Our 14th Annual Emergency Medicine Research Day will be held on Wednesday April 22nd, 2026. 9:00am-2:00pm, at the Smilow Center for Translational Research.
EM Research Day is a terrific opportunity for the entire department to learn about each other’s scholarly activity and to share our work with the Penn Medicine community more broadly. This past academic year, we enjoyed a high quality cohort of research presentations, organized in a virtual format. Speakers represented the diverse range of our emergency medicine enterprise, including nurses, residents, faculty, and fellows from our different hospital sites – the whole spectrum of who we are as a department.
This year's keynote speaker will be Christopher Kabrhel, MD, MPH
Christopher Kabrhel MD MPH is a practicing emergency physician, Director of the Center for Vascular Emergencies at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the MGH Endowed Chair in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Kabrhel has more than 15 years of experience performing research into the epidemiology, diagnosis, risk stratification and treatment of acute venous thromboembolism. Dr. Kabrhel's research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, as well as private foundations and industry. He coordinates venous thromboembolism research for the Nurses’ Health Study at Channing Network Medicine at the Health Professionals Follow Up Study at HSPH where he focuses on genetic epidemiology and population risk factors for VTE. To further this work, he co-founded the International Network for Venous Thromboembolism research which focuses on the genetic epidemiology of VTE. In addition to epidemiology, his current work focuses on clinical risk-stratification and novel care delivery methods for patients with acute PE. In 2012, Dr. Kabrhel co-founded the MGH Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT), the first such team in the world as well as the PERT Consortium, a collaboration between PERTs in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia. Dr. Kabrhel is past chair of the PERT Consortium research committee and is on the PERT Consortium Board of Directors. He is also an honorary senior lecturer at Queen Mary University of London.
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