Des Plaines, U.S.A. — The following is a statement by Gail Lenehan, EdD, MSN, RN FAEN, FAAN, President of the Emergency Nurses Association, on the National Institutes of Health’s New Office of Emergency Care Research: ”As the national organization representing more than 40,000 emergency nurses, the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) applauds the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for establishing the new Office of Emergency Care Research (OECR).

“This investment in emergency care research underscores NIH’s commitment to this important field and is an historic step toward strengthening and expanding the field of emergency care research. We are extremely excited about the opportunities that lie ahead for all health care researchers in emergency care to further their research goals and improve the quality of their work, and, in turn, the quality of care we are all able to provide to our patients.”

“In addition to providing support for innovation and improvement in emergency care, and training future researchers, OECR will give us an opportunity to work collaboratively with our colleagues at the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine on interprofessional research initiatives that address the needs of patients and the clinicians who work as a team in the emergency care setting.

“Emergency nurses believe strongly in the importance of evidence-based practice. ENA’s Institute for Emergency Nursing Research has conducted crucial studies that have provided evidence supporting a variety of practices and policies that have improved emergency nursing practice and the care of our patients.

“As emergency departments across the country deliver care to exponentially increasing numbers of patients with unprecedented challenges in terms of the complexity and acuity of their problems, this is welcomed news indeed!”

About the Emergency Nurses Association:

ENA is the only professional nursing association dedicated to defining the future of emergency nursing and emergency care through advocacy, expertise, innovation and leadership. Founded in 1970, Additional information is available at ENA’s Web site www.ena.org

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New York, U.S.A. – Recent research shows that food allergies are a significant and growing public health issue affecting one in every 13 children – roughly two in every classroom. With nearly 40% of these children already having experienced a severe or life-threatening food-allergic reaction, the need for a cure is urgent.

Two leading food allergy organizations are uniting to advance a cure and promote education for food allergy, a severe and potentially life-threatening disease. The Food Allergy Initiative (FAI) and the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN)  announced their intent to merge, pending regulatory approvals.

The merger will combine FAAN’s expertise as the most trusted source of information, programs, and resources related to food allergy and anaphylaxis with FAI’s leadership as the world’s largest private source of funding for food allergy research. The unified organization will focus on funding research to find a cure, advocating for food-allergic people, increasing awareness about the severity and growing prevalence of food allergies, and educating the public and other key stakeholders about the disease and the urgent need for a cure.

“FAI and FAAN have collaborated for nearly 15 years on initiatives to increase understanding of the severity of food allergies and to support food-allergic families,” said Todd Slotkin, chairman of FAI. “Bringing together the considerable expertise and resources that both organizations offer will elevate both our ongoing private commitment to find a cure for food allergies and our work on behalf of the food-allergic community.”

“Every day we work with thousands of families across the United States who are dealing with the serious physical, social, and emotional impacts of food allergies,” said Janet Atwater, chair of FAAN. “The unification of FAAN and FAI allows us to move forward together as an even stronger champion for these families and the driving force advancing research to find a cure.”

“In the United States, food allergies send a person to the emergency room every three minutes. This is a serious disease with potentially deadly consequences, but a cure is within reach,” said John Lehr who will serve as the chief executive officer of the unified organization. “By unifying the efforts of these leading organizations, we can continue to secure the private and public support needed to advance a cure for food allergies, and provide critical resources for food-allergic individuals and families.”

The current executive leaders of FAAN and FAI, Maria Acebal and Mary Jane Marchisotto, respectively, expressed how pleased they were to be “formalizing what has been a particularly strong and productive partnership over the last few years.” Both will retain senior management positions in the merged organization and, together with Lehr, lead the post-merger integration activities and ongoing operations.

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