GOING FAST! DINNER SEATS STILL AVAILABLE -- UCLA at ACEP SAN FRANCISCO 2011 -- COME RECONNECT AND CELEBRATE -- UCLA OPEN BAR "TAKEOVER" RECEPTION AND UCLA DINNER/SENIOR CELEBRATION SUNDAY OCTOBER 16, 2011 -- PLEASE FORWARD TO ANY ALUMS/FRIENDS THAT OUR EMAIL LIST MAY MISSED

Join us for another AMAZING celebration of UCLA's Emergency Medicine Residency on SUNDAY OCTOBER 16th at ACEP in SAN FRANCISCO!  Make SUNDAY is “UCLA NIGHT!" -- reconnect with the best residency in EM and the Alumni, friends, family and colleagues that make it special.

Chicago 2009

Las Vegas 2010

          

                           

This year’s San Francisco UCLA fun covers Bay Area ‘Cool’   to Old SF ‘Classy’ – a night to  remember that'll top the last four years' amazing "UCLA Nights!"  WERE YOU THERE FOR:

◄◄ Seattle's Triple Door Jazz Theater and Restaurant with Asian/Northwest Fusion Food

n        Chicago's Sushi Samba Top Floor Take-over

n       Boston's Rocca -- one of Bean Town's 'Best Bars' and a    wonderful Ligurian/Italian Restaurant…

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 The  'UCLA EM Party Bus' in  LAS VEGAS, heading to Pink Taco at the Hard Rock Hotel, (enjoyed by faculty and alumni alike!)

DON’T MISS OUT IN SAN FRANCISCO -- SUNDAY OCTOBER 16, 2011!

UCLA EMERGENCY MEDICINE EVENTS:

SUNDAY OCTOBER 16th 

5:30 – 7:30 PM

SWIG BAR – Hip SF Mixology:

n      UCLA ALUMNI AND FRIENDS MIXER and  RECEPTION --  not just an ‘open bar’ – we’re ‘buying out’ one of the hottest ‘mixology’ bars in SF’s newest edge of ‘hip’ – 2 blocks from Union Square where the Tenderloin/Nob Hill/Civic Center neighborhoods have lit off a fire of great bars and clubs!  Hundreds of hand-made drinks, new and old spirits, two private rooms, a fireplace and YOUR UCLA CLASSMATES -- let us buy your drinks as Alumni and Friends gather to reconnect around the  SWIG fireplace.

Signature Swig Coctails

Two Cocktail Balconies overlook the main bar!

Super Premium Spirit Collection

http://www.swigbar.com/

ARE THEY TOO HIP FOR SF?

This event is FREE to UCLA alumni, graduates and friends, but REGISTRATION is required so PLEASE RSVP TO LISA and bring your digital camera to photograph the hip SF chin hair that’ll sprout after a few of these super drinks!

waltzworld@gmail.com   and cc:    markmorocco@gmail.com

                                                                                    

DON’T STOP NOW,  THE MAIN EVENT! – UCLA DINNER AWAITS…

SUNDAY  OCTOBER 16th 

8:00 – 10:30 PM  

EPIC ROASTHOUSE – Bay Bridge Dining Bliss:

Honor the CLASS OF 2012 at a private dinner, at the “Best of the SF” waterfront Epic Roasthouse, with Faculty, friends and family.

View from our private UCLA Dining Room!

We’ll feast ‘UCLA Family on a full four course meal, selected for us by our Foodie Lisa, including matched wines and beer.  Wood Roasted Organic Chicken, Market Roasted Fish, Prime Rib, Epic Mac and Cheese, Dungeness Crab Cakes and desserts like Crème Brulee and Epic’s Chocolate Devils Food Cake are all on the menu for you, while you watch the twinkling lights of the Bay Bridge and harbor outside the  window of our private dining room!  Vegetarian choices are available of course -- but make sure we know when you reserve your seat!

http://www.epicroasthouse.com/

Spouses, significant others and dates are welcome.  Faculty and alumni cost

will be $100 per person first come first reserved space available.   Ticket cost is, of

course, a deductible expense.  SPACE IS LIMITED – 45 GUESTS – BOOK NOW!

It is important that we know exactly who will be there -- we will accommodate

as many faculty, friends and alumni as possible -- RESERVE EARLY AND DON'T

MISS IT!  FIVE HOURS OF THE BEST EATING AND DRINKING IN SF!

So:  email Lisa directly with your RSVP BEFORE SUNDAY 9/18!

waltzworld@gmail.com   and cc:    markmorocco@gmail.com

SUNDAY OCTOBER 16th WILL BE THE BEST PARTY NIGHT OF ACEP, so make your reservations now.  Let's make the celebration of the Class of 2012 the best yet!

Mark

Mark Morocco, MD FACEP

UCLA Emergency Medicine Center

Associate Professor of Medicine/Emergency Medicine

David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA

924 Westwood Boulevard, Suite 300

Los Angeles, CA  90024

Morocco@ucla.edu

UCLA EM ACROSS SOCAL: The Painted Turtle Bike Challenges and The Southern California Western Regional Emergency Medicine Student's Symposium!

Yesterday was an excellent example of how our UCLA EM Family reaches out beyond our usual universe of world class EM care -- at the Reagan EMC in Westwood, at our Olive View County DEM and at our family sites including Antelope Valley Hospital and Santa Monica UCLA's ED.

Two teams represented us in excellent fashion:

Painted Turtle UCLA Medical Team

Jo Feldman led a team of about twenty volunteers to provide medical support to the Painted Turtle Camp Challenges three bike rides at the camp in Lake Hughes, while our AV family provided the ED backup a few miles away (thankfully not needed) as 150 cyclists rode three circuits, including a metric century.

This is the second year of the 'Camp Challenge' and the UCLA EM family's second year as the medical team, with Janet Rimicci arranging for donation of medical supplies from UCLA's RRUCLA EMC and Pharmacy departments --a big thank you 2 years in a row to Diane Zalba, our RRUCLA Pharmacy Director!

UCLA's Team Turtle

Jo Feldman RRUCLA --  Medical Director

Robert Rosenbloom  Olive View/UCLA, and his wife Cesca and son Julian
Kateri Roessler-Henderson R1, and her husband Carl

Kerry Gold  RRUCLA

Wally Ghurabi, Santa Monica UCLA

Elizabeth George, Santa Monica UCLA
Morgan Harris RRUCLA, and her sister Mercedes Harris 
Tara Indieri   RRUCLA
Lia Sumpter,  Santa Monica UCLA
Adolfo Valerin RRUCLA
Sarah Medieros R2
Shiou Richardson Udagawa RRUCLA
Ashley Miller RRUCLA
Mark Rapoza  RRUCLA

Matt Richard AVH & Olive View/UCLA

Scott Spencer AVH & Olive View/UCLA

Tom Lee AVH & RRUCAL

Lis Waisner  AVH

Aside from contributing their time and expertise to protect the riders, spectators and staff, some of our team members also made unsolicited contributions to the Camp -- an above and beyond act of kindness.  

Thank you to all for representing us.


More information about the Painted Turtle:
http://www.thepaintedturtle.org/
http://www.weingartfnd.org/default.asp?PID=81
http://www.holeinthewallcamps.org/
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Residency Recruitment at the Western Regional EM Student Symposium

Our EM Residency clearly was the best represented 'visiting team' at this EM symposium hosted at USC, by both the UCI and USC EMIG.

A Thorn Among the Roses 

Resident Ambassadors  Shawn Kaku, (R4 Chief),  Sophie Terp (R4) and Ashkan Akasheh (R1)  did a spectacular job sharing wisdom and experience (along with Lisa Waltz's homemade cookies and milk!) with students interested in our Residency Program from local schools (UCLA, USC, UCI, Loma Linda, Western and others), as well as visiting students from as far away as Columbia, SUNY Downstate, Tulane and University of Chicago.

Our residency table was also represented by Drs. Votey, Waxman and Morocco -- but no doubt we had the most resident representation, and in my opinion clearly the best (based on student reactions and comments overheard).

Student feedback also indicated that the "Matt and Mark" talk during the lecture series was the day's most dynamic, fun and useful segment, touching on application 'do's and don'ts as well as how to really enjoy and succeed at interview day and beyond.

Thanks again to Shawn, Sophie and Ashkan for coming downtown -- especially after both Shawn and Ash worked the overnight shift!

A great start to the Recruiting Season!

Thank you to all of you who manned the EDs and took care of the patients, the teaching and the mission of all our "UCLA Family" -- allowing us to all volunteer to do these 'extras.'

I'm proud to know you, work with you and look forward to the best year ahead as we move ONWARD AND UPWARD.