Advocate
Support physician-led emergency care and bring frontline experience directly to policymakers.
VACEP membership
Your voice.
Your specialty.
Your VACEP.
Decisions about emergency medicine should be informed by the emergency physicians who care for patients every day. But not every Virginia emergency physician is a member of VACEP. Join us and help protect your patients, your practice, and the future of the specialty.
Be at the table.
Why membership matters
Emergency medicine does not advocate for itself. Emergency physicians do.
Every day, emergency physicians make life-changing decisions for patients across Virginia. But some of the biggest decisions affecting emergency medicine happen far from the bedside — in committee rooms, legislative hearings, and regulatory agencies.
Those decisions shape how emergency departments are staffed. They influence behavioral health care, reimbursement, workplace safety, physician autonomy and the future of the specialty.
"If VACEP was not at the table, the practice of emergency medicine in Virginia would be vastly different, and certainly much worse. Lauren Webb, M.D., VACEP Board member
Your membership. Your impact.
What you can do through VACEP
Membership is more than joining a professional organization. It is a way to stand with emergency physicians across Virginia and strengthen the collective voice of the specialty.
Influence
Help shape legislation, regulations and policies that affect your patients, your practice and your career.
Protect
Strengthen workplace safety, physician autonomy, fair reimbursement and Virginia's medical liability environment.
Connect
Build relationships with emergency physicians, advocates and leaders from every region of Virginia.
Lead
Serve on committees, participate in Advocacy Day and help identify solutions to the problems affecting every shift.
Shape the future
Help make emergency medicine stronger, more sustainable and better prepared to serve the next generation of patients.
IN OUR VOICE
Hear from leaders shaping the future of emergency medicine in Virginia
Meet the people behind the success of VACEP. Our passionate members — all of them full-time ER doctors — take their work beyond their shifts to make a difference. They explain here why you should join them.
New videos coming soon.
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Joran Sequeira, M.D.
Why VACEP matters
VACEP's president explains why emergency physicians need a voice when decisions are made about their patients, their practices, and the future of the specialty.
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Lauren Webb, M.D.
Protecting physician-led care
Why scope of practice is not simply a professional turf issue — it is a patient safety issue and a reason emergency physicians must be present when policy is written.
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Randall Myers, M.D.
Defending Virginia's medical liability climate
Why medical liability policy affects physicians and patients, how VACEP helped stop a damaging proposal, and why continued vigilance matters.
Video four
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Joran Sequeira, M.D.
Improving behavioral health care
How VACEP is working to improve emergency psychiatric care, reduce unnecessary delays, and help patients reach appropriate treatment sooner.
Video five
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Ashley Nicholson, M.D.
Confronting workplace violence
How VACEP is advocating for safer emergency departments and protecting physicians, nurses, staff, and the patients they serve.
Video six
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Courtney Zydron, M.D., M.B.A.
Protecting the practice of emergency medicine
How reimbursement, contracting, due process, and physician autonomy affect the ability of emergency physicians to deliver sustainable, patient-centered care.
Advocacy in action
Much of VACEP's most important work happens before a crisis reaches you.
Members may never see the legislation that was stopped, the regulation that was improved, or the issue that never became a crisis because emergency physicians were already involved. This is VACEP in action.
- Meet with legislators and their staff
- Testify before the Virginia General Assembly
- Serve on state advisory committees
- Work directly with regulatory agencies
- Share frontline stories that shape policy
- Identify emerging threats to emergency care
- Advocate for safer emergency departments
- Protect physician-led, patient-centered care
Accept the invitation
Your voice matters.
When you join VACEP, you strengthen the collective voice of emergency physicians across Virginia. You help ensure policymakers hear from the people who understand emergency care best — the physicians providing it every day.
Your voice. Your specialty. Your VACEP.