Aventura had a great turnout at ACEP19 in Denver, CO, with a large number of our senior residents and several core faculty attending.

We are well into interview season with a record number of applicants and a busy interview schedule. Thank you to program coordinator Angie Taylor, our core faculty, as well as our chiefs and resident volunteers for their hard work with interviews, tours and social outings!

Residents and staff continue to impress with their academic endeavors, and two seniors were already accepted into competitive fellowships. Dr. Fred Chu will start a Wilderness Medicine fellowship at George Washington University this fall, and Dr. Jas Gill matched into the Surgical Critical Care fellowship at University of Maryland/Shock Trauma. Congratulations to both—we are so proud of you two!

Dr. Gill submitted an article for the EMRA Critical Care Deep Dive series, “Implementation of the Cardiac Arrest Sonographic Assessment (CASA) protocol for patients with cardiac arrest is associated with shorter CPR pulse checks,” in addition to reviewing an article for the BMJ online, “Aberrant internal carotid artery in the middle ear: the duplication variant.” Intern Dr. Nicolas Ulloa published an article, “Refeeding Syndrome and Non-Alcoholic Wernicke’s Encephalopathy in a Middle-aged Male Initially Presenting with Gallstone Pancreatitis: A Clinical Challenge,” with the online newsletter Cureus. Core faculty and clerkship director, Dr. Annalee Baker, published an article with EBMedicine.net with former Aventura residents entitled, “Status Epilepticus: Overlooked and Undertreated.”

With the new year upon us, we have some projects in the works and look forward to sharing more resident and faculty achievements at the upcoming FOMA conference in Weston. ■