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POSTED: April 20th, 2021
POSTED IN: EM Pulse - The Official Newsletter of MOCEP, March/April 2021, MOCEP, News,

Chandra Aubin, MD, was selected to receive the 2021 Missouri College of Emergency Physicians’ (MOCEP) R.R. Hannas Physician of the Year Award. She was nominated by her peer, Douglas Char, MD, FACEP, both of Washington University / Barnes Jewish Hospital. The award will be presented to Dr. Aubin at the Missouri Emergency Medicine Symposium on May 27, 2021, in Columbia, Mo.

Dr. Aubin is Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. She is a graduate of University of Missouri – Kansas City and completed her residency program at Washington University School of Medicine / Barnes Jewish Hospital – St. Louis.

“She looks after the human side of each resident and colleague” and serves as the “residency mother” are just a few of the comments made by Dr. Aubin’s nominator. She always strives to work collaboratively with others but is willing to stand up to any consultant or administrator preventing her from providing the very best possible care for her patients. Dr. Aubin pushes trainees to be better than they thought they could be with a combination of tough love and homespun wisdom. Physicians long out of training, now in positions of authority themselves, reach back to her for career and life advice.

As a senior resident, Dr. Aubin was disappointed that radiology wouldn’t support the introduction of bedside ultrasound in the Emergency Department so she took it upon herself to enroll and complete a ultrasound technologist training program at the community college. After sitting for her RDMS certification she worked to introduce ultrasound to the emergency departments at Barnes-Jewish and St Louis Children’s hospitals.  As interest in this diagnostic modality took off in the early 2000s she helped recruit other ultrasound experts and developed Missouri’s first Emergency Medicine (EM) Ultrasound fellowship.

Dr. Aubin feels strongly that knowledge is power, so she has worked to share her knowledge and expertise with other emergency physicians by spearheading the effort to create the first St Louis metro-wide education conference with St. Louis University’s EM training program. She combined her love of ultrasound and adult education to help lead the efforts to train the community emergency providers at Missouri Baptist Medical Center on the use of Point of Care Ultrasound  in everyday emergency care. Dr. Aubin is a highly sought-after lecturer and workshop facilitator having presented at ACEP, SAEM, CORD and numerous other regional, national and international conferences.

The R.R. Hannas Award is presented to an emergency medicine physician and resident each year, and is named after Dr. Ralston R. Hannas, a “founding father” of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Hannas is a past president of the American College of Emergency Physicians and was the co-organizer, with Dr. Wiegenstein, of the first Scientific Assembly in 1969. He was also chairman of the committee that founded the American Board of Emergency Medicine, served on the Board for twelve years and was the organization’s fourth president. Dr. Hannas was also instrumental in helping organize the fifth Emergency Medicine residency program in the country, at Northwestern University, in 1973. In 1976 he moved to Kansas City where he practiced emergency medicine for 21 years.

To learn more about the R.R. Hannas Award, or MOCEP, please visit www.MOCEP.org. MOCEP is a not for profit organization created to support and advocate for emergency medicine physicians practicing in the state of Missouri. MOCEP is a state chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).