH, Assistant Clinical
Professor of Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine
Craig Smollin, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of
Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine; Assistant
Medical Director, California Poison Control System,
San Francisco Division
June 5
Stroke Strikes: Understanding
Risk Factors, Diagnosis, and
Treatment of Stroke
Steven K. Polevoi, MD, Associate Clinical
Professor of Medicine, Division of Emergency
Medicine; Director, UCSF Emergency
Department
June 12
Don’t Leave Your Heart in San
Francisco: Understanding
Cardiac Emergencies
Jeffrey A. Tabas, MD, Associate Professor,
UCSF School of Medicine; Director,
Performance Improvement, San Francisco
General Hospital Emergency Services
