Cherri Hobgood, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.I.F.E.M. is a tenured Professor of Emergency Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. She received her medical degree from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in 1989 and her clinical training in the U.N.C. Emergency Medicine residency program. After her emergency medicine training, Dr. Hobgood joined the faculty of U.N.C. Department of Emergency Medicine under the leadership of Dr. Judith Tintinalli. She has focused her research and educational efforts on designing effective, safe, patient-centered communication in the emergency department throughout her career. Her educational content and interventions on communication topics such as death notification are widely incorporated into interprofessional curricula worldwide. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed contributions to the medical literature.
Dr. Hobgood has served in various academic leadership roles, including Director of the U.N.C. Office of Educational Development and Clinical Skills Center, Associate Dean for Curriculum and Educational Development for the U.N.C. School of Medicine, and Chair of Emergency Medicine at Indiana University.
Within organized medicine, Dr. Hobgood has served as President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Chair of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation Board, and chair of the Governance Committee for the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (I.F.E.M.). She was the first woman elected to Chair the Board of the American College of Emergency Physicians. She is now an elected member of the I.F.E.M. Executive serving as Secretary of the Federation.
She is the recipient of multiple national awards, including the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, the National Emergency Medicine Faculty Teaching Award, the American Medical Association-Women Physician’s Council Mentor Recognition Award, the American College of Emergency Physicians Award for Outstanding Contribution in Education. She is an elected member of A.O.A. and the Arnold Gold Humanism in Medicine Honor Society and a Fellow of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine. In 2019 her alma mater, the U.N.C. School of Medicine, recognized her contributions to medicine naming her as the U.N.C. Distinguished Alumni Award recipient.
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Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Mar, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22360782
Computer-facilitated review of electronic medical records reliably identifies emergency department interventions in older adults.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Jun, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23758310
Death in the field: teaching paramedics to deliver effective death notifications using the educational intervention "GRIEV_ING".
Prehospital emergency care : official journal of the National Association of EMS Physicians and the National Association of State EMS Directors Oct-Dec, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23805847
Screening for delirium in the emergency department: a systematic review.
Annals of emergency medicine May, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24355431
Emergency medical service, nursing, and physician providers' perspectives on delirium identification and management.
Dementia (London, England) Apr, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 26112165
The American Board of Emergency Medicine Maintenance of Certification Summit.
The Journal of emergency medicine Nov, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26375809
The 2016 Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine.
The Journal of emergency medicine 06, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28351510
Improving perceptions of empathy in patients undergoing low-yield computerized tomographic imaging in the emergency department.
Patient education and counseling 04, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29173841
Effect of an Educational Intervention on Medical Student Scripting and Patient Satisfaction: A Randomized Trial.
The western journal of emergency medicine May, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29760860
Positive and Negative Influences on Female First Authorship Emergency Medicine Research.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 03, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30706644
Rapid-cycle deliberate practice: death notification.
The clinical teacher May, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32472732