Department Blog - November 2024

Clinical Associate Professor Kyle Fischer, MD, MPH, and Assistant Professor Rachel Wiltjer, DO, wrote “Mastering management of the acutely agitated patient” for the new third edition of Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department. For the same book, Dr. Wiltjer and Assistant Professor Gregory Jasani, MD, coauthored “See no evil: Mandatory reporting obligations.” Professor and Vice Chair Mike Winters, MBA, MD,  and Associate Professor Sarah B. Dubbs, MD are among the coeditors of this edition, published October 24.

Professor and Vice Chair Mike Winters, MBA, MD,  and Associate Professor Sarah B. Dubbs, MD are among the coeditors of the third edition of Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department, published October 24 by Wolters Kluwer Health. The book is available in paperback and interactive e-book formats and can be converted to an audiobook. Dr. Winters and Professor Amal Mattu, MD, were editors of the second edition of Avoiding Common Errors, published in 2017.

Assistant Professor Alexis Salerno, MD, is the coeditor of the November issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America on “Clinical Ultrasound in the Emergency Department” and first author of its introductory article, “[Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Emergency Department: Past, Present, and Future](doi: 10.1016/j.emc.2024.05.016).” Emerg Med Clinics North Am. 2024 Nov;42(4):xvii-xxi.

Baltimore Magazine’s annual list of “Top Docs” in Emergency Medicine includes Associate Professor Brian Corwell, MD, who practices at Mercy Medical Center, and Assistant Professor J. David Gatz, MD, who practices at UMMC. The list, published in the magazine’s November issue, recognizes physicians in each specialty who receive the highest number of recommendations in a survey of their peers.