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Dr. Siamak Moayedi Selected as Keynote Speaker for the 2027 Student Clinician Ceremony

Celebrating a Prestigious International Honor: Dr. Jon Mark Hirshon Named Fulbright Distinguished Scholar to Egypt

Dr. Earl J. Reisdorff Honored with the Outstanding Leadership in Emergency Medicine Award

EM Resident Dr. Jared Buteau selected as EMRA Representative Council Regional Coordinator

Dr. Spangler Receives Medical Educator of the Year Award from MELA

Dr. Powell Leads new Center for Combat Casualty Care

Brian Browne Conferred Status as Department’s First Professor Emeritus

Gentry Wilkerson Promoted to Professor

Dr. Siamak Moayedi Selected as Keynote Speaker for the 2027 Student Clinician Ceremony

Celebrating a Prestigious International Honor: Dr. Jon Mark Hirshon Named Fulbright Distinguished Scholar to Egypt

Dr. Earl J. Reisdorff Honored with the Outstanding Leadership in Emergency Medicine Award

EM Resident Dr. Jared Buteau selected as EMRA Representative Council Regional Coordinator

Dr. Spangler Receives Medical Educator of the Year Award from MELA

Dr. Powell Leads new Center for Combat Casualty Care

Brian Browne Conferred Status as Department’s First Professor Emeritus

Gentry Wilkerson Promoted to Professor

Department Blog

Posted 6/13/2025 by Melisa Hayes

Dr. Wilkerson Quoted in Los Angeles Times Story

Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Emergency Medicine physician at the University of Maryland Medical Center and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the UM School of Medicine, is quoted in this Los Angeles Times story about a mysterious death related to a dental surgery. The death was due to a rare blood disorder called methemoglobinemia.