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Pennsylvania Hospital’s academic
Department of Emergency Medicine is a partner in the University
of Pennsylvania’s fully accredited emergency medicine
residency. The Department was created in 2000 and its first
chairman is Charles
V. Pollack, Jr., MA, MD, FACEP.
Dr. Pollack has been active in teaching and clinical research and is a national
leader in emergency medicine for more than fifteen years. He is chairman of the
national Research Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)
and has chaired and served on multiple other committees and task forces for ACEP
and for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. He is the only physician
to have received ACEP’s highest national awards in both teaching and research;
he also received the national teaching award from the Council of Emergency Medicine
Residency Directors.
He is a founding editor of Journal Watch — Emergency
Medicine and is on the editorial boards of Journal of Emergency Medicine,
and
emedicine.com. He is the international editor of the Hong Kong Journal of
Emergency
Medicine. He has written more than 150 original research articles, chapters,
and abstracts, and lectures internationally on many varied topics in emergency
medicine. He serves on the steering committees of five national grants and
has received NIH, CDC, AHRQ, and industry funding for his own research.
The emergency physicians at Pennsylvania Hospital
are dedicated to the academic advancement of
our specialty. Recent medical publications
from our staff include:
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POLLACK CV. 2001. The laryngeal mask airway: A comprehensive
review for the emergency physician. Journal of Emergency
Medicine 20: 53-66.
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Mower WH, Hoffman JR, POLLACK CV, Zucker MI, Browne
BJ, Wolfson AB, NEXUS Group. 2001. Use of plain radiography
to screen for cervical spine injuries. Annals of
Emergency Medicine 38: 1-7.
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POLLACK CV, Hendey GW, Martin DR, Hoffman JR, Mower
WH, NEXUS Group. 2001. Use of flexion-extension radiographs
of the cervical spine in blunt trauma. Annals of
Emergency Medicine 38: 8-11.
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Limkakeng A, Gibler WB, POLLACK CV, Hoekstra JW, Sites
F, Shofer FS, Tiffany B, Wilke E, Hollander JE. 2001.
Combination of Goldman risk and initial cardiac troponin
I for emergency department chest pain patient risk
stratification. Academic Emergency Medicine 8:
696-702.
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Butler KC, Selden B, POLLACK CV. 2001. Relief by naloxone
of morphine-induced spasm of the sphincter of Oddi
in a post-cholecystectomy patient. Journal of Emergency
Medicine 21: 129-31.
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POLLACK CV, Gibler WB. 2001. 2000 ACC/AHA guidelines
for the management of patients with unstable angina
and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction:
A practical summary for emergency physicians. Annals
of Emergency Medicine 38: 229-40.
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POLLACK CV, Gibler WB. 2001. Advances create opportunities:
Implementing the major tenets of the new unstable angina
guidelines in the emergency department. Annals of
Emergency Medicine 38: 241-48.
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POLLACK CV. 2001. Peer interaction in emergency medicine
research: A semiannual event (at least). Annals
of Emergency Medicine 38: S1-2.
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POLLACK CV, Panacek EA. 2002. Basics of research (Part
5): Ethics and human rights. Hong Kong Journal of
Emergency Medicine 9: 52-58.
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Birnbaumer DM, POLLACK CV. 2002. Troubleshooting and
managing the difficult airway. Seminars in Respiratory
and Critical Care Medicine. 23: 3-9.
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