Department Blog

Kristopher J. Filak, MD, joined the Department of Emergency Medicine as a Clinical Assistant Professor on January 4, 2021. Major Filak spent the last five years deploying with and leading austere resuscitative surgical teams and conducting expeditionary medicine operations. In his new role, he will be splitting time between the University of Maryland Medical Center Downtown and Midtown Campus Emergency Departments.

Effective January 1, 2021, Kinjal N. Sethuraman, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, assumed the role of Section Co-Chief for the Division of Hyperbaric and Dive Medicine at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.

Quincy K. Tran, MD, Assistant Professor; Daniel J. Haase, MD, Assistant Professor; and Wan-Tsu W. Chang, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, as well as Jay A. Menaker, MD, Clinical Professor, Departments of Surgery and Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “The Transfer of Patients With Spontaneous Intracranial Hemorrhage in Need of External Ventricular Drain Placement – Does Admission Location Matter?” accepted for publication by Western Journal of Emergency Medicine in October 2020.

Elizabeth Clayborne, MD, MA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured in “UMSOM’s Dr. Elizabeth Clayborne joins a panel discussion on COVID-19 vaccine roll-out” on MSNBC’s Weekends with Alex Witt December 20, 2021.

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

• “Dr. Marcozzi: ‘I don't see the peak right now’ as Thanksgiving COVID-19 Surge Expected” on WBFF 45 Fox Baltimore November 30, 2020.
• “The Doctor Will See You Now. (Seriously, They Want to See You Now.)” on Maryland Matters December 1, 2020.
• “Mask-Wearing Key to Maintain Health, Economy Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Doctor Says” on WJZ 13 CBS Baltimore December 1, 2020.
• “Direct Connection: Your Health” on MPT December 7, 2020.
• “The Spotlight on Maryland Is on COVID-19 With David Marcozzi, MD” on Today’s 101.9 December 15, 2020.
• “Physician Urges Citizens to Get Informed About the COVID-19 Vaccine” on WFMD 930 December 18, 2020.

Kinjal N. Sethuraman, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was named a Top Doctor in the category of Hyperbaric Medicine in Baltimore magazine’s November 2020 Top Doctors issue.

Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the discussants in the twice-monthly podcast, Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine, episode “2020 AHA Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation,” which was published November 23, 2020.

Lucas Sjeklocha, MD, Assistant Instructor, and J. David Gatz, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “Traumatic Injuries to the Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nervous System,” which was published by Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America on November 17, 2020.

Quincy K. Tran, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was first author and Diane Kuhn, MD, Phd, Assistant Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “Emergency Blood Pressure Variability and Spontaneous Intracranial Hemorrhage Patients’ Outcomes,” which was accepted for publication in Western Journal of Emergency Medicine in July 2020.

Rebecca Rubenstein, MD, Resident; Leen Alblaihed, MBBS, MHA, Adjunct Instructor; Zachary D.W. Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor; and Laura J. Bontempo, MD, MEd, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “40-year-old Male with a Headache and Altered Mental Status,” which was published in Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine on October 20, 2020.