Join Us!
Tuesday, September 16th
from 5:00 – 8:00 PM
At Cadence Bank Conference Center
— IN-PERSON OR ON ZOOM —
Sponsored by Byrne Zizzi
— Presenter
Suzanne Coven
Suzanne Koven was born and raised in New York City. She holds a B.A. in English from Yale, an M.D. from Johns Hopkins, and an M.F.A. in nonfiction from Bennington. After training at Johns Hopkins Hospital, she spent over 30 years practicing primary care at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she now holds the Valerie Winchester Family Endowed Chair in Primary Care Medicine and serves as Writer-in-Residence. She co-directs the Media and Medicine certificate and teaches in the Media, Medicine, and Health program at Harvard Medical School. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, The New Yorker.com, and more. Her column “In Practice” won the Will Solimene Award, and she speaks widely on narrative medicine, women’s health, and primary care. Her book Letter to a Young Female Physician was published in 2021; The Mirror Box is forthcoming in 2026
The Collaborative
In late 2016, Relias Healthcare developed the Jim Spruiell Northern Region Emergency Medicine Collaborative as an annual meeting for all Emergency Medicine Providers to begin the groundwork for ongoing group discussions and presentations on issues that are facing our region’s EM Teams. We have had participation from all local hospitals and emergency department teams and have had the opportunity to present on several “hot topic” issues in Emergency Medicine from nationally recognized speakers.
In Memory of Jim Spruiell
In 2018 Relias re-named the collaborative to:
“Jim Spruiell Northern Region Emergency Medicine Collaborative”
in memory of our dear friend and colleague who impacted this region of Emergency Medicine in a way that we would like to honor moving forward.
Jim acquired many professional accreditations and graciously shared his knowledge and passion with others. He was recognized as an icon in the emergency medical services community, but also as a renowned teacher. He traveled all over the nation to educate emergency medicine providers. His passion was to ensure that anyone in emergency medicine was trained to the best of his or her ability to give the care needed. He tragically passed away in a helicopter crash on November 19, 2017. We commemorate Jim each year with this lecture that exemplifies the excellence he demonstrated throughout his career.
Providing Scholarships
The Collaborative helps to fund scholarships for the Jim Spruiell Memorial Scholarship fund.
Friends and colleagues of Jim Spruiell established a scholarship in his memory shortly after his untimely death.
Saving
Lives
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Relias Healthcare is a physician owned organization that hospitals, clinicians, and patients lean on to manage and staff physician practices. With over 640 providers and over 585,000 annual visits, Relias Healthcare provides hospitals with a wide portfolio of management solutions within the acute care setting of hospital systems, tertiary referral centers, and rural community hospitals.