On May 19, at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), held this year in Atlanta, Georgia, Professor and Vice Chair Amal Mattu, MD, was honored with SAEM’s Hal Jayne Excellence in Education Award. Dr. Mattu was one of only a handful of Emergency Medicine leaders acro...
On May 27, the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Department of Emergency Medicine hosted its 13th Annual Critical Care Symposium. Special presenters include UMSOM Dean and Distinguished Professor Mark Gladwin, MD.
Additional presenters include Associate Professor Kami Hu Windsor, M...
On May 18, Associate Professor Kinjal Sethuraman, MD, MPH, facilitated a national workshop on financial fluency for women leaders in academic Emergency Medicine. The workshop, a pre-conference offering through the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), included both le...
On May 12, Professor Mak Moayedi, MD; Assistant Professor Bobbi-Jo Lowie, MD; Associate Professor Alexis Salerno, MD; Assistant Professor Ryan Spangler, MD; and Clinical Assistant Professor Doug Sward, MD, led a cadaver-based procedures lab exclusively for Departmental faculty.
The lab reviewed proc...
EMS1, an online news network for EMTs, paramedics, and EMS professionals, recently recognized Maryland ExpressCare’s response to a complex crash in Baltimore.
ExpressCare clinicians recently responded to a local crash involving a public bus and two passenger vehicles. After colleagues at the Baltimo...
In March, Assistant Professor Cheyenne Falat, MD, was featured in a Time article about situations that scare ER doctors the most. Dr. Falat shared insight about the realities of drowning in young children. Although drowning is the leading cause of death in children from ages 1 to 4, it is preventabl...
In a time when the challenges facing the medical profession seem greater than ever, Clinical Professor David Marcozzi, MD, MHS, expressed hope regarding the future of medicine with Becker’s Hospital Review. Specifically, Dr. Marcozzi cited the potential benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) to th...
Adjunct Professor and former Department Chair Brian Browne, MD, was recently honored by the Baltimore Scouting Association for his decades of service to the Baltimore Area Council Scouts.
In the 1990s, Dr. Browne worked with the Baltimore Area Council of Scouting America to conceive of the Health S...
Last month, Associate Professor Dan Gingold, MD, MPH, educated readers in Prevention about potential presentations of appendicitis. Alongside national medical experts in family medicine and colorectal surgery, Dr. Gingold encouraged readers to trust their instincts—and seek emergency medical guidanc...
On April 22, Assistant Professor Neeraja Murali, DO, MPH, alongside Chief Resident and Risk Management Fellow Lucy Martin, MD, led a Journal Court session for the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s medical students.
The session, held at the University of Maryland-Baltimore’s Francis King Ca...