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Objectives:
- Understand challenges to the emergency management of suspected meningitis.
- Understand the rationale for the assessment of pathogens in patients with suspected meningitis.
- Understand approaches to assessing the host response to infection in patients with suspected meningitis in the emergency department, including the role of pathogen identification.
 Charles B. Cairns, MD A leader in emergency medicine and critical care research, Charles B. Cairns, MD, FACEP, FAHA, is the Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Dean, and Senior Vice President of medical affairs at Drexel University College of Medicine.
Dr. Cairns has received numerous awards, including the Emergency Medicine Foundation Established Investigator Award, the American College of Emergency Physicians Outstanding Contribution in Research Award and the 2014 John Marx Leadership Award, the highest award of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. He has published more than 200 articles, commentaries and reviews in a number of journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and Science Translational Medicine. He has served on the editorial boards of Annals of Emergency Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine.
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