Since 1970, advocates for the Emergency Medicine specialty.
Check back often to get the latest news for the Commonwealth’s emergency physicians. You can also check out EmergencyPhysicians.org, the official ACEP news site.
VACEP has introduced two bills in the 2026 General Assembly, and it’s also a big year for lawmaker education.
Megyn Christensen, DO & Martin Klinkhammer, MD, MHP, FACEP from Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University review the September 2025 study on the usage of shock index as a indicator of compensated shock among trauma patients. Here's their analysis.
VACEP leaders are working on reforms to reduce the burden on practitioners who are named in unfounded complaints to the Board of Medicine. This is a particularly major issue in emergency medicine, which sees hundreds of complaints annually.
Paige Darrow, DO, and Martin D. Klinkhammer, MD, from Eastern Virginia Medical School, review the September 2024 JAMA Network Open study on the diagnostic performance of TBI biomarkers. Here's their analysis.
Virginia emergency physicians face critical elections in 2025. Learn how new laws, key races, and VACEP’s advocacy efforts underscore the urgent need to support EMPAC-VA.
Physicians at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth and VCU Health consider the October 2024 JAMA study on transfusion strategies in acute brain injury. Here's their review.
Each year, VACEP selects one or several early career emergency physicians to take part in our Leadership & Advocacy Fellowship. This one-year program pairs rising emergency physicians with a more senior attending, with the goal of taking on projects or experiencing the non-clinical parts of the job — like advocacy, education, and training. Meet our new Fellows.
Physicians at VCU Health and UVA Health consider a June 2024 study in the New England Journal of Medicine that looks at noninvasive ventilation for preoxygenation during emergency intubation. Here’s their review.
