Department Blog

The Department of Emergency Medicine held its 6th annual Emergency Cardiology Symposium on March 24, 2021, with nearly 3,000 people from 86 countries registering to attend. Amal Mattu, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, directed the symposium and Leen Alblaihed, MBBS, MHA, Adjunct Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, lectured on “COVID-Related Dysrhythmias.”

David E. Marcozzi, MD, MHS-CL, MHS-CL, FACEP, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was appointed to the senior leadership team as Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) for the University of Maryland Medical Center on March 15, 2021. Nicole Baehr, MHA, PMP, previously Population Health Project Supervisor, Department of Emergency Medicine, will join him as Manager of Operations within the CCO office.

Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the discussants in the twice-monthly podcast, Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine, episodes:

• “The HOT-ICU [Handling Oxygenation Targets in the Intensive Care Unit] Study,” published February 16, 2021
• “COVID-19 Updates March 2021,” published March 8, 2021

Quincy K. Tran, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Ashley R. Menne, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Preventing Seizure Occurrence following Spontaneous Intracerebral Haemorrhage: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Seizure Prophylaxis,” published February 28, 2021, in Seizure. Deborah M. Stein, ELS, Technical Writer/Editor, Department of Emergency Medicine, provided technical and English-language editing of the manuscript.

Daniel J. Haase, MD, Assistant Professor, and Quincy K. Tran, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Arterial or Cuff Pressure: Clinical Predictors among Patients in Shock in a Critical Care Resuscitation Unit,” published March 9, 2021, by the American Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Siamak Moayedi, MD, Assistant Professor, and Mercedes Torres, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Abscess Management: An Evidence-Based Review for Emergency Medicine Clinicians,” published December 6, 2020, by the Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Brent R. King, MD, MMM, Professor, and Megan J. Cobb, MD, DPT, Adjunct Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of the book chapter “Thoracic Trauma” and Mimi Lu, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was co-author of the chapter **“**Constipation,” in Harwood-Nuss’ Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine, 7th edition, published October 10, 2020.

Breanna Kebort, MD, Resident; Aleta Hong, MD , Clinical Instructor; Laura J. Bontempo, MD, MEd, Associate Professor; and Zachary D.W. Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “40-year-old Female with Sudden Onset Dyspnea,” published December 28, 2020, by Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine.

Gregory Jasani, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, was first author of “Weapons Screening in the Emergency Department: What Is the Standard?” published February 8, 2021, by the Journal of Emergency Medicine.

David Marcozzi, MD, MHS-CL, MHS-CL, FACEP, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured in:

• Governor Hogan’s February 11, 2021 press conference discussing newly relaxed hospital visitation policies, the new Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, recommended postvaccination behaviors, and the latest CDC masking guidelines
• “Maryland’s Falling COVID-19 Positivity Rate Shows Residents Heeding Warnings, Expert Says, But People Shouldn’t Get Overconfident,” aired February 15, 2021, by WJZ 13 CBS Baltimore
• “Rutherford: ‘Vaccine Shopping’ Leading Clinics to Administer COVID-19 Shots to Residents from Other Counties,” published March 3, 2021, by WBAL NewsRadio 1090 and FM 101.5