EMCREG-International leverages the acute care expertise of its membership to analyze key datasets, provide opinion on the practice of emergency and acute care medicine, and debate key issues important to practice.

The Emergency Medicine Cardiac Research and Education Group (EMCREG)-International was established in 1989 as an emergency medicine cardiovascular and neurovascular organization led by experts from the United States, Canada, and across the globe. We now have Steering Committee members from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States. Now in our 30th year, we remain committed to providing clinicians with the best educational programs and enduring material pieces possible. In addition to our usual Emergency Physician audience, we now reach out to our colleagues in Cardiology, Critical Care, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine and Hospital Medicine with our EMCREG-International University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Office of Continuing Medical Education (CME) accredited symposiums and enduring materials.

  • MONOGRAPHS ⏵

    Over our 30-year history, EMCREG-International has published more than 50 high-quality CME monographs on important emergency medicine and acute care topics. Each of our monographs are distributed to an avergae of 30 thousand clinicians in the acute care specialties of emergency medicine, hospital medicine, trauma and critical care. Our educational materials boast a long-standing reputation for high-quality unbiased content provided by thought-leaders and experts in thier fields. Please take a moment to browse our publication library and subscribe to receive upcoming publications.

  • SYMPOSIA ⏵

    34 live events spanning 22 years.... and going!

    EMCREG-International has been holding educational symposia for more than 20 years with our first live educational event occurring in 1998 at the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) annual scientific session in San Diego, California . The strong turnout and reviews from that first event launched what would become a 20-year educational tradition, with EMCREG holding over 30 live events at the annual scientific sessions for ACEP, the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine and more recently the American Heart Association.

    The popularity of our symposia resulted from consistent cutting-edge and evidence-based content presented by academic experts in the field in a strictly unbiased fashion. What began primarily as a cardiovascular emergencies format quickly evolved into topics covering many important disease processes presenting to emergency and acute care physicians. Our state-of-the-art and evidence-based topics evolved from primarily acute coronary syndromes to eventual cover many acute care treatment and management topics including, but not limited to, acute ischemic stroke, transient ischemic attack, traumatic brain injury, hypertensive emergencies, acute decompensated heart failure, severe bleeding, anticoagulation, septic shock, venous thromboembolism, cardiac biomarkers, point-of-care testing, clinical guidelines, and critical topics. And what began as an emergency medicine audience evolved to include cardiology, hospital medicine, nurse practitioners, intensivisits and other clinicians treating patients in the acute care setting.

  • CONSULTATION ⏵
    EMCREG-International leverages it’s international acute care experts to analyze key datasets, provide opinion on the practice of emergency medicine, thrombosis, acute cardiovascular emergencies, acute neurovascular emergencies and critical care, and debate key issues important to practice.

    Our members are all well known academic clinician researchers and thought leaders. Our 55 members represent 45 academic institutions, managing more than a million combined ED patients annually, our academic emergency physician educators provide unparalleled experience in acute care education, clinical care and research.

    The wealth of experience and clinical acumen associated with such a geographically diverse network of veteran clinician researchers has resulted in the development of the consultation arm of EMCREG-International. These consultation efforts are geared toward helping companies understand both the clinical usefulness and obstacles associated with embracing a new diagnostic or treatment technology in the clinical ED setting. The drive to identify and assess new technologies is equally important to the clinicians making up the EMCREG network as it is to the manufacturers of diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. 

    This ability to rapidly organize such an expert panel with minimal effort has proved appealing for companies facing short development timelines. Popular consultation topics include:

    1. Will a promising technology ultimately be practical in the clinical ED or acute setting in its current form?

    2. What are the practical, clinical and political obstacles to adopting promising new technologies?

    3. What alterations to a technology or its marketing would allow its utility and acceptance in the ED or acute care setting to be realized?

    4. Will a proposed research design be feasible in an emergency department setting?

    5. As the gatekeeper of many acute care patient presentations, how can enrollment in the ED be optimized in in acute care trials and cross specialty trial collaborations.

    6. Feasibility and adoption of new treatment options in the real world acute care practice

    7. Barriers to adoption of new biomedical and diagnostic devices in the real world acute care practice

    8. Barriers to adoption of new biomarkers and laboratory testing in the real world acute care practice

    9. Consensus panel recommendations and guideline development

    10. Managing barriers to clinical research in the acute care setting and facilitating inter-specialty collaboration.