Dr. Mike Winters has been elected to the office of treasurer on the Medical Executive Committee, the leadership body of the physician staff at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The committee is responsible for approving applications for medical staff appointments, overseeing the granting of...
Amal Mattu, MD, traveled to Denver in mid-June as a faculty member for the 43rd Annual Rocky Mountain Trauma and Emergency Medicine Conference. He led a 4-hour pre-conference workshop on cardiac ischemia electrocardiography and presented a keynote address, “High Risk Arrhythmias in Which ACLS Will F...
Joe Martinez, MD, was a guest editor for the May 2016 issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, which focuses on abdominal and gastrointestinal emergencies. In addition, he co-authored the article “Abdominal Vascular Catastrophes.” Christina Tupe, MD, and Thuy Pham, MD, contributed the a...
Ryan Daro, MD, a second-year EM resident, is a co-author of the article titled "Incidence of Pulmonary Emboli on Chest Computed Tomography Angiography Based Upon Referral Patterns," published in the June issue of Emergency Radiology. Based on a review of 6400 charts, the authors found no d...
Ben Lawner, DO, MS, EMT-P, presented the lecture “Post Arrest Emergency Care: Hypothermia, STEMI, CV Bundle, Hot Topics" at the Maryland Resuscitation Academy, held in Marriottsville last week. The 2-day symposium focused on increasing survival and improving neurologic outcomes from out-of-hosp...
Amal Mattu, MD, and his colleagues from the University of Virginia published a review titled “ED Evaluation and Management of Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator Electrical Shocks,” in the June issue of the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. In this article, the authors review the function of def...
Haney Mallemat, MD, is a co-author of “Sickle Cell Crisis and You: A How-to-Guide,” published in the June issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine. The article is an EM:RAP commentary about a case presentation in the same journal.
Three EM faculty members presented lectures during EMS Care 2016, the annual statewide conference sponsored by the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems. Ben Lawner, DO, MS, EMT-P, teamed up with Michael Clumpner, PhD, MBA, NRP, an expert in tactical emergency medical services re...
Ben Lawner, DO, EMT-P, and his colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health published the article titled "Pediatric Use of Emergency Medical Services: The Role of Chronic Illnesses and Behavioral Health Problems" in the May-June issue of Prehospital Emergency Care.
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Priya Kuppusamy, MD, and George Willis, MD, were faculty members for this year's Annual Educational Conferrence sponsored by the Maryland chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. The conference was held in Linthicum Heights on April 8. Dr. Kuppusamy presented “The Pressure is On! Pre...