Department Blog - October 2017

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 topics of neurocritical care, cardiac arrest, mechanical ventilation, and sepsis. Their article is in this month's issue of the American Journal of Emergency Medicine (2017;35:1547-1554).

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 members, driving in two vans, monitored the progress of the runner and prepared for their time on the course. The EM UMDSOM team consisted of faculty members Mike Abraham, Mike Winters, Joe Martinez, Gentry Wilkerson, Wade Gaasch, and Dan Haase; residents Jon Strong, Carmen Avendano, and Megan Kirk; residency graduate Michael Allison; ICU nurse Jennie Orloff; and Ted Murphy, a “friend of the family.” They completed the 200-mile course in 29 hours, finishing 14th of more than 300 teams.

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 field-test items on the topics of leadership, ethics, communication, cultural effectiveness, business acumen, employee relations, and diversity.

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 of Virginia School of Medicine and Jeffrey Tabas, MD, from San Francisco School of Medicine.

Sarah Dubbs, MD, and Amal Mattu, MD, are co-authors of the case report titled “Prinzmetal Angina (Coronary Vasospasm) Associated with 5-Fluorouracil Chemotherapy,” which was published in the July issue of The American Journal of Emergency Medicine (35[7]:1038.e3-5).