Corey Slovis, M.D. (photo by Joe Howell)
Emergency medicine award named for Slovis
Corey Slovis, M.D., chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, was recently honored with a national emergency medicine education award created and named in his honor.
The Corey M. Slovis Award for Excellence in Education was created by the U.S. Metropolitan Municipalities EMS Medical Directors Consortium, a body of EMS medical directors who supervise the care of patients in almost all of America's largest cities, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, White House, U.S. Secret Service and nations such as Canada and England.
The award is reserved for those who have provided the emergency medical community with incomparable educational achievement and who possess the unique ability to facilitate substantive learning among the public, emergency care providers and colleagues alike.
The first Corey M. Slovis Award for Excellence in Education was recently presented to Paula Willoughby-DeJesus, D.O., assistant professor of Medicine in the Section of Emergency Medicine at the University of Chicago. Willoughby-DeJesus is also the EMS medical director for Chicago.
She created community CPR and automated external defibrillator (AED) training programs with a DVD component, which offer an essentially free method to train hundreds of thousands of Chicago area residents in these lifesaving procedures.
“Dr. Corey Slovis is considered by most of us to be the pinnacle lecturer in the rapidly evolving subspecialty of EMS and, without a doubt, one of the premier educators across the entire house of medicine,” said EMS pioneer Paul Pepe, M.D., professor of Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics and Public Health and chair of Emergency Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
“Having an international excellence in education award named for this gold standard of learning facilitation is long overdue.”