Assistant Professor Dr. Cheyenne Falat, MD, was recently quoted in the AARP’s Smart Guide to Hiking.
In the Guide, Dr. Falat recommends hiking as way for older adults to stay fit and enjoy nature. Given the potential impacts to cardiovascular and musculoskeletal health, Dr. Falat adds a caveat that...
This month, Professor Dr. Stephen Schenkel, MD, MPP, was named Deputy Editor for the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Schenkel began volunteering with the journal as a resident in 2002. Since then, he has served in progressively senior roles as a peer reviewer, research methodology editor, associat...
Cheyenne Falat, MD, Assistant Medical Director for the Adult Emergency Department at the University of Maryland Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the UM School of Medicine (SOM), is quoted in this Baltimore Banner story about the recent mass overdose in Baltimore’s Penn...
Dr. Ben Lawner, DO, MS co-authored “Care of the Agitated Patient Who Presents a Threat to Safe Transport in Critical Care Transport Medicine: A Consensus Statement” in the latest issue of Air Medical Journal. This manuscript highlights the critical need for a standardized approach to managing severe...
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 blo...
Dr. David Gatz, MD was recently interviewed on Fox45 News about how to protect yourself from heat illness during Preakness events. You can see his interview here.
Amal Mattu, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, UMSOM has been recognized with the designation of Distinguished University Professor. This title is the highest appointment bestowed upon a faculty member at UMB. It is a recognition not ju...
In the latest CCPEM podcast, Dr. Winters, MD, MBA and colleagues discuss the recent PRIM-ER trial, which evaluated a primary palliative care education intervention for ED providers (MDs, NPs, RNs). They concluded that a multicomponent primary palliative care intervention did not reduce hospital adm...
The new episode of the Critical Care Perspectives in EM podcast features Professor and Vice Chair Mike Winters, MD, MBA and three EM specialists from academic medical centers in New Orleans, Philadelphia, and San Francisco discussing a recent publication in JAMA that evaluated a machine learning too...
Associate Professors Laura J. Bontempo, MD, MEd, and Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, are among the authors of “Is antibiotic prophylaxis necessary for anterior epistaxis with packing? Insights from a large database,” published ahead of print March 19 in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. The study an...