Department Blog - June 2021

John Harringa, MD, Resident; Zachary Wynne, MD, Resident; Aki Honasoge, MD, Resident; and Sam Yarmis, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “Early Vasopressor Use in Septic Shock: What Do We Know?” published by Common Sense in January/February 2021.


J. David Gatz, MD, Assistant Professor; Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor; Daniel L. Lemkin, MD, Assistant Professor; and R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “Association of Resident Shift Length With Procedural Complications,” published by the Journal of Emergency Medicine on May 15, 2021. Deborah M. Stein, ELS, Technical Writer/Editor, Department of Emergency Medicine, edited the manuscript.


Jes Downing, MD, Resident; Stephanie Cardona, DO, Resident; Reem Alfalasi, MBChB, Resident; Bradford E. Schwartz, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor; and Quincy K. Tran, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Predictors of Intubation in COVID-19 Patients Undergoing Awake Proning in the Emergency Department,” published by the American Journal of Emergency Medicine on June 9, 2021. Deborah M. Stein, ELS, Technical Writer/Editor, Department of Emergency Medicine, edited the manuscript.


Jes Downing, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, was:


Posted 6/26/2021 by Deborah Stein

Clayborne April and May 2021 Interviews

Elizabeth Clayborne, MD, MA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was interviewed for:


Posted 6/25/2021 by Deborah Stein

Op-Ed: Los Angeles EMS Is Making the Right Call

Garrett Cavaliere, DO, Resident, and Gregory Jasani, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “Op-Ed: Los Angeles EMS Is Making the Right Call,” published by MedPage Today on January 24, 2021.


Garrett Cavaliere, DO, Resident; Reem Alfalasi, MBChB, Resident; Gregory Jasani, MD, Resident; and Benjamin J. Lawner, DO, MS, EMT-P, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Terrorist Attacks against Healthcare Facilities: A Review,” accepted May 20, 2021, for publication by Health Security.


Stephanie Cardona, DO, Resident; Naillid Felipe, MD, MPH, Resident; Kyle R. Fischer, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor; and Bradford E. Schwartz, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Vaccination Disparity: Quantifying Racial Inequity in COVID-19 Vaccine Administration in Maryland,” published June 17, 2021, by the Journal of Urban Health.


Youssef Annous, BS, Visiting Research Fellow; Sara Manning, MD, Assistant Professor; and Danya Khoujah, MBBS, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “Ferritin, Fever, and Frequent Visits: Hyperferritinemic Syndromes in the Emergency Department,” published by the American Journal of Emergency Medicine on May 14, 2021.


Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the:


Posted 6/10/2021 by Deborah Stein

The Physiologically Difficult Airway

Kenneth H. Butler, DO, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured in “The Physiologically Difficult Airway,” episode of the Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine podcast on April 20, 2021, discussing pearls and pitfalls in intubating patients with physiologic derangements that place them at high-risk for peri-intubation catastrophes.


George C. Willis, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was second author of “Evaluation and Management of the Critically Ill Adult With Diabetic Ketoacidosis,” published by Journal of Emergency Medicine on August 4, 2020.


Posted 6/7/2021 by Deborah Stein

Wilkerson, Huis in 't Veld Recent Publication

R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor, and Maite A. Huis in 't Veld, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of:


Stephen R. Thom, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was:


Kinjal N. Sethuraman, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was second author of “Association Between Level of Care and Colonization With Resistant Gram-negative Bacteria Among Nursing-home Residents,” published by Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology on March 22, 2021.