Michael Grasso, MD, PhD, and David Jerrard, MD, in collaboration with Clare Grasso, PhD, from UMBC’s Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, co-authored the article titled "Prescriptions Written for Opioid Pain Medication in the Veterans Health Administration Between 2000 and...
Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD, has been elected to a second 3-year term on the Board of Directors of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the national medical specialty society representing emergency medicine, with approximately 38,000 members. The organization is committed to advancing em...
George Willis, MD, our department's Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, is the 2017 recipient of the National Junior Faculty Educator of the Year Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians*. The award was presented at the organization’s Scientific Assembly, held in Washington, ...
Amal Mattu, MD, co-authored the article titled “How Do We Balance the Long-Term Health of a Patient with the Short-Term Risk to the Physician?,” published in the October issue of The Journal of Emergency Medicine (2017;53:583-585). His collaborators in this consideration of the evaluation, dispositi...
Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD, is the principal investigator of “Wound Fluid as Regulator for Extracellular Matrix Remodeling and Recurrence in Inflammatory Breast Cancer,” a study funded by the Fogarty International Center at NIH in the amount of $322,060. The purpose of this project is to seek bi...
Mike Winters, MD, and Joe Martinez, MD, with Haney Mallemat, MD, now at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University in Camden, New Jersey, and William J. Brady, MD, still at University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, published a review of recent critical care articles, covering the ...
On September 22 and 23, a team from the Department of Emergency Medicine competed in Runragnar (www.runragnar.com), a running event that started in Cumberland, Maryland, and finished in Washington, DC. Each participant ran a leg of the journey, ranging from 11 to 26 miles, while the other team memb...
Kristin Cioffi, BA, Human Resources Manager in the administrative office of the Department of Emergency Medicine, recently passed the certification examination of the Society for Human Resource Management. The 4-hour exam includes 95 knowledge-based questions, 65 situational judgement items, and 30 ...
T. Andrew Windsor, MD, and Kami M. Hu, MD, both collaborating with Amal Mattu, MD, are the lead authors of two chapters in Observation Medicine: Principles and Protocols, published by Cambridge University Press in September. Dr. Windsor wrote on the topic of syncope and Dr. Hu on stress testing.
Amal Mattu, MD, co-authored the article titled “The Differential Diagnosis of Wide QRS Complex Tachycardia,” published in the October issue of The American Journal of Emergency Medicine (35[10]:1525-9). He collaborated on this work with William Brady, MD, and John Ferguson, MD, from the University o...