The Department of Emergency Medicine will present a Faculty Development seminar this Thursday, March 7, from 7:45 am to 2:30 pm in the SMC Campus Center. The program’s coordinator is Dr. Danya Khoujah. Lectures will be presented by Dr. Zach Dezman (“How to Critically Appraise a Paper”), Dr. Sarah Du...
Kinjal Sethuraman, MD, MPH, published the article titled “Gender Disparities in Trauma Care: How Sex Determines Treatment, Behavior, and Outcome” in the March issue of Anesthesiology Clinics. Her co-authors are Evie Marcolini, MD, now at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Jennifer Albrig...
An article about the prevention of cold-related injuries and emergencies, written by Nick Walter, MD, Chuck Callahan, DO, and David Marcozzi, MD, was published in The Baltimore Times on Friday. It is available at http://baltimoretimes-online.com/news/2019/feb/22/help-fight-killer-cold-weather/. The ...
Amal Mattu, MD, is the editor-in-chief of the second edition of Electrocardiography in Emergency, Acute, and Critical Care. His co-editors are Jeffrey A. Tabas, MD, of San Francisco General Hospital, and William J. Brady, MD, at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Their 18-chapter book wa...
Three professors in the Department of Emergency Medicine have been promoted to vice chairmanship positions, joining Brian Browne, MD, Professor and Chairman, in the department’s administrative leadership:
Amal Mattu, MD, is the new Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, focusing on faculty development and ...
Three faculty members from the Department of Emergency Medicine will present lectures at the Annual Educational Conference of the Maryland chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, to be held at the BWI Airport Marriott on March 14. Amal Mattu, MD, will present “Emergency Cardiology L...
Michael Bond, MD, along with the program directors of eight other emergency medicine residencies, co-authored the article titled “Standardized Video Interviews Do Not Correlate to United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 and Step 2 Scores.” This illuminating article about the applicant-rev...
Laura J. Bontempo, MD, MEd, is a co-editor of the February issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, along with Jan Shoenberger, MD, from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. The topic of the issue is ear, nose, and throat emergencies. She and Sara Mannin...
Kyle R. Fischer, MD, MPH, Director of UMMC's Public Policy Fellowship, is the lead author of the review article titled “Trauma-Informed Care for Violently Injured Patients in the Emergency Department,” which has been accepted for publication by Annals of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Fischer and his co-au...
Zachary Dezman, MD, MS, MS, was contacted by the Associated Press to comment on Second Chance, an app developed at the University of Washington and now being tested for its ability to detect the shallow breathing that suggests opioid overdose. Installed on a smartphone, the software uses the microph...