Department Blog

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.

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.