Department Blog

Jordan Parker, MD, Resident; Sharleen Yuan, MD, PhD, MA, Resident; Megan Donohue, MD, Resident; Robert Brown, MD, Resident; Mark Sutherland, MD, Assistant Professor; Hannah Goldberg, MD, Resident; and Aki Honasoge, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “Do Adjunctive Therapies beyond Infection Control and Appropriate Fluid Resuscitation Change Outcomes in Sepsis and Septic Shock?” which was published in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine’s Common Sense.

Danya Khoujah, MBBS, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Megan J. Cobb, MD, DPT, Adjunct Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “Neurologic Emergencies at the Extremes of Age,” which was published in Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America on November 17, 2020.

Brent R. King, MD, MMM, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “Is E-Learning Education Effective in Increasing the Ability of Non-Physician Medical Flight Crew Members to Accurately Interpret Point-of-Care Lung and Cardiac Ultrasound Exams?” which was accepted for publication in Air Medical Journal in November 2020 and published December 19, 2020.

Michael K. Abraham, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was guest co-editor of the February 2021 issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, focused on Neurologic Emergencies, and co-author of the preface, “Neurologic Emergencies: 2020 Update,” published November 4, 2020.

Michael A. Grasso, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, chaired the monthly meeting of the American Medical Informatics Association’s Clinical Decision Support Working Group on the topic, “Enabling Digital Consultations with Recommender Algorithms” on December 8, 2020.

Rhamin Ligon, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was appointed Executive Director of the Maryland Emergency Medicine Network on December 1, 2020. Dr. Ligon assumed her new position on January 3, 2021.

Daniel J. Haase, MD, Assistant Professor; Kimberly A. Boswell, MD, Assistant Professor; and Quincy K. Tran, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Care Intensity of Spontaneous Intracranial Hemorrhage: Effectiveness of the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit,” published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine on October 28, 2020.

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

• Delivered a TedX talk, “How to Protect Your Body and Your Doctor’s Soul During COVID-19,” on October 27, 2020.
• Reached the finals of the Ignite Healthcare Network’s pitch competition as the People’s Choice winner on October 29, 2020. Dr. Clayborne was pitching a novel epistaxis device, Bleed Freeze, and representing her medical device startup company, Emergency Medical Innovation, LLC.

Quincy K. Tran, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was named a Distinguished Reviewer of the Year by the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine on October 29, 2020, in recognition of his outstanding dedication and excellent service to the journal.

Elizabeth Clayborne, MD, MA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was interviewed for “Coronavirus Pandemic: New York City Public Schools Set to Reopen for In-Person Learning” on CNN November 29, 2020.