Logo

Log In Sign Up |  An official publication of: American College of Emergency Physicians
Navigation
  • Home
  • Multimedia
    • Podcasts
    • Videos
  • Clinical
    • Airway Managment
    • Case Reports
    • Critical Care
    • Guidelines
    • Imaging & Ultrasound
    • Pain & Palliative Care
    • Pediatrics
    • Resuscitation
    • Trauma & Injury
  • Resource Centers
    • mTBI Resource Center
  • Career
    • Practice Management
      • Benchmarking
      • Reimbursement & Coding
      • Care Team
      • Legal
      • Operations
      • Quality & Safety
    • Awards
    • Certification
    • Compensation
    • Early Career
    • Education
    • Leadership
    • Profiles
    • Retirement
    • Work-Life Balance
  • Columns
    • ACEP4U
    • Airway
    • Benchmarking
    • Brief19
    • By the Numbers
    • Coding Wizard
    • EM Cases
    • End of the Rainbow
    • Equity Equation
    • FACEPs in the Crowd
    • Forensic Facts
    • From the College
    • Images in EM
    • Kids Korner
    • Medicolegal Mind
    • Opinion
      • Break Room
      • New Spin
      • Pro-Con
    • Pearls From EM Literature
    • Policy Rx
    • Practice Changers
    • Problem Solvers
    • Residency Spotlight
    • Resident Voice
    • Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine
    • Sound Advice
    • Special OPs
    • Toxicology Q&A
    • WorldTravelERs
  • Resources
    • ACEP.org
    • ACEP Knowledge Quiz
    • Issue Archives
    • CME Now
    • Annual Scientific Assembly
      • ACEP14
      • ACEP15
      • ACEP16
      • ACEP17
      • ACEP18
      • ACEP19
    • Annals of Emergency Medicine
    • JACEP Open
    • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • About
    • Our Mission
    • Medical Editor in Chief
    • Editorial Advisory Board
    • Awards
    • Authors
    • Article Submission
    • Contact Us
    • Advertise
    • Subscribe
    • Privacy Policy
    • Copyright Information

2017 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect Candidates

By ACEP Now | on August 14, 2017 | 0 Comment
Features
  • Tweet
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
Print-Friendly Version
2017 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect Candidates

Each October at ACEP’s annual Council meeting, the ACEP Council elects new leaders for the College. The Council, which represents all 53 chapters, 37 sections of membership, the Association of Academic Chairs in Emergency Medicine, the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors, the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association, and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, will elect the College’s President-Elect, four members to the ACEP Board of Directors, and the Council Vice Speaker. This month, we’ll meet the President-Elect candidates. In September, we’ll meet the Board of Directors candidates, and in October, we’ll meet the Council Officer candidates.

You Might Also Like
  • 2018 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect Candidates
  • 2019 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect Candidates
  • 2015 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect Candidates
Explore This Issue
ACEP Now: Vol 36 – No 08 – August 2017

Vidor Friedman, MD, FACEP (Florida)

VIDOR FRIEDMAN, MD, FACEP (FLORIDA)Current Professional Positions: Florida Emergency Physicians (FEP) of TeamHealth, Maitland
Internships and Residency: Emergency medicine residency, Michigan State University, East Lansing
Medical Degree: MD, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (1986)

Candidate Response

Over the past five years, the President’s activities have focused on being the Chief Advocacy Officer for the College. This advocacy can be seen both in the political realm and in increased collaborative efforts with other entities in the health care space. Alliances with other specialties within the house of medicine led to the recent American Medical Association resolutions regarding out-of-network care and the opioid crises. Partnerships with organizations, including the West Health Foundation and the John A. Hartford Foundation, have supported our engagement in geriatric emergency medicine. In all of these efforts, the President of the College has been both content expert and public spokesperson for the College.

I have been a staunch advocate for emergency medicine for over 15 years, this is not new territory for me. As Governmental Affairs Chair for the Florida College of Emergency Physicians, and as President of the chapter, I led our advocacy efforts in Florida for almost a decade. I was the Federal Governmental Affairs Committee Chair during the Affordable Care Act deliberations, and was one of the architects behind the creation of the Emergency Medicine Action Fund (EMAF).

“I would work to improve the feedback loop from our chapter leadership and the Council by engaging our social media platforms and enhancing our survey feedback tools. This will help to align ACEP’s initiatives with our members’ priorities.” —Vidor Friedman, MD, FACEP

EMAF was created to increase resources for regulatory lobbying in response to the passage of the ACA and is essential as we face current and future health care reform initiatives. The increased collaboration from having diverse elements from within our community all sitting at the table and discussing our collective needs was as important a win to me as the success that EMAF has become.

Pages: 1 2 3 4 | Single Page

Topics: ACEPAmerican College of Emergency PhysiciansCandidatesDirectionElectionGoalInitiativePresident

Related

  • VACEP Legal Victory Illustrates Why the Prudent Layperson Standard Still Matters

    October 26, 2023 - 1 Comment
  • “If Not Me, Then Who?”

    March 16, 2022 - 4 Comments
  • Emergency Departments Can Help Get Patients Registered to Vote

    June 24, 2020 - 2 Comments

Current Issue

ACEP Now: July 2025

Download PDF

Read More

About the Author

ACEP Now

View this author's posts »

No Responses to “2017 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect Candidates”

Leave a Reply Cancel Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


*
*

Wiley
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Use
  • Advertise
  • Cookie Preferences
Copyright © 2025 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved, including rights for text and data mining and training of artificial technologies or similar technologies. ISSN 2333-2603