ABEM President Marianne Gausche-Hill, M.D., received the Hal Jayne Excellence in Education Award during the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). The award “honors a SAEM member who has made outstanding contributions to Emergency Medicine through the teaching of others and the improvement of pedagogy.”
Dr. Gausche-Hill is the Medical Director for Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency, Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and serves as Clinical Faculty at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. She is nationally and internationally 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 has won numerous national awards for her leadership in Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine and EMS, most recently, the Lundquist Institute’s Legends Award and the James S. Seidel Award for Lifetime Achievement by the American Academy of Pediatrics. She currently serves as a senior editor for the textbook, Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. Dr. Gausche-Hill received her medical degree from UCLA and completed residency training in Emergency Medicine and a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
Read about this year's award winners here.