Department Blog - November 2021

Benoit Stryckman, MA, Research Associate; Diane Kuhn, MD, PhD, Assistant Instructor; Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor; Kyle R. Fischer, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor; J. David Gatz, MD, Assistant Professor; Stephen M. Schenkel, MD, MPP, Associate Professor; and Brian J. Browne, MD, Professor, all of the Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “Balancing Efficiency and Access: Discouraging Emergency Department Boarding in a Global Budget System” published by Western Journal of Emergency Medicine September 2, 2021. Deborah M. Stein, ELS, Technical Editor/Writer, Department of Emergency Medicine, provided language and technical editing of the manuscript.

Amal Mattu, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of:

• Emergency ECGs: Case-Based Review and Interpretations, published by EMRA August 29, 2021
• “Can I Send This Syncope Patient Home from the Emergency Department?” published by Journal of Emergency Medicine September 15, 2021

R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “40 Facemasks: Perceptions and Use in an Emergency Department Population During COVID-19” and “54 The Rapid Evaluation of COVID-19 Vaccination in Emergency Departments for Underserved Patients Study,” both published by Annals of Emergency Medicine August 4, 2021

Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the discussants in “The BaSICS Trial – Implications for Fluid Resuscitation” episode of the Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine podcast, published August 29, 2021.

R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “The Rapid Evaluation of COVID-19 Vaccination in Emergency Departments for Underserved Patients Study,” published by Annals of Emergency Medicine May 31, 2021.

Alexis Salerno, MD, Assistant Professor; Kevin J. Flanagan, DO, Assistant Professor; Brian D. Euerle, MD, Associate Professor; and Michael D. Witting, MD, Professor, all of the Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “128: Quantitative Analysis of Emergency Physician Performed Biparietal Diameter Estimate for Gestational Age,” published in the Academic Emergency Medicine 2021 Annual Meeting Supplement in May 2021.

Zachary D.W. Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was first author of “The Actual, Long-Term Cost of Intentional Injury Care Among a Cohort of Maryland Medicaid Recipients,” which was published by the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery October 4, 2021.

Jes Downing, MD, 2021 residency graduate; Reem Alfalasi, MBChB, 2021 residency graduate; Stephanie Cardona, DO, 2021 residency graduate; Bobbi Lowie, MD, resident; and Caleb C. Chan, MD, MPH, Critical Care Fellow, all of the Department of Emergency Medicine, along with Quincy K. Tran, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine and Program in Trauma, were among the authors of “How Effective Is Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (ECPR) for Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis,” published by American Journal of Emergency Medicine September 2, 2021. Deborah M. Stein, ELS, Technical Writer/Editor, Department of Emergency Medicine, provided language and technical editing of the manuscript.

Youssef Annous, BS, Visiting Research Fellow, and R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor, both of the Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Resident Corner: Applying to Residency in Emergency Medicine Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic; How Will International Medical Graduates Be Affected?” published by the Maryland ACEP Chapter Newsletter in summer 2020.

Leen Alblaihed, MBBS, MHA, Assistant Professor, and Danya Khoujah, MBBS, Adjunct Assistant Professor, both of the Department of Emergency Medicine, coauthored the Arabic translation of the “Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19)” chapter in Emergency Medicine Reviews and Perspectives’ CorePendium online textbook, updated June 11, 2021.

Michael A. Grasso, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, presented “W13: Open-Source and Interoperable Approaches for Clinical Decision Support” at the American Medical Informatics Association’s 2021 Annual Symposium, held in San Diego, California, October 30, 2021.

Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, and David E. Marcozzi, MD, MHS-CL, MHS-CL, FACEP, Professor, both of the Department of Emergency Medicine, presented “Innovative Use of Emergency Medicine Providers to Reduce Overutilization of 911” at the 2021 American Association of Nurse Practitioners’ National Conference, held online June 15–August 31, 2021.

Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, presented “Enhanced Telemedicine Capabilities in a Mobile Integrated Health Program to Improve Primary Care Access During COVID Pandemic” at the Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics Conference, held online July 16, 2021.