Benjamin Lawner, DO, MS, EMT-P, was the guest on a recent Urgent Matters podcast produced at George Washington University, an interview series focused on the interface between emergency medicine and public health. Dr. Lawner was interviewed by Jesse Pines, MD, MBA, Director of GWU’s Center for Healt...
Laura Bontempo, MD, along with colleagues from the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, published the article titled “Core Entrustable Professional Activities: A Survey of the Confidence of Fourth-Year Medical Students and Residency Program Directors” in the September issue of Medical Science Edu...
Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD, is a site principal investigator for two recently funded studies. As a subcontractor on an award received by Johns Hopkins University from the Health Resources and Services Administration, Dr. Hirshon will participate in the development and testing of a triage tool th...
Zachary Dezman, MD, MS, Thomas Scalea, MD, Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD, and Gordon Smith, MBChB, MPH, published the article titled “Alcohol Consumption Decreases Lactate Clearance in Acutely Injured Patients” in the September issue of the journal Injury. Based on their study involving 3910 trauma...
Mak Moayedi, MD, and Lisa Babin, BS, a 2016 graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, published a case report, “Pneumorrhachis Secondary to a Sacral Decubitus Ulcer,” in the July issue of the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. It describes the rare finding of gas in the spinal c...
Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD, collaborated with colleagues from the University of California, Irvine, on the article titled “Zika Virus: Critical Information for Emergency Providers,” published in Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America this month*.* The article reviews transmission patterns, ...
Michael Bond, MD, and Mike Abraham, MD, with Jason Brown, MD, and Stephen Shaheen, MD, recent residency graduates, published “The Orthopedic Literature 2015” in the August issue of the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. The authors reviewed and summarized articles on the topics of acute compart...
Michael Bond, MD, director of our residency program, collaborated with James Ahn, MD, and P. Charles Inboriboon, MD, associate residency directors at the University of Chicago and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, respectively, on the article titled “Podcasts: Accessing, Choosing, Creating, an...
Several emergency medicine faculty members contributed to the article titled “The Impact of a Freestanding ED on a Regional Emergency Medical Services System,” published in the August issue of American Journal of Emergency Medicine. The authors report that the opening of the Shore Emergency Center i...
Two students at the University of Maryland School of Medicine spent several weeks in Rocky Mountain National Park last summer, talking with backcountry hikers about their ability to avoid emergencies and their preparedness in case one occurs. Using a written survey, Michael Yue, BA, MS-2, and David ...