The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is a professional organization of emergency medicine physicians in the United States. The organization was founded August 16, 1968, by eight physicians in Lansing, Michigan. ACEP established the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) in 1976. ACEP publishes the Annals of Emergency Medicine and the Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open (JACEP Open). See also American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians American Academy of Emergency Medicine Academic Emergency Medicine Society for Academic Emergency Medicine References External links Medical associations based in the United States Emergency medicine organisations Medical and health organizations based in Texas American emergency physicians 1968 establishments in the United States