Emergency Medicine
Director, Public Health and Disasters
Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health
How to Prepare PCP for Disasters
Community Resilience: What Is It and How Do We Get There?
Ready, Willing, and Able: An Update for Clinicians on Preparing for Disasters and Climate Change
Not Just Zombies: Public Preparedness for Disasters
Disaster Training Specialist
Medical Alert Center, On-call Medical Supervision
Disaster Healthcare Volunteer, Medical Adviser
AAP – CA2 Disaster Preparedness, Committee Chair
Mass Casualty Triage
Medical Management of Nuclear and Radiologic Disasters
Overview of Hospital Disaster Preparation LA County
Medical Triage in Natural Disasters
Safety and Security Consultant
Workplace Violence Prevention
Active Shooter
Domestic Violence in the Workplace
Sexual Harassment
Security Management Programs
Workplace Violence – OSHA and The Joint Commission Compliance
Internal Investigation
Security Liability Prevention – Premise, Retention, Training
Use of Force
Personal Safety and Simple Self Defense
Chief Quality Officer
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Just Culture
Physician Integration
Respectful Behavior and Healthcare: What’s the Connection_
Detection and Management of Severe Sepsis: The First Six Hours
Medical Errors and Mistakes in Healthcare: The National Patient Safety Goals
Handoff Solutions that Work
Improving Care for Transgender Patients
Preventing Catheter-Associated UTI Infections
New Sepsis Guidelines
Preventing Central Line Infections
Managing Interruption and Distractions in Healthcare
Physician Communication
Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Surgery: Meeting SCIP Goals
Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
New Developments in the Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
Non-Operative Management of Acute Appendicitis: What Would Mcburney Do?Nosocomial Infections Now in the Community
Avoid Unnecessary Hospital Admissions for Acute Infectious Diseases
Infectious Disease Outbreaks: An Update
MRSA Infections
Update on Antibiotics
Update on Treatment of Emergency Department and Community Acquired Infections
New Concepts in Managing Pneumonia
Animal Bites and Other Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
Medical – Legal Infectious Disease Emergencies
Update on Treatment of Common Viral Infections
New Developments in Treatment of Community Acquired Infections
Community Acquired Pneumonia
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Whats New in Infectious Diseases
Professor of Medicine, Division of Emergency
Medical Decision Making: Preventing Cognitive Errors
Physician Wellness
The New Anticoagulants
Emergencies in the Elder Patient
Alcohol Withdrawal Syndromes
Evaluation and Management of the Difficult Airway
RSI: What Every Emergency Physician Must Know
RSI: Issues and Controversies
Reassessing Basic Airway Management Skills: Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
Rescue Devices for Managing the Difficult Airway
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases: A Social and Historical Perspective
Evaluation of Acute Diarrhea
Food and Water-Borne Illnesses
Influenza – Expanding Options in Prevention and Treatment
Travel-Related Illnesses
Abdominal Pain in the Elderly
Trauma in the Elderly Patient
The Toxidrome-Oriented Physical Exam: A 60 Second Approach to Poisoning
Toxic Alcohols
Mushroom Poisoning
Environmental Heat Illness
Penetrating Neck Trauma
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
TIAs: Myths and Controversies
Emergency Management of the Acute Asthmatic
Aortic Disasters
Pulmonary Embolism
Pain Management in the ED
Sedation in the ED
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
The Pharmaceutical Industry and Medical Practitioners
Oncologic Emergencies
Warfarin Reversal
Noninvasive Ventilation
Surgical Emergencies in the Bariatric Surgery Patient
Trauma in the Obese Patient
Elder Abuse
Red Flag Chief Complaints: Potential Life Threats That Look Benign
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Domestic Violence
Top 8 Dangerous Prescribed Medications
Dangerous Medication and Black Box Warnings in the Elderly: Is Anything Safe Anymore
Disease Prevention in the ED: Tobacco Cessation
Disease Prevention in the ED: Alcohol Misuse, Health Consequences, and Patient Counseling
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Physical Abuse of Children
Second Victims: Helping you and your Staff Cope with Tragic Pediatric Outcomes
Recognition of At-Risk Children: Suicide, Abuse and Human Trafficking
The Pain-Free Pediatric ED: Pain Control, Anxiolysis and Procedural Sedation
Ins and Outs: What’s New in Ingestion’s and Foreign Body Management
Management of Pediatric Hyperglycemia
Neuro-Nuts and Bolts: Seizures/Head Injuries/Concussions
Bronchiolitis/Asthma Update: When is The Right Time to get Aggressive
Former Director of Toxicology
Assistant Dean
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Assistant Professor of Cell Neurobiology
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Hypertension: Very Elevated Blood Pressure in Asymptomatic Patient…Now What?
America’s Addiction to Opioids: What Health Professionals Need to Know
Homeless & the Hospital Emergency Department
Creepy Crawlies- Insects, Infestation, Marine Envenomation
Tobacco Use Performance Measures and Nicotine Dependence
Elder Abuse
Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation (CURS2)
Prescription Drug Abuse
Strategies for Cessation
Geriatric Polypharmacy and Adverse Drug Reactions
Electronic Cigarettes
Core Measures for Tobacco Use Treatment
ER/LA Opioid REMS: Achieving Safe Use While Improving Patient Care
Approach to the Poisoned Patient
North American Snake Envenomation
Spiders and Scorpion and Insect Envenomation
Newer Drugs of Abuse (Spice, Bath Salts, Wax and more)
The Overlooked Addict: Patients, Providers, and Prescription Drug Abuse
Newer Antidotes and Gastrointestinal Decontamination
Is it Hot in Here? Heat-related Illness
Adverse Drug Reaction and Post Marketing Surveillance and Adverse Drug Reaction
Botox and Other Cosmetic Procedure Poisoning
Cold and Hot Environmental Emergencies
Athletic Performance Enhancers and Dieting Agents
Nicotine and E-Cigarettes
Caffeine and Energy Drinks
Meet Me at the Rave- Club Drugs of Abuse
Rapid Sequence Intubation and Procedural Sedation Medication and Toxicity
Acetaminophen Poisoning
Salicylate Poisoning
Opioid Poisoning
Iron Poisoning
Seafood Poisoning
Herbal Medications
Botulism, Tetanus, and Strychnine
Pharmaceutical Additives and Toxicity
Anticoagulant Toxicity and Reversal
The Brady Bunch- Beta Blocker, Calcium Channel Blocker, Digoxin, Clonidine Poisoning
Cocaine, Methamphetamine, and Other Sympathomimetics
Antidiabetic Agents and Toxicity
Anticonvulsant Toxicity
Antidepressants and Lithium Poisoning
Antipsychotic Poisoning
Ethanol and Ethanol Withdrawal
Ethanol, Benzodiazepines and Other Sedative-Hypnotics
LSD, Hallucinogenic Amphetamines and Herbal Drugs of Abuse
Inhalant Abuse and Caustic Poisoning
Lead and Other Heavy Metal Poisoning
Insecticide, Pesticide and Herbicide Poisoning
Rodenticide Poisoning
Methanol, Ethylene Glycol, and Other Toxic Alcohol Poisoning
Plant Poisoning
Carbon Monoxide and Smoke Inhalation
Cyanide, Toxic Gases, and Methemoglobinemia
Chemical, Biological and Radiation Weapons